Mage: The Podcast

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...

Adam and Heilong discuss the Sphere of Prime. Is it worth keeping? What can it do for you? How does it affect quintessence and other things? Is Primal Utility a thing? Tune in and hear about new possibilities for...

We climb John H. Steele ’s Tower of Babel , a Mage novel full of creators, characters, conspiracies, and reality getting mighty leaky around the edges. It’s metafiction, Technocracy trouble, dream-tower theology, and...

Adam swims with the sharks to bring you information and ideas to help you add the Rokea , the shape shifting sharks of the World of Darkness , to your games. What are the Kahu hiding? What lies at the bottom of ocean...

Adam and Pooka discuss Dark City (1998). Another movie that paints the World of Darkness on the screen for you to see. This one aligns so closely with Mage: The Ascension (First Edition) ; watch out for Paradox . Can...

Adam talks about Emmy Allen’s Stygian Library, the library that doesn’t end. Will your players find the knowledge they’re looking for? Can they evade the mysterious librarians and their super computer? The sister volume...

Pooka and Lee discuss Such Pain, the first Mage novel published in 1995. Can novel-length stories help you envision the world of Mage? Did the author hit it out of the park with this one? Hear Pooka and Lee’s review of...

Adam and Pooka discuss the weird fiction of Arthur Machen , Welshman extraordinaire. Do turn of the century horror stories offer anything to modern Mage games? Is this a boon to Victorian Mage Storytellers? Do the...

Adam, Jenna, and Pooka take a gleeful ride through The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension , celebrating its pulpy charm, wild 80s style, oddball science, and Mage-ready Etherite energy. They cover...

Truth Until Paradox Pooka and T.L. Webb crack open Truth Until Paradox , Mage ’s first fiction anthology. They chat why tie-in stories matter, then speed-tour 17 wildly uneven, very ’90s tales— Technocracy vs Traditions...

The most powerful skill in Mage is uncovered at last.  Join Adam and Pooka as they lay bare the stone cold facts about Stone Lore.  The mystic qualities of malachite, how to use Stone Lore in your games and...

Once again, we’re going back in time to PAX Unplugged 2024 and a series of interviews conducted by Terry Robinson. This installment features five conversations with various folks in the gaming space. We hope you get...

Adam talks about bringing the Ananasi into games of Mage the Ascension. Ananasi are the were-spiders of Werewolf the Apocalypse. Where do they come from? How do they operate? What can they bring to your Mage games...

This episode travels back in time to PAX Unplugged 2024, where Terry Robinson captured interviews and loose, late-night conversations with creators and friends. This first installment (of two, or possibly three)...

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...