Mage: The Podcast

February 29, 2020July 3, 2021

Adding Horror to Mage with Bryce Perry from Darker Days Radio

Mage is a game of hope, action, and hubris in a world that is dark. Sometimes the darkness wins and we go from punk and gothic to horror. Bryce Perry from the horror game podcast Darker Days joins Terry to talk about how to add horror to your Mage game.

Just a note, this episode contains discussion of body horror, family terror, harm to children and family conceptually and a number of other things. Look below to get an idea of what we go over.

Show Notes

The Baali – Group of vampires who do terrible things to keep dark things asleep.
Friday the 13th – Archtypal slasher film where kids are killed off in revenge.
Consent Checklist – One method of verifying and checking what game types and themes players are or are not ok with.
Consent in Gaming – A Monte Cook Games publication on how to tackle adult themes.
“The Lottery” – Short story about a community that practices an annual sacrifice ritual.
The Wicker Man – Movie about an out of towner brought in as sacrifice to a dark thing.
10 Candles – A gothic horror game (rather than survival horror) where everyone dies at the end.
Betrayal at the House on the Hill – Board game of discovery then action where tension builds with an omen mechanic.
The Expanse RPG – a Green Ronin game, variant of the AGE System with a number of interesting mechanics like Churn to create tension and Fortune to replace Health.
Dark Heresy – Game set in the Warhammer Universe with purity and sanity mechanics.
Jacob’s Ladder – 1990 film about someone recovering from trauma and it not going well. Psychological horror.
Faculty of Horror podcast – a non-scary discussion of horror movies and how they work.
Cosmic Horror in Mage – Our episode on cosmic horror.
Sins Washed Away – the latest Chronicles of Darkness 2e publication from the Darker Days folks.

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February 22, 2020July 3, 2021

Tomes of Magick: Beyond the Barrier: The Book of Worlds

The Umbra is explored by many Night-Folk with wraiths in the Shadowlands, Changelings in the Dreaming, and Werewolves in the Velvet Shadow. What about mages? Adam and Terry provide a tour of the Tellurian and the Realms of limitless potential full of warring gods, metaphors made real and more than one set of dinosaurs in Beyond the Barrier: The Book of Worlds.

Show Notes

Umbral Map – A translation of the French map of the Umbra.
Mars Trilogy – Sci fi books by Kim Stanley Robinson where a central theme is “how much should we leave a place unchanged?”
Anders Mage Page Realms – Realms you can insert into the Umbra of your Chronicle.
Anders Mage Page Umbrood – Umbrood you can use in your Chronicle.
The Sandman comics by Vertigo – listed in Book of Worlds recommended reading list and Adam seconds that opinion. You can not only get great ideas for realms large and small but also see different ways to travel between them.
Episodes Mentioned:
- Tomes of Magick: Digital Web – Adam and Terry discussion the technomancer’s favorite Zone, the Digital Web.
- Tomes of Magick: Verbena – The Seasonal Realms are discussed as mysterious places where no one quite knows where they came.
Books Mentioned:
- The Infinite Tapestry – Revised edition guide that expands many Umbral locations.
- Umbra: The Velvet Shadow – Werewolf 20 guide to the Umbra.
- Wraith 20 – Core book outlining life as a Wraith.
- Book of Oblivion – Wraith 20 guide to areas beyond Stygia and the Shadowlands.
- Orpheus Rules – Game were you are mortals projecting into the Underworld.
- Scion: Origins – Scion 2e guide to characters and introducing the pantheon and such.
- The Primal Order: Pawns – Worth a look for ideas on Umbrood.
- Chessboards: The Planes of Possibility – Adam highly recommends this book for ideas on Umbral realms and how to travel between them.

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February 15, 2020July 3, 2021

Hijacking Creation: Exalted in Mage with Chazz Kellner of the Story Told

The world of Mage is one where characters have great power which must be exercised carefully or Paradox will strike. On the other side of the subtly coin is Exalted where whose tagline is “What legends will they tell of your deeds?” Exalted’s 3rd edition is out and Chazz Kellner, Exalted author and cohost of The Story Told podcast tells Terry about the high energy energy world of Creation and the systems and settings you can steal from it for your Mage game.

