Kick ALL the Starters Part II

[Mamorien]

"You have traveled in the course of the night from the meticulous to the slime."
-- Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (and the original Paris Review story "It's Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?")

Onyx Path Publishing, under license from White Wolf Entertainment AB, are pleased and proud to present Lore of the Traditions for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mage: The Ascension.

It all seemed so simple once: Magic good, technology bad. As both fictional mages and players of Mage realize, however, nothing is quite that simple. Magic, as Mage continually asserts, is technology. Whether that technology involves concoctions, crossbows, or computer networks is a matter of semantics. The line between a wizard in his tower and a hacker in her basement gets pretty damned fuzzy, after all, once you realize they’re doing the same thing with different tools and rhetoric. As our not-so-new-millennium speeds toward its fourth decade, those simple old delusions point toward a troubling new question: Now what?

In an age of transformation, what does “tradition” even mean? That question, for mages of the Council of Nine Mystick Traditions, isn’t merely academic. The 21st century (with or without an Avatar Storm) poses dilemmas that medieval wizards could never have imagined: issues of power, ethics, technology, even reality itself. Where “tradition” once sounded comforting and stable, that term begs vital questions now: Which features of “the Old Ways” must change when confronted by the new, and which elements were worth preserving to begin with?

Lore of the Traditions doesn’t simply rehash material from older books. Instead, it explores where Mage’s nine Traditions began and where they’re headed now.

Ultimately, the magick is yours. Let’s see where it leads us.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/339...sary-ttrpg

On a less salubrious but still glorious note, CMON (Cool Mini Or Not), who happen to be based in the old White Wolf Game Studio's home town of Atlanta, have unleashed perhaps the most colorful game yet in the Zombicide series -- an adaptation of the Marvel Zombies concept. Play as zombified heroes of Earth-2149, hunting bystanders, fighting off living heroes and S.H.I.E.L.D. troopers! Play as the remaining live X-Men, rescuing bystanders and fighting off zombified mutants! Seek to devour Galactus and the Silver Surfer! In the immortal words of Bill Tipper*, "Blood! Gore! Family fun!"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmo...-zombicide

* From his classic self-published stick-figure Tunnels & Trolls comic Snerg! of Ishkish.