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Mage: the Ascension
Tradition Book: Sons of Ether
"Gentlemen, I give you the amazing Electrodynamic Whirling-Tungsten Mobile Transmogrification ray!"
From the fringes of science and magick, the Sons of Ether carve mad magick and bizarre technology. Mixing Victorian pseudo-science with 1930s pulp fiction, these Scientific wizards dare to dream of a better tomorrow. These Utopian visionaries will not rest until the world once again dreams of ray guns and robots.
"How dare you laugh - I'll destroy you all!"
The Sons of Ether Tradition Book continues White Wolf's acclaimed sourcebook series with new secrets, details and characters from the Traditions' mad Scientists.
The book includes:
* Three ready-to-play character templates
* The background, factions, theories and beliefs of this popular Tradition.
*Rules for weird Science, strange gadgets, and more!
From the fringes of science and magick, the Sons of Ether carve mad magick and bizarre technology. Mixing Victorian pseudo-science with 1930s pulp fiction, these Scientific wizards dare to dream of a better tomorrow. These Utopian visionaries will not rest until the world once again dreams of ray guns and robots.
"How dare you laugh - I'll destroy you all!"
The Sons of Ether Tradition Book continues White Wolf's acclaimed sourcebook series with new secrets, details and characters from the Traditions' mad Scientists.
The book includes:
* Three ready-to-play character templates
* The background, factions, theories and beliefs of this popular Tradition.
*Rules for weird Science, strange gadgets, and more!
68 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1995
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Bill Bridges
125 books57 followersBill Bridges is a writer and game designer, most known for developing White Wolf’s World of Darkness setting and the Fading Suns science-fiction universe.
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May 5, 2019
This is one of the best put together Mage books. Set up as though a special issue of the Paradigma journal, the in-universe journal used by Etherites to share their work, it's laid out similarly to other Tradition books within that format, but the details are what makes it special. Every bit of text which is in character is directly attributed to a specific character, several of whom exist across the Mage line, though most appear exactly once.
The only disappointing bit is, for all that Matter is spoken of as the central Sphere for the Etherites, none of the rotes in the book are Matter rotes! But this is a minor issue, compared to such great bits of flavor as the tales of Czar Vargo and of Doc Eon, of the brief appearance by Dame Atomika declaring herself an Electrodyne Diva and the discussions of Etherspace, the Gernsback Continuum and more. For how short it is, it's really packed with good, useful things.
The only disappointing bit is, for all that Matter is spoken of as the central Sphere for the Etherites, none of the rotes in the book are Matter rotes! But this is a minor issue, compared to such great bits of flavor as the tales of Czar Vargo and of Doc Eon, of the brief appearance by Dame Atomika declaring herself an Electrodyne Diva and the discussions of Etherspace, the Gernsback Continuum and more. For how short it is, it's really packed with good, useful things.
April 29, 2011
Great fun source book. Also handy for the current wave of Steampunk
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