Show Notes

Graceful Wicked Masques – 2e book about the Fair Folk
Walking Away from Arcadia’s episode on the Fair Folk
The Compass of Celestial Directions, Vol. VI – Autochthonia – The best cyborg supplement you never knew you needed
The Fair Folk – 1e reference on the Rakshasa
Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals – Information on the Loom of Fate and the Sidereals
Laws of Ascension Rulebook Sidereal letter – A letter from a Sidereal now Avatar saying how the world’s connect
Terry’s growing list of ways to mis-say Chejop Kejak
- Croptop Carjack
- Flat Top Keyhack
- Chop Shop iMac
- Hot Pot Flapjack
- Cheops Kayak
- Drug Stop MacAttack

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February 8, 2020July 3, 2021

Tomes of Magick: Book of Crafts: Whispers of Dissent

Mage defaults to the Traditions, Technocracy, Nephandi and Marauders, but what about mages who’ve stepped away from the Ascension War? Crafts are groups of mages who often work tightly tied to a paradigm and culture and Book of Crafts dives into eight of these. Terry and Adam talk templars, dragon wizards, mambos, righteous crocodile gods, kahunas, and more.

Show Notes

White Wolf Magazine – Magazine that ran through the mid 90s
Dragons of the East – Revised book that update the Wu-Keng and Wu Lung
Midnight Express episode on Hem-Ka Sobk
Dark Ages Mage Pillars and Foundation – Alternative to Spheres
The Fragile Path – The Crafts ignored the call of the Grand Convocation
Mummy episode – Discussion about Mage and Mummy: The Resurrection
Seven Sisters – Historical US women’s colleges

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February 1, 2020July 3, 2021

Paradigm Deep Dive: Norse Magick with Josh Heath

Vikings! Runes! Thor! Woven anti-spear magic shirts! The Norse culture is a perennial favorite source of inspiration in the West but what was their magic like? Josh Heath of the Open Halls Project explains to Terry how to introduce Norse magic and supernatural elements into your Mage game.

Show Notes

Open Halls Project – Josh’s project to help serve Heathens in the armed forces
Ghost Court – a ridiculous party game for 6 or more players about ghosts and the people who sue them
Heathenry – a reconstructed set of beliefs based on pre-Christian beliefs from Germanic Europe and north
Reconstructionism – Attempts to re-establish a religious movement rather than to modify a contemporary practice to include new beliefs
Scandanavian countries – Region in Norther Europe
The Sámi people – an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Kola Peninsula
Taking Up The Runes – Book on runic divination
SEO HELRUNE – Elves and Witchcraft, Seidr and Grimoires
Wolves of the Sea
Sunstone – Possible navigation aide that allowed for finding the sun on cloudy days.
Thing – type of assembly involving a lawspeaker
Werewolf: The Podcast – Josh’s Podcast!
Josh Heath on the Storytellers Vault
Renegades of Mercury – a Wraith: The Great War supplement on delivering lost love letters
Rökkatru – Norsephandi
High Level Games
Seidr – Form of Norse magic
Orlog – Moral momentum
Nålebinding – Type of fiber work

Intro snippet from Bensound.

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January 25, 2020July 3, 2021

Tomes of Magick: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope

Mage games aren’t always at the gritty front lines of the Ascension War or hardscrabble games of survival, it has its places of wonder and hope. Horizon, the Stronghold of Hope is the seat of the Council of the Nine Mystic Traditions and there the nine Primii of the nine Traditions plan, argue, and often scheme in a rich fantasy setting with over 120 other mages. Adam and Terry give a scenic tour of Horizon from Posht, to sword eating contests, to why you should never wear white in November, also the keys to eternal life and the first guidelines on the 6th dot in each sphere.

Show Notes

The logo for the Traditions or possible just Horizon
Josh Heath and Terry will be at 1d4 Con!
The nine Primii as of 1997
A cut of various Scooby Doo “I would have gotten away with it too” moments
Destiny’s Price – A gritty book about cities on the other end of the fantasy spectrum
Masters of the Art – More detailed book on the life and times of an Archmaster

Next up! Book of Crafts: Whispers of Dissent

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January 18, 2020July 3, 2021

The Book of the Fallen with Satyros Phil Brucato and Jacqueline Bryk

The early Nephandi were introduced as a tie in for Werewolf: The Apocalypse but over time they’ve gone from slavering cultists to the Wyrm to something more insidious. Satyros and Jax talk with Adam and Terry about the state of the Nephandi in Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition as revealed in Book of the Fallen and the heartache and tragedy in which the book was forged.

