Mage: The Podcast

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 KickstarterTriangle Agency Delta Test - Pay what you want beta documentsEa-Nasir complaint tabletsHaunted Table's DiscordSCP RPG - (Wasn't 5e based, my bad!)Control by Remedy Entertainment WikiEsoterroristsLiminal HorrorBlackwater D&D Twitch page

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

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 NotesBuy the Kid Eternity Deluxe Edition on Amazon⁠Kid Eternity Wikipedia entryKid Eternity⁠ in the DC wiki

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, IndiaTantrasamgraha - a major treatise of the era also available hereM20 Victorian Mage - Victorian Mage core rulebookVictor Kinzer⁠ - Victor on Twitter

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 KickstarterThe Mystery Flesh Pit blogNPS Rawlinson and Frutiger FontsEsper Genesis RPGAction ParkThe Laundry FilesDelta Green RPGDefunctland Youtube channelThe Esoterrorists RPGGanza Gaming PatreonGanza Gaming blog

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 bookDark Ages: Mage - Next book!

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 writeUrban Shadows: Dark Streets - Expansion for Urban ShadowsBlood on the Snow - An expansion for HillfolkFearful Symmetries - This bookBob Schnoblin's Pyramid of Satanic Power - Greatest single page in White WolfNight of Enitharmon's Joy - Creepy paintingAncient of Days - Baller paintingThe Folklore Engine generator - What it says on the tinShotguns v Cthulhu - Another Steve publicationFearful Symmetries Actual Play

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!

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 bookWitches and Pagans - Next book

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 principlesAfter the War - A game where principles are hit pointsUrban Shadows - A game with very clear game tenetsRoot - MURDER