Mage: The Podcast

The Syndicate tried to fund the Union to success but the Financial Crisis crashed the Cash-or-Credit Convention. Adam and Terry talk Primal Utility, the current board, and Technocracy civil war in Convention Book: Syndicate. Hypereconomics and Primal Utility with Victor Kinzer - Episode talking hypereconomics Convention Book: Syndicate - This book Convention Book: Void Engineers - THE LAST ONE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage is full of conspiracies but what about hypercompetent assassins for hire? Monica Speca joins to explain how to add assassins and assassin societies to the World of Darkness from Trinity Continuum: Assassin Trinity Continuum: Assassin - The book we're talking about Trinity Continuum Core - Core book for Trinity Continuum Crazy 88 (Youtube Clip) - Killer society from Kill Bill Leverage (TV Series) - TV show that inspired flashbacks in a number of games The Warriors (Video game based on a movie based on a book based on a poem) - The DJ announces where the Warriors are Gunpowder Milkshake (Movie) - One of the inspiring movies John Wick (Movie series) - One of the inspiring movies Jianghu - Community of martial artists common in wuxia films Fallen Tower: Las Vegas - A setting book with weird radios Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council - A setting book with a weird figure stirring stuff up Find Monica on: Twitter Systematic Understanding of Everything - Exalted podcast Bon

The Progenitors grab at a perfect deathless future but with great moral peril. As the Ethics Council replaces the Administration, Adam and Terry talk action scientists and hyperintelligent whales in Convention Book: Progenitors. If you’re listening to this before December 21st, applications are still open for the Jackalope Live Action Roleplaying event Mage Noir set to happen in Austin, Texas, the weekend of April 2nd. It’s a LARP game set in the 1950s, and I’ll be there as a sage bartender...possibly. Show Notes Apply for Mage Noir Here Original Progenitors book This book: Convention Book: Progenitors Next book: Convention Book: Syndicate --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Four guests! Charles Siegel talks about adding sorcerers to M20, the Hermetic Hipster talks new Tradition Backgrounds, TL Webb talks mages in Texas, and Thrice Great introduces a persistent text Mage game you can go join. Strange Yesterdays - My book on alternatives to the Revised metaplot Liberation Mush - An online persistent text game you can join Mush Clients - Software required to play Liberation Wiki - A great introduction to Mage and the world of the Liberation MUSH  Hermetic Hipster - Youtube channel explaining Mage Hermetic Hipster's Guide to the Traditions - Their book adding backgrounds and merits with short fiction Number and Shape - A Paradigms Explored book on hypermathematics Sorcerer Paths of Power - Charles's book updating Sorcerer to M20 Cyberfunk  - TL Webb's newest fiction piece Fireball Run - TL's previous release --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Ascension may have come but we have Conventions to update and Convention Book: N.W.O. is the first of the early 2010s books under CCP Games. Adam and Terry talk the Data Sphere, the Greylocke Incident, and ATLAS units for the N.W.O.. Show Notes Convention Book: N.W.O. - This book Convention Book: Progenitors - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage the Ascension contains all sorts of magickal books, but how do magic texts in our world go from unearthed to on a bookshelf? Translator and RPG writer, Brian Johnson talks paradigms, spells, and library adventures. Brian's freelancer webpage Forged by Dragon's Fire - Book containing books Brian's References: Sophie Page has studied a whole collection of magical texts from the 14th-century library of St. Augustine's abbey, Canterbury; her PhD thesis on the topic is here (access with free registration): https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340649 see also her published volume, Magic in the Cloister: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06033-0.html) For a humongous and very colorful example of what a real medieval grimoire could look like, see the Summa Sacrae Magicae Finally, one that we did mention, the Fasciculus Rerum Geomanticarum, at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (some translated excerpts of which I recently published as Necromancy in the Medici Library, available at al

