Mage: The Podcast

M20 was a leap forward in how a character does magick with focus but how do we bring instrument, practice, and paradigm alive at the table? Charles Siegel walks through optional systems, high level explainers, and his reference work, Prism of Focus. Prism of Focus on Storytellers Vault --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

M20 Victorian Age describes a world on the cusp of modernity steeped in gaslit mystery. Pook and Terry talk the perils of the straits, the intrigue of empire, and odd magicks re-emerging after centuries. M20 Victorian Age Mage - This book The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War - Book that discusses the rise in standard of living in the Western world Changeling the Podcast's Discord - Organizing spot for the C30 project Changeling the Podcast page - Their podcast! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What does magick look like in Shakespeare's England with Dee as Elizabeth's court astrologer and Walsingham's spies everywhere? Nathan Foxgrove joins to talk Navalon, the last skyriggers, and the Book of Oberon. Book of Oberon - Reconstructed grimoire The Fairie Queene - Looooong poem dedicated to Elizabeth Monas Hieroglyphica - John Dee's glyphs Real World Magic Texts with Brian Johnson Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland - Book about why America is weird Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1 - Book on settlement of the British in the US Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 - Big book of reformations Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard play The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam Dark Eras: Requiem for Regina (Vampire: the Requiem, Changeling: the Lost) - Chronicles Dark Eras setting in Elizabethan England John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World Dreamcatchers book for Hu

Mage is an intimidating game to run, so besides the rules, what to keep in mind when you start? Simon from Walking into Shadow and Terry talk recommendations to get a game a Mage that won't fall apart in one sitting. Links! Hellblazer Fiasco Band of Blades Beating the Plot Hamlet's Hitpoints --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

The Deep Umbra is vast and dangerous but full of wonders. So how do you get there? Hal Case, author of Umbral Pilots for W20 and M20, talks spirit-powered spaceships, plasma klaives and Garou/Mage relations. Umbral Pilots - This book The Shipyard - The expansion for the book Dead Ends - Book of liches Convention Book: Void Engineers - Rev resource on Mage Space Arcanum House on FB Arcanum House on Instagram Rage across the Heavens review on WtP Totem list Set design of Alien Rimrunners Agon RPG --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

WEIRD EPISODE! First a little bit on how 2023 went for Mage the Podcast then a lost conversation with Noah H of The Story Told on Chronicles of Darkness and RPG art. Noah's Wraith 20 overview Noah around places: Noah on Instagram Noah on Artstation Noah on Facebook --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Sandman is one of the most highly lauded comic runs to have ever been published, what can we take from it for our games? Pook and Adam discuss mood, inspiration, and TS Eliot in this edition of Reality Deviant Book Club. The Annotated Sandman, which was a late 90s/early 00s passion project to capture as many internal connections and external references as possible, issue by issue. TXT archive from an earlier version of the website Vertigo released their own very expensive series with the same name, with "proper" annotations, but... using the power of the early internet to situate and discover the series' intertextuality felt a lot more magical. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What dies may not stay dead. Driven by hunger, vengeance or piety the Hungry Dead have rare knowledge and potent powers mages be drawn to. Hsien joins to talk their work in rewriting Kindred of the East. Kindred of the East: The Relentless Age - This book Kindred of the East - The original Hsienfan on RPGnet - The author --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

When death isn't the end, what strange things can Sleepers get up to? Adam and Terry talk cauls, fennel swords, weird death tech, and more in the surprisingly useful-for-Mage The Quick and the Dead Quick and the Dead - This book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Want to have bards in your game, preserved guardians that uphold the Gauntlet, a weird holiday, or some minor Spheres? Pook and Terry talk STV books you can get right now for as little as pay what you want. Tale Singers - Book on Bardism Bog Bodies - Book on Guardians of the Gauntlet Book of Days - Book on holidays and the calendar for Changeling but also good for Mage Book of Fragments - Minor Spheres! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Apophis rises, Horus prepares, and mages go "this could get interesting". Adam and Terry talk the ka, khaibit, Cabiri, Ishmaelites and the vastly expanded landscape of Mummy in its Second Edition printing. Mummy 2nd Edition - This book! Mummy the Curse 2nd Edition - CoD book! Religion in Mage with James Estes - Previous episode with the author --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Jen Peters of ⁠Dork Tales⁠ joins to introduce the ⁠Paradox podcast⁠. A well-researched right series geared towards explaining Mage to completely new players. Does it succeed? Listen and find out! An entire episode of Paradox is included. ⁠Paradox Podcast on Podbean⁠ ⁠Dork Tales on Youtube⁠ ⁠Dork Tales on Twitch⁠ ⁠M20 Visions and Vistas call for writers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Finally Adam and Terry talk deathless supernaturals in an unending war that stalk the night, mummies! A World of Darkness: Mummy contains strange creatures with strange ancient magic and we talk adding it to your Mage game. A World of Darkness: Mummy⁠ - This book US Route 666 - One of several Mage/Mummy Crossover - previous episode on Mummy the Resurrection Mummy the Cursed - Previous episode on Mummy the Cursed --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

How do you brainstorm plot threads? How do you come up with Umbrood names, McGuffin descriptions or outline NPCs? Adam and Terry walk through their processes for coming up with plot and creating Mage-sounding non-sense. John Cleese spoke about creativity for Video Arts in January 1991. Creativity: A Short & Cheerful Guide (book) by John CleeseA Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech, 1983 / 2008(newer)A Kick in the Seat of the Pants by Roger von Oech, 1986Electric Bastionland by Chris McDowallTome of Adventure Design by Matt FinchThe Dungeon Dozen by Jason SholtisFar Side Collection (newspaper comic strip)Legends of TonoThe Classic of Mountains & SeasKojiki (I recommend the Donald Philippi translation)Charles DickensG. K. Chesterton --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Does the NWO control the CIA or the FBI? How entwined in the NSA are the Virtual Adepts? Adam and Terry talk NSA, CIA, FBI, what mages know about them and other weird 90s conspiracies in Project Twilight. Project Twilight - This book Mummy 1st Edition - Next book Now, with corrected syncing! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Join Satyros and Walking into Shadow for a wide-ranging discussion on matching effect with paradigm, emulating other games, minimal and maximal interpretations of the rules, and Terry just yelling about things. Otherworlds Illuminated: A "Mage Made Hard" Guide to the Umbra is out! If you want a version without AI art, that's available here: Generative AI Art-Free Version of Otherworlds Illuminated Episode on One Dot Sphere Effects Onyx Path Twitch Channel --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What books do we wish Sorcerers Crusade had gotten? What do we pull from these historical settings? Should we be using pillars in the modern era? Terry and Adam answer your questions! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What strange things exist at the intersection of Night-Folk? Why a creepy circus! Mage the Podcast is joined by Werewolf the Podcast and Changeling the Podcast to talk ancient terrors, thirsty gods...and clowns. Midnight Circus - This book! World of Darkness: Hong Kong - Another generic WoD Book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage First Edition was a bold vision of game, but how to follow it up? Satyros provides an oral history of how Mage changed over its roughly first year from Book of Chantries to Book of Shadows. Mage book list Satyros on Patreon Satyros on Amazon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

How do you run paranormal investigation with access to Time 2? Does anyone besides the Technocracy do this regularly? Bryce and Terry talk weird artifacts, team dynamics and investigations that make sense in WoD. Control (Video Game) Twin Peaks Psychic Self-Defense Warehouse 13 The Rivers of London Supernatural TV  Laundry Files Dresden Files X-Files SCP Podcast There Is No Antimemetics Division --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message