Mage: The Podcast

The mechanics for raising Arete are easy, but how do you play out a Seeking where a mage may make a self discovery or learn about the fundament of the cosmos? Josh and Terry share how Seekings changed across editions and some ways you can run them. Dusk Wiki - Large wiki with house rules on Seekings TryItCon Links: If you have a game you’d like to try, ask for it: https://forms.gle/mt5eY3QRQhY3WXD26 If you’d like to help storytell/guide for the bonanza, ST applications are here: https://forms.gle/URAagdGn7rnaufgr6 References:  Mage Style Guide - Comparison of Mage across Editions Mage Made Easy - STV supplement with recommendations on Seekings Book of Shadows - 1e book including Seekings advice Mage the Ascension 1e - The book that started it all where Seekings are external and given by the Avatar --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

In a world going mad how do the Marauders manifest? How have the Nephandi cope with the Avatar Storm? How do I barter my (character's) soul? Adam and Terry talk the dark whisperers in the Ascension War in Book of Madness Revised.  This book: Book of Madness Revised Next book: Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy  Previous Book of Madness  Book of the Fallen - 20th anniversary update to the Nephandi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Three different interviews with three different liveplays! Terrifying Tales nods to Kult, Ombligo Del Diablo is an M5 hack in a strange Southwest, and Technogate explores the 90s, one Umbral Realm at a time and what 2d10 and Guldan Age Stories are up to. Terrifying Tales - A run of Mage with hints of Kult added for good measure run by Vorpal Tales. Technogate 1999 - Exploring the goings on an Umbra-hopping Amalgam by Guldan Age Stories. Ombligo Del Diablo - Adventures in an eerie Southwest by the Odd Troupe. Crossing Darkness - An old World of Darkness informational podcast about the full breadth of oWoD gaming 2D10 Podcast - A broad gaming podcast by Nate of Utility Muffin Labs Other links! Victorian Mage Indiegogo - For each person who comments that I should write on the Victorian Umbra, I'll add 250 words to an STV supplement on the Victorian Umbra. (Min 5k, max 20k) Sorcerer: Paths to Power - Sorcerer updated to M20 Tradition Rotes Project --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast

Guide to the Traditions lifts the curtain on the thousand ways the Traditions work with and against each other. Adam and Terry talk high-ritual shamans, hidden Cathars, Asthika technomancers and stranger magicks in this broad look at the 21st century Council. Books: Guide to the Traditions - the one we're talking about The Bitter Road - Another big book of group and plot options Book of Madness (Revised) - Next up! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The 19th century saw the West push to conquer the world but what were mages up to? The Technocracy rises, the American frontier closes and dozens of societies resist colonialism in Onyx Path's newest crowdfunding campaign, M20 Victorian Age now on Indiegogo. The crowdfunding campaign for Victorian Age Mage Victor Kinzer on Walking Away from Arcadia Technocracy history Books references:  Guide to the Technocracy - Technocratic History Mage Storyteller's Companion - Giant timeline Victorian Age Vampire - The first VIctorian age book W20 Wyld West Expansion - Update to the Wyld West setting for werewolf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

This minisode is with Max from Saga Experience which is trying to create a new type of virtual tabletop with a kind of built in game engine. We talk about our favorite numbers, virtual tabletops, and outcome distributions. Regular episode will be out Saturday! Saga Experience - Their webpage Saga Experience Discord - Talk to 'em! Tell them you want a freeform magick system. :3 Saga Experience Youtube - See it in action --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

What does faith look like as the End Times approach? What is the role of shepherds when monsters walk the earth? Adam and Terry talk how the Chorus as broadened even as theology seemingly declines in Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus. Next up: Guide to the Traditions Our discussion of the previous Celestial Chorus book Swords of Faith which includes the prior Tradition Book and two others Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus on Drivethrurpg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Mage is a game suited for many genres from pensive journey to space opera but the rules don't always give us fast-paced action. Bryce Perry of Darker Days Radio talks with Terry about things to steal from games like Torg and how to speed up combat. Games to steal from: Torg - Game geared towards action and adventure with group leveling and dramatic build-up system. Unknown Armies - Urban fantasy game where broken people save the world.  Blades in the Dark - The best game Ars Magica - For when the Order of Hermes isn't enough and you want all the hermetics. Our episode on Tales of Magick: Dark Adventure Darker Days Radio mailing list --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

