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(Revised edition) (20th anniversary edition) Genre(s) Modern Mysticism: System(s) Storyteller System: Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic. The idea of magic in Mage is broadly inclusive of diverse Designer(s): Stewart Wieck, Christopher Earley, Stephan PDF + Softcover, B&W Book. $ $ Average Rating (34 ratings) Advocate to the Masses. Of everyone in the Ascension War — Traditionalists, Nephandi, and even other Technocrats — no one gets humanity quite like the Syndicate. The Convention of Cash doesn’t try to change people, and it doesn’t have the hubris of believing it should make the Masses “better” as its fellow /5(34) 2/1/ · Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition FREE. Mage: The Ascension, News. Ian A. A. Watson - January 2nd, , am. Today (Thursday) only, we bring you the Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition Rulebook for FREE! We’ve got a different free rulebook every day this week. Check back tomorrow for the final freebie! Werewolf: The Forsaken FREE! Lots Going On 10 comments for “ Mage: The Ascension
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Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game based in the World of Darknessand was published by White Wolf Game Studio in The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic.
Magic in Mage is subjective rather than objective as it incorporates a diverse range of ideas and mystical practices mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download well as science and religion.
A mage's ability to change reality based on what they believe rather than an objective or static system of magic, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download.
In that regard, most mages do not resemble typical fantasy wizards. Mage was influenced by then White Wolf game Ars Magicabut the two games have different settings and premises.
The new game features some of the same game mechanics but uses a substantially different premise and setting as well. Following the release of Vampire: The MasqueradeWhite Wolf Mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download put out a new roleplaying game every year, each set in Vampire' s World of Darkness and using its Storyteller rule system.
The next four games were: Werewolf: The ApocalypseMage: The AscensionWraith: The Oblivion and Changeling: The Dreaming The first edition of the game was released by White Wolf Publishing on August 19,at the Gen Con gaming convention ; [2] [3] they followed it with a second edition in December[4] [5] and with Revised Edition in March In Mage: The Ascension players play the role of mages, people who discover they have the ability to shape reality through magic. The process of this discovery is what mages call Awakening.
Awakening is a mysterious, often traumatic experience, wherein a person's Avatar, a kind of tutelary consciousness or Daemon"wakes up" within the mage granting them the ability to do magic. Once Awakened, mages can learn to effect changes to reality via will, beliefs and specific magical techniques, but the differences of how they do this forms the central conflict of the game.
There are four factions, the Traditions, the Technocracy, the Nephandi, and the Marauders all of whom struggle against one another on all levels of reality from the digital world to the spirit world to the physical world, and even in the world of ideas to covertly persuade the unAwakened masses that their beliefs also called paradigms are best.
This age-old struggle is called the Ascension War wherein the four factions vie for control of reality itself. The Technocracy is a worldwide conspiracy of hyper-rational mages whose paradigm is considered to dominate reality with their belief that science is the ultimate way to advance humanity.
They fight for the extinction of magic and the supernatural and the belief in magic and consider their own willworking "awakened science". Depending on edition, they have more or less successfully convinced the unAwakened masses, otherwise known as Sleepers, that magic and the supernatural do not exist and never did. They believe in a safe, predictable, static world where everything is understood and controlled, and nothing is left to chance, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download.
They also wish to guide this world from the shadows. The Marauders, on the other hand, are pure change. They are mages who have been driven insane by their mind-bending powers, and are consumed by their own individual beliefs.
Chaotic and disorganized, the Marauders pursue their own warped agendas to the exclusion of all else. The Nephandi are forces of corruption and destruction. They are mages who have sold their souls to demonic forces or Lovecraftian horrors in exchange for power in this life, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download. They are committed to the particular agendas of their individual mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download, but all of them pursue the total destruction of everything.
