World of Darkness / Mage Updage

It looks like my Mage group is working the chronicle toward a conclusion. Plans are afoot to put together an amalgam of White Wolf rules for our next storyline, which will most likely contain new characters.

We still have several weeks of play before this story concludes. That gives us time to really prepare.

I think we're going to use the new World of Darkness stat system, and something based on the Dark Ages: Mage magic system. As far as I can tell, this means that each character has his own magic spheres, based on his understanding of magic. This ties paradigm directly to the rule set.

I've been hunting around for the appropriate books, and it isn't easy; most of them are either out of print (and difficult to find) or terribly expensive.