Mage: The Podcast

B Dave Walters talks the Technocracy in 2021, Cassandra Complex, Friends of Courage and introducing players to Mage and Tanya DePass talks the Into the Mother Lands afrofuturist setting and game design in a multitopic episode.  Into the Mother Lands Kickstarter Technocracy Reloaded Pre-order - Still get it on release day!  Tanya's other projects Dear America From a Black Guy - B Dave Walter's current documentary project Other Participants Vanessa “PleasantlyTwstd” B. - Lead artist @PleasantlyTwstd –Twitter / Twitch / Instagram Gabe Hicks - Developer @GabeJamesGames –Twitter/Twitch/Instagram Jasmine Bhullar - Developer @ThatBronzeGirl –Twitch/Twitter/Instagram Sharang Biswas - Contributor @sharangbiswas – Twitter/Portfolio LaTia Jacquise - Contributor @LaTiaJacquise –Twitter/Twitch/Instagram Rest of the team --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

So far, the Hollowers were presented as American, urban, and gothic in and now with their own Tradition Book new light shines on their varied ways. Adam and Terry talk elemental cliques, oneiromancy, and wraiths in Tradition Book: Hollow Ones. Books! Tradition Book: Hollow Ones - This books! Outcasts: A Players Guide to Pariahs - Closest previous book Orphans Survival Guide - Urban and orphan guide book for Mage --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

History teems with strange events and stranger claims that beg to be added to our Mage games, but how? Luckily, Darker Days Radio does regular segments on it! Chris and Terry talk the Pope Lick Monster, the Dyatlov Pass incident and more. Darker Days Radio Gehenna Gaming schedule Warhammer Fantasy Youtube series The Secret Frequency Files bundle on DTRPG Children of the Blood - VtM book Chris worked on Age of Sigmar - Warhammer Fantasy book Cubicle Seven - Publisher of Warhammer Fantasy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The Euthanatoi draw from those who do the work others won't, and now that includes purging the Ksirafai and possibly cleansing reality. Adam and Terry talk Senex, necromancy, and the Good Death. Books!  Tradition Book: Euthanatos - This book Guide to the Traditions - A more expansive view of the Traditions and their groups Swords of Faith - Book containing original 2e Euthanatos book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Before you convince someone to play 30 session of Mage, maybe show them one? Josh and Terry give their recommendations on running a Mage one-shot. Also, an interview with STV fiction author, Lee Webb about their Etherite short fiction Dead Reckoning. TryItCon Event Schedule - Come play a thing! Weekend of May 14-16th Other books: Another STV short fiction collection: Darkened Streets Dead Reckoning - Etherite short story Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council - It's got a short adventure in it! The Nine Spheres - A quick reference to the Spheres --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Many counted the Kha'vadi out after the Avatar Storm but such claims were premature. Adam and Terry talk new sorcerous paths, spirits on the mundane side of the Gauntlet, and a bigger Tradition in Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers.  Related Books: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers - This book Spirit Ways - book on shamanic variants Related episode: Paradigm Deep Dive: Indigenous Magick Next up: Tradition Book: Euthanatos --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Games are often set in the places we know by adding a layer of magick or horror, but how do you do that? Griffin from The Story Told and Terry talk about how they Mage-ify their hometown, Philadelphia, and how to make any major city magickal. References: Atlas Obscura SS United States Plans Figure-Ground Diagram TryItCon 2021  Get a badge: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/badgetypes/attendee97 Play a game: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/schedule#?query= Submit an event: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/submit-events --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The Clockwork Convention has been cut off from Autochthonia and many of its cyborg minions have gained terrifying freedom. Adam and Terry talk new HIT Marks, the Cult of the Machine,  and Alanson hardsuits in Convention Book: Iteration X. Books references: Convention Book: Iteration X - This book Iteration X - The previous version  Guide to the Technocracy - Essential reading to run Technocrats-as-protagonists Next Book: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Let's steal from Powered by the Apocalypse! Mark Diaz Truman is the CEO of Magpie Games and World of Darkness fan. He an author of Urban Shadows, a PBtA urban fantasy game and shares what WoD players can take back to one of the games that inspired it. Magpie's Curated Play program - Try a game with a two-shot! Urban Shadows 2e kickstarter - Grab it during the late pledge period. Urban Shadows 2e quickstart - 26 pages which are enough to start playing.  Urban Shadows 1e - The first edition --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The Ecstatics find liberation and possibly Ascension through potent sensory experiences in both agony and ecstasy so how have they met modernity? Adam and Terry talk a plethora of new groups, expanded history, and very practical magick in Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy. Next book: Convention Book: Iteration X --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The mechanics for raising Arete are easy, but how do you play out a Seeking where a mage may make a self discovery or learn about the fundament of the cosmos? Josh and Terry share how Seekings changed across editions and some ways you can run them. Dusk Wiki - Large wiki with house rules on Seekings TryItCon Links: If you have a game you’d like to try, ask for it: https://forms.gle/mt5eY3QRQhY3WXD26 If you’d like to help storytell/guide for the bonanza, ST applications are here: https://forms.gle/URAagdGn7rnaufgr6 References:  Mage Style Guide - Comparison of Mage across Editions Mage Made Easy - STV supplement with recommendations on Seekings Book of Shadows - 1e book including Seekings advice Mage the Ascension 1e - The book that started it all where Seekings are external and given by the Avatar --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

