Mage: The Podcast

Adam and James walk you through the Digital Web books. Then James discusses topics to consider when taking your players to the digital realm.  Where is it in the Mage cosmos? How do you get there? How do you move around and work magick? What might you meet there? How does Augmented Reality really work? These topics and more are laid out to help you make the Digital Web a part of your Mage games.Mage the Podcast social media linksWebsitehttp://magethepodcast.comPatreonhttps://bit.ly/MagePatreonBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/magethepodcast.bsky.socialMastodonhttps://dice.camp/@magethepodcastThreadshttps://www.threads.net/@magethepodcastDiscordhttps://discord.gg/7rsy59Zz

What hath Empire wrought? Pooka and Jenna poke at that question today as they open up the supplement Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magicks for Victorian Age Mage. The book features dozens of items, rotes, and story hooks, and while your mileage may vary with how much use you get out of them, there's no shortage of ideas to enrich any historical game.Show Notes Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magicks Victorian Age Mage

Ever wandered into a garden so beautiful you forgot the way out? 🌿 In this week’s Mage: The Podcast, Adam explores The Gardens of Inn — a mysterious, decaying fae realm from the OSR classic by Emmy Allen — and shows how it can bloom in your Mage: The Ascension game. Plus, a new “Paradigm Shift” series connects unexpected RPG books to the World of Darkness. 🎲Download the transcript for today’s show here.Show Notes Beyond the Barrier: The Book of Worlds - Step through the Gauntlet and explore endless realms. Tomes of Magick episode - Adam and Terry take us on a wild Umbra tour: gods, dreams, and dinosaurs beyond the Barrier. Infinite Tapestry - Mages brave storm-torn roads to rediscover lost realms and rekindle the world’s magic. Tomes of Magick: Infinite Tapestry episode - Adam and Terry weave through the Umbra’s mysteries in Infinite Tapestry. Bygone Bestiary - Unleash your inner dragon and dance with monsters/ Tomes of Magick: Bygone Bestiary episode - Adam and Terry wrangle dragons, unicorns, and more. Book of Crafts: Whispers of Dissent - Step off the main path and meet voodoo priests, alchemists and Amazons. Tomes of Magick: Book of Crafts: Whispers of Dissent - Adam and Terry meet mambos, dragon wizards and kahunas. Gods & Monsters - Meet gods, beasts and odd friends—the World of Darkness just got wilder Tomes of Magick: M20 Gods and Monsters episode - Adam and Terry chat Loa, HIT Marks and godforms.

Howdy, Mage fans! Adam and Pooka are back with big news, a new Changeling magic book, and invites to TryItCon2: TerryCon and PAX Unplugged. This time they dig into The Crow, from comic grief to film justice, goth rain, Brandon Lee, and Mage-style ideas. A quick stop with Philip K. Dick, a chat about sanity and Quiet, and a reminder that it cannot rain all the time. Tell your friends, because madness loves company.Show Notes Pooka’s A Book of Gramarye (Storytellers Vault) launch Philip K. Dick’s Clans of the Alphane Moon: sanity, Quiet, and Mage editions James O’Barr’s The Crow (graphic novel vs. film): grief vs. justice, myth vs. grit Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Alex Proyas, and goth-punk aesthetics Mage-adjacent hooks: Euthanatos vibes, coincidental magic effects Destiny’s Price Orphans Survival Guide Tradition Book: Hollow Ones The Book of Secrets Wraith: The Oblivion’s The Risen Using NPC relationships and “human moments” to anchor grim settings Soundtrack as mood tool for tabletop scenes Which Mage editions this best complements (1e/early Revised vibes)

Today's episode is a memorial to our departed friend and co-host, Terry Robinson. Join Adam, Bryce, Charles, Josh, and Pooka as they share some memories, followed by a series of messages submitted from our community and some words from Joseph. We also invite you to download the free PDF of the Book of Tributes, a collection of written tributes from our Discord that was produced for Terry's memorial. We hope that this episode will help you to keep Terry close at heart, and remember that Ascension is the friends we made along the way.(Thanks to Brian Grossman, Brian Johnson, Hal Case, Harry Heckel, Jacob Klünder, Jonathan Fii, Justin Achilli, Kim Godwin, Kris Newton, Lauren Roy, Leonardo Rezeda, Matthew Dawkins, Matthew Webb, MJ, Panos Skordas, Satyros Brucato, Sebastian Yūe, and Stefan Carton for your words shared in this episode. And thank you to all of our listeners for your continued support and dedication.)(Now go change reality. <3)Mage the Podcast social media linksWebsitehttp://magethepodcast.comPatreonhttps://bit.ly/MagePatreonBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/magethepodcast.bsky.socialMastodonhttps://dice.camp/@magethepodcastThreadshttps://www.threads.net/@magethepodcastDiscordhttps://discord.gg/7rsy59Zz