Mage: The Podcast

With a PDF just shy of 700 pages, Mage 20th Anniversary Edition Core is around a half million words of Purple Mage goodness. Adam and Terry talk new rules, new themes, new history and how to navigate it. M20 Core Rulebook - This book How Do You DO That? - Next book Adam's notes on The Classic of Mountains & Seas (old Chinese book) Adam's M20 Core notes

Mages across paradigms harness life and inspiration to create strange servants but sometimes they take on a life of their own. Kim and Griffin join to talk Victorian monsters, alchemical elements, and Promethean the Created. Opening notes The Body Electric on Twitch - The twitch channel for the AP The Story Told Podcast - The podcast Griffin is on Professional Mage ST - Contact me if you're a prof...

The Marauders have shifted from Golden Age zealots to the mad mages in on the cosmic joke with shades between. Where have they been and where can they go? Travis Legge shares his thoughts on using and updating the Mad. Books: Book of Mirrors - 2e book on Marauders Book of Madness: Whispers Within Chaos Without - Original expanded writeup of Marauders Book of Madness Revised - Revised book includin...

Changelings and mages fight to save passion but what about the Lost who return from Faerie changed? Chazz joins to talk courts , contracts , titles , and other things to steal from the Chronicles of Darkness game Changeling the Lost . Books! Changeling the Lost 2e Core book - What you'll need for most of what we talked about Dreams and Nightmares - Changeling the Dreaming book on the Dreaming Book...

Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition is here! It’s core rulebook is nearly 700 pages and they haven’t finished reading it yet so Adam and Terry start with the Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition Quickstart . Also, Adam and Terry answer listener questions about Revised. 1d4Con - A online convention the weekend of March 4-6 Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition Quickstart - T...

Victor interviews Terry about getting to write the Celestial Chorus and the Virtual Adepts, and the emotional rollercoaster that is going from fan to fan who got to write canon for Lore of the Traditions . Lore of the Traditions kickstarter - go back it plz! Victor's Shadowbound Podcast - Wraith! Strange Yesterdays - Terry's book on alternatives to the Revised metaplot Ascension's Landscape - Terr...

Lore of the Traditions updates the Council Tradition by Tradition. We talk with Rachel Judd about the Verbena, Tyler Middleton about the Order of Hermes, and Theanos Thrax about the Society of Ether. Lore of the Traditions Kickstarter Rachel's stuff: Rachel's books on DTRPG Rachel Judd on Twitter Tyler's stuff: Vorpal Tales' Mage Kult game Theanos's stuff: Trinity Continuum: Aberrant

Lore of the Traditions updates the Council Tradition by Tradition. We talk with Hiromi Cota about the Akashayana, Satyros Phil Brucato about the Sahajiya, James Sambrano about the Kah'vadi and Travis Legge about devving it. Lore of the Traditions Kickstarter Hiromi's stuff: Hiromi’s Amazon Author Page Hiromi's webpage Travis's stuff: Travis's Patreon Travis's work on Storytellers Vault Slarecian V...

Eight years after Ascension , convention books NWO , Progenitors , Syndicate , and Void Engineers completed the splatbooks of Revised. Developer Ryan Macklin talks their origins, themes, and Katanas and Trenchcoats . Ryan Macklin's webpage The Forge archives - a popular 2000s RPG forum Fate - Complete system SRD Primetime adventures - TV emulation RPG Cortex Plus - RPG system powering Smallville D...

Terror lurks beyond the Gauntlet . Threat Null will co-opt any agent who's been Processed leaving the Void Engineers as earth's sole defense. Adam and Terry talk time travel, guns, spaceships, and guns for spaceships. Convention Book: Void Engineers - This book Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition Quickstart - Next book Action Scientist shirt - Enlist today. Max Tegmark's levels of the mul...

Mikaela Sims , ST of As Above, So Below shares advice on improving actual plays and hopes for the World of Darkness streaming community then Terry and Josh answer listener questions in a year end Q&A. Onward to 2022! Mikaela Sims Twitch stream - Where the show is being streamed As Above, So Below episode 01 - Where it starts Ko-fi for the Stream - Chip in if you'd like the participants to get...

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

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 Seri...

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, th...

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 Liber...

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

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 l...

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...

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

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  

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

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

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

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...

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 c...