In the 21st century, the Ahl-i-Batin quietly invoke the Khwaja al-Akbar while the Taftâni fight druj and pursue Asha with explosive ferocity. Adam and Terry talk math, carpets, figs and other goodies from Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batin & Taftâni. Show Notes More information on the Entelechy in Ascension Previous information on the Ahl-i-Batini in Book of Shadows --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The Traditions claim to represent all of mystick magick but may were left out of the Grand Convocation. So what is a Tradition and what makes them special? Victor and Terry talk Traditions over time, areas to explore, and how to build your own.  The Hermit Hipster's Patreon Video on Tradition Book Garou Nation - Werewolf explainer by the team of Juarez by Night Books mentioned: Guide to the Traditions - Revised guide to mystick politics Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani - Two groups that maybe could be Traditions Dark Ages Mage - Game that uses Fellowships instead The Fragile Path - Book on the founding and betrayal of the First Cabal Book of Crafts - Book of well, Crafts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

No longer lead by monastic ascetics the Akashayana are ready to bury old ways but can they hold together long enough to change? Adam and Terry talk new sects, new rotes, new wonders and a whole lot of Do in Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood. This book: Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood on Drivethrurpg Next book: Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani on Drivethrurpg Fist of the North Star Theravada - Type of Buddhism discussed largely in this book. Mahayana - More popular branch of Buddhism --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The world of Mage is teeming with strange creatures so why not add dragons? Scion: Dragon explores the powers and agendas of the mythic creatures and their heirs and developer Danielle Lauzon shares how dragons can go in your Mage game. The Kickstarter campaign! Scion core books: Scion: Origins - Book outlining starting Scions and the storypath system  Scion: Hero - Book on more powerful Scions  Danielle's author page Danielle's Twitter account --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The grip of Paradox has tightened but sorcerers, psychics, extraordinary citizens, and practitioners of limited or codified magick are unhindered. So what are they up to? Adam and Terry talk new groups, new paths, new systems, and PSYCHIC POWERS in Sorcerer Revised. Next Book: Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batini and Taftani World of Darkness: Sorcerer - Prior Sorcerer book which was less free-form and overall smaller Prior Episode on Sorcerer Hunters Hunted II - Another book on antagonists including some magickal and semi-magickal societies as well as numina. True Faith was not in this book but it's expanded in Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

What games did you play in 2020, and more importantly, what hacks, mechanics, settings, and ideas can we take from them to bring into Mage? Mike from Darker Days Radio talks Sanity from Call of Cthulhu, quick stats from the Pip system, focus from Soulbound, and more as we review the games we played in 2020. Games mentioned Wrath and Glory - The story of eight systems cut off from the rest of the Warhammer world Pip system - A simple stat system that's kid-friendly Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition - Recent edition of one of the oldest RPGs Tomb of Dreams - Exalted 3e quickstart game Soulbound - Another Warhammer game which is where the Focus discussion comes from  Mork Borg - Black metal d20 RPG Genesys generic system - Fantasy Flight's house system where each die roll tells a story Revised Mage Quickstart - Simplified version of Mage Revised Podcasts mentioned The Story Told - Generic RPG podcast which also does a recurring Exalted liveplay Gehenna Gaming - Horror gaming rpg group

A bonus episode to go with our episode on Dragons of the East.   Adam Simpson offers some ideas for bringing East Asia into your Mage Chronicles. Seven Branch Sword https://michael-chen-mg2n.squarespace.com/news/2017/10/12/legendary-7-branched-sword-of-japan https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/seven-branched-sword-mystical-ceremonial-sword-japan-003185 http://nihonshoki.wikidot.com/scroll-9-jingu (look for Death of the King of Baekje) Books Religion in Contemporary Japan by Ian Reader. University of Hawaii Press 1991 Japanese Religions Past & Present by Ian Reader, Esben Andreasen & Finn Stefansson. University of Hawaii Press 1993 Ninja Attack! by Hiroko Yoda & Matt Alt. Kodansha International 2010 True Path of the Ninja by Antony Cummins & Yoshie Minami. Tuttle Publishing 2011 Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa. Kodansha International 1967 (1992) Yokai Attack! by Hiroko Yoda & Matt Alt. Tuttle Publishing 2008 Kojiki by Donald L. Philippi (translator).

