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Review title: You could just say "No, you can't play a Mage."
Product review: This book is an absolute piece of [junk] that is the ruin of Mage. I don't know what White Wolf was thinking when they put this together but it completely ruins the game as a playable system. The only possible chronicles that could come out of it are either Technocratic ones or Tradition ones involving the overthrowing of the Technocracy.It was a definate given that the Technocracy would eventually win the Ascension War, but it was altogether a concept that should have been left up to the Storytellers and players to decide. But this book gives no leeway in the World of Darkness for mage players to evolve any sense of creativity or spontanaeity without serious repercussions from paradox. And nobody likes that much.My suggsetion is that you just stick with the Second Edition rules and system and say the ]heck] with the Third. If you want a Technocratic ruled society, become a Storyteller and design your own.
