Join Hal and Pax as we do a deep dive into what anime is and isn't worth watching! Bringing our unique perspectives as writers and actors, each week we dig into a specific show or topic, bringing on other artists and comedians to tackle each episode. Find us on twitter at: @BrotakusPodcast @PaxLillin For feedback, episode/guest suggestions and business inquiries, email us at BrotakusPodcast@Gmail.com Thank you for your support and we love hearing from you! Intro Song: F*** You, Pay Me (Instr ...
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A podcast dedicated to exploring the Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game (RPG) based in the World of Darkness.
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Types of Conspiracies in the World of Darkness
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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) --- S…
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RPGs at PAX Unplugged with Mike A and Pooka G
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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 --- Send in a voice message…
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Tomes of Magick: Mapping Werewolf's Umbra
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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 …
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Tomes of Magick: Werewolf Umbra Books
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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) - Rev…
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Planetside: The Void Engineers on Earth
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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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message…
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Making Sense of Paradigm, Practice, and Instruments
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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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod…
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Tomes of Magick: M20 Victorian Mage
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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…
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Shakespeare's Magick England after the Sorcerer's Crusade with Nathan Foxgrove
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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 R…
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Advice for First-Time Storytellers with Walking into Shadow
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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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c…
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Exploring the Deep Umbra in Werewolf and Mage with Hal Case
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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 book The Shipyard - The expansion for the book Dead Ends - Book of liches Convention Book: Void Engineers - Rev resource …
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Reflections and Plans: 2023 in Review
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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 overview Noah around places: Noah on Instagram Noah on Artstation Noah on Facebook --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcas…
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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, which was a late 90s/early 00s passion project to capture as many internal connections and external refere…
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Tales of Hungry Ghosts: Updating Kindred of the East for Mage
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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 - This book Kindred of the East - The original Hsienfan on RPGnet - The author --- Send in a voice message…
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Tomes of Magick: The Quick and the Dead
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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 Quick and the Dead - This book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message…
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Bards, Bog Mummies, and Book of Days with PookaG
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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 Bardism Bog Bodies - Book on Guardians of the Gauntlet Book of Days - Book on holidays and the calendar for Changeling b…
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Tomes of Magick: Mummy Second Edition
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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 the Curse 2nd Edition - CoD book! Religion in Mage with James Estes - Previous episode with the author --- …
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Explaining Mage to New Players with Jen Peters (Fixed)
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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. Paradox Podcast on Podbean Dork Tales on Youtube Dork Tales on Twitch M20 Visions and Vistas call for wri…
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Tomes of Magick: A World of Darkness: Mummy
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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: Mummy - This book US Route 666 - One of several Mage/Mummy Crossover - previous episode on Mummy the Res…
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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 creativity for Video Arts in January 1991. Creativity: A Short & Cheerful Guide (book) by John Cleese A Wh…
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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 book Mummy 1st Edition - Next book Now, with corrected syncing! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c…
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Matching Effect to Paradigm with Satyros and Walking into Shadow
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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 Made Hard" Guide to the Umbra is out! If you want a version without AI art, that's available here: Generat…
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Tomes of Magick: Dark Ages and Sorcerers Crusade Q&A
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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.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message
