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Magitech (Amazing Engine)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ132156632 ↗
Source-derived summary

Magitech is a 1993 role-playing supplement for Amazing Engine published by TSR.

Contents

Magitech is a supplement in which an alternate Earth features magic instead of technology in the 1990s.

Reception

Denys Backriges reviewed Magitech in White Wolf #41 (March, 1994), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "the book is dense at 128 pages and complete enough to keep you plotting for a long time to come. And it had better be complete. TSR doesn't plan to release supplements for any of their Universe Books unless those universes become extremely popular.

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“Magitech (Amazing Engine)” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Magitech, Amazing and Engine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Magitech, Amazing and Engine.
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This entry incorporates text from “Magitech (Amazing Engine)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.