A not-so-indepth overview of 3 fairly popular Chronicles of Darkness fanbooks, Chapter 2: Invincible Hypermind

So, Genius the Transgression I’m not 100% aware of the history of the World of Darkness games, but from what I gather, this game was created in response to a very specific beef the creators had with the brand-new version of Mage at the time, which I believe was Mage: The Awakening? I’m not talking about the mainline; I'm not gonna do any research on that. Specifically, the Technocracy (more specifically the Void Engineers) not being playable in the newest edition. So, they created Genius! A game where everyone plays a more… morally neutral version of the traditionally antagonistic hypercapitalist Technocrats. While the Technocrats in the last few years of World of Darkness became much more nuanced and were effectively treated as another tradition of magic, Chronicles erased them from the timeline. Geniuses work on similar rules to the Technocrats; they take the occultism from the World of Darkness setting and leverage it to do stuff that's effectively magic but not really because of…

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