The mysterious Rogue Council calls on mages to again pursue the Ascension War in the face of despair and the Technocracy responds. Adam and Terry talk the Sphinx, Annunaki, and Panopticon in Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council . Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council - This book Fallen Tower: Las Vegas - Our next book Anders Mage Page Egypt Chronicle - So much sphinx, so so so much sphinx...
Jun 26, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 155
Greg Stolze , prolific author of RPG books for Hunter, Demon, A Dirty World, and Mage fan favorite, Unknown Armies, talks Invisible Clergy, obsession fueling magic, writing game fiction, how he'd write WoD angels and crowdfunding projects. New Stories of Unknown Armies Indiegogo - The project discussed at the end Greg's Projects Greg on Twitter Greg's web page Free fiction Unknown Armies Book 1: Play - Core book to play the game, player's guide and rules Unknown Armies Book 2: Run - GM guide Unk...
Jun 19, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 154
How do you run a game without Paradox? How about during a game where the Roman empire never fell? What if the Ministry of Swords still existed? Adam and Terry talk the Mage Storytellers Handbook and what you can take to your table. Mage Storytellers Handbook - This book Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council - Next book...
Jun 12, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 3Ep. 153
B Dave Walters talks the Technocracy in 2021 , Cassandra Complex, Friends of Courage and introducing players to Mage and Tanya DePass talks the Into the Mother Lands afrofuturist setting and game design in a multitopic episode. Into the Mother Lands Kickstarter Technocracy Reloaded Pre-order - Still get it on release day! Tanya's other projects Dear America From a Black Guy - B Dave Walter's current documentary project Other Participants Vanessa “PleasantlyTwstd” B. - Lead artist @PleasantlyTwst...
Jun 05, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 152
So far, the Hollowers were presented as American, urban, and gothic in and now with their own Tradition Book new light shines on their varied ways. Adam and Terry talk elemental cliques, oneiromancy, and wraiths in Tradition Book: Hollow Ones . Books! Tradition Book: Hollow Ones - This books! Outcasts: A Players Guide to Pariahs - Closest previous book Orphans Survival Guide - Urban and orphan guide book for Mage...
May 29, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 151
History teems with strange events and stranger claims that beg to be added to our Mage games, but how? Luckily, Darker Days Radio does regular segments on it! Chris and Terry talk the Pope Lick Monster , the Dyatlov Pass incident and more. Darker Days Radio Gehenna Gaming schedule Warhammer Fantasy Youtube series The Secret Frequency Files bundle on DTRPG Children of the Blood - VtM book Chris worked on Age of Sigmar - Warhammer Fantasy book Cubicle Seven - Publisher of Warhammer Fantasy...
May 22, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 150
The Euthanatoi draw from those who do the work others won't, and now that includes purging the Ksirafai and possibly cleansing reality. Adam and Terry talk Senex , necromancy, and the Good Death . Books! Tradition Book: Euthanatos - This book Guide to the Traditions - A more expansive view of the Traditions and their groups Swords of Faith - Book containing original 2e Euthanatos book...
May 15, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 149
Before you convince someone to play 30 session of Mage, maybe show them one? Josh and Terry give their recommendations on running a Mage one-shot. Also, an interview with STV fiction author, Lee Webb about their Etherite short fiction Dead Reckoning . TryItCon Event Schedule - Come play a thing! Weekend of May 14-16th Other books: Another STV short fiction collection: Darkened Streets Dead Reckoning - Etherite short story Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council - It's got a short adventu...
May 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 148
Many counted the Kha'vadi out after the Avatar Storm but such claims were premature. Adam and Terry talk new sorcerous paths, spirits on the mundane side of the Gauntlet, and a bigger Tradition in Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers . Related Books: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers - This book Spirit Ways - book on shamanic variants Related episode: Paradigm Deep Dive: Indigenous Magick Next up: Tradition Book: Euthanatos...
May 01, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 147
Games are often set in the places we know by adding a layer of magick or horror, but how do you do that? Griffin from The Story Told and Terry talk about how they Mage-ify their hometown, Philadelphia , and how to make any major city magickal. References: Atlas Obscura SS United States Plans Figure-Ground Diagram TryItCon 2021 Get a badge: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/badgetypes/attendee97 Play a game: https://tabletop.events/conventions/tryitcon-2021/schedule#?query= Submit...
