This is really a fantastic adventure for M20, of which there are far too few if you are not that good at creating your own. Unlike many other game systems, to include the 5th edition books for World of Darkness, Mage the Ascension (20th Anniversary edition) doesnt have published adventures to guide new players and Storytellers into the game, which can make it hard if you don't have an experienced player to guide you. This adventure is very helpful, and well written. I highly suggest it for everybody.

I cannot recommend this book enough. It exceeded my expectations. Each of the Traditions have been updated to reflect 2023 conditions, and they make them feel more accessible to a newer player such as myself. Even better, they do it without ignoring or rewriting the past. Instead the make logical descriptions of how each Tradition has been forced to take a look at itself, and decide how it wants to organize and move forward in the modern day. This works best if the Avatar Storm is considered canon at your table, but isn’t necessary. I enjoyed all of the Tradition updates, including those Traditions I generally ignore. In my opinion this is the first time the Cult of Ecstasy/Sahajiya received a decent, in depth, USABLE description. I especially loved the Virtual Adepts, as the description of the Mercurial Elites sounds like a group I would identify with and would want to be a part of if I Awakened in real life. This is an absolute must buy for M20 players and storytellers. I’d even say it’s a great product if you are using Revised rules but want an update for your lore.

Great book that explains nodes, quintessence, and resonance better than the M20 core book. It provides rules for using nodes, how to create unique ones for storytellers, and gives examples of various nodes around the world in use by the Traditions, Crafts, and Conventions of WoD. A great background supplement that adds to the setting and atmosphere of Mage the Acsension.

Such a great book! This does a great job of breaking down paradigms and practices into a system that makes sense Right off the bat the author uses examples from character creation to show different ways that paradigm can be explored and developed by the player. The book's system shows how using tenets (sorted into logical groups) can be used to create paradigms for characters. It also gives examples on how to incorparate practices, provides examples of corrputed practices, rotes and wonders for each practice, and even provides a specialty benefit for each Traditon/Craft/Convention for whichever practice they are most likely to use, such ad the Royal Art specialty for Children of Knowledge using the Alchemy practice. If you are trying to create or explain Focus for higher powers such as Archmages, there is a section here for that too. Overall, a well written very accessible book that is key for Mage character creation.