Mage: The Podcast

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

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

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

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

Mage the Ascension contains all sorts of magickal books, but how do magic texts in our world go from unearthed to on a bookshelf? Translator and RPG writer, Brian Johnson talks paradigms, spells, and library adventures.Brian's freelancer webpageForged by Dragon's Fire - Book containing booksBrian's References:Sophie Page has studied a whole collection of magical texts from the 14th-century library of St. Augustine's abbey, Canterbury; her PhD thesis on the topic is here (access with free registration): https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340649 see also her published volume, Magic in the Cloister: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06033-0.html)For a humongous and very colorful example of what a real medieval grimoire could look like, see the Summa Sacrae MagicaeFinally, one that we did mention, the Fasciculus Rerum Geomanticarum, at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (some translated excerpts of which I recently published as Necromancy in the Medici Library, available at all good booksellers)Greek Magical PapyriPicatrixCorpus Hermeticum

All things come to an end but Mage and Ascension, the last Mage book for eight years, provides five such endings. Adam and Terry talk the death of Senex, the return of al-Aswad, asteroid impacts and the Zigg'raugglurr.This book: AscensionThe next book: Convention Book: N.W.O.World of Darkness: Time of Judgment: The book that provided end time scenarios for the other linesNote! Our current plan is to read the four Revised Convention books then review Sorcerers Crusade before reading M20

The Rich Bastard's Guide to Magick adds magick for movers and shakers and two of the authors join us! Lauren Roy as developer and Josh Heath as author talk hypercars, Porthos' grimoire and rich-ass Templars.Get the bookLauren M Roy's other books

Terry ran a Mage one shot for some players with mostly D20 prior experience. The session highlights the power and morality of what a mage does in the hands of new players.Mage 1-page per Sphere references by Mark Hope - You likely need to be a member of the FB group to grab them.The Nine Spheres by Charles Siegel - A more expansive coverage of the Spheres Support the show on Patreon 

The Mage: The Ascension Revised take on the Virtual Adepts mixes fashion, modernity, and a bit of 1e kookiness in with the last published Tradition Book. Adam and Terry talk the Turing virus, the Tesla vaccine, and mid-2000s clothing choices.Show Notes This book: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts Next book: Ascension

The Technocracy is a staple of the Mage canon but it brings along with it assumptions on how science works. Victor and Terry discuss Occupy Horizon, crowd effects, and six new technomagick Crafts.Executive producers! Check the Patreon or the Discord to vote on which group should receive a write up. Poll runs through November 15th.Shadowbound - Victor's Wraith project