Mage: The Podcast

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 professional ST  Lore of the Traditions interview on Society of Ether - Elias gets an update Boooooks Promethean: The Created 2nd Edition core - All the lineages in one volume Dark Eras book - Books describing various lines at various times Dark Eras companion - Yet more periods Dark Eras 2 - Yet yet more more periods Book of Fragments - Book on Minor Spheres Tale-Singers - PWYW Craft book Mage Storyteller Handbook - Outlines the Promethean Plague --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 including the best writeup of the Nephandi Truth Beyond Paradox - Fiction Compendium containing Travis's work Travis's Work: Weighing the Cost - A Mage story Toxic Mutant Zombie Mayhem - For Savage Worlds Clanbook: Nahema - Book of a new type of reality-bending vampires SAMHSA - Part of US Dept of Health and Human Services dealing with substance abuse and mental health National Institute of Mental Health - A second listing National Suicide Prevention Healthline - Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255); En español 1-888-628-9454 Crisis Text Line - Text “HELLO” to 741741 Lewy body dementia - Type of progressive dementia fr

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 of Lost Dreams - Changeling the Dreaming book with the lightest of Crossover rules Changeling the Lost 1e compilation - All the 1e lost books, it's a lot Pain in the Dice - Chazz and mine other project Entitlements Book and Chazz's other community content - A kick ass sword, a sticky monster, some entitlements, and more! Fall of Jiara - Part of The Story Told, an extended Dragon-blooded AP --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 - This book Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition core - Next! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 - Terry's book of setting considerations --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 Vault for Scarred Lands Satyros's Stuff: Satyros's Patreon Valhalla with a Twist of Lethe Red Shoes Indiegogo War in Heaven James's Stuff: James's Patreon Transformers roleplaying game --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 Dresden files RPG Michelson and Morley  Mythender Katanas and Trenchcoats - An RPG love letter to the 90s --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 multiverse - A theory that posits mathematical objects as quite real. Usurper of the Sun - Manga Adam mentioned --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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 scale pay Books Josh and I mention: Chronicle Builder's Guide for Vampire: The Masquerade - Recent book Josh edited Strange Yesterdays: Alternatives to the Revised Metaplot - Terry's book on the Revised metaplot World of Darkness Central Florida - Recent big book of setting First Team Dossier - Run down of teams Pentex uses to do their dirty work Kithbook: Ghille Dhu - An entire kithbook for the Ghille Dhu Paradigms Explored: Number and Shape - Book on hypermath and Platonism --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message

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