Mage: The Podcast

All factions wage a war of both magickal truth but also of vibes. How do feelings shape experiences and how does that influence magick? Jordan Etherington joins to talk affect theory, description, a subtle war and Mage. ⁠Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s game⁠ ⁠Soulbound: Dark Industrial Fantasy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Dark Ages Mage peaks into a world before the modern ascension war and Dark Ages Grimoire acts as tour guide in this strange land. Adam and Terry talk Certamen, Fellowship descriptions, Familiars and so much more on Pillars. Dark Ages Mage Grimoire - This book Dark Ages: Devil's Due - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage has space for paranormal investigations overseen by vast supernatural conspiracies, but how do build out strange events in our games? Sean Ireland joins to talk Triangle Agency, a game of superpowers, intrigue, and pathos. Triangle Agency on Kickstarter Triangle Agency Delta Test - Pay what you want beta documents Ea-Nasir complaint tablets Haunted Table's Discord SCP RPG - (Wasn't 5e based, my bad!) Control by Remedy Entertainment Wiki Esoterrorists Liminal Horror Blackwater D&D Twitch page --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

The Sorcerers Crusade⁠ takes place during the opening shots of the Ascension War but what came before? ⁠ Dark Ages: Mage ⁠ takes place in 1230s Europe. Adam and Terry talk ⁠Fellowships⁠, ⁠Pillars⁠, and a very strange Umbra. Show Notes ⁠Dark Ages: Mage⁠ - This book Dark Ages: Mage Grimoire⁠ - Next book Conversation with Stephen Michael DiPesa on writing Dark Ages: Mage⁠ ⁠The Portable Medieval Reader⁠ ⁠Amulets and Superstitions⁠ on Amazon Amulets and Superstitions⁠ on Abebooks ⁠The Canterbury Tales⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Mage lists legion inspirations; what are they are what do they inform our games? First Edition core even says, “But for pure ‘manliness,’ you can’t beat Kid Eternity.” Pook and Adam see what Kid Eternity offers us. Show Notes Buy the Kid Eternity Deluxe Edition on Amazon⁠ Kid Eternity Wikipedia entry Kid Eternity⁠ in the DC wiki --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

We've finished talking Sorcerers Crusade books but how do you actually run it? Seasoned Storyteller Victor Kinzer walks through his SC chronicle and the choices he made in running the game. Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics - school of mathematics and astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Tirur, Malappuram, Kerala, India Tantrasamgraha - a major treatise of the era also available here M20 Victorian Mage - Victorian Mage core rulebook Victor Kinzer⁠ - Victor on Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

The horrors of the World of Darkness are generally hidden but what if that weren't an option? Christopher Neglein joins to talk about The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG and how to blend the cosmic with the bureaucratic. Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG Kickstarter The Mystery Flesh Pit blog NPS Rawlinson and Frutiger Fonts Esper Genesis RPG Action Park The Laundry Files Delta Green RPG Defunctland Youtube channel The Esoterrorists RPG Ganza Gaming Patreon Ganza Gaming blog --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

What is the state of the children of the wyck across a changing Europe? ⁠Witches and Pagans⁠ is the last Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade entry and Adam and Terry talk nature magick, sacrifice, and skyclad mysticks. Note! This one can get a little explicit. Witches and Pagans - This book Dark Ages: Mage - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

William Blake forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. Steve Dempsey, author of Fearful Symmetries, guides us through Blake's life, mythology, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. The Dying Earth - The RPG Steve didn't write Urban Shadows: Dark Streets - Expansion for Urban Shadows Blood on the Snow - An expansion for Hillfolk Fearful Symmetries - This book Bob Schnoblin's Pyramid of Satanic Power - Greatest single page in White Wolf Night of Enitharmon's Joy - Creepy painting Ancient of Days - Baller painting The Folklore Engine generator - What it says on the tin Shotguns v Cthulhu - Another Steve publication Fearful Symmetries Actual Play --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

