Mage: The Podcast
A podcast dedicated to exploring the Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game (RPG) based in the World of Darkness.
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Dark Destinies (opens the original)
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Pooka and TL Webb discuss the finer points of Dark Destiny and Dark Destiny 2. These short story collections offer World of Darkness stories. The ones that involve mages get special focus. What drink helps a mage warp reality? What sport do mages love to interfere with? All that and more in today’s episode. Mage the Podcast social media links Website http://magethepodcast.com Patreon https://bit.ly/MagePatreon Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/magethepodcast.bsky.social Mastodon https://dice.camp
Reality Deviants Book Club: Algernon Blackwood (opens the original)
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Adam and Pooka discuss Algernon Blackwood ’s fiction, his occult interests, his fascination with nature, and what his stories can teach Mage: The Ascension Storytellers about the sublime, supernatural uncertainty, spirits, Correspondence , Awakening , and psychological horror. Show Notes Mage 20 SRD Blackwood, the Golden Dawn , and psychical research Why “The Willows” remains influential weird fiction The sublime as a tool for Mage Correspondence and “A Victim of Higher Space” Magical instrument
Tomes of Magick: The Other Side of the Coin (opens the original)
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Tomes of Magick: The Other Side of the Coin We’re returning to Tomes of Magic in Translation with a Spanish-language introductory adventure for Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition . La Otra Cara de la Monera is an 18-page one-shot for two to five players that introduces the Traditions, Sphere magic, Resonance, Paradox, Avatars, and magical Focus through an investigation into a series of horrific supernatural crimes. The trail leads from an impossible murder scene to corrupted young mage
Paradigm Shift: Gradient Descent (opens the original)
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What happens when a Mothership scenario is brought into Mage: The Ascension ? Adam examines Gradient Descent , a science-fiction horror scenario set aboard an abandoned android factory controlled by an AI called Monarch. The station contains valuable technology, discarded androids, copied human minds, unreliable allies, zero-gravity hazards, and an intelligence determined to make visitors question whether they were ever human. The episode considers how to use the Deep as an Iteration X construct
World of Darkness: France (opens the original)
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The World of Darkness is as global a phenomenon outside the games as it is within. Many of the books have been translated by one licensee or another over the years, and a precious few have been created by and for the fans in other countries. In this installment of Tomes of Magick, Pooka cracks open the Mage chapter from 1997's Le Monde des Ténèbres: France, a French-only general WoD book that explores that country in the setting. What are the Verbena doing around the megaliths of Carnac? Who's p
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