Apr 24, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 146
The Clockwork Convention has been cut off from Autochthonia and many of its cyborg minions have gained terrifying freedom. Adam and Terry talk new HIT Marks , the Cult of the Machine, and Alanson hardsuits in Convention Book: Iteration X . Books references: Convention Book: Iteration X - This book Iteration X - The previous version Guide to the Technocracy - Essential reading to run Technocrats-as-protagonists Next Book: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers...
Apr 17, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 145
Let's steal from Powered by the Apocalypse ! Mark Diaz Truman is the CEO of Magpie Games and World of Darkness fan. He an author of Urban Shadows , a PBtA urban fantasy game and shares what WoD players can take back to one of the games that inspired it. Magpie's Curated Play program - Try a game with a two-shot! Urban Shadows 2e kickstarter - Grab it during the late pledge period. Urban Shadows 2e quickstart - 26 pages which are enough to start playing. Urban Shadows 1e - The first edition...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 144
The Ecstatics find liberation and possibly Ascension through potent sensory experiences in both agony and ecstasy so how have they met modernity? Adam and Terry talk a plethora of new groups, expanded history, and very practical magick in Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy . Next book: Convention Book: Iteration X...
Apr 03, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 143
The mechanics for raising Arete are easy, but how do you play out a Seeking where a mage may make a self discovery or learn about the fundament of the cosmos? Josh and Terry share how Seekings changed across editions and some ways you can run them. Dusk Wiki - Large wiki with house rules on Seekings TryItCon Links: If you have a game you’d like to try, ask for it: https://forms.gle/mt5eY3QRQhY3WXD26 If you’d like to help storytell/guide for the bonanza, ST applications are here: https://forms.gl...
Mar 27, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 142
In a world going mad how do the Marauders manifest? How have the Nephandi cope with the Avatar Storm ? How do I barter my (character's) soul? Adam and Terry talk the dark whisperers in the Ascension War in Book of Madness Revised . This book: Book of Madness Revised Next book: Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy Previous Book of Madness Book of the Fallen - 20th anniversary update to the Nephandi...
Mar 20, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 141
Three different interviews with three different liveplays! Terrifying Tales nods to Kult, Ombligo Del Diablo is an M5 hack in a strange Southwest, and Technogate explores the 90s, one Umbral Realm at a time and what 2d10 and Guldan Age Stories are up to. Terrifying Tales - A run of Mage with hints of Kult added for good measure run by Vorpal Tales . Technogate 1999 - Exploring the goings on an Umbra-hopping Amalgam by Guldan Age Stories . Ombligo Del Diablo - Adventures in an eerie Southwest by ...
Mar 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Guide to the Traditions lifts the curtain on the thousand ways the Traditions work with and against each other. Adam and Terry talk high-ritual shamans, hidden Cathars, Asthika technomancers and stranger magicks in this broad look at the 21st century Council. Books: Guide to the Traditions - the one we're talking about The Bitter Road - Another big book of group and plot options Book of Madness (Revised) - Next up!...
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 139
The 19th century saw the West push to conquer the world but what were mages up to? The Technocracy rises, the American frontier closes and dozens of societies resist colonialism in Onyx Path's newest crowdfunding campaign, M20 Victorian Age now on Indiegogo . The crowdfunding campaign for Victorian Age Mage Victor Kinzer on Walking Away from Arcadia Technocracy history Books references: Guide to the Technocracy - Technocratic History Mage Storyteller's Companion - Giant timeline Victorian Age Va...
Feb 27, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 138
This minisode is with Max from Saga Experience which is trying to create a new type of virtual tabletop with a kind of built in game engine. We talk about our favorite numbers, virtual tabletops, and outcome distributions. Regular episode will be out Saturday! Saga Experience - Their webpage Saga Experience Discord - Talk to 'em! Tell them you want a freeform magick system. :3 Saga Experience Youtube - See it in action...
Feb 25, 2021•38 min•Ep. 3
What does faith look like as the End Times approach? What is the role of shepherds when monsters walk the earth? Adam and Terry talk how the Chorus as broadened even as theology seemingly declines in Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus . Next up: Guide to the Traditions Our discussion of the previous Celestial Chorus book Swords of Faith which includes the prior Tradition Book and two others Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus on Drivethrurpg...
