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

RPGs at PAX Unplugged with Mike A and Pooka G

25 days ago 1h 2m

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 UnpluggedGames we mention:To Serve Her Wi

Tomes of Magick: Mapping Werewolf's Umbra

Mar 16th, 2024 57m 38s

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

Tomes of Magick: Werewolf Umbra Books

Mar 2nd, 2024 1h 1m

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 o

Planetside: The Void Engineers on Earth

Feb 17th, 2024 1h 32m

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.--- Send in a voice message:

Making Sense of Paradigm, Practice, and Instruments

Feb 3rd, 2024 1h 8m

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 F

Tomes of Magick: M20 Victorian Mage

Jan 27th, 2024 2h 3m

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 bookThe R

Shakespeare's Magick England after the Sorcerer's Crusade with Nathan Foxgrove

Jan 20th, 2024 1h 17m

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 g

Advice for First-Time Storytellers with Walking into Shadow

Jan 13th, 2024 1h 37m

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!HellblazerFiascoBa

Exploring the Deep Umbra in Werewolf and Mage with Hal Case

Jan 6th, 2024 1h 14m

The Deep Umbra is vast and dangerous but full of wonders. So how do you get there? Hal Case, author of Umbral Pilots for W20 and M20, talks spirit-powered spaceships, plasma klaives and Garou/Mage relations.Umbral Pilots - This bookThe Shipya

Reflections and Plans: 2023 in Review

Dec 30th, 2023 1h 39m

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.Noah's Wraith 20 overviewNoah around places:Noah on InstagramNoah on Art

Reality Deviant Book Club: Sandman

Dec 23rd, 2023 38m 24s

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 TS Eliot in this edition of Reality Deviant Book Club.The Annotated Sandman,

Tales of Hungry Ghosts: Updating Kindred of the East for Mage

Dec 16th, 2023 1h 31m

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.Kindred of the East: The Relentless Age

Tomes of Magick: The Quick and the Dead

Dec 9th, 2023 1h 29m

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 DeadQuick and the Dead - This book!--- Send in

Bards, Bog Mummies, and Book of Days with PookaG

Dec 2nd, 2023 59m 39s

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.Tale Singers - Book on BardismBog Bo

Tomes of Magick: Mummy Second Edition

Nov 18th, 2023 1h 30m

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.Mummy 2nd Edition - This book!Mummy

Explaining Mage to New Players with Jen Peters (Fixed)

Nov 11th, 2023 53m 24s

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.⁠Par

Tomes of Magick: A World of Darkness: Mummy

Nov 4th, 2023 1h 20m

Finally Adam and Terry talk deathless supernaturals in an unending war that stalk the night, mummies! A World of Darkness: Mummy contains strange creatures with strange ancient magic and we talk adding it to your Mage game.A World of Darkness

Idea Generation Methods for Mage

Oct 28th, 2023 51m 33s

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.John Cleese spoke about

Tomes of Magick: Project Twilight

Oct 21st, 2023 1h 21m

Does the NWO control the CIA or the FBI? How entwined in the NSA are the Virtual Adepts? Adam and Terry talk NSA, CIA, FBI, what mages know about them and other weird 90s conspiracies in Project Twilight.Project Twilight - This bookMummy 1st

Matching Effect to Paradigm with Satyros and Walking into Shadow

Oct 14th, 2023 1h 25m

Join Satyros and Walking into Shadow for a wide-ranging discussion on matching effect with paradigm, emulating other games, minimal and maximal interpretations of the rules, and Terry just yelling about things.Otherworlds Illuminated: A "Mage

Tomes of Magick: Dark Ages and Sorcerers Crusade Q&A

Oct 7th, 2023 41m 4s

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!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c

Chaos, Carnivals and Clowns - The Midnight Circus

Sep 30th, 2023 1h 35m

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!Wor

Mage at 30: The First Year of Supplements with Satyros Phil Brucato

Sep 23rd, 2023 1h 30m

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 listSatyros on PatreonSatyros on Amaz

Missions, Mysteries, and Magick: Paranormal Investigation in Mage

Sep 16th, 2023 1h 7m

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