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Mage: The Podcast Mage: The Podcast
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4.8 • 88 Ratings
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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
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)
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RPGs at PAX Unplugged with Mike A and Pooka G
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
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Tomes of Magick: Mapping Werewolf's Umbra
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 high-level overview
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Tomes of Magick: Werewolf Umbra Books
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 overview
Spirit high-level overview
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Planetside: The Void Engineers on Earth
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.
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Making Sense of Paradigm, Practice, and Instruments
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
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Customer Reviews
Made me a bigger fan of Mage.
I came into this show as an overall World of Darkness fan (with special love for Wraith) and only a passing knowledge of Mage. I picked out a few random episodes here and there for books I remember from back in my peak WoD days…and before I knew it was listening to every new episode that came out. Now I’ve gone back to the beginning and hitting up the complete back catalogue. Great hosts. Great conversations. Very informative.
I don’t do 5 stars.
I’ve been binging this podcast for months. Adam and Terry are great! The wit, insight and story ideas are well worth it.
Great for diehards, not so much for casuals/beginners
So I’ve been listening to Terry and Adam for awhile and I just have a few simple takes for them. TL,DR: get your audio balanced, stop reviewing WoD books like college essays, Embrace the Gothic Punk and heavy subject matters.
First. You guys are not coming in at the same volume and it’s very frustrating to dial up and down when I’m driving to and from work, so just that little bit of audio editing will do wonders.
Second. I don’t think you need to be this scrutinizing about your WoD book reviews. I might be new to the WoD scene but I’m pretty sure new players don’t need to hear every little inconsistency you’ve found, they just want more campaign and character ideas. If these are for WoD veterans, they can find that out for themselves. What gets me though is going to be my next point.
Third. Do you just not care for Gothic Punk? It seems like you guys just give the broccoli treatment for the heavier subject matters baked into the world in favor of the campy campaign material. The term “quirky” seems to be the focus of this podcast and it got old for me fast. I just don’t appreciate the disregard of the actual reason I got into WoD.
I still enjoy the podcast, just not most of it. It’s a cold bastard of a review but I promise you it’s honest.