Tag Archives: Mage: The Ascension

Mage: The Sterile Version

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Malcolm

Mage: The Ascension is on my mind again. I’m planning to run a game at Anime North where the characters’ objective is to assassinate the Second Coming of Christ. I decided to continue fooling with the Dirty Version. I read…

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Mage: The Dirty Version — Templar Tradition Prologue

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Malcolm

Ave Baphomet.

I felt like my blood twisted in its veins when I first mouthed that prayer. Tonight I feared a terrible error for the last time: that the old false image — horns, cloven hooves and all — would come and cut me open with its sharp, garish pentacle. Continue reading →

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The Bastard Out of Boston and the End of the World

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Malcolm

One of the interesting things about tabletop roleplaying is the ability to set up tensions between the game’s concepts and practical play considerations. Many tabletop gamers have a Manichean streak where something has to either cleave to the Big Idea…

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Mage: The Dirty Version – The Metaphysic of Magic

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Malcolm

From A Practical Reader on Occult Philosophy and Insurgency (aka “The Little Purple Book”)

Although it’s loaded with inaccurate connotations, the Consensus is still a useful shorthand term to describe the elements of existence that are most vital to the…

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RPGs and Art That Challenges

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Malcolm

Art isn’t always for challenging the audience, but a creative community needs that if it’s going to thrive. RPGs aren’t doing that. By “challenges,” I don’t mean Maybe old D&D rules kicked ass! or I bet we can do this…

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Mage: The Dirty Version – The Hegemony

Posted on November 22, 2009 by admin

That a person exerts his will over another is instinct, but how he structures the act is technology, and his justifications? Magic. Therein lie the roots of the Hegemony: a network of Awakened who uphold modernist values – including those…

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Mage: The Dirty Version – Transhuman Adept Tradition

Posted on November 9, 2009 by admin

Transhuman Adepts

We Are All Beautiful Information

Immortality is a dream as old as Gilgamesh. Scholars have hungered for transcendental knowledge from the most ancient days, and didn’t separate numinous enlightenment from their pragmatic studies. The Transhuman…

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Mage: The Dirty Version – Transhuman Adept Tradition Prologue

Posted on October 27, 2009 by admin

It’s a toss up between the eye socket and nostril. The nose is safer, but the eye’s quicker, more direct. Luc doesn’t want to go blind but part of him thinks that if the Wire goes down wrong he’ll toss…

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Poooooooodcasting! On Darker Days

Posted on September 30, 2009 by admin

I did an enormous podcast interview — almost three hours — with the folks at the Darker Days podcast. Check it out! I think the important bit is where I answer why I like RPGs, but there’s lots…

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Mage: The Dirty Version – Eumenides Tradition

Posted on September 26, 2009 by admin

Eumenides

Love, Death and Justice Until the End of the World

Death is a lover and a lesson, walking with us all our lives, teaching the value of every moment – and when life ends, Death gives…

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