Dragons of the East vastly expands Mage Revised’s territory by outlining the Awakened world in large parts of East Asia. Adam and Terry review the major points like the mysterious new groups ranging across Mongolia’s steppes to the dense forests of Vietnam and an ancient conspiracy of the Dalou’laoshi that lurks in the edge of the Technocracy....maybe. Show Notes This book: Dragons of the East Next book: Sorcerer Revised Notes Book of Crafts episode Midnight Express Episode on the Wu-Keng Ailon Rouge's Chantry Project --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

For over twelves centuries the Order of Hermes has pushed will as the key of magick, where do they stand in the 21st century? Stephen Michael DiPesa authored Tradition Book: Order of Hermes and Blood Treachery and shares where he thinks the Hermetics would be today. Stephen's written for a number of other games and White Wolf lines and shares his experiences as an RPG writer. WoD Books: Blood Treachery - Revised book outlining the Wizards March declared against Clan Tremere Tradition Book: Order of Hermes - Revised Tradition Book Infinite Tapestry - Revised book on the Umbra Mage Storytellers Handbook - Handbook outlining a dozen dozen directions to take a Mage game Ascension - The last book of Revised Mage the Awakening: Second Edition --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The Order of Hermes is cut off from the Horizon Realms that form the basis of its power and struggling to find its footing after realizing they can no longer destroy the Technocracy. What's a Tradition to do? Decvlare war on the Tremere to try and get their stuff back! Blood Treachery advances the Revised metaplot with a bang weaving a tale of magick, blood, hubris, and guncotton in an exploration of what the Order has become but might yet be.  Adam and Terry walk through what's changed from the Hermetic magick that makes your blood explosive to the new Astral Courts and the revelations as to the true reason Mistridge fell. This book: Blood Treachery Next book: Dragons of the East Others references: House of Tremere - Information the historical Tremere Clanbook: Tremere - Revised book outlining the hierarchy Tradition Book: Order of Hermes - Revised book on the Tradition written in the wake of the Wizards March. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this

JFK was just been inaugurated as president, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated the Berlin Wall is built, Elvis returns, Motown is founded, and the Cold War is in full-swing but what's going on in the Awakened world? Mage Developer Satyros Phil Brucato walks through ideas in using the 1960s as a chronicle setting, how it's informed by what came before, and how it sets the stage for our modern Ascension War. References: The Avengers - British espionage TV show Get Smart - American spy parody James Bond - British secret agent movie series based on books by Ian Flemming Gojira - 1954 kaiju film introducing Godzilla  The Warmth of Other Suns - Book about the internal Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson  Sun Ra - American composer and experimental musician with a cosmic philosophy Parliament-Funkadelic - American funk collective headed by George Clinton Baader-Meinhof Group - Far left German militant organization about which numerous films were made Velvet Underground - American rock ba

With the master's gone, how is an Adept to achieve Mastery? By learning the secrets of the ancients through a mix of cultural outreach and maybe a little grave-robbing.  Dead Magic explores the magic of the cradle of humanity, the ruins of Babylon, the forbidding tracts of North American of Arctic, and the visceral practices of Greece. Adam and Terry tour through the ruins of past magick and give recommendations on how to bring the contents into your game. Warning! This is a Black Dog Game Factory supplement and is a bit more gorey and bad-touchy than most Mage books. This book: Dead Magic Next book: Blood Treachery Rework of Giant’s Playground by Adam Shaping up the Giant’s Playground should remain within Revised Edition’s parameters of keeping things on Earth so no portals to the Umbra or Horizon Realms.  Making it mystically interesting goes against Revised Edition’s rich character development but I swear I’m going to print some T shirts with the message “Rage Against the Rich Character Developm