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M20 The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick €13,85
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
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von Terry R. [Verifizierter Käufer] Hinzugefügt am: 11/28/2021 00:59:22

This is a book like Orphan's Survival Guide or Masters of the Art in that it outlines an area of Mage that one can infer must exist but that we've simply not gotten information about. The open fiction outlines the world of rich and powerful mages and the rest of the book keeps on with it. This is not a book that everyone needs, but given that you're going to have money as a consideration in your game, this supplement helps a lot of the lifting.

Here's what I enjoyed:

  • The fiction pieces are good. They transmit flavor in a way not all books manage to
  • Every entry is a story idea. There's little space in this book for things like the loved but rarely focal Ionic Cloth so even though something may be listed as a Wonder it's really a plot hook. They wonderfully balance unexplored places in the Mage world with things we already know. It's entirely reasonable that Porthos made a grimoire and now we get information on it!
  • The book brings back some of the high-energy and over-the-top bits of 2e that M20 seemingly tamped down on. An object that grants a sixth dot of Computer? Yes please. A mage country club only open to billionaires? Yes. What it's like to have your own town? Thank you.
  • Good ST tools on wealth and making characters justify their resources.
  • Information on how money can more or less make things coincidental.
  • Details on how each Tradition relates with money. I think this is the first place that we find that the djinn are all over the financial sector along with the Taftani and that the Virtual Adepts are now rolling in it.

What I wished for:

  • Iyeoka Sophia is on the cover AND MAKES NO APPEARANCE IN THE BOOK. GHAA GIVE US STATS.
  • There are very few systems. At this level, you kind of need a system for Resources. I get that no one wants to necessarily talk dollars and cents but you can come up with a Resources system that simply scales or is strictly narrative but I still want systems for it. At least Masters of the Art gave us systems implict in having XP buy Arete and Sphere dots.
  • The art is interesting but staid. It's fun but it's a lot of Michael Gaydos chapter fronts and I'm just done with that.
  • The Paradigms are meh.

Mage the Podcast spoke with two of the authors if you'd like more talk on this book



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