

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
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Jan 29, 2022 • 1h 8min
Lore of the Traditions Author Interview: Order of Hermes, Society of Ether, and Verbena
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 KickstarterRachel's stuff: Rachel's books on DTRPG Rachel Judd on TwitterTyler's stuff: Vorpal Tales' Mage Kult gameTheanos's stuff: Trinity Continuum: Aberrant

Jan 22, 2022 • 1h 2min
Lore of the Traditions Author and Dev Interview: Akashayana, Dreamspeakers, and Ecstatics
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 KickstarterHiromi's stuff: Hiromi’s Amazon Author Page Hiromi's webpageTravis's stuff: Travis's Patreon Travis's work on Storytellers Vault Slarecian Vault for Scarred LandsSatyros's Stuff: Satyros's Patreon Valhalla with a Twist of Lethe Red Shoes Indiegogo War in HeavenJames's Stuff: James's Patreon Transformers roleplaying game

Jan 15, 2022 • 59min
Developing the Revised Convention Books with Ryan Macklin
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

Jan 8, 2022 • 1h 44min
Tome of Magick: Convention Book: Void Engineers
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 bookMage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition Quickstart - Next bookAction 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

Jan 1, 2022 • 1h 18min
As Above So Below with Mikaela Sims and Year End Q&A
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 streamedAs Above, So Below episode 01 - Where it startsKo-fi for the Stream - Chip in if you'd like the participants to get scale payBooks 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

Dec 25, 2021 • 1h 17min
Tomes of Magick: Convention Book: Syndicate
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 hypereconomicsConvention Book: Syndicate - This bookConvention Book: Void Engineers - THE LAST ONE

Dec 18, 2021 • 1h 5min
Assassins and Societies from Trinity Continuum with Monica Speca
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 upFind Monica on: Twitter Systematic Understanding of Everything - Exalted podcast Bonus Experience - General gaming podcast

Dec 11, 2021 • 1h 16min
Tomes of Magick: Convention Book: Progenitors
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 NotesApply for Mage Noir HereOriginal Progenitors bookThis book: Convention Book: ProgenitorsNext book: Convention Book: Syndicate

Dec 4, 2021 • 1h 16min
M20 Sorcerers, The Hermetic Hipster, Etherite Fiction and a Mage MUSH
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 metaplotLiberation Mush - An online persistent text game you can joinMush Clients - Software required to playLiberation Wiki - A great introduction to Mage and the world of the Liberation MUSH Hermetic Hipster - Youtube channel explaining MageHermetic Hipster's Guide to the Traditions - Their book adding backgrounds and merits with short fictionNumber and Shape - A Paradigms Explored book on hypermathematicsSorcerer Paths of Power - Charles's book updating Sorcerer to M20Cyberfunk - TL Webb's newest fiction pieceFireball Run - TL's previous release

Nov 27, 2021 • 1h 13min
Tomes of Magick: Convention Book: N.W.O.
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 NotesConvention Book: N.W.O. - This bookConvention Book: Progenitors - Next book