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.

Reading List for Hollow Earth Inspiration

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The 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

Episode on Dark Ages Fae

Episode on Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds

Colorized Revised prints

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The 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.

• The Crying of Lot 49
• They Live
• The X Files
• Ahti (Control)
• Delta Green
• Unknown Armies
• Over the Edge
• Inside Job (Netflix)

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How 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:

To Serve Her Wintry Hunger

The Electric State

Mr Gone's Character Sheets

The Walking Dead RPG

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Werewolves 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

Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast

Umbra high-level overview

Spirit high-level overview

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Werewolves 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

Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast

Umbra high-level overview

Spirit high-level overview

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The 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.

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M20 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.

Prism of Focus on Storytellers Vault

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M20 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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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

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Mage is an intimidating game to run, so besides the rules, what to keep in mind when you start? Simon from Walking into Shadow and Terry talk recommendations to get a game a Mage that won't fall apart in one sitting.

Links!

Hellblazer

Fiasco

Band of Blades

Beating the Plot

Hamlet's Hitpoints

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