In this mechanics minisode, Monica Speca, Exalted, Scion, and Trinity Dev joins to help Terry workshop some ways to make magick in Mage a little bit quirkier. Regular episode will be out this Saturday! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

Order of Reason posits a bold and inventive direction for treating the pro-Technocracy in the Sorcerers Crusade era. Adam and Terry talk 50 guilds, the labyrinth of the Order and cutting edge kite technology. ⁠Order of Reason⁠ - This book Witches and Pagans - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message

How can you quickly establish mood and tone in a world new to the players but familiar to their characters? Victor and Terry talk chronicle and game tenets and how to use them to dial in the game your table wants. Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition - a game with coterie and character principles After the War - A game where principles are hit points Urban Shadows - A game with very clear game tenets Root - MURDER --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Dark Fantastic often requires not just a steady blade but often a keen wit at court. Adam and Terry talk fencing, Ars Cupiditae, and the hidden machinations of the High Guild and Ksirafai in The Swashbuckler's Handbook. Swashbucklers Handbook - This book The Order of Reason - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

This week we talk to Charles Siegel about big money Traditions corporations and minor Spheres for Night-Folk allies, Jenna Flohr about running adventures in the Hollow Earth and TL Webb on Mage fiction in North Texas. Five Room Dungeons - A template for dungeon encounters Gathering Shadows by TL Webb   Adventure to Hollow Earth by Jenna Flohr  Book of Fragments - Another work on Minor Spheres by Pooka G Magickal Capital by Charles Siegel Improved Word Template by Charles Siegel Foreign Magicks by Charles Siegel Charles's Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The world of the dark fantastic is another country and Sorcerers Crusade Companion is your guide. Adam and Terry talk the Aztecs, the enchanted dragon islands, culture and the detailed fencing rules you've been craving. Sorcerers Crusade Companion - This book Swashbuckler's Handbook - Next book Paradigm Deep Dive: Jewish Mysticism --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Why do some mages chant in Latin or Enochian, while others compose contracts to talk to spirits? Brian Johnson joins to talk about magick and language from demon-trapping incantation bowls to chaos magic's autohypnosis and how to use them in our games. Brian Johnson's Freelancer Web Page - See what Brian has worked on Snowcrash - Book by Neal Stephenson Real World Magic Texts with Brian Johnson - Our previous episode with Brian Adjudicating Magickal Effects Outline for this episode - A pretty complete script of what we said --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

What happened in the world of Mage: The Ascension this year and what is planned for 2023? Terry gives his end of the year thoughts on what Mage: The Podcast has done so far and what we plan to do and why we hope to do it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

What’s the state of Enlightened technology in the 16th century? How do Craftmasons view Artificers? Adam and Terry talk sacred geometry, Ars Preclarus, and SC-era submarines in The Artisans Handbook. Show Notes The Artisans Handbook - This book Sorcerers Crusade Companion - Next book Book of Days - Changeling book of holidays and events Bog Bodies - MOAR MUMMIES Paradigms Explored: Fairy-Faith - Another paradigm book! Kithbook: Dullahan - Book on headless horsefolk Magickal Capital - Mage corporations --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

The Mythos crawls with cosmic horrors but what of the smaller ones? Can we add the Yithians or Shuggoths to the World of Darkness? Bryce and Terry talk Bokrug, Mi-Go and Deep Ones and how to add them to your games. Dark Days Radio - Bryce's other podcast Monster Man Podcast  Michael Shea The Egg by Andy Weir  S. Petersen's Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors Petersen's Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters: A Field Observer's Handbook of Preternatural Entities Lovecraft wiki Delta Green, Agent's Handbook Esoterrorists 2nd Edition McSweeney's Olive Garden Menu  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

Werewolves have caerns, vampires have havens, what do magi have in the Renaissance? Adam and Terry talk Order strongholds, Doissetep, Horizon, and strange other places in Tomes of Magick: Castles and Covenants. Castles and Covenants - This book Trilemma Adventure Maps - Detailed period maps --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message