A podcast dedicated to exploring the Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game (RPG) based in the World of Darkness.
So what's everyone else makin'? This week Terry talks to Kris Newton of Megadumbcast, Mike Diamond of the Ascension of Babylon actual play and TL Webb's latest fiction, Crushing Depths.
Crushing Depths - Latest Hollow Earth fiction
Megadumbcast Patreon - Get the megasodes
Ascension of Babylon -The Old Ways podcast
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageStrange peoples lurk at the edges of the World of Darkness. How do we add them to our games? Pook and Terry talk the Sekrana, Chulorviah, The Watchers in the Deep, the Wyck, and other early humans.
BOOKS!
Mage draws upon sources both ancient and modern, what can they teach us about our games? Pook and Adam talk Books of Magic, the four-part series by Neil Gaiman for DC Comics in this installment of Reality Deviant Book Club.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageThe World of Darkness has all sorts of non-human peoples, how do we add them to Mage? Pook from Changeling the Podcast joins to talk about the Fomorians, Tuatha de Danaan, the Goro, Dero, Firstborn and the Djinn.
Sphere of Gun book
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageThe World of Darkness is full of supernatural conspiracies, but who falls in with them and how can we use them in our games? Jordan Etherington joins to talk methods and pitfalls when adding creeping conspiracy to your game.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageHow do we crack D&D's hegemony? What would a better World of Darkness convention experience be? What fun stuff did we find? Mike A of Darker Days Radio and Pooka G from Changeling the Podcast talk PAX Unplugged
Games we mention:
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageWerewolves see the Otherworlds differently with different senses, different passages, and possibly different places. Adam and Terry talk Umbra, Umbra Rev and W20 Umbra from the Scar to the planetary court.
Axis Mundi - A big book of spirits for Mage and Werewolf
Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - First Werewolf Umbra book
Umbra (Revised) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book
W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageWerewolves guard against mages raiding their caerns for quintessence but no one can stop us from raiding Werewolf books for story ideas! Adam and Terry talk Umbra, Umbra Rev and W20 Umbra from Chaos Stones to the Kami.
Axis Mundi - A big book of spirits for Mage and Werewolf
Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - First Werewolf Umbra book
Umbra (Revised) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book
W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageThe Void Engineers get pigeon-holed as the Convention of space marines and voidships, but that's just one part. Bryce and Terry talk about what the Void Engineers do on Earth and how to run planetside VE stories.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageM20 was a leap forward in how a character does magick with focus but how do we bring instrument, practice, and paradigm alive at the table? Charles Siegel walks through optional systems, high level explainers, and his reference work, Prism of Focus.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/messageM20 Victorian Age describes a world on the cusp of modernity steeped in gaslit mystery. Pook and Terry talk the perils of the straits, the intrigue of empire, and odd magicks re-emerging after centuries.
M20 Victorian Age Mage - This book
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War - Book that discusses the rise in standard of living in the Western world
Changeling the Podcast's Discord - Organizing spot for the C30 project
Changeling the Podcast page - Their podcast!
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