Show Notes

Jax author of Safety Rules for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition and Changeling: The Lost
Early Nephandi were just a Werewolf tie in, they worshiped the Wyrm
Fallen companions – Future book of cut material from this book (not yet released)
Kult: Divinity Lost – Horror game posited on the demiurge guarding humans from reality has gone away
Amanda Johnsson – Possible example of a de-inverted Avatar
Book of the Wyrm – Book on Entropy and its embodiment in Werewolf
LessWrong – Community blog and forum with particular following among some in Silicon Valley
Roko’s basilisk
Fucking Magick by Clementine Morgan – Author recommended by Jax
Robert Green – Author on topics like strategy and seduction.
TechGnosis – Work by Erik Davis that inspired Mage
Satyros Phil Brucato on Patreon
Powerchords: Music, Magic & Urban Fantasy – Game about music by Satyros

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January 11, 2020July 3, 2021

Worlds of Darkness: Mage/Mummy the Resurrection Crossover with Joel Cotton

Mummies, to quote the Euthanatoi “Are mummies stuck on the Wheel, or do they ride it like experts?” Originally stuck at no more than 42, a new breed of the immortal walk the earth. They fight the Wyrm in the form of Apophis but also fiercely contest the Web of Faith. Where did they come from, what can they do, and how can you use them in a Mage chronicle? Joel Cotton, veteran Mummy and Mage storyteller, shares how to integrate the undying into your game.

Show Notes

Tales from Dreaming Spires – A Technocracy game in Oxford, UK on Saturday Jan 18th, 2020. More info on Facebook.
Ascension’s Landscape – Made copper in its first week.
Kiths of Arcadia – Book of seven new kith.
Mummy: The Resurrection Core Rulebook (get it and we get a cut)
Mummy: The Resurrection Players Guide (this is a beefy one).
Mummy Terms!
- Amenti or Dark Kingdom of Sand – Where the mummies recoup between cycles.
- Anubis – First to taste death. Kind of like Egyptian Charon.
- Apophis – Corrupted version of Apep, embodiment of Oblivion or the Wyrm.
- Capacocha – Immortals of South America.
- Hekau – Mummy powers (Spheres/Disciplines).
- Horus – Leader of the Shemsu-Heru.
- Isis – Wife and sister of Osiris. Maybe first mage.
- Judges of Ma’at – 42 entities that enforce the cosmic principle of balance (Ma’at).
- Osirian League – Society dedicated to fighting Set.
- Osiris – Brother of Set, cut up into 14 pieces.
- Sekhem – Mummy Quintessence.
- Set – Worshipper of Apep the Destroyer.
- Shemsu-Heru – First round of mummies. Limited to 42.
- The Week of Nightmares – Time when a lot of things go sideways set off by the death of.
- Web of Faith – Network of sacred sites and Nodes.
- Wu T’ian – Asian counterparts to mummies.
Other things!
- Mister Immortal – Immortal member of the Great Lakes Avengers.
- Pillars of Ma’at – Supplement on how to run Mummy without the Sixth Great Maelstrom.

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January 4, 2020July 3, 2021

Tomes of Magick: Cult of Ecstasy

The Cult of Ecstasy explores the liminal spaces between the magickal and mundane and between the emotive and cerebral to return with wisdom. Plus sex, drugs, and various musical genres not exclusively rock. Adam and Terry discuss the Cult’s varied methods of exploring outer and inner spaces of experience, their history, and their magick.

Show Notes

Ascension’s Landscape is free on the Storytellers Vault until January 9th. Terry wrote this walk-through of setting up the metaphysical world of Mage. It’s sold 150 copies already and getting yours now will include all future updates.
Josh Heath and Charles Siegel are attempting restarting Paradigma as a community magazine. They’re looking for short pieces of about 500 to 2000 words about lore, rules, systems, and reviews. Contact info@hlgcon.com for questions or to submit content.
Anders Mage Page for the Cult of Ecstasy
Kithbook: Satyrs
Nuwisha Breedbook
Corax Breedbook
Euthanatos Tradition Book
Revised Cult of Ecstasy Tradition Book
Destiny’s Price

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December 28, 2019July 3, 2021

Sneak Peek of Technocracy Reloaded with Travis Legge and RPG Printing Economics with Matt McElroy

Two interviews!!! Why aren’t old books available in print on demand? What’s next for RPG book publishing? Where does your $45 for a hardback go? Matt McElroy answers these questions and more in a sit down with Terry Robinson from PAX Unplugged. Then, Travis Legge gives a short sneak preview of Technocracy Reloaded, as well as how to make the Storytellers Vault work as a creator and a year in review of the Onyx Path Publishing’s Twitch Channel.

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