Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 11/24/2020 11:25:35
another one of these early generic nWoD books that doesn't have a tight focus and is more just a grab-bag of nice sounding concepts, in this case being a bunch of tiny modules that you can stick into any game. some decent material but the circus stuff is so plainly just a worse & generic rip-off version of oWoD's midnight circus. for completionists only
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 11/24/2020 11:22:32
almost all the changeling the lost 1st ed material is worth checking out, but this in particular is an enormous toolbox for both players and GMs to be able to use. great art, great content
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 11/23/2020 12:43:15
a well-made update to previous sorcerer material, but seriously, don't use the advice in here about giving supernaturals and mages access to numina, it's a bad idea that encourages min-maxing and mechanics bloat and makes mortal sorcerers much less special.
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 11/22/2020 12:01:36
a painfully generic book from when they hadn't really figured out the direction they wanted to take the new world of darkness into. maybe some nice ideas, but otherwise this is just a collector's item from a bad period of writing for a great gameline.
the new stories here are nice, but a lot of this stuff is collected from previous vampire the requiem intro fiction. not really necessary unless you're skipping out on pre-2nd ed material entirely
i'm not a huge fan of how the revised mage avatar storm metaplot really harmed the power and resources of the void engineers, so some of this book doesn't quite work with how i want to portray this faction in the games i run. regardless, this is a book worth reading for the enormous amount of explosive plot hooks that you can easily build an entire chronicle around, especially the iconic threat null that has the potential to change the entire mage cosmology.
the progenitors are the duct tape & chewing gum holding the technocracy together, and this revised convention book goes a long way into taking them out of their stuffy laboratories and into actually helping sleeper society. also, they love killing vampires; how could anyone call them evil?
the glorious start to the 2010s run of revised technocracy convention books. the NWO have always been one of my favorite factions in mage, and this adds so much information and plot hooks to run stories with. all of the revised convention books also have great ready-made characters that can really help players get an idea as to how to make an interesting, unique character concept. imo, this is one of the best written mage books out there and i'd consider it mandatory if you want to understand how the technocracy works as an organization ...
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 11/22/2020 11:29:37
100% necessary for running a technocracy chronicle, despite being almost 20 years old this is still a great modern look at the most high-tech convention in the mage setting
a major & necessary overhaul for the changeling line. pretty much is changeling's revised edition, with a large amount of diversity and detail added to a game that always embodied the best about the world of darkness setting. i love stuff like changeling the lost, but for me this is the true version of gothic fae roleplaying that fans have always wanted. if you're even vaguely interested in changeling the dreaming, buy this, you won't regret it. it's a shame that we won't get a huge amount of material for c20 like v20 got, because in many ways this is the most developed 20th anniversiery edition of all of them. given how this game isn't the most popular, we might not even get a changeling 5th edition at all from paradox, or at the very least not until a far-off date like 2029, so this is the best version we might have for a long while. ...