In a world going mad how do the Marauders manifest? How have the Nephandi cope with the Avatar Storm? How do I barter my (character's) soul? Adam and Terry talk the dark whisperers in the Ascension War in Book of Madness Revised.  This book: Book of Madness Revised Next book: Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy  Previous Book of Madness  Book of the Fallen - 20th anniversary update to the Nephandi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Three different interviews with three different liveplays! Terrifying Tales nods to Kult, Ombligo Del Diablo is an M5 hack in a strange Southwest, and Technogate explores the 90s, one Umbral Realm at a time and what 2d10 and Guldan Age Stories are up to. Terrifying Tales - A run of Mage with hints of Kult added for good measure run by Vorpal Tales. Technogate 1999 - Exploring the goings on an Umbra-hopping Amalgam by Guldan Age Stories. Ombligo Del Diablo - Adventures in an eerie Southwest by the Odd Troupe. Crossing Darkness - An old World of Darkness informational podcast about the full breadth of oWoD gaming 2D10 Podcast - A broad gaming podcast by Nate of Utility Muffin Labs Other links! Victorian Mage Indiegogo - For each person who comments that I should write on the Victorian Umbra, I'll add 250 words to an STV supplement on the Victorian Umbra. (Min 5k, max 20k) Sorcerer: Paths to Power - Sorcerer updated to M20 Tradition Rotes Project --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast

Guide to the Traditions lifts the curtain on the thousand ways the Traditions work with and against each other. Adam and Terry talk high-ritual shamans, hidden Cathars, Asthika technomancers and stranger magicks in this broad look at the 21st century Council. Books: Guide to the Traditions - the one we're talking about The Bitter Road - Another big book of group and plot options Book of Madness (Revised) - Next up! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The 19th century saw the West push to conquer the world but what were mages up to? The Technocracy rises, the American frontier closes and dozens of societies resist colonialism in Onyx Path's newest crowdfunding campaign, M20 Victorian Age now on Indiegogo. The crowdfunding campaign for Victorian Age Mage Victor Kinzer on Walking Away from Arcadia Technocracy history Books references:  Guide to the Technocracy - Technocratic History Mage Storyteller's Companion - Giant timeline Victorian Age Vampire - The first VIctorian age book W20 Wyld West Expansion - Update to the Wyld West setting for werewolf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

This minisode is with Max from Saga Experience which is trying to create a new type of virtual tabletop with a kind of built in game engine. We talk about our favorite numbers, virtual tabletops, and outcome distributions. Regular episode will be out Saturday! Saga Experience - Their webpage Saga Experience Discord - Talk to 'em! Tell them you want a freeform magick system. :3 Saga Experience Youtube - See it in action --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

What does faith look like as the End Times approach? What is the role of shepherds when monsters walk the earth? Adam and Terry talk how the Chorus as broadened even as theology seemingly declines in Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus. Next up: Guide to the Traditions Our discussion of the previous Celestial Chorus book Swords of Faith which includes the prior Tradition Book and two others Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus on Drivethrurpg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

Mage is a game suited for many genres from pensive journey to space opera but the rules don't always give us fast-paced action. Bryce Perry of Darker Days Radio talks with Terry about things to steal from games like Torg and how to speed up combat. Games to steal from: Torg - Game geared towards action and adventure with group leveling and dramatic build-up system. Unknown Armies - Urban fantasy game where broken people save the world.  Blades in the Dark - The best game Ars Magica - For when the Order of Hermes isn't enough and you want all the hermetics. Our episode on Tales of Magick: Dark Adventure Darker Days Radio mailing list --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

In the 21st century, the Ahl-i-Batin quietly invoke the Khwaja al-Akbar while the Taftâni fight druj and pursue Asha with explosive ferocity. Adam and Terry talk math, carpets, figs and other goodies from Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batin & Taftâni. Show Notes More information on the Entelechy in Ascension Previous information on the Ahl-i-Batini in Book of Shadows --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

The Traditions claim to represent all of mystick magick but may were left out of the Grand Convocation. So what is a Tradition and what makes them special? Victor and Terry talk Traditions over time, areas to explore, and how to build your own.  The Hermit Hipster's Patreon Video on Tradition Book Garou Nation - Werewolf explainer by the team of Juarez by Night Books mentioned: Guide to the Traditions - Revised guide to mystick politics Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani - Two groups that maybe could be Traditions Dark Ages Mage - Game that uses Fellowships instead The Fragile Path - Book on the founding and betrayal of the First Cabal Book of Crafts - Book of well, Crafts --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support