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Title: The Book of Shadows: The Mage Players Guide: The Sourcebook for Players and Storytellers of Mage (Mage) by Phil Brucato, Bill Bridges, Steve Brown, Emrey Barnes, Jim Moore, Beth Fischi, Harry Heckel ISBN: 1-56504-119-4 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Out of date
Comment: I've played mage for a few years now, before third edition graced the shelves, and I found that this book was not terribly helpful. While it had several high points, the extra skills included on a whole could be gained by taking a specialty in an already listed skill. The merit and flaw section was interesting, with the publication of revised and third edition, it's no longer needed. The expanded tradition sections, were helpful, but sense the publication of third edition, they are no longer up to date and to be honest, if you want to know about traditions The Traditions Gathered set of books is a far better resource. While The Book of shadows is an interesting read, it's definitely not a required resource for mage.

Rating: 3
Summary: A good oldie showing it's age
Comment: This is a good book which has a lot of information to make your character richer (merits and flaws, extra skills, more detailed information on each Tradition, the Technocracy and others, etc.). However, most of the sections in this book are beginning to show their age, as the information presented here has been revised and updated to much more practical information in several other Mage books. The section with the parables, though, is still one of my favorite Mage reads.

Rating: 3
Summary: More useful than great
Comment: The book of shadows, which was written between the publishing of the 1st and second editions of Mage, is at this point slightly "behind the times," especially what with the release of Mage 3rd edition. Somewhere between irrelevant and necessary. Has some good basic material on the various Mage fringes, as well as a lot of expanded stuff for character creation.

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