Mage: The Podcast

What do you ask during chronicle planning? How do you set up for a first or tenth session? Victor and Terry talk how they prepare for a new chronicle as well as what session prep looks like at each stage of a story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

What's a Marauder do with billions in the bank? What's the richest Tradition? Adam and Terry talk the treasures of Doissetep, private towns, nanotech clouds and cold hard cash in M20 The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick. M20 The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick - This book Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick with Lauren Roy - Conversation with the developer and Josh Heath about the book The Midnight World on DTRGP The Midnight World on itch.io Joe Versus the Volcano - Adam movie recommendation #1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Adam movie recommendation #2 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

How many successes to lift a monastery? When do you need dots in Medicine to kill someone? Can Spirit 2 just do everything? Charles and Terry talk their methods for determining what a magickal effect needs. The Nine Spheres - A guide to Spheres on the Storyteller Vault Sphere clarifications Google Docs - A document that seemingly compiled most of the Sphere stuff from M20 Charles Siegel’s Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Great Old Ones may sit outside of reality, Horizon, or merely our front doors but how do we use the Cthulhu Mythos in our games? Bryce and Terry talk space gods and investigation systems from Trail of Cthulhu.  Things mentioned! Bubblegumshoe - Teen Detective game Night's Black Agents - Jason Bourne vs Dracula Cthulhu City - Gumshoe game where you're stuck in a Mythos-riddled city Cthulhu Confidential - A one on one gumshoe game Esoterrorists - A game of modern supernatural horror Guide to the Traditions - Adversarial backgrounds! ST Joshi and Robert Price - Lovecraft scholars Common Mythos features - Pelgrane Article KARTAS make your own entity - The origin of Qotha Nhur’rin Red Sign book - Introduces the King in Yellow formally to WoD Last Exit by Max Gladstone Prior episode on Lovecraft Michael Shea - Lovecraft author Dark Day Radio - Linktree --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

How does terranorming work? Why are there so many wormholes in the Antarctic? What's the Enlightenment level of a Brown Paper Bag? Adam and Terry dive into the zany goodness of The Operative's Dossier. M20 The Operative's Dossier - This book M20 Technocracy Reloaded - The big volume Guide to the Technocracy - Previous omnibus book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Charles Siegel walks us through creating linear magic effects for M20 Sorcerer from start to finish. He explains aspects, rituals, dice pools, and complications and what makes Awakened magick different. M20 Sorcerer - This book Magickal Capital - Charles book on sources of high resources for Traditionalists Paths of Power - An STV take on M20 Sorcery --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Are the Star Council and Thal'hun still an "it's complicated"? Is there still just one member of the Nephite Priesthood? What affiliations hate vampires? Drew K and Bek join to walk through every affiliation in M20 Sorcerer. Occultists Anonymous Youtube yeetinto.space - OA Discord Bek Andrew Evans other DTRPG products M20 Sorcerer - This book Hunters Hunted II - V20 book with True Faith Sorcerer: Paths of Power - STV book by the mechanics developer Project Twilight - Book on Project Twilight Mage Chronicles 2 - Book containing Halls of the Arcanum --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Sorcerers boast centuries long lineages and unique abilities while largely avoiding the Ascension War. So how do you play one? Travis Legge joins to talk M20 Sorcerer, the latest addition to the M20 line. Books! Welcome to the Rock - Technocracy Jumpstart Scarred Lands - Grittier D&D and Pathfinder setting Odysseys and Overlords - OSR game M20 Sorcerer - This book Hunters Hunted II - V20 book with True Faith Ars Magica 5e - Another big book on magic Sorcerer: Paths of Power - STV book by the mechanics developer The LIbrarians - Franchise of artifact seeking historians Pyramid of Satanic power Sorcerer Lodi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

What if Tesla had discovered a way to time travel and this caused Martians to attack? What if Sleepers knew about hyperscience and were split on its use? Kim Godwin joins to discuss using Trinity Continuum: Aether in Mage! M20 Sorcerer on DriveThruRPG Aether Kickstarter - Where it's all happening Festival of the Steel Phallus - Yup, the one we talked about Kim Godwin on Twitter Kim Godwin's author webpage --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Technocratic Union started as unabashed antagonists but in M20 are they the heroes? Satyros Phil Brucato, Tyler of Vorpal Tales, and Terry join a panel hosted by Simon of Walking into Shadows on heroism and sacrifice in Mage. Satyros Red Shoes - Fiction by Satyros in dead tree and audio Tyler Vorpal Tales - Long running AP network with regular Mage games Simon Walking into Shadows 9pm ET, 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the Month - M20 explainer show --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Technocracy sometimes seems to be a conspiracy to save and enslave the world, so how's that going? Adam and Terry talk zombie plagues, yet more HIT Mark types, and octopus suits in Tomes of Magick: Technocracy Reloaded. Technocracy Reloaded - This book Guide to the Technocracy - Previous big book o' Technocracy Operative's Dossier - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

