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Title: All Things New Aren't Better...
Review: White Wolf would have you convinced that their "new, better" World of Darkness books are superior to that "old, broken WoD" which they nuked in a series of poorly conceived, poorly written hardbacks before ordering their game distributers to shred all other remaining copies of any gaming book relating to that WoD.They followed this action by rolling out a series of re-releases of the Vampire, Werewolf, and this, the latest, the Mage line. All show a simplistic lack of depth that is almost insulting to any player of the older games and hopefully will be equally insulting to newer players.This new Mage is a case in point. There is no depth to the magical system, the various magical traditions from around the world are replaced with a European centric system, and the metaplot sucks.In conclusion, if I wanted to play Dungeons & Dragons, I'd join the hordes.
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