Flagship - The Independent Magazine for Gamers

This is another game I’ve been looking forward to for a while. Set in the 12th century, as opposed to the modern one, the magic system has changed quite a bit in the intervening years. While I am a huge fan of Mage: the Ascension, I realize that the system is just too open for a lot of games to deal with. This new rules system is very sleek and a bit simpler than the modern day version, but it is still very open and still requires a mature group to make it interesting. If your idea of fun is creating very powerful characters and slaughtering your way through each adventure, this game is likely to bore you because that is just too easy to do. If you enjoy making complicated characters that are more interesting than their list of powers, but found Mage inaccessible either due to complexity or a preference for a fantasy setting, then you should probably give this one a look.