Mage: The Awakening
The world of Mage: The Awakening is a Fallen Lie of hopeless oppression, a prison for human beings cursed to remain ignorant of the myriad occult forces influencing them. Mages are those few individuals who have Awakened to the truth, seeing the Supernal World hidden behind the Lie. Driven by a need to understand the Fallen World’s secrets, empowered with magic by their insight, they face many dangers in their addiction to mystery, but none more than their own human pride.
The third Chronicles of Darkness game, Mage: The Awakening arrived in 2005 to a devoted following and critical acclaim, winning the ENnie Award for Best Writing the following year. Onyx Path Publishing offers a number of role-playing game fiction, art, and clothing products for Mage: The Awakening, as well as the back-catalog of several dozen original books available as PDF and print-on-demand.
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Time for the Devil to get his due. But first, some musical accompaniment. Several years ago, when we were writing what is now Vampire: The Requiem Second Edition, I was taking a lot of notes about how I’d handle Mage in what was then still The Fallen World Chronicle. Rose’s decision to put VII at … Read more
First, some Peter Gabriel. The end is approaching. Not global Ascension, but of these Open Development posts – we have only two more of these posts to go. Game’s nearly out of Development and into Editing, the playtest groups are beavering away, and my Development “to-do” list now fits on one page. What to say … Read more
(Warehouse 13, property of SyFy) Welcome back, faithful readers, to another in the pre-GenCon Order writeups. This time, we’re looking at the Mysterium. If the Guardians, early in Mage‘s gameline, showed what the Orders could be like when expanded upon, the Mysterium were the first Order I really “got,” as I one of my players had a Mystagogue … Read more
Welcome back, faithful readers! Continuing our pre-GenCon run through of the second edition Orders, it’s time for the Guardians of the Veil. First, some music from Tamer What to say about the Guardians? More than any other Order (except maybe the Seers) they were most clarified and improved by their Order book, so readers jumping … Read more
Welcome back, faithful readers! I knew we’d be over-subscribed for the playtest, but not that I’d be disappointing quite so many people. To try to make up for it, spoilers will continue until morale improves. First, some music with a very appropriate video, courtesy of the Glitch Mob. A looooooong time ago on this blog, … Read more
EDIT: Okay, everyone – check your private messages. In the end, we had a staggering 95 groups apply for playtesting, so please don’t feel bad if you don’t have a message from me waiting for you, but that number of groups is simply impossible to manage. I have not sent “rejections” out, as I … Read more
It’s a busy month for us here at Onyx Path in the weeks before Gen Con, which is less than a month away! Now available on DriveThruRPG: Vampire: The Masquerade: V20 Dark Ages Wallpapers (Image) Vampire: The Masquerade: Dread Names, Red List (PDF and Print) Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Art of Changing Breeds: A Visual Guide … Read more
(Photo by Michel Wal, under creative commons) Welcome back, faithful readers! Mage: The Awakening Second Edition is firmly into Development now. My pasted-together working copy of the book, all of the drafts from authors assembled into a single file, is 420 pages long in Word. I ran the game last week, and I’m much happier … Read more
Lots of new shirts available! Vampire: The Masquerade: Retro Vampire 2 by Tim Bradstreet Vampire: The Requiem: Clan Daeva Vampire: The Requiem: Clan Gangrel Vampire: The Requiem: Clan Mekhet Vampire: The Requiem: Clan Nosferatu Vampire: The Requiem: Clan Ventrue Vampire: The Requiem: Covenant: Carthian Movement Vampire: The Requiem: Covenant: Circle of the Crone Vampire: The … Read more
Attainments! Early in the discussions around a new edition of Awakening‘s ruleset, the team expressed a desire to tidy up some of the exceptions and secondary effects built into the system – things like Sympathetic casting, Aimed Spells, Spell Triggers, Counterspell, Summoning. Anything that was magical, but didn’t strictly speaking follow the magic rules. Some … Read more
