When I was younger, in the 80’s (older than you, whippersnapper!) I wanted to play live action role playing games. Vampire: The Masquerade by White Wolf was a big one, but I wanted to play Mage: The Ascension.
Unfortunately, nobody else did. And most of the V:TM kids were college students in an Ivy League–read cliquish–school in the area. I couldn’t get involved.
Mage was complicated, like magic usually is. Characters included all sorts of magical traditions, from Eastern to Hermetic. I loved to learn about the spells and how each tradition worked them, the characters, the world-building. I wrote fan fiction in the V:TM world and later M:TA.
So when I saw these at a local game store in the late 1980’s, I had to snatch them up. The artwork is totally White Wolf inspired. Weird and cool at the same time.
This is the first edition. I also have the second edition that I’ll dig up and post next week or sooner.
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