#magetheascension — Public Fediverse posts

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 what works, what wobbles, how to “Mage-ify” it, and why this messy cult classic still sparks game ideas, big laughs, and deep affection. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/media-club-buckaroo-banzai/ #magetheascension #buckaroobanzai #sonsofetherite

💫 Akashic Brotherhood: Paths of Do are many & varied, there is a Do to all things. Five major schools of Do have developed, each emphasizing different aspects of a person's being: Fire, Water, Wood, Metal and Earth. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/akashic/pathsdo.html #magetheascension #akashicbrotherhood

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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 the merits of marrying Spanish dancers are all discussed as your hosts try to penetrate the deepest secrets of Ascension. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/stone-lore/ #magetheascension #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 This week we’re back on the PAX Unplugged floor with a second round-up of lively, occasionally dusty-but-still-gold interviews from 2024. Terry chats with some absolute heavy hitters and indie darlings of tabletop RPGs about gods with day jobs, Afrofuturist sci-fi, cozy cosmic horror, zines, libraries, and why games should be played—not locked behind glass. Pull up a chair and enjoy the noise, the passion, and the love of the hobby. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/pax-unplugged-conversations-part-2/ #magetheascension #rpg

🎧 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 this inspire you to portray Sphere effects in your game? Is it a good example of a mage’s Awakening? Can bald, creepy kids boost your game to the next level? Tune in and find out! Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-dark-city/ #magetheascension #darkcity

🎧 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 to Gardens of Ynn is full of ideas that may find a place in your Mage games. Just watch out for the ink blots. They stain. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/paradigm-shift-stygian-library/ #magetheascension

🎧 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 the book. Their commentary highlights how the World of Darkness was a little different during Mage’s first edition. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/such-pain/ #magetheascension

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 what works, what wobbles, how to “Mage-ify” it, and why this messy cult classic still sparks game ideas, big laughs, and deep affection. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/media-club-buckaroo-banzai/ #magetheascension #buckaroobanzai #sonsofetherite

🎧 Pooka & 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 Pooka & 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 Pooka & 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 Pooka & 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 Pooka & 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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 the merits of marrying Spanish dancers are all discussed as your hosts try to penetrate the deepest secrets of Ascension. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/stone-lore/ #magetheascension #ttrpg #rpg

💫 Cult of Ecstasy: Drugs in Mage. Mages have never been constrained by the morals of the Sleepers and have always explored realms far beyond mortal comprehension and many have found drugs quite useful in this respect. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/cultecstasy/drugs.html #magetheascension #cultofecstasy

🎧 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 the book. Their commentary highlights how the World of Darkness was a little different during Mage’s first edition. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/such-pain/ #magetheascension

🎧 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 to Gardens of Ynn is full of ideas that may find a place in your Mage games. Just watch out for the ink blots. They stain. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/paradigm-shift-stygian-library/ #magetheascension

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 powers of darkness really want to redecorate your office? Tune in & hear story ideas, horror commentary and hermetic code names. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/reality-deviants-book-club-arthur-machen/ #magetheascension #arthurmachen #weirdhorror #greatgodpan

🎧 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 what works, what wobbles, how to “Mage-ify” it, and why this messy cult classic still sparks game ideas, big laughs, and deep affection. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/media-club-buckaroo-banzai/ #magetheascension #buckaroobanzai #sonsofetherite

💫 The Architecture of Doom: An original Nephandus and his Labyrinth. By aligning the odd angles and lines of his buildings, he has created weird Correspondence effects. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/nephandi/architecture.html #magetheascension #nephandi #worldofdarkness

💫 The Architecture of Doom: An original Nephandus and his Labyrinth. By aligning the odd angles and lines of his buildings, he has created weird Correspondence effects. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/nephandi/architecture.html #magetheascension #nephandi #worldofdarkness

💫 The Architecture of Doom: An original Nephandus and his Labyrinth. By aligning the odd angles and lines of his buildings, he has created weird Correspondence effects. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/nephandi/architecture.html #magetheascension #nephandi #worldofdarkness

💫 The Architecture of Doom: An original Nephandus and his Labyrinth. By aligning the odd angles and lines of his buildings, he has created weird Correspondence effects. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/nephandi/architecture.html #magetheascension #nephandi #worldofdarkness

💫 The Architecture of Doom: An original Nephandus and his Labyrinth. By aligning the odd angles and lines of his buildings, he has created weird Correspondence effects. http://mage.gearsonline.net/anders/factions/nephandi/architecture.html #magetheascension #nephandi #worldofdarkness

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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, Nephandi schemes, HIT-Marks, odd Wonders, and fan-fic energy. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/truth-until-paradox/ #magetheascension #worldofdarkness #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 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 the merits of marrying Spanish dancers are all discussed as your hosts try to penetrate the deepest secrets of Ascension. Listen https://magethepodcast.com/stone-lore/ #magetheascension #ttrpg #rpg

🎧 This episode scuttles into the World of Darkness to talk Ananasi, the shape-shifting were-spiders from Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Adam covers the Weaver, the Triat, creepy spider lore, and why these eight-legged schemers make surprisingly good allies for mages. From Umbra webs to spider rebellions, we look at why bringing were-spiders into Mage games can be strange, spooky, and downright fun. 🕷️ Listen https://magethepodcast.com/crossover-ananasi-in-mage/ #magetheascension #werewolftheapocalypse #anansi