Feb 20, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 137
Mage is a game suited for many genres from pensive journey to space opera but the rules don't always give us fast-paced action. Bryce Perry of Darker Days Radio talks with Terry about things to steal from games like Torg and how to speed up combat. Games to steal from: Torg - Game geared towards action and adventure with group leveling and dramatic build-up system. Unknown Armies - Urban fantasy game where broken people save the world. Blades in the Dark - The best game Ars Magica - For when the...
Feb 13, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 136
In the 21st century, the Ahl-i-Batin quietly invoke the Khwaja al-Akbar while the Taftâni fight druj and pursue Asha with explosive ferocity. Adam and Terry talk math, carpets, figs and other goodies from Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batin & Taftâni . Show Notes More information on the Entelechy in Ascension Previous information on the Ahl-i-Batini in Book of Shadows...
Feb 06, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 135
The Traditions claim to represent all of mystick magick but may were left out of the Grand Convocation. So what is a Tradition and what makes them special? Victor and Terry talk Traditions over time, areas to explore, and how to build your own. The Hermit Hipster's Patreon Video on Tradition Book Garou Nation - Werewolf explainer by the team of Juarez by Night Books mentioned: Guide to the Traditions - Revised guide to mystick politics Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani - Two groups that maybe ...
Jan 30, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 134
No longer lead by monastic ascetics the Akashayana are ready to bury old ways but can they hold together long enough to change? Adam and Terry talk new sects, new rotes, new wonders and a whole lot of Do in Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood . This book: Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood on Drivethrurpg Next book: Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani on Drivethrurpg Fist of the North Star Theravada - Type of Buddhism discussed largely in this book. Mahayana - More popular branch of Buddhism...
Jan 23, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 133
The world of Mage is teeming with strange creatures so why not add dragons? Scion: Dragon explores the powers and agendas of the mythic creatures and their heirs and developer Danielle Lauzon shares how dragons can go in your Mage game. The Kickstarter campaign! Scion core books: Scion: Origins - Book outlining starting Scions and the storypath system Scion: Hero - Book on more powerful Scions Danielle's author page Danielle's Twitter account...
Jan 16, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 131
The grip of Paradox has tightened but sorcerers, psychics, extraordinary citizens, and practitioners of limited or codified magick are unhindered. So what are they up to? Adam and Terry talk new groups, new paths, new systems, and PSYCHIC POWERS in Sorcerer Revised . Next Book: Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batini and Taftani World of Darkness: Sorcerer - Prior Sorcerer book which was less free-form and overall smaller Prior Episode on Sorcerer Hunters Hunted II - Another book on antagonists including some ...
Jan 09, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 130
What games did you play in 2020, and more importantly, what hacks, mechanics, settings, and ideas can we take from them to bring into Mage? Mike from Darker Days Radio talks Sanity from Call of Cthulhu , quick stats from the Pip system, focus from Soulbound , and more as we review the games we played in 2020. Games mentioned Wrath and Glory - The story of eight systems cut off from the rest of the Warhammer world Pip system - A simple stat system that's kid-friendly Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition -...
Jan 02, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 129
A bonus episode to go with our episode on Dragons of the East. Adam Simpson offers some ideas for bringing East Asia into your Mage Chronicles. Seven Branch Sword https://michael-chen-mg2n.squarespace.com/news/2017/10/12/legendary-7-branched-sword-of-japan https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/seven-branched-sword-mystical-ceremonial-sword-japan-003185 http://nihonshoki.wikidot.com/scroll-9-jingu (look for Death of the King of Baekje) Books Religion in Contemporary Japan by I...
Dec 26, 2020•36 min•Ep. 2
Dragons of the East vastly expands Mage Revised ’s territory by outlining the Awakened world in large parts of East Asia. Adam and Terry review the major points like the mysterious new groups ranging across Mongolia’s steppes to the dense forests of Vietnam and an ancient conspiracy of the Dalou’laoshi that lurks in the edge of the Technocracy ....maybe. Show Notes This book: Dragons of the East Next book: Sorcerer Revised Notes Book of Crafts episode Midnight Express Episode on the Wu-Keng Ailo...
Dec 26, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Season 3Ep. 128
For over twelves centuries the Order of Hermes has pushed will as the key of magick, where do they stand in the 21st century? Stephen Michael DiPesa authored Tradition Book: Order of Hermes and Blood Treachery and shares where he thinks the Hermetics would be today. Stephen's written for a number of other games and White Wolf lines and shares his experiences as an RPG writer. WoD Books: Blood Treachery - Revised book outlining the Wizards March declared against Clan Tremere Tradition Book: Order...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 127
