Mage: The Podcast

What does magick look like in Shakespeare's England with Dee as Elizabeth's court astrologer and Walsingham's spies everywhere? Nathan Foxgrove joins to talk Navalon, the last skyriggers, and the Book of Oberon. Book of Oberon - Reconstructed grimoire The Fairie Queene - Looooong poem dedicated to Elizabeth Monas Hieroglyphica - John Dee's glyphs Real World Magic Texts with Brian Johnson Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland - Book about why America is weird Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1 - Book on settlement of the British in the US Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 - Big book of reformations Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard play The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam Dark Eras: Requiem for Regina (Vampire: the Requiem, Changeling: the Lost) - Chronicles Dark Eras setting in Elizabethan England John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World Dreamcatchers book for Hunter - Discussion, not the text

Tips and recommendations for first-time Mage storytellers to ensure a game that won't fall apart, include adapting D&D players, building character relationships, challenges in superhero gaming, crafting satisfying conclusions, and integrating crossovers with supernatural beings for an immersive experience.

The Deep Umbra is vast and dangerous but full of wonders. So how do you get there? Hal Case, author of Umbral Pilots for W20 and M20, talks spirit-powered spaceships, plasma klaives and Garou/Mage relations.Umbral Pilots - This bookThe Shipyard - The expansion for the bookDead Ends - Book of lichesConvention Book: Void Engineers - Rev resource on Mage SpaceArcanum House on FBArcanum House on InstagramRage across the Heavens review on WtPTotem listSet design of AlienRimrunnersAgon RPG

WEIRD EPISODE! First a little bit on how 2023 went for Mage the Podcast then a lost conversation with Noah H of The Story Told on Chronicles of Darkness and RPG art.Noah's Wraith 20 overviewNoah around places: Noah on Instagram Noah on Artstation Noah on Facebook

Sandman is one of the most highly lauded comic runs to have ever been published, what can we take from it for our games? Pook and Adam discuss mood, inspiration, and TS Eliot in this edition of Reality Deviant Book Club.The Annotated Sandman, which was a late 90s/early 00s passion project to capture as many internal connections and external references as possible, issue by issue. TXT archive from an earlier version of the website Vertigo released their own very expensive series with the same name, with "proper" annotations, but... using the power of the early internet to situate and discover the series' intertextuality felt a lot more magical.

What dies may not stay dead. Driven by hunger, vengeance or piety the Hungry Dead have rare knowledge and potent powers mages be drawn to. Hsien joins to talk their work in rewriting Kindred of the East.Kindred of the East: The Relentless Age - This bookKindred of the East - The originalHsienfan on RPGnet - The author

When death isn't the end, what strange things can Sleepers get up to? Adam and Terry talk cauls, fennel swords, weird death tech, and more in the surprisingly useful-for-Mage The Quick and the DeadQuick and the Dead - This book!

Want to have bards in your game, preserved guardians that uphold the Gauntlet, a weird holiday, or some minor Spheres? Pook and Terry talk STV books you can get right now for as little as pay what you want.Tale Singers - Book on BardismBog Bodies - Book on Guardians of the GauntletBook of Days - Book on holidays and the calendar for Changeling but also good for MageBook of Fragments - Minor Spheres!

Apophis rises, Horus prepares, and mages go "this could get interesting". Adam and Terry talk the ka, khaibit, Cabiri, Ishmaelites and the vastly expanded landscape of Mummy in its Second Edition printing.Mummy 2nd Edition - This book!Mummy the Curse 2nd Edition - CoD book!Religion in Mage with James Estes - Previous episode with the author

Jen Peters of ⁠Dork Tales⁠ joins to introduce the ⁠Paradox podcast⁠. A well-researched right series geared towards explaining Mage to completely new players. Does it succeed? Listen and find out! An entire episode of Paradox is included.⁠Paradox Podcast on Podbean⁠⁠Dork Tales on Youtube⁠ ⁠Dork Tales on Twitch⁠⁠M20 Visions and Vistas call for writers