Mage: The Podcast

Have you ever said “My game needs more boats?” ⁠ World of Darkness: Blood-Dimmed Tides ⁠ talks ⁠new fae⁠, blood-sweating vampires, Hermetic boats and aquatic systems for days. What side are you on in the war between ⁠Dagon⁠ and ⁠Vatea⁠? World of Darkness: Blood-Dimmed Tides - This book William Hope Hodgeson - Author of boat stories Naval institute press copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Adam's recommended translation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

In a world rife with supernatural threats how do mortals take back the night? How do we add these actors and agencies to our games? Terry talks Hunter 5th, desperation, SAD post glow-up, and avatar lineages. Project Twilight - Another mortal game book The Second Inquisition - V5 book on powerful mortal groups Hunter the Reckoning 5th⁠ - This book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

John Beckwith joins to talk fiction involving the Technocratic Union and the Garou Nation in One Giant Leap for Inhumankind and then Satyros talks things that didn't make it into Victorian Mage in Scandals & Fisticuffs. One Giant Leap for Inhumankind - Fiction Scandals & Fisticuffs - Satyros' work that didn't make it into Victorian Mage The Thing from Another World The Day the Earth Stood Still Deep Rock Galactic The Forever War by Joe Haldeman The Wall by Pink Floyd --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Who is John Constantine and why is he in the Mage recommended reading list? Does he look like Sting? Can he help your Mage games? Pooka and Adam discuss what Hellblazer can offer us. ⁠John Constantine on DC Comics Wiki⁠⁠ First volume of Hellblazer on Amazon.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Dark Ages: Mage received only two formal books but Right of Princes tells how to run a Chantry and Darkening Sky provides an adventure. Adam and Terry talk domains, pooled backgrounds, eclipses, the Holy Land, and Frederick II. Right of Princes - Dark Ages book on ruling and relating to mortals with some information on building a Chantry Darkening Sky - A set of adventures for Dark Ages lines Blood-Dimmed Tides - NEXT BOOOOK --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What was the early vision of the Digital Web? What was the difference between the Dreaming and the High Umbra? What's it like writing the 2nd Tradition book? Harry Heckel, early may author joins to talk early Otherworlds. Jack Heckel Novels - Harry's writing duo Harry Heckel on the White Wolf wiki - Other things he's worked on Preview of Mage Made Hard: The Umbra - Preview of the next Mage publication. Tron - Inspirational for the Digital Web Shadowrun - Lil more inspo Cyberpunk 2020 - The original Cyberpunk RPG...that was popular --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Welcome to Mage: The Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring the arcane depths of Mage: The Ascension! Prepare to embark on a spellbinding journey through a world where magic and reality intertwine, where mages wield unimaginable power!

The Fae of the Dark Ages differ markedly from their contemporary counterparts. Who are they and how could they exist in the modern world? Victor and Terry talk courts, re-emergence, church bells, and chaos as contract. Dark Ages: Fae - This book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What were the Garou doing in the Dark Ages? How many vampires were there in the cities? Was warfare just knights hurling insults? Jacob Klunder of the World of Dark Ages joins to prove Terry knows nothing about history. The World of Dark Ages Podcast - Jacob's podcast where he says things he knows Places of Mystery and Power - Jacob's newest Dark Ages Mage publication about places where thar be magick! Island of the Dead God - A book outlining an island, containing a dead god! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

The Awakened want power in a world slipping from their hands but what cost are they willing to pay? Devil's Due outlines infernalism in the Dark Ages and Adam and Terry talk investments, taints, and strange ancient evils. Dark Ages: Devil's Due - This book Demon: The Fallen - Contemporary Demon line Dark Ages: Right of Princes - Next book Dark Ages: Darkening Sky - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

