Mage: The Podcast

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 VaultSphere clarifications Google Docs - A document that seemingly compiled most of the Sphere stuff from M20Charles Siegel’s Patreon

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

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 bookM20 Technocracy Reloaded - The big volumeGuide to the Technocracy - Previous omnibus book

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 bookMagickal Capital - Charles book on sources of high resources for TraditionalistsPaths of Power - An STV take on M20 Sorcery

Are the Star Council and Thal'hun still an "it's complicated"? Is there still just one member of the Nephite Priesthood? What affiliations hate vampires? Drew K and Bek join to walk through every affiliation in M20 Sorcerer.Occultists Anonymous Youtubeyeetinto.space - OA DiscordBek Andrew Evans other DTRPG products M20 Sorcerer - This book Hunters Hunted II - V20 book with True Faith Sorcerer: Paths of Power - STV book by the mechanics developer Project Twilight - Book on Project Twilight Mage Chronicles 2 - Book containing Halls of the Arcanum

Sorcerers boast centuries long lineages and unique abilities while largely avoiding the Ascension War. So how do you play one? Travis Legge joins to talk M20 Sorcerer, the latest addition to the M20 line. Books! Welcome to the Rock - Technocracy Jumpstart Scarred Lands - Grittier D&D and Pathfinder setting Odysseys and Overlords - OSR game M20 Sorcerer - This book Hunters Hunted II - V20 book with True Faith Ars Magica 5e - Another big book on magic Sorcerer: Paths of Power - STV book by the mechanics developer The LIbrarians - Franchise of artifact seeking historians Pyramid of Satanic power Sorcerer Lodi

What if Tesla had discovered a way to time travel and this caused Martians to attack? What if Sleepers knew about hyperscience and were split on its use? Kim Godwin joins to discuss using Trinity Continuum: Aether in Mage!M20 Sorcerer on DriveThruRPGAether Kickstarter - Where it's all happeningFestival of the Steel Phallus - Yup, the one we talked aboutKim Godwin on TwitterKim Godwin's author webpage

The Technocratic Union started as unabashed antagonists but in M20 are they the heroes? Satyros Phil Brucato, Tyler of Vorpal Tales, and Terry join a panel hosted by Simon of Walking into Shadows on heroism and sacrifice in Mage.SatyrosRed Shoes - Fiction by Satyros in dead tree and audioTylerVorpal Tales - Long running AP network with regular Mage gamesSimonWalking into Shadows 9pm ET, 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the Month - M20 explainer show

The Technocracy sometimes seems to be a conspiracy to save and enslave the world, so how's that going? Adam and Terry talk zombie plagues, yet more HIT Mark types, and octopus suits in Tomes of Magick: Technocracy Reloaded.Technocracy Reloaded - This bookGuide to the Technocracy - Previous big book o' TechnocracyOperative's Dossier - Next book!

What is a soul in M20? How do mysticks see Arcane? Do all technomantic Wonders have batteries? Charles and Terry talk some of the squirrelier questions of the Mage setting and their answers.