

Mage: The Podcast
Mage: The Podcast
A podcast dedicated to exploring the Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game (RPG) based in the World of Darkness.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 22, 2022 • 1h 9min
Mages of Duskvol: Missions, Clocks, and Lairs from Blades in the Dark
Can we use clocks to track finding a True Name? What if the Technocracy used Heat? Can we come up with good systems to represent flashbacks using Spheres? Charles and Terry talk systems to steal from Blades in the Dark.
Blades in the Dark SRD - The Blades rules online for free
Magickal Capital - High Resource firms for Mages
Blades on DRTRG - The PDF
Scum and Villainy - Sci Fi Forged in the Dark
Various Forged in the Dark games
Blades in the Dark Score generator - Make a score...NOW!

Oct 15, 2022 • 58min
Tomes of Magick: Crusade Lore
Crusade Lore is full of the bits that didn't fit into Sorcerers Crusade core with information on scourgelings, and town layout. Adam and Terry talk port logistics, gabled hats and war balloons in Tomes of Magick: Crusade Lore.
Crusade Lore - This book
Sorcerers Crusade core - The core book
Bygone Bestiary - Next book

Oct 8, 2022 • 1h 2min
Arkham, Antarctica, and Aldebaran: Mythos Locations in Mage
What if the Dreamlands replaced the Maya, Innsmouth had wraiths, and Miskatonic University were the reality bubble of a Marauder? Bryce and Terry talk adding Mythos locations to Mage the Ascension.
No forests on flat earth - it's real weird
The Lovecraft wiki - Really powered this episode
The Control Wiki - Enter the Oldest House
Pnakotus - Australian city where people write down their memories while cones
Cover image designed by Dorchadas, thanks!

Oct 1, 2022 • 1h 9min
Tomes of Magick: Sorcerers Crusade Core Book
1466 is a world where faith, science, and magick mix together in an uneasy brew. Sorcerers Crusade Core kicks off the first historical period for Mage and Adam and Terry talk balloons, Batini, and battle armor.
Sorcerers Crusade core book - This book
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff - a podcast featuring Ken Hite

Sep 24, 2022 • 1h 36min
Setting up a Chronicle and Session Prep
What do you ask during chronicle planning? How do you set up for a first or tenth session? Victor and Terry talk how they prepare for a new chronicle as well as what session prep looks like at each stage of a story.

Sep 17, 2022 • 1h 23min
Tomes of Magick: M20 The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick
What's a Marauder do with billions in the bank? What's the richest Tradition? Adam and Terry talk the treasures of Doissetep, private towns, nanotech clouds and cold hard cash in M20 The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick.
M20 The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick - This book
Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick with Lauren Roy - Conversation with the developer and Josh Heath about the book
The Midnight World on DTRGP
The Midnight World on itch.io
Joe Versus the Volcano - Adam movie recommendation #1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Adam movie recommendation #2

Sep 10, 2022 • 1h 21min
Adjudicating Magickal Effects
How many successes to lift a monastery? When do you need dots in Medicine to kill someone? Can Spirit 2 just do everything? Charles and Terry talk their methods for determining what a magickal effect needs.
The Nine Spheres - A guide to Spheres on the Storyteller Vault
Sphere clarifications Google Docs - A document that seemingly compiled most of the Sphere stuff from M20
Charles Siegel’s Patreon

Sep 3, 2022 • 1h 11min
Innsmouth, Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth: Trail of Cthulhu in Mage
The Great Old Ones may sit outside of reality, Horizon, or merely our front doors but how do we use the Cthulhu Mythos in our games? Bryce and Terry talk space gods and investigation systems from Trail of Cthulhu.
Things mentioned!
Bubblegumshoe - Teen Detective game
Night's Black Agents - Jason Bourne vs Dracula
Cthulhu City - Gumshoe game where you're stuck in a Mythos-riddled city
Cthulhu Confidential - A one on one gumshoe game
Esoterrorists - A game of modern supernatural horror
Guide to the Traditions - Adversarial backgrounds!
ST Joshi and Robert Price - Lovecraft scholars
Common Mythos features - Pelgrane Article
KARTAS make your own entity - The origin of Qotha Nhur’rin
Red Sign book - Introduces the King in Yellow formally to WoD
Last Exit by Max Gladstone
Prior episode on Lovecraft
Michael Shea - Lovecraft author
Dark Day Radio - Linktree

Aug 27, 2022 • 1h 21min
Tomes of Magick: M20 The Operative's Dossier
How does terranorming work? Why are there so many wormholes in the Antarctic? What's the Enlightenment level of a Brown Paper Bag? Adam and Terry dive into the zany goodness of The Operative's Dossier.
M20 The Operative's Dossier - This book
M20 Technocracy Reloaded - The big volume
Guide to the Technocracy - Previous omnibus book

Aug 25, 2022 • 38min
How Linear Magic Works in M20 Sorcerer
Charles Siegel walks us through creating linear magic effects for M20 Sorcerer from start to finish. He explains aspects, rituals, dice pools, and complications and what makes Awakened magick different.
M20 Sorcerer - This book
Magickal Capital - Charles book on sources of high resources for Traditionalists
Paths of Power - An STV take on M20 Sorcery