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Mage: The Podcast Mage: The Podcast
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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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Scattered Realities: The Department of Truth in the World of Darkness
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
Splashin' Around - The song that got stuck in my head
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Storyteller Toolbox: Calling for Rolls
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
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Using the Hedge in the World of Darkness with Lauren Roy
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
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Sophia and Ascension: Gnosticism in the World of Darkness
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 Jams
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 conspiracy theories.
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - A science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores themes of reality and illusion.
Valis - A science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that delves into Gnosticism and reality.
Current Gnostic churches - Modern religious movements influenced by ancient Gnostic traditions.
The Thunder, Perfect Mind - A Gnostic poem discovered among the Nag Hammadi library texts.
The Gospel of Truth - A Gnostic text that provides a unique interpretation of Christian teachings.
The Gospel of Judas - An ancient Gnostic text that presents Judas Iscariot in a positive light.
Voight-Kampff test - A fictional test used in the Blade Runner universe to distinguish humans from replicants.
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Tomes of Magick: Dreams and Nightmares
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
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Community Roundup: Ascension of Babylon, Megadumbcast, and Crushing Depths
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
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