Editing Mage: The Ascension (section)

===But I Don't Have My Degree From Hogwarts===
Odds are, this sounds really fucking arcane to you (pun intended). That's because it is, and while some people may love it, you most likely do not! Thus, any player who wants to play ''Mage: the Ascension'' has to beat a completely different game first: namely, the game of finding another set of magic rules to use in place of the ones provided in any of the ''three'' editions of ''MtA''. The [[GURPS]] version of ''MtA'' was a common pick back in the day, as it has roughly the same fluff. (And if your players are running ''to'' the "Generally Unplayable Role-Play System" to get ''away'' from the rules, that's how you can tell you've got a '''special''' level of rough on your hands.) Nowadays, the most common choice is to back-port the nWoD [[Mage: The Awakening]] rules via the ''Mage Translation Guide''. Both keep the basic idea of not using magic in public and stuff but aren't quite as blunt and over-complicated about it. Or maybe just play ''[[Ars Magica]]'' and be done with it, it's where they copied/stole a lotta this shit from anyway.

There's a reason why ''Mage'' is the game that you love to read all the awesome fluff of but never quite get a group together to play, is what we're getting at.