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Chaos, Carnivals and Clowns - The Midnight Circus
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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! World of Darkness: Hong Kong - Another generic WoD Book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spoti…
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Mage at 30: The First Year of Supplements with Satyros Phil Brucato
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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 list Satyros on Patreon Satyros on Amazon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message…
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Missions, Mysteries, and Magick: Paranormal Investigation in Mage
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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 Psychic Self-Defense Warehouse 13 The Rivers of London Supernatural TV Laundry Files Dresden Files X-File…
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Tomes of Magick: Blood-Dimmed Tides
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Have you ever said “My game needs more boats?” World of Darkness: Blood-Dimmed Tides talks new fae, blood-sweating vampires, Hermetic boats and aquatic systems for days. What side are you on in the war between Dagon and Vatea? World of Darkness: Blood-Dimmed Tides - This book William Hope Hodgeson - Author of boat stories Naval institute …
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Desperation, Drive, and Despair: Using Hunter 5th Edition in Mage
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In a world rife with supernatural threats how do mortals take back the night? How do we add these actors and agencies to our games? Terry talks Hunter 5th, desperation, SAD post glow-up, and avatar lineages. Project Twilight - Another mortal game book The Second Inquisition - V5 book on powerful mortal groups Hunter the Reckoning 5th - This book -…
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Victorian Scandals & Fisticuffs and One Giant Leap for Inhumankind with Satyros Phil Brucato and John Beckwith
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John Beckwith joins to talk fiction involving the Technocratic Union and the Garou Nation in One Giant Leap for Inhumankind and then Satyros talks things that didn't make it into Victorian Mage in Scandals & Fisticuffs. One Giant Leap for Inhumankind - Fiction Scandals & Fisticuffs - Satyros' work that didn't make it into Victorian Mage The Thing f…
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Who is John Constantine and why is he in the Mage recommended reading list? Does he look like Sting? Can he help your Mage games? Pooka and Adam discuss what Hellblazer can offer us. John Constantine on DC Comics Wiki First volume of Hellblazer on Amazon.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/me…
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Tomes of Magick: Right of Princes and Darkening Sky
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Dark Ages: Mage received only two formal books but Right of Princes tells how to run a Chantry and Darkening Sky provides an adventure. Adam and Terry talk domains, pooled backgrounds, eclipses, the Holy Land, and Frederick II. Right of Princes - Dark Ages book on ruling and relating to mortals with some information on building a Chantry Darkening …
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Mage at 30: Early Umbra and Development with Harry Heckel
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What was the early vision of the Digital Web? What was the difference between the Dreaming and the High Umbra? What's it like writing the 2nd Tradition book? Harry Heckel, early may author joins to talk early Otherworlds. Jack Heckel Novels - Harry's writing duo Harry Heckel on the White Wolf wiki - Other things he's worked on Preview of Mage Made …
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Welcome to Mage: The Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring the arcane depths of Mage: The Ascension! Prepare to embark on a spellbinding journey through a world where magic and reality intertwine, where mages wield unimaginable power! 🔮 Lore, Mechanics, Strategies - The Complete Mage Experience! 🔮 Venture into the vast realms of lore as we peel ba…
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Solstices and Seasons: Using Dark Ages Fae in Mage
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The Fae of the Dark Ages differ markedly from their contemporary counterparts. Who are they and how could they exist in the modern world? Victor and Terry talk courts, re-emergence, church bells, and chaos as contract. Dark Ages: Fae - This book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message…
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Medieval Warfare and Dark Ages Night-Folk with Jacob Klunder
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What were the Garou doing in the Dark Ages? How many vampires were there in the cities? Was warfare just knights hurling insults? Jacob Klunder of the World of Dark Ages joins to prove Terry knows nothing about history. The World of Dark Ages Podcast - Jacob's podcast where he says things he knows Places of Mystery and Power - Jacob's newest Dark A…
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Tomes of Magick: Dark Ages: Devil's Due
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The Awakened want power in a world slipping from their hands but what cost are they willing to pay? Devil's Due outlines infernalism in the Dark Ages and Adam and Terry talk investments, taints, and strange ancient evils. Dark Ages: Devil's Due - This book Demon: The Fallen - Contemporary Demon line Dark Ages: Right of Princes - Next book Dark Ages…
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The Vibes of the Ascension War: Affect Theory with Jordan Etherington
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All factions wage a war of both magickal truth but also of vibes. How do feelings shape experiences and how does that influence magick? Jordan Etherington joins to talk affect theory, description, a subtle war and Mage. Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s game Soulbound: Dark Industrial Fantasy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
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Tomes of Magick: Dark Ages Grimoire
