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Title: If only this hadn't been Mage
Review: Awakening is an ok game. The mechanics aren't bad, the story is forced, far fetched, and horribly, irrepairably gnostic, but it isn't bad. if it had been branded anything BUT mage, I might consider playing it.But they labeled it Mage, and this doesn't hold a candle to Ascension.Gone is the universal application to all magical theory. Gone is the idea of paradigm, of mages being powered from within, of technomancy as another method to the madness that achieves the SAME RESULTS as magic. Gone is the flexibility, gone is the believability that joe schmoe you meet on the street might just be an archmage, dealing with magic as an interesting hobby rather than the sum total of his being.everthing I loved about ascension... is gone. And gnosticism doesn't replace the universably applicable unified field theory.Sorry, but awakening is not a game about Mages. It's a game about DnD wizards in the modern world. If i wanted to play that, I'd just go buy D20 modern.
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