Has it been 20 years already? - Mon, Mar 4, 2013

Yeah, Im having one of those “Im old” moments.

Its been 20+ years since Mage (the rest of the Old World of Darkness) came out.   You see that domain name up there? Thats short for “Virtual Adept”, a tradition straight out of Mage.

I loved playing Mage.  I love the system, the concept of you need to think to make your powers work.  It was more than just picking spells out of a book.  Your powers were vague, and you had to /think/ on a way to use them that didn’t get you in hot water.

The system was awesome, it was fully compatable with other World of Darkness systems such as Vampire/Werewolf/Changeling/Wraith/Mummy/Demon.  You could play in a game with a pourporri of random supernatural creatures and have the core rules for all be the same.

Then 10 years after it came out, after the money pit ran dry, White Wolf canned the whole world.  They published one more book for each of their lines basically wrapping up what happened when the world ended, and that was it.  World of Darkness moved onto the “New World of Darkness” which sucks.