What is a soul in M20? How do mysticks see Arcane? Do all technomantic Wonders have batteries? Charles and Terry talk some of the squirrelier questions of the Mage setting and their answers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

How do you play a grog in troupe play or build a Covenant? What would magick look like if it had firm limits and Quiet brought wisdom? Thrice Great joins to talk Ars Magica and what we can take from Mage's cousin. Tomes of Magick: Order of Hermes - Episode on the 2e Tradition book Tomes of Magick: Tradition Book: Order of Hermes - Episode on Revised Tradition book Project Redcap - A large Ars Magica wiki Lion Rampant - Early game company that produced Ars Magica Atlas Games - Current publisher of Ars Magica Order of Hermes Revised - Revised Tradition book on the Order of Hermes Songs of Science - Includes 2e Order of Hermes Tradition book Ars Magica 5e Core Book - All you need to play Ars or learn about its world Most of the books for Ars Magica 5th Edition in digital form --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

M20 introduces the Crafts coming together to be a new player in the Ascension War. So where did the Crafts come from and how are they organized? Victor and Terry talk how the Disparates may cooperate...and how they don't. Book of Crafts - 2e book outlining the Crafts Book of Secrets - M20 book outlining how the Disparates mete out justice Dragons of the East - Revised book of East Asian Crafts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

In M20 Book of the Fallen, the Nephandi receive their most detailed presentation to date. Adam and Terry talk plot options, infernal axes, the Caulborn, shells of creation, and Fallen schemes. Revised Book of Madness - Previously most detailed presentation Book of Madness - First detailed presentation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Movies inform much of culture, why shouldn’t they inform our games? How do we use the Kuleshov effect, Formalism, and mise-en-scène at our tables? Yui joins to talk movie terms, ideas, and inspirations that we can use in our Mage games. Show Notes Comrade Yui on Letterboxd Comrade Yui on Twitter Movies mentioned! What Dreams May Come Assault on Precinct 13 Constantine Patlabor 2: The Movie The Art of Self Defense Army of Shadows Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain No Country for Old Men Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark I Heart Huckabees The Last of the Mohicans Stranger than Fiction Grosse Point Blank --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Hermetic, Batini, Taftani, and Chorister magick often invokes concepts in Jewish mysticism but what beliefs and practices do they draw from? Charles Siegel talks Jewish mysticism and how to use it in your games. Books and sources Charles mentioned - The text references wouldn't reasonably fit so they're listed here as part of the show outline Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah - Wraith book on the Holocaust that's well done --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The shadowy upper echelons of the Technocracy have shifted over time but Control is its best known incarnation. Control has been shrouded in secrecy and Victory and Terry walk through its possibilities. Books! Book of Mirrors - 2e walkthrough of Technocracy organization Technocracy Assembled Volume 1 - First set of Convention books Technocracy Assembled Volume 2 - Second set of Convention books Guide to the Technocracy - Biggest walk through prior to M20 Ascension - Possible interpretation of the Technocracy Technocracy Reloaded - M20 update --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Gods and Monsters delivers a broad range of characters and creatures from down and out Sleepers to incalculably powerful godforms. Adam and Terry talk Loa, HIT Marks, Talos, and a whole lot of Merits and Flaws. Mage Chronicles Volume 2 - Book that contains Ascension's Right Hand M20 Gods & Monsters - This book Listen to our interview with Satyros Phil Brucato, Hiromi Cota, James Sambrano and Isabella Price about M20 Gods & Monsters Book of the Fallen - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Different lines produce different cosmic beings so how do we use the lion-faced serpent Ialdabaoth, Gaia, the August Personage of Jade, and the Triat in our games? Josh and Terry talk cosmic beings where they can fit into Mage. Books referenced: Book of Madness - Ialdabaoth! Book of the Wyrm - A discussion on the nature of the Triat Rage Across the Heavens - A lot on the Werewolf Celestines and Incarnae Book of the Weaver - Information on Stasis spirits Book of the Wyld - Gorgons! Opcast - Josh's Trinity podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message