All things come to an end but Mage and Ascension, the last Mage book for eight years, provides five such endings. Adam and Terry talk the death of Senex, the return of al-Aswad, asteroid impacts and the Zigg'raugglurr. This book: Ascension The next book: Convention Book: N.W.O. World of Darkness: Time of Judgment: The book that provided end time scenarios for the other lines Note! Our current plan is to read the four Revised Convention books then review Sorcerers Crusade before reading M20 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Rich Bastard's Guide to Magick adds magick for movers and shakers and two of the authors join us! Lauren Roy as developer and Josh Heath as author talk hypercars, Porthos' grimoire and rich-ass Templars. Get the book Lauren M Roy's other books --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Terry ran a Mage one shot for some players with mostly D20 prior experience. The session highlights the power and morality of what a mage does in the hands of new players. Mage 1-page per Sphere references by Mark Hope - You likely need to be a member of the FB group to grab them. The Nine Spheres by Charles Siegel - A more expansive coverage of the Spheres  Support the show on Patreon  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Mage: The Ascension Revised take on the Virtual Adepts mixes fashion, modernity, and a bit of 1e kookiness in with the last published Tradition Book. Adam and Terry talk the Turing virus, the Tesla vaccine, and mid-2000s clothing choices. Show Notes This book: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts Next book: Ascension --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Technocracy is a staple of the Mage canon but it brings along with it assumptions on how science works. Victor and Terry discuss Occupy Horizon, crowd effects, and six new technomagick Crafts. Executive producers! Check the Patreon or the Discord to vote on which group should receive a write up. Poll runs through November 15th. Shadowbound - Victor's Wraith project --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Verbena Circle introduced in the 90s is now grown and tackles the contemporary problems of some very old practices. Adam and Terry talk deadly healing, the limits of Merlin, and the Paths of the Wyck in Tradition Book: Verbena. Tradition Book: Verbena - This book Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Jason Pitre is a writer and developer whose games often focus on beliefs and the fight to change them which really sounds like Mage. Jason is also a big Mage fan and talks how to adapt his work for your table.  Genesis of Legend Publishing - Jason's firm RPG Design Panelcast - A podcast Jason rights on game design M5 Hack - From our Patrick McNamara interview plus what Terry put together. Jason's Game Spark Roleplaying - a game of shifting beliefs Spark Roleplaying on DrivethruRPG After the War on DrivethruRPG After the War in hardcopy on Indie Press Revolution Sig: Manual of the Primes on DrivethruRPG --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Seeking to reverse the Curse of Caine, vampires say "dare we spit in God's eye?" while mages grab a hose and say "hold my beer". Adam and Terry talk forbidden texts, Cold War Technocracy, and so many NPCs in The Red Sign. The Red Sign - This book The Yellow King RPG - A Pelgrane Press book including four time periods The King in Yellow - The short story collection containing the stories that contains references to the play....the King in Yellow --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Chaos magic seeks to boil ritual to its essence and change the world while discarding the baggage of previous movements but how to add it to a Mage game? Yui joins to talk egregores, servitors, sigils, and Speed posters. Penny Dreadful Mage Novel Grant Morrison on Sigil Creation - Note, this video starts with him literally screaming Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic - One of the popular texts on chaos magic.  Condensed Chaos - Phil Hines' chaos magic book Yui on Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Tradition Book: Sons of Ether gives a sneak peak of what the end times in the World of Darkness could be but first it shares much more. Adam and Terry talk Ethics Councils, missing archmasters, and some crackpot science. Next: Tradition Book Verbena Flash Gordon - On The Planet Mongo - Titan Books The Shadow Out of Time by HP Lovecraft Some Thomas Dolby She Blinded Me With Science Flying North I Live In A Suitcase Windpower One of Our Submarines --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage can often provide surreal moments but how do you run a game with the surreal baked in without breaking everything? Chazz and Terry talk surrealism in Mage, references, and things to steal from Invisible Sun.  Invisible Sun Preview - A free preview of the game Invisible Sun - The whole game Itras By - A surreal game in a strange town Dreamhounds of Paris - Game of surrealists discovering the dreamlands Lacuna - Surrealism  of strange agents fighting things they don't quite understand Teratology Preview - Free peek Teratology - Monster book for Invisible Sun Works Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening - Dali painting The Gone Away World - Nick Harkaway's book about a strange sci fi book The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville book on destructive surrealism Cicero - A print Terry finds inspiring Afro Surrealism Pinterest The Guardian article on modern Afro Surrealism Artists Kay Sage - Surrealist who did haunting studi

Wonders trace back to 1e but in Forged by Dragon's Fire they are completely fleshed out. Adam and Terry talk Wonders Artifacts, Inventions, Talismans, Devices, Periapts, Matrices, Fetishes, Grimoires, Principiae, and Familiars. Books Technomancer's Toybox - 2e Technomancer book Mage Storytellers Companion - Previous book on new Wonders M20 Gods and Monsters - Big book of familiars Forged by Dragon's Fire - This book Tradition Book: Sons of Ether - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Patrick McNamara ran a Mage hack based on Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition for Club Penny Arcade and shares his tweaks, hacks, ideas, and what it's like running Mage the Ascension for one of the most widely known groups in tabletop play. Key Books: Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition - Foundation of the system Mage the Awakening 2nd edition - Foundation for Reach used to determine Paradox dice M20 Quickstart - a pretty good run-down of the M20 rules Animal House Podcast Animal House Video Animal House Rules Quick Reference (Must be Club PA member on Patreon) Patrick McNamara Twitch Adam Neely's 24 Hour Album project --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Order has lost Doissetep, waged a questionable war against vampires and lost many masters but the Hermetics are far from defeated. Adam and Terry talk new houses, new praxes, new rotes, and new chantries in Tradition Book: Order of Hermes. Things mentioned! Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica - Rare book library The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast - A podcast that covers much of the corpus hermeticum Embassy of the Mind - Hermetic documents Books! Tradition Book: Order of Hermes - This book Forged by Dragon's Fire - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message