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The differences immediately brought to mind the issues I have with Mage the Ascension/Mage the Awakening.


You can not derive one from the other, as you can with any Unisystem book.

Cinematic is just Classic with some rules turned "off" and some rules turned "on". The only Unisystem books I have right now are the Witchcraft and ConX PDFs, and yet I am confidently running a Buffy game. Why? Because all the actual system stuff I still need is in those two books, and by this point I've memorized the Drama Point rules.