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Mage: the Ascension
Technocracy Syndicate *OP
Reality's for Sale.
Don't mind that bar code. It's there for your convenience. Why carry cash when credit's much safer? Scan cards? World banks? They're all in the name of progress. Money makes the world go 'round, after all, and few folks understand how true that is. Few folks outside the Syndicate, anyways.
Have Your Credit Card Ready!
Behind a facade of organized crime, the Credit-Card Convention waits with hands outstretched. Purse strings, puppet strings - they're all the same to the Grand Financiers. Everyone needs to eat, and the Syndicate has a sumptuous banquet prepared just for you. So long as you can meet the price.
Clandestine secrets of the world's richest mages: perks, adjustments and gadgets galore. The Pentex connection - Werewolf: the Apocalypse crossover material.
Don't mind that bar code. It's there for your convenience. Why carry cash when credit's much safer? Scan cards? World banks? They're all in the name of progress. Money makes the world go 'round, after all, and few folks understand how true that is. Few folks outside the Syndicate, anyways.
Have Your Credit Card Ready!
Behind a facade of organized crime, the Credit-Card Convention waits with hands outstretched. Purse strings, puppet strings - they're all the same to the Grand Financiers. Everyone needs to eat, and the Syndicate has a sumptuous banquet prepared just for you. So long as you can meet the price.
Clandestine secrets of the world's richest mages: perks, adjustments and gadgets galore. The Pentex connection - Werewolf: the Apocalypse crossover material.
72 pages, Paperback
First published December 12, 1991
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October 12, 2019
Though I haven't yet read the Technocracy: Void Engineers, this is my favorite of the first edition Convention Books. The Syndicate is presented clearly, with the reasoning behind what they do and why they can't push to do more (such as abolish money and make everything free). It does a far better job pushing the Syndicate as a "good" guy than Iteration X, Progenitors and NWO did, though a big part of that might be that all three of those books praise the Nazis in some way, while this one takes credit for the one thing that Hitler did right (rebuilding the German economy) and then tries to take credit for undermining him, rather than saying things like that the camps were a great success for medical research.
It's still a first edition Technocracy book, though clearly by this point, the 2nd edition view of the Technocracy had started to take over, though it was still two years before Guite to the Technocracy was published. So it has some issues, like making the Syndicate and New World Order have a bit too much overlap (this isn't quite solved in Revised, though giving the Syndicate Primal Utility and REALLY tying them to their paradigm of the Bottom Line helped a lot).
Oh, and of course, this is in small ways a crossover book with Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
It's still a first edition Technocracy book, though clearly by this point, the 2nd edition view of the Technocracy had started to take over, though it was still two years before Guite to the Technocracy was published. So it has some issues, like making the Syndicate and New World Order have a bit too much overlap (this isn't quite solved in Revised, though giving the Syndicate Primal Utility and REALLY tying them to their paradigm of the Bottom Line helped a lot).
Oh, and of course, this is in small ways a crossover book with Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
April 22, 2024
Overall a pretty decent overview of the Syndicate with a good outline of their beliefs and character, but somewhat poor as a game aid in my opinion. I was left without a good idea of how to use the Syndicate in a campaign or how to portray their magic in action. Especially frustrating was the adventure location in the final chapter: the overview says that there are several sub-basements where the real cloak-and-dagger stuff happens, but these floors go completely undescribed. Still worth a read for the ruminations on wealth and value.
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