What would you change in Mage? Today we asked Darker Days Radio's Bryce Perry , Jackalope Live Action Studio's Matthew Webb , Plastic Age Production's Travis Legge , and author James Sambrano what they'd change. Dark Days Radio Jackalope Live Action Studio Plastic Age Plays on Patreon James on Patreon Travis on Startplaying.games Gulag Archipelago...
Mages are human. Love and romance are parts of their lives, so how do we add them? Friday Stout and Sebastian Yūe join to talk their project How to GM Romance which gives systems for romance plus plenty of ST advice. How to GM Romance on Backerkit Sample Pamphlet Sebastian's Info Twitter: http://twitter.com/sebastianyue Website: http://sebastianyue.ca/ttrpgs Friday's Website: https://www.dollarsanddragons.com/...
What would you do if you knew the world were in its last days? Our Brilliant Ruin from World of Darkness writers Justin Achilli and Rachel J. Wilkinson asks this question and we talk tools, methods, inspirations, and ideas for gaming in a world that's dying. Our Brilliant Ruin site Our Brilliant Ruin on DTRPG Rachel J Wilkinson's site Studio Hermitage site...
The Hsien are said to be the changelings of East Asia...but that's...a stretch, so why not use them in your Mage game instead? Adam and Terry talk Shinma , hanumen , suijen , and tasty tasty dragon's nests in Land of Eight Million Dreams . Changeling the Podcast's Land of Eight Million Dreams episode This book...
Sources run the gamut for how many mages are running around the World of Darkness , how should your game change based on their commonality? Terry and Bryce talk low mage counts games and how to run them. Ascension's Landscape - Terry's book of storyteller advice Hidden Lore - 2e overflow book with mage count Malcolm Sheppard's Distribution - Former writer's opinion on how many mages...
Metaplot can be hard to approach, so how do pick what to add? How do you fill in what happened since Avatar Storm ? Terry and Michael talk Avatar Storms , the Sphinx , STV supplements, and many many factional plot hooks . The Riddle of the Sphinx - Michael's book on adding plot between Revised and M20 Strange Yesterdays - Alternatives to the 2e/Revised metaplot...
The Year of the Lotus added East Asian elements to many gamelines, what can Mage players take from the supplements for other lines? Adam and Terry talk the Shih , the Shen , and ass tattoos in World of Darkness: Demon Hunter X . World of Darkness: Demon Hunter X - This book Land of Eight Million Dreams - Next book...
Mages can live centuries with minds both powerful and fluid, how do we feature memory as a central story idea? Bryce and Terry talk the Mind Sphere , strategic forgetting and There Is No Antimemetics Division . There Is No Antimemetics Division (CC) - One of the inspirations for the episode. Also available in dead tree form SCP Foundation - Wiki that also contains information on some of the memetic entities mentioned Nibiru - Billed as a science fiction game of lost memories Mummy the Curse - An...
M20 still has several releases in queue and Hiromi and Travis talk about them including two for M20 Victorian and two for M20's contemporary setting. This is an edited recording of the Oppcon 2024 M20 panel. Travis Legge on DTRPG Hiromi Cota on DTRPG...
What if reality were even more malleable than Mage lets on and conspiracies existed to incept some new truth into existence? This is the world of The Department of Truth and we talk how to bring it into a Mage game. The Department of Truth omnibus - First 17 issues. On sale as of this posting Types of Conspiracies in the World of Darkness - Previous episode on a similar topic Babalon Working - A working involving a prominent figure in Crowley's Thelema Jack Parsons - He...he did some stuff Splas...
Mage can be tuned to a lot of different play experiences but knowing how to do that is hard. This episode addresses just three things: who call for rolls, when to call one, and how to look at the results. Finite and Infinite Games - Philosophy book on the nature of play
The Hedge serves as both a strange place with its own denizens and border between Arcadia and the mundane world in Changeling the Lost . How can we use it in the World of Darkness? Lauren Roy joins to explain how! The Hedge - This book! Damnation City - A darn good book on city building Changeling: The Lost 2e SNL Well Skit Lauren works...
Gnosticism has ancient roots and is mentioned at across various WoD lines. How can we reflect Gnosticism and Gnostic magick in Mage? Pook joins to talk Sophia , Yaldabaoth, the Pleroma , and the Cainite Heresy . Nostradamus's Cherry Jam s World of Darkness Books Cainite Heresy - Dark Ages Vampire book with a wild take on Gnosticism. The Paradigm's Progress - Pook's book on Paradigm advancement Other Books Michael Baigent - A British author known for his works on the historical Jesus and conspira...
The Maya and Dreaming are only lightly described in Mage, where can we look to for more options? Why Changeling ! Terry and Adam read Dreams and Nightmares with an eye to using it in Mage with all its trods, mists, and chimera. Dreams and Nightmares - This book Changeling the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition - The most recent core book...
So what's everyone else makin'? This week Terry talks to Kris Newton of Megadumbcast , Mike Diamond of the Ascension of Babylon actual play and TL Webb 's latest fiction, Crushing Depths . Crushing Depths - Latest Hollow Earth fiction TL Webb's Other Works Megadumbcast Patreon - Get the megasodes Ascension of Babylon - The Old Ways podcast The Old Ways Patreon...
Strange peoples lurk at the edges of the World of Darkness . How do we add them to our games? Pook and Terry talk the Sekrana , Chulorviah , The Watchers in the Deep , the Wyck , and other early humans. BOOKS! Last Days of New Paris - A novel that imagines a surreal Paris overrun with manifestations of surrealist art. The City & The City - A detective story set in two cities that occupy the same space but are perceived separately by their residents. Perdido Street Station - A fantasy novel s...
Mage draws upon sources both ancient and modern, what can they teach us about our games? Pook and Adam talk Books of Magic , the four-part series by Neil Gaiman for DC Comics in this installment of Reality Deviant Book Club. Reading List for Hollow Earth Inspiration...
The World of Darkness has all sorts of non-human peoples, how do we add them to Mage? Pook from Changeling the Podcast joins to talk about the Fomorians , Tuatha de Danaan , the Goro, Dero , Firstborn and the Djinn . Sphere of Gun book Episode on Dark Ages Fae Episode on Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds Colorized Revised prints...
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)...
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...
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 Werewolf Umbra book W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast Umbra high-level overview Spirit hig...
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) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast Umbra high-level overvi...
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.
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...
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 rise in standard of living in the Western world Changeling the Podcast's Discord - Organizing spot for the C30 project Changeling the Podcast page...
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 Real World Magic Texts with Brian Johnson Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland - Book about why America is weird Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in Am...
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...
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 on Mage Space Arcanum House on FB Arcanum House on Instagram Rage across the Heavens review on WtP Totem list Set design of Alien Rimrunners Agon RPG...
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...
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 references as possible, issue by issue. TXT archive from an earlier version of the website Vertigo released their own very expensive series with the same n...
