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Nephandic Items - Anders Mage Page 2.0

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 1d

💫 Nephandic Items: The first two items are Fetishes. A Fetish in Mage is an item with a spirit embedded inside it that gives it one or more powers. mage.gearsonline.net/anders/magic... #magetheascension #nephandi #worldofdarkness

Editor's Note: The first two items below are Fetishes. A Fetish in Mage is an item with a spirit embedded inside it that gives it one or more powers.

Community Roundup July 2025 – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 1d

🎧 Adam here with a fresh Community Roundup with guests Stefan Carton, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Mark Hope, David Lewis and Lee Webb. Grab a seat and let’s celebrate three standout projects from our magical corner of the internet. Listen magethepodcast.com/community-ro... #magetheascension #ttrpg

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Operation Watchtower @watchtowerintel.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone’s hunting Belle Flower. But what is she, really? A witness? A pawn? Or something stranger? What’s your theory on why she matters so much to both Grayson and the man in the grey suit?

→ Speculation welcome. No wrong answers.

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Tomes of Magick: Séance on St. James Street – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 2d

🎧 In this spirited dive into Séance on St. James Street, Pooka and Josh Heath dissect the Victorian Mage jumpstart: what works, what misses, and whether it’s a fitting intro for new players. Listen

Technocracy Response Time - Anders Mage Page 2.0

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 3d

💫 Technocratic Alerts: How fast and how strongly does the Technocracy react to Reality Deviants? Theses rules are to help determine exactly what the Technocracy does and does not see and how it responds.

Stimulus and Response: A System for Determining the Reactions of the Technocracy

Tomes of Magick: Laws of Ascension – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 3d

🎧 Adam & Bryce dive into Laws of Ascension, Mage’s guide to live-action roleplaying! They chat rotes, rubber rats, and rock-paper-scissors magic, with plenty of laughs and a dash of heartfelt critique. LARP-curious or just love mage lore, this one's for you. Listen

Tomes of Magick: Zero Edition, Part 1 – Mage: The Podcast

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Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 4d

🎧 Adam & Pooka crack open Mage: The Ascension, Zero Edition, a 1993 manuscript that shaped the game’s future. They share laughs, lore, share their thoughts on what was best left behind and what is ready to drop into your game. Listen

Subjective Reality - Anders Mage Page 2.0

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 5d

💫 Virtual Adepts: The Subjective Nature of Reality by Jimmy McKinney. mage.gearsonline.net/anders/magic... #virtualadepts #magetheascension #wod #worldofdarkness #rpg

Editor's Note: Somewhere in the mid 1990s a Virtual Adept uses IRC chat to talk to a potential recruit.

Tomes of Magick: Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 5d

🎧 Pooka & Bryce crack open Victorian Mage: Bizarre Tales and Unusual Characters. From ghostly X-ray photos to occult artists and Umbra conspiracies, what stories and characters wait around the globe for your players to discover? Listen

Never-Real Worlds – Mage: The Podcast

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Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 6d

🎧 Adam and Pooka explore the wild world of Paradox—those cosmic smackdowns that keep Mages humble. They chat about realms where magic bites back, share tales from the table, and review Never-Real Worlds. Listen

Matter Rotes - Anders Mage Page 2.0

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 7d

💫 Sons of Ether: Matter Rotes.

Patternweave (Matter 1)

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Operation Watchtower @watchtowerintel.bsky.social · 7d

le Flower waits. Dirt-caked feet, sweat in her eyes, hunted by men in grey. Red rolls up in a Bronco like time never passed. The towers fall. Shadows tighten. “You haven’t grown,” he says. But she has. Steel now. And they're watching.

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Reality Deviants Movie Club: Sneakers – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 7d

🎧 Welcome to Reality Deviants Movie Club! Pooka, Adam, and Jenna dive into Sneakers (1992), a techno-thriller packed with heists, hacker mages, and Mage: The Ascension plot seeds. Listen

Tomes of Magick: Laws of Ascension Companion – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 8d

🎧 Adam & Amena explore Laws of Ascension Companion, last Mage LARP book. From Technocracy quirks to oddball factions, wild rotes, & Umbra adventures, they cover what works, what’s weird, & what’s worth borrowing for your Chronicle. Listen

Dreamlands - Anders Mage Page 2.0

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Operation Watchtower @watchtowerintel.bsky.social · 8d

Passed through the cornfields of Indiana, and had déjà vu. Not memory, darker echo. Dream shared. Nightmare rooted in soil. What waits young Grayson none can say save by walking it themselves. Subscribe and see. If you’ve the nerve.

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Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 9d

💫 The Dreamlands: The Dreamlands as described by HP Lovecraft. The Dreamlands are two Realms joined together in the High Umbra. The Dreamlands proper and the Underworld are partially created by the dreams of gifted Sleepers.

Welcome to the Dreamlands!

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Operation Watchtower @watchtowerintel.bsky.social · 9d

Every episode begins in chaos: scrawled notes, KULT sessions, feverish debates about what the desert really means. We stitch crime, cults, and cosmic horror into occult noir. Stay tuned for the evidence wall. 🕵️‍♂️📼🌀 #BehindTheScenes #OperationWatchtower watchtowerintel.com/categories/p...

Community Roundup July 2025 – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 9d

🎧 Adam here with a fresh Community Roundup with guests Stefan Carton, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Mark Hope, David Lewis and Lee Webb. Grab a seat and let’s celebrate three standout projects from our magical corner of the internet. Listen magethepodcast.com/community-ro... #magetheascension #rpg

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Operation Watchtower @watchtowerintel.bsky.social · 9d

He saw himself on TV… but it wasn’t him. It wore him. Spoke his voice. Smiled his smile. Bryce Wexley, face down in bile, fed eggs by a man whose head flared golden like a dying star. The alley wasn’t there before. But now it is.

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Tomes of Magick: Séance on St. James Street – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 10d

🎧 In this spirited dive into Séance on St. James Street, Pooka and Josh Heath dissect the Victorian Mage jumpstart—what works, what misses, and whether it’s a fitting intro for new players. They unravel the spectral threads of this quickstart. Listen

Various Umbrood Beings - Anders Mage Page 2.0

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Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 11d

💫 Various Umbrood Beings : The Lord of Maiming, the Fool, PSI.SYS, the Friend and others.

This umbrood Lord is one of the nastiest beings a mage can encounter. The Lord savors the taste of the pain, disgust and horror other beings feel about maiming and cruelty, thus his title. Each act…

Never-Real Worlds – Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast @magethepodcast.bsky.social · 11d

🎧 Adam and Pooka explore the wild world of Paradox—those cosmic smackdowns that keep Mages humble. They chat about realms where magic bites back, share tales from the table, and review Never-Real Worlds, a Storyteller’s Vault toolkit. Listen