Wow. No immediate purchases. Is the industry in trouble?
__________________ "...the critics are wrong. Michael Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers' worth of CG for a brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot.--io9 review of Transformers:RotF "I could watch people fed to animals pretty much twenty-four hours a day. Someone ought to start a channel with that!" --David Milch, creator of Deadwood "Some spectres have been known to long for physical contact with the living in ways most unhealthy or inappropriate."-- Mage: The Awakening, p. 138 "...I have also written heartwarming books where people return from the dead. Usually to eat the living, it's true, but surely that is a quibble — a miracle is a miracle."-- Stephen King, "A History of Violence"
- full breakdown of Boston cabals, similar to the breakdown of werewolf packs in Hunting Ground: the Rockies. The Shadow Chorus is probably my favorite, just because I like cryptic masked weirdos.
My big complaints are that the Orders are still undefined in terms of organization and, thus, seem rather generic, and that so many of the character descriptions basically read "this person had a good/lousy childhood, then Awakened and got superpowers, and is now a badass wizard". Would it have killed them to give some description as to how or why they Awakened, or did they all just get bitten by a radioactive spider?
- details on antagonist mages, like the Banishers and Seers of the Throne. Once again, lack of details hurts - the Banisher descriptions seem to read "guy grows up, Awakens, gets superpowers, then starts flipping out and killing other mages"
Lots of interesting stuff on the Tremere liches - they have a particularly pervasive influence on Boston, having used the Danvers Insane Asylum as their personal buffet until recently.
- "Off the Map" is probably my favorite chapter, detailing weird shit in the Boston area - an Awakened ghost from the Revolutionary period, Native American monsters, bizarre "ghost golems" called necroamalgams (say that five times fast), and a cannibal cult inflicted with The Hunger from WoD: Antagonists.
I'm not finished yet, but it's really helping a lot of things gel together in terms of my perception of M:tAw
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I've heard that there are no new Orders or Legacies.
That's right.
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But are there cabal-specific rotes?
Unfortunately, no. There are some new Artifacts and few examples of detailed Oaths created by the cabals. But in general, there's very little in terms of crunch in Boston Unveiled, at least for players.
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Unfortunately, no. There are some new Artifacts and few examples of detailed Oaths created by the cabals. But in general, there's very little in terms of crunch in Boston Unveiled, at least for players.
Hmm... I rather like crunch, though. That's kind of disappointing.
Oh well. I like the cabals a lot, so I may still give this book a chance. The info on the Tremere sounds intriguing.
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