Mage: The Podcast

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 same space but are perceived separately by their residents. Perdido Street Station - A fantasy novel set in the sprawling city of New Crobuzon, filled with bizarre creatures and arcane technologies. Psionics Handbook - A resource book for the Dungeons & Dragons game, detailing psionic powers and characters. Teratology - An exploration of monsters and mythical beings from Invisible Sun Book of Gehenna - A dark fantasy book exploring the mythologies of the end of the world. Nim Chimpsky - A chimpanzee raised as a human child to test language acquisition 2001: A Space Odyssey - A classic science fiction no

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 - W20 Werewolf Umbra book Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast Umbra high-level overview Spirit high-level overview --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast Umbra high-level overview Spirit high-level overview --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 world Changeling the Podcast's Discord - Organizing spot for the C30 project Changeling the Podcast page - Their podcast! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 Brian Johnson Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland - Book about why America is weird Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1 - Book on settlement of the British in the US Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 - Big book of reformations Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard play The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam Dark Eras: Requiem for Regina (Vampire: the Requiem, Changeling: the Lost) - Chronicles Dark Eras setting in Elizabethan England John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World Dreamcatchers book for Hu

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 on Instagram Rage across the Heavens review on WtP Totem list Set design of Alien Rimrunners Agon RPG --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 from an earlier version of the website Vertigo released their own very expensive series with the same name, with "proper" annotations, but... using the power of the early internet to situate and discover the series' intertextuality felt a lot more magical. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

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 Spheres! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message