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Dark Ages Mage peaks into a world before the modern ascension war and Dark Ages Grimoire acts as tour guide in this strange land. Adam and Terry talk Certamen, Fellowship descriptions, Familiars and so much more on Pillars. Dark Ages Mage Grimoire - This book Dark Ages: Devil's Due - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotif…
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Conspiracy, Corporations, and Coffee Breaks: Triangle Agency RPG with Sean Ireland
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Mage has space for paranormal investigations overseen by vast supernatural conspiracies, but how do build out strange events in our games? Sean Ireland joins to talk Triangle Agency, a game of superpowers, intrigue, and pathos. Triangle Agency on KickstarterTriangle Agency Delta Test - Pay what you want beta documents Ea-Nasir complaint tablets Hau…
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The Sorcerers Crusade takes place during the opening shots of the Ascension War but what came before? Dark Ages: Mage takes place in 1230s Europe. Adam and Terry talk Fellowships, Pillars, and a very strange Umbra. Show Notes Dark Ages: Mage - This book Dark Ages: Mage Grimoire - Next book Conversation with Stephen Michael DiPesa on wri…
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Minisode - Reality Deviant Book Club: Kid Eternity
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Mage lists legion inspirations; what are they are what do they inform our games? First Edition core even says, “But for pure ‘manliness,’ you can’t beat Kid Eternity.” Pook and Adam see what Kid Eternity offers us. Show Notes Buy the Kid Eternity Deluxe Edition on Amazon Kid Eternity Wikipedia entry Kid Eternity in the DC wiki --- Send in a voice…
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Running Sorcerers Crusade with Victor Kinzer
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We've finished talking Sorcerers Crusade books but how do you actually run it? Seasoned Storyteller Victor Kinzer walks through his SC chronicle and the choices he made in running the game. Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics - school of mathematics and astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Tirur, Malappuram, Kerala, India Tantrasa…
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Satire and Superfauna: Mystery Flesh Pit National Park with Christopher Neglein
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The horrors of the World of Darkness are generally hidden but what if that weren't an option? Christopher Neglein joins to talk about The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG and how to blend the cosmic with the bureaucratic. Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG Kickstarter The Mystery Flesh Pit blog NPS Rawlinson and Frutiger Fonts Esper Genesis RPG…
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What is the state of the children of the wyck across a changing Europe? Witches and Pagans is the last Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade entry and Adam and Terry talk nature magick, sacrifice, and skyclad mysticks. Note! This one can get a little explicit. Witches and Pagans - This book Dark Ages: Mage - Next book! --- Send in a voice message: https://…
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Fearful Symmetries: The Cosmology of William Blake with Steve Dempsey
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William Blake forged a dense cosmology full of spirits, emanations and proto-gods. Steve Dempsey, author of Fearful Symmetries, guides us through Blake's life, mythology, and magic societies that you can drop into your game. The Dying Earth - The RPG Steve didn't write Urban Shadows: Dark Streets - Expansion for Urban Shadows Blood on the Snow - An…
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Mechanic Workshop Minisode: Magick Merits with Monica Speca
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In this mechanics minisode, Monica Speca, Exalted, Scion, and Trinity Dev joins to help Terry workshop some ways to make magick in Mage a little bit quirkier. Regular episode will be out this Saturday! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-podcast/message
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Order of Reason posits a bold and inventive direction for treating the pro-Technocracy in the Sorcerers Crusade era. Adam and Terry talk 50 guilds, the labyrinth of the Order and cutting edge kite technology. Order of Reason - This book Witches and Pagans - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mage-the-po…
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ST Toolbox: Game, Chronicle, and Character Tenets
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How can you quickly establish mood and tone in a world new to the players but familiar to their characters? Victor and Terry talk chronicle and game tenets and how to use them to dial in the game your table wants. Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition - a game with coterie and character principles After the War - A game where principles are hit points…
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Tomes of Magick: The Swashbucklers Handbook
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The Dark Fantastic often requires not just a steady blade but often a keen wit at court. Adam and Terry talk fencing, Ars Cupiditae, and the hidden machinations of the High Guild and Ksirafai in The Swashbuckler's Handbook. Swashbucklers Handbook - This book The Order of Reason - Next book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com…
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STV Roundup: Magick Corporations, Hollow Earth Adventures, and Texas Fiction
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This week we talk to Charles Siegel about big money Traditions corporations and minor Spheres for Night-Folk allies, Jenna Flohr about running adventures in the Hollow Earth and TL Webb on Mage fiction in North Texas. Five Room Dungeons - A template for dungeon encounters Gathering Shadows by TL Webb Adventure to Hollow Earth by Jenna Flohr Adventu…
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Tomes of Magick: Sorcerers Crusade Companion
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The world of the dark fantastic is another country and Sorcerers Crusade Companion is your guide. Adam and Terry talk the Aztecs, the enchanted dragon islands, culture and the detailed fencing rules you've been craving. Sorcerers Crusade Companion - This book Swashbuckler's Handbook - Next book Paradigm Deep Dive: Jewish Mysticism --- Send in a voi…
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