Forgotten Thaumaturgies is an interesting look at some new thaumaturigical paths. The concepts behind the path of Ghouldom and the Path of Mentorius were extremely interesting. Also interesting was the Heavy metal sorcery section, a path that combines music and magic.
There are a couple of issues with the book. Some of the paths seem to have issues with the mechanics. For example the path of mentorius focuses on magic that allows the sire to influence his or hir childe, but the fourth dot is a power that lets the childe use the skill of their mentor. Not sure how this is suppose to work, does both the childe and mentor need to have the ability?
In addition, the Combined Disciplines sometimes combine a discipline with a thamaturgy path, one even combines a thamaturgy path with thamaturgy itself.
In general, We recommend the book, but some of the paths need a little retooling to fit in most campaigns.
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