
Mage: The Podcast
A podcast dedicated to exploring the Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game (RPG) based in the World of Darkness.
Latest episodes

Oct 7, 2023 • 41min
Tomes of Magick: Dark Ages and Sorcerers Crusade Q&A
What books do we wish Sorcerers Crusade had gotten? What do we pull from these historical settings? Should we be using pillars in the modern era? Terry and Adam answer your questions!

Sep 30, 2023 • 1h 36min
Chaos, Carnivals and Clowns - The Midnight Circus
What strange things exist at the intersection of Night-Folk? Why a creepy circus! Mage the Podcast is joined by Werewolf the Podcast and Changeling the Podcast to talk ancient terrors, thirsty gods...and clowns.
Midnight Circus - This book!
World of Darkness: Hong Kong - Another generic WoD Book

Sep 23, 2023 • 1h 31min
Mage at 30: The First Year of Supplements with Satyros Phil Brucato
Mage First Edition was a bold vision of game, but how to follow it up? Satyros provides an oral history of how Mage changed over its roughly first year from Book of Chantries to Book of Shadows.
Mage book list
Satyros on Patreon
Satyros on Amazon

Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 8min
Missions, Mysteries, and Magick: Paranormal Investigation in Mage
How do you run paranormal investigation with access to Time 2? Does anyone besides the Technocracy do this regularly? Bryce and Terry talk weird artifacts, team dynamics and investigations that make sense in WoD.
Control (Video Game)
Twin Peaks
Psychic Self-Defense
Warehouse 13
The Rivers of London
Supernatural TV
Laundry Files
Dresden Files
X-Files
SCP Podcast
There Is No Antimemetics Division

Sep 9, 2023 • 1h 7min
Tomes of Magick: Blood-Dimmed Tides
Have you ever said “My game needs more boats?” World of Darkness: Blood-Dimmed Tides talks new fae, blood-sweating vampires, Hermetic boats and aquatic systems for days. What side are you on in the war between Dagon and Vatea?
World of Darkness: Blood-Dimmed Tides - This book
William Hope Hodgeson - Author of boat stories
Naval institute press copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Adam's recommended translation

Sep 2, 2023 • 37min
Desperation, Drive, and Despair: Using Hunter 5th Edition in Mage
In a world rife with supernatural threats how do mortals take back the night? How do we add these actors and agencies to our games? Terry talks Hunter 5th, desperation, SAD post glow-up, and avatar lineages.
Project Twilight - Another mortal game book
The Second Inquisition - V5 book on powerful mortal groups
Hunter the Reckoning 5th - This book

Aug 26, 2023 • 1h 2min
Victorian Scandals & Fisticuffs and One Giant Leap for Inhumankind with Satyros Phil Brucato and John Beckwith
John Beckwith joins to talk fiction involving the Technocratic Union and the Garou Nation in One Giant Leap for Inhumankind and then Satyros talks things that didn't make it into Victorian Mage in Scandals & Fisticuffs.
One Giant Leap for Inhumankind - Fiction
Scandals & Fisticuffs - Satyros' work that didn't make it into Victorian Mage
The Thing from Another World
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Deep Rock Galactic
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Wall by Pink Floyd

Aug 22, 2023 • 33min
Minisode - Reality Deviant Book Club
Who is John Constantine and why is he in the Mage recommended reading list? Does he look like Sting? Can he help your Mage games? Pooka and Adam discuss what Hellblazer can offer us.
John Constantine on DC Comics Wiki
First volume of Hellblazer on Amazon.com

Aug 19, 2023 • 1h 6min
Tomes of Magick: Right of Princes and Darkening Sky
Dark Ages: Mage received only two formal books but Right of Princes tells how to run a Chantry and Darkening Sky provides an adventure. Adam and Terry talk domains, pooled backgrounds, eclipses, the Holy Land, and Frederick II.
Right of Princes - Dark Ages book on ruling and relating to mortals with some information on building a Chantry
Darkening Sky - A set of adventures for Dark Ages lines
Blood-Dimmed Tides - NEXT BOOOOK

Aug 12, 2023 • 59min
Mage at 30: Early Umbra and Development with Harry Heckel
What was the early vision of the Digital Web? What was the difference between the Dreaming and the High Umbra? What's it like writing the 2nd Tradition book? Harry Heckel, early may author joins to talk early Otherworlds.
Jack Heckel Novels - Harry's writing duo
Harry Heckel on the White Wolf wiki - Other things he's worked on
Preview of Mage Made Hard: The Umbra - Preview of the next Mage publication.
Tron - Inspirational for the Digital Web
Shadowrun - Lil more inspo
Cyberpunk 2020 - The original Cyberpunk RPG...that was popular