A podcast for Mage: The Ascension players, storytellers, and World of Darkness fans.
The Deep Umbra is vast and dangerous but full of wonders. So how do you get there? Hal Case, author of Umbral Pilots for Werewolf 20 and Mage 20, talks spirit-powered spaceships, plasma klaives and Garou/Mage relations.
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.
The 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 T.S. Eliot in this edition of Reality Deviant Book Club.
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.
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 Dead.
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.
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.
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.
Finally Adam and Terry talk deathless supernaturals in an unending war that stalk the night, mummies! World of Darkness: Mummy contains strange creatures with strange ancient magic and we talk adding it to your Mage game.
How do you brainstorm plot threads? How do you come up with Umbrood names, McGuffin descriptions or outline NPCs? Adam and Terry walk through their processes for coming up with plot and creating Mage-sounding non-sense.