Welcome back, increasingly faithful (and patient) readers! I know, I know. It’s been a while. Signs of Sorcery is nigh-Developed. It’s 93,000-out-of-97,000 words Developed. That last bit is proving tricky, but our long international nightmare will soon be over and I can get on with things like Tome of the Pentacle or Fallen Worlds. In … Read more
Welcome back, faithful readers! Mage‘s errata is being incorporated, and the second edition core will soon be off to have an Index added. In the meantime, now that we have a stable ruleset, I think it’s high time to get back to Signs of Sorcery. Our topic tonight is the Perfected Metals, one of the … Read more
Hello, faithful readers! We are now done with the errata pass on Mage: The Awakening second edition. The book now needs to be corrected, relaid-out, and sent to a professional indexer before the print on demand option goes live on DriveThru. While the majority of errata were typos, visual glitches, and the like, the … Read more
Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile. ‘Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me. — Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Welcome back, faithful readers! You’ve all been patiently and not-so-patiently waiting for Mage‘s release. Every Monday Meeting … Read more
Welcome back, faithful readers! Since we opened Open Development on Signs of Sorcery, Mage: The Awakening Second Edition has moved through layout and proofing to the final approval by White Wolf. Those of you who read our last post will have already seen the second edition Mage Sight rules, though (if you haven’t, go read … Read more
Welcome once again, faithful readers! Or as Frank would say… Mage: The Awakening Second Edition (featuring the Fallen World Chronicle) is still moving its way through layout, but my cabal of authors have not been idle since its Open Development ended. We’ve been writing the first sourcebook for the new edition, Signs of Sorcery. … Read more
What seems like a lifetime ago, two months before the first of these Open Development posts, I was on holiday (that’s proper English for “vacation”) in the Orkney Islands. One day, I visited a Distillery and bought a reasonably old whisky. It’s sat, undisturbed, in its bottle in the corner of my living room ever … Read more
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