[UA] Help me pleeeeeease!

Hermetic hermetic at io.com
Fri Feb 7 16:25:19 PST 2003


Ryan Fitch-Davis wrote:

> Mage was published in 1992 if I remember right. The year the Berlin Wall
> came down. That was the year the '80s /really/ ended. It looked for a
> moment that the world might not get blown into radioactive cinders and
> things changed.  But Mage is an artifact of this time, with it's
> style-over-substance world and millenarian themes. And that's the
> difference. Mage is a /modern/ occult game, and thus is about
> alienation, isolation, and paranoia. And IMHO, it's a darn good one.

FYI, The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. Mage was published in 1993.
Sorry to be a stickler, but I'm a historian.

Wade



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