Mage: The Podcast

Gnosticism has ancient roots and is mentioned at across various WoD lines. How can we reflect Gnosticism and Gnostic magick in Mage? Pook joins to talk Sophia , Yaldabaoth, the Pleroma , and the Cainite Heresy . Nostradamus's Cherry Jam s World of Darkness Books Cainite Heresy - Dark Ages Vampire book with a wild take on Gnosticism. The Paradigm's Progress - Pook's book on Paradigm advancement Oth...

The Maya and Dreaming are only lightly described in Mage, where can we look to for more options? Why Changeling ! Terry and Adam read Dreams and Nightmares with an eye to using it in Mage with all its trods, mists, and chimera. Dreams and Nightmares - This book Changeling the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition - The most recent core book

So what's everyone else makin'? This week Terry talks to Kris Newton of Megadumbcast , Mike Diamond of the Ascension of Babylon actual play and TL Webb 's latest fiction, Crushing Depths . Crushing Depths - Latest Hollow Earth fiction TL Webb's Other Works Megadumbcast Patreon - Get the megasodes Ascension of Babylon - The Old Ways podcast The Old Ways Patreon

Strange peoples lurk at the edges of the World of Darkness . How do we add them to our games? Pook and Terry talk the Sekrana , Chulorviah , The Watchers in the Deep , the Wyck , and other early humans. BOOKS! Last Days of New Paris - A novel that imagines a surreal Paris overrun with manifestations of surrealist art. The City & The City - A detective story set in two cities that occupy the sa...

Mage draws upon sources both ancient and modern, what can they teach us about our games? Pook and Adam talk Books of Magic , the four-part series by Neil Gaiman for DC Comics in this installment of Reality Deviant Book Club. Reading List for Hollow Earth Inspiration

The World of Darkness has all sorts of non-human peoples, how do we add them to Mage? Pook from Changeling the Podcast joins to talk about the Fomorians , Tuatha de Danaan , the Goro, Dero , Firstborn and the Djinn . Sphere of Gun book Episode on Dark Ages Fae Episode on Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds Colorized Revised prints

The World of Darkness is full of supernatural conspiracies , but who falls in with them and how can we use them in our games? Jordan Etherington joins to talk methods and pitfalls when adding creeping conspiracy to your game. The Crying of Lot 49 They Live The X Files Ahti (Control) Delta Green Unknown Armies Over the Edge Inside Job (Netflix)

How do we crack D&D's hegemony? What would a better World of Darkness convention experience be? What fun stuff did we find? Mike A of Darker Days Radio and Pooka G from Changeling the Podcast talk PAX Unplugged Games we mention: To Serve Her Wintry Hunger The Electric State Mr Gone's Character Sheets The Walking Dead RPG

Werewolves see the Otherworlds differently with different senses, different passages, and possibly different places. Adam and Terry talk Umbra , Umbra Rev and W20 Umbra from the Scar to the planetary court. Axis Mundi - A big book of spirits for Mage and Werewolf Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - First Werewolf Umbra book Umbra (Revised) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow...

Werewolves guard against mages raiding their caerns for quintessence but no one can stop us from raiding Werewolf books for story ideas! Adam and Terry talk Umbra , Umbra Rev and W20 Umbra from Chaos Stones to the Kami. Axis Mundi - A big book of spirits for Mage and Werewolf Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - First Werewolf Umbra book Umbra (Revised) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book W20 Umbra: The V...

The Void Engineers get pigeon-holed as the Convention of space marines and voidships , but that's just one part. Bryce and Terry talk about what the Void Engineers do on Earth and how to run planetside VE stories.

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

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 worl...

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 Br...

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

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 o...

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

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 fro...

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

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!

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...

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

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

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...

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 Cleese A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech,...