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To be honest, I've never really understood the rules for Mage. Granted, my copy is the 2nd Edition, and I've heard good things about Revised, but just so everyone knows... Half of these rules make only the slightest sense to me. That said, here's the review.

The first thing I noticed about Sorcerer was the extreme range of design quality presented throughout the book, varying from tolerable to obscenely horrifying. The border surrounding every page is possibly the ugliest art I've ever seen - when printing off a Mage character sheet with this border I actually thought the printer was misbehaving on me.

Another weak point is the art sprinkled across the pages. Some of the pictures are well done, but the majority are not only sickening to look at, they have little or nothing to do with the topic discussed nearby. A good example is a sketch on page 69 of a man sitting naked on a bus while his clothes are running behind him, the picture bearing only the slightest relevance to paragraphs on Telekinesis and the like.

From a rules standpoint (and keeping in mind that I don't know the rules very well), Sorcerer fails to create anything original and winds up being a set of new magical orders and a new way of casting magic (although I do like the new system better than Mage's).