All factions wage a war of both magickal truth but also of vibes. How do feelings shape experiences and how does that influence magick? Jordan Etherington joins to talk affect theory, description, a subtle war and Mage. ⁠Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s game⁠ ⁠Soulbound: Dark Industrial Fantasy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Dark Ages Mage peaks into a world before the modern ascension war and Dark Ages Grimoire acts as tour guide in this strange land. Adam and Terry talk Certamen, Fellowship descriptions, Familiars and so much more on Pillars. Dark Ages Mage Grimoire - This book Dark Ages: Devil's Due - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage has space for paranormal investigations overseen by vast supernatural conspiracies, but how do build out strange events in our games? Sean Ireland joins to talk Triangle Agency, a game of superpowers, intrigue, and pathos. Triangle Agency on Kickstarter Triangle Agency Delta Test - Pay what you want beta documents Ea-Nasir complaint tablets Haunted Table's Discord SCP RPG - (Wasn't 5e based, my bad!) Control by Remedy Entertainment Wiki Esoterrorists Liminal Horror Blackwater D&D Twitch page --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

The Sorcerers Crusade⁠ takes place during the opening shots of the Ascension War but what came before? ⁠ Dark Ages: Mage ⁠ takes place in 1230s Europe. Adam and Terry talk ⁠Fellowships⁠, ⁠Pillars⁠, and a very strange Umbra. Show Notes ⁠Dark Ages: Mage⁠ - This book Dark Ages: Mage Grimoire⁠ - Next book Conversation with Stephen Michael DiPesa on writing Dark Ages: Mage⁠ ⁠The Portable Medieval Reader⁠ ⁠Amulets and Superstitions⁠ on Amazon Amulets and Superstitions⁠ on Abebooks ⁠The Canterbury Tales⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage lists legion inspirations; what are they are what do they inform our games? First Edition core even says, “But for pure ‘manliness,’ you can’t beat Kid Eternity.” Pook and Adam see what Kid Eternity offers us. Show Notes Buy the Kid Eternity Deluxe Edition on Amazon⁠ Kid Eternity Wikipedia entry Kid Eternity⁠ in the DC wiki --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

We've finished talking Sorcerers Crusade books but how do you actually run it? Seasoned Storyteller Victor Kinzer walks through his SC chronicle and the choices he made in running the game. Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics - school of mathematics and astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Tirur, Malappuram, Kerala, India Tantrasamgraha - a major treatise of the era also available here M20 Victorian Mage - Victorian Mage core rulebook Victor Kinzer⁠ - Victor on Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

The horrors of the World of Darkness are generally hidden but what if that weren't an option? Christopher Neglein joins to talk about The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG and how to blend the cosmic with the bureaucratic. Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG Kickstarter The Mystery Flesh Pit blog NPS Rawlinson and Frutiger Fonts Esper Genesis RPG Action Park The Laundry Files Delta Green RPG Defunctland Youtube channel The Esoterrorists RPG Ganza Gaming Patreon Ganza Gaming blog --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What is the state of the children of the wyck across a changing Europe? ⁠Witches and Pagans⁠ is the last Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade entry and Adam and Terry talk nature magick, sacrifice, and skyclad mysticks. Note! This one can get a little explicit. Witches and Pagans - This book Dark Ages: Mage - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

William Blake forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. Steve Dempsey, author of Fearful Symmetries, guides us through Blake's life, mythology, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. The Dying Earth - The RPG Steve didn't write Urban Shadows: Dark Streets - Expansion for Urban Shadows Blood on the Snow - An expansion for Hillfolk Fearful Symmetries - This book Bob Schnoblin's Pyramid of Satanic Power - Greatest single page in White Wolf Night of Enitharmon's Joy - Creepy painting Ancient of Days - Baller painting The Folklore Engine generator - What it says on the tin Shotguns v Cthulhu - Another Steve publication Fearful Symmetries Actual Play --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

In this mechanics minisode, Monica Speca, Exalted, Scion, and Trinity Dev joins to help Terry workshop some ways to make magick in Mage a little bit quirkier. Regular episode will be out this Saturday! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message