Mage: The Podcast

Many counted the Kha'vadi out after the Avatar Storm but such claims were premature. Adam and Terry talk new sorcerous paths, spirits on the mundane side of the Gauntlet, and a bigger Tradition in Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers. Related Books: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers - This book Spirit Ways - book on shamanic variantsRelated episode: Paradigm Deep Dive: Indigenous MagickNext up: Tradition Book: Euthanatos

Games are often set in the places we know by adding a layer of magick or horror, but how do you do that? Griffin from The Story Told and Terry talk about how they Mage-ify their hometown, Philadelphia, and how to make any major city magickal.References: Atlas Obscura SS United States Plans Figure-Ground DiagramTryItCon 2021  Get a badge: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/badgetypes/attendee97 Play a game: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/schedule#?query= Submit an event: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/submit-events

The Clockwork Convention has been cut off from Autochthonia and many of its cyborg minions have gained terrifying freedom. Adam and Terry talk new HIT Marks, the Cult of the Machine,  and Alanson hardsuits in Convention Book: Iteration X.Books references: Convention Book: Iteration X - This book Iteration X - The previous version  Guide to the Technocracy - Essential reading to run Technocrats-as-protagonistsNext Book: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers

Let's steal from Powered by the Apocalypse! Mark Diaz Truman is the CEO of Magpie Games and World of Darkness fan. He an author of Urban Shadows, a PBtA urban fantasy game and shares what WoD players can take back to one of the games that inspired it.Magpie's Curated Play program - Try a game with a two-shot!Urban Shadows 2e kickstarter - Grab it during the late pledge period.Urban Shadows 2e quickstart - 26 pages which are enough to start playing. Urban Shadows 1e - The first edition

The Ecstatics find liberation and possibly Ascension through potent sensory experiences in both agony and ecstasy so how have they met modernity? Adam and Terry talk a plethora of new groups, expanded history, and very practical magick in Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy.Next book: Convention Book: Iteration X

The mechanics for raising Arete are easy, but how do you play out a Seeking where a mage may make a self discovery or learn about the fundament of the cosmos? Josh and Terry share how Seekings changed across editions and some ways you can run them.Dusk Wiki - Large wiki with house rules on SeekingsTryItCon Links:If you have a game you’d like to try, ask for it: https://forms.gle/mt5eY3QRQhY3WXD26If you’d like to help storytell/guide for the bonanza, ST applications are here: https://forms.gle/URAagdGn7rnaufgr6References: Mage Style Guide - Comparison of Mage across EditionsMage Made Easy - STV supplement with recommendations on SeekingsBook of Shadows - 1e book including Seekings adviceMage the Ascension 1e - The book that started it all where Seekings are external and given by the Avatar

In a world going mad how do the Marauders manifest? How have the Nephandi cope with the Avatar Storm? How do I barter my (character's) soul? Adam and Terry talk the dark whisperers in the Ascension War in Book of Madness Revised. This book: Book of Madness RevisedNext book: Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy Previous Book of Madness Book of the Fallen - 20th anniversary update to the Nephandi

Three different interviews with three different liveplays! Terrifying Tales nods to Kult, Ombligo Del Diablo is an M5 hack in a strange Southwest, and Technogate explores the 90s, one Umbral Realm at a time and what 2d10 and Guldan Age Stories are up to.Terrifying Tales - A run of Mage with hints of Kult added for good measure run by Vorpal Tales.Technogate 1999 - Exploring the goings on an Umbra-hopping Amalgam by Guldan Age Stories.Ombligo Del Diablo - Adventures in an eerie Southwest by the Odd Troupe.Crossing Darkness - An old World of Darkness informational podcast about the full breadth of oWoD gaming2D10 Podcast - A broad gaming podcast by Nate of Utility Muffin LabsOther links!Victorian Mage Indiegogo - For each person who comments that I should write on the Victorian Umbra, I'll add 250 words to an STV supplement on the Victorian Umbra. (Min 5k, max 20k)Sorcerer: Paths to Power - Sorcerer updated to M20Tradition Rotes Project

Guide to the Traditions lifts the curtain on the thousand ways the Traditions work with and against each other. Adam and Terry talk high-ritual shamans, hidden Cathars, Asthika technomancers and stranger magicks in this broad look at the 21st century Council.Books:Guide to the Traditions - the one we're talking aboutThe Bitter Road - Another big book of group and plot optionsBook of Madness (Revised) - Next up!

The 19th century saw the West push to conquer the world but what were mages up to? The Technocracy rises, the American frontier closes and dozens of societies resist colonialism in Onyx Path's newest crowdfunding campaign, M20 Victorian Age now on Indiegogo.The crowdfunding campaign for Victorian Age MageVictor Kinzer on Walking Away from ArcadiaTechnocracy historyBooks references: Guide to the Technocracy - Technocratic HistoryMage Storyteller's Companion - Giant timelineVictorian Age Vampire - The first VIctorian age bookW20 Wyld West Expansion - Update to the Wyld West setting for werewolf