[UA] Help me pleeeeeease!

Ryan Fitch-Davis sithriel at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 10 12:07:32 PST 2003


*laugh*
So much for my memory...

There /is/ something to the thought despite my factual errors, I hope.

Hermetic wrote:
> 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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