The Traditions, which are the default character faction, are a diverse confederacy of wizards, sorcerers, mystics, and mystic-minded technologists and scientists who have banded together to resist the Technocracy's control of reality. Most mages and factions within the game are working towards an occult goal known as Ascension. The nature of Ascension is open to interpretation, and each faction and sub-faction in the game differs on their views of what Ascension is.
It may involve a single mage becoming a paragon of their beliefs or transcending them entirely. It could also involve a mass Awakening of the unAwakened known as Sleepersor at least mass empowerment through the adoption of a particular practice or belief.
The game was designed to draw characters from the Traditions, and later, members of the Technocracy. Nephandi and Marauder mostly filled the role of antagonists, though it was possible at one point to use them as playable characters.
A fifth faction was added in the second edition of the game with the publishing of The Book of Crafts in Crafts were mystic cultures from around the globe that possessed the ability to do magic, but did not participate directly in the Ascension War though they would join in some fashion in later editions.
The beliefs are an important theme in Mageand it forms mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download basis for the game's magic. The magical techniques characters employ vary enormously, from ancient shamanic practices or Medieval Sorcery to religious miracle working, or even rational science or science-fiction technology.
The extent a mage can alter reality is limited only by their belief. Their beliefs, practices, and tools make up a paradigm which provides the mage with a framework to understand reality or explain how the universe works, and employ techniques to change it according to those beliefs. For example, an alchemical paradigm might describe the act of wood burning as the wood "releasing its essence of elemental Fire," while modern science would describe fire as "combustion resulting from a complex chemical reaction, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download.
Some paradigms are ancient or traditional while others are modern or a mix of the new and the old. Some paradigms are rigid while others are more flexible. Player determine what their characters believe and how that is expressed in their character's magic. The idea that what we believe creates reality, and that those ideas create conflicts is also an important theme in the game. Everyday mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download is governed by the collective beliefs of Sleepers known as the Consensus.
The Consensus more or less mirrors out of character, everyday assumptions about the way the world works. For example, most people have a general understanding that magic or the supernatural do not exist. While this may not be universally true, in Mageenough people believe it to make it so. Mages have tremendous power to reshape reality, but they must hide this ability from the Sleepers or suffer cosmic consequences.
This is another central conflict of the game where the majority of Sleepers believe exclusively in the static reality offered to them by the Technocracy, but the truth is that all paradigms are potentially valid. Despite their power all Mages, even members of the Technocracy, must couch their magic in the belief of the Sleepers in order to avoid the consequences of not doing so. When a mage performs an act of magic that conforms with the Consensus this is called coincidental magic.
It is magic that, if witnessed by a Sleeper, could easily be dismissed as some understandable phenomenon. The main benefit of coincidental magic is that it is easier and less risky to perform than vulgar magic because it works with Sleepers' beliefs rather than defying them.
Magic that conflicts with Sleeper belief is called vulgar magic, and this violent clashing of reality, belief, and ideas results in what is called Paradox in the game. When a character fumbles a magical working or changes reality in a manner that conflicts with the Consensus they incur Paradox in the form of Paradox points. This is made much worse when the magic is vulgar and witnessed by Sleepers. Paradox is reality trying to resolve contradictions between the Consensus and the mage's efforts, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download, and is usually only incurred by the mage who performed the offending magic, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download.
How Paradox manifests is up to the Storytellerand is decided based on how many Paradox points the player has incurred. By nature, Paradox is unpredictable, and almost always spells trouble for the mage. It can manifest in the form of physical damage Backlashtemporary or last warps in reality around the mage Paradox flawsinsanity known as Quietor in more extreme cases Paradox Spirits.
Paradox Spirits are nebulous, often powerful beings which purposefully set about resolving the contradictions, usually by directly punishing the mage in some manner, sometimes going so far as to transport the mage to a Paradox Realm, a mind-bending pocket dimension mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download which it may be difficult to escape.
In the game, Mages have always existed, though there are legends of the Pure Ones who were shards of the original, divine One. Early mages cultivated their magical beliefs alone or in small groups, mage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download, generally conforming to and influencing the belief systems of their societies. Obscure myths suggest that the precursors of the modern organizations of mages originally gathered in ancient Egypt.
This period of historical uncertainty also saw the rise of the Nephandi in the Near East. This set the stage for what the game's history calls the Mythic Ages. Until the late Middle Agesmages' fortunes waxed and waned along with their native societies. Eventually, though, mages belonging to the Order of Hermes and the Messianic Voices attained great influence over European society.
However, absorbed by their pursuit of occult power and esoteric knowledge, they often neglected and even abused humanity. Frequently, they were at odds with mainstream religions, envied by noble authorities and cursed by common folk. Mages who believed in proto-scientific theories banded together under the banner of the Order of Reasondeclaring their aim was to create a safe world with Man as its ruler. They won the support of Sleepers by developing the useful arts of manufacturingeconomicswayfaringand medicine.
They also championed many of the values that we now associate with the Renaissance. Masses of Sleepers embraced the gifts of early Technology and the Science that accompanied them. As the masses' beliefs shifted, the Consensus changed and wizards began to lose their position as their power and influence waned. This was intentional. The Order of Reason perceived a safe world as one devoid of heretical beliefs, ungodly practices and supernatural creatures preying upon humanity.
As the defenders of the common folk, they intended to replace the dominant magical groups with a society of philosopher-scientists as shepherds, protecting and guiding humanity. In response, non-scientific mages banded together to form the Council of Nine Traditions where mages of all the major magical paths gathered. They fought on battlefields and in universities trying to undermine as many discoveries as they could, but to no avail — technology made the march of Science unstoppable.
The Traditions' power bases were crippled, their believers mainly converted, their beliefs ridiculed all around the world. Their final counteroffensives against the Order of Reason were foiled by internal dissent and treachery in their midst.
However, from the turn of the 17th century on, the goals of the Order of Reason began to change. As their scientific paradigm unfolded, they decided that the mystical beliefs of the common people were not only backward, but dangerous, and that they should be replaced by cold, measurable and predictable physical laws and respect for human genius.
They replaced long-held theologies, pantheons, and mystical traditions with ideas like rational thought and the scientific method. As more and more sleepers began to use the Order's discoveries in their everyday lives, Reason and rationality came to govern their beliefs, and the old ways came to be regarded as misguided superstition.
However, the Order of Reason became less and less focused on improving the daily lives of sleepers and more concerned with eliminating any resistance to their choke-hold on the minds of humanity. Ever since a reorganization performed under Queen Victoria in the late s, they call themselves the Technocracy. The Technocracy espouses an authoritarian rule over Sleepers' beliefs, while suppressing the Council of Nine's attempts to reintroduce magic.
The Traditions replenished their numbers which had been diminished by the withdrawal of two Traditions, the secretive Ahl-i-Batinmage: the ascension (revised edition) pdf download the Solificatialchemists plagued by scandal with former Technocrats from the Sons of Ether and Virtual Adepts factions, vying for the beliefs of sleepers and with the Technocracy, and perpetually wary of the Nephandi who consciously embrace evil and service to a demonic or alien master and the Marauders who resist Paradox with a magical form of madness.
While the Technocracy's propaganda campaigns were effective in turning the Consensus against mystic and heterodox science, the Traditions maintained various resources, including magical nodes, hidden schools and fortresses called Chantries, and various realms outside of the Consensus in the Umbra. Finally, from toa series of metaplot events destroyed the Council of Nine's Umbral steadings, killing many of their most powerful members.
This also cut the Technocracy off from their leadership. Both sides called a truce in their struggle to assess their new situation, especially since these events implied that Armageddon was soon at hand. Chief among these signs was creation of a barrier between the physical world and spirit world. This barrier was called the Avatar Storm because it affected the Avatar of the Mage. This Avatar Storm was the result of a battle in India on the so-called "Week of Nightmares.
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