Mage: The Podcast

Adding Horror to Mage with Bryce Perry from Darker Days Radio


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Mage is a game of hope, action, and hubris in a world that is dark. Sometimes the darkness wins and we go from punk and gothic to horror. Bryce Perry from the horror game podcast Darker Days joins Terry to talk about how to add horror to your mage game.

Just a note, this episode contains discussion of body horror, family terror, harm to children and family conceptually and a number of other things. Look below to get an idea of what we go over.

The Baali - Group of vampires who do terrible things to keep dark things asleep.

Friday the 13th - Archtypal slasher film where kids are killed off in revenge.

Consent Checklist - One method of verifying and checking what game types and themes players are or are not ok with.

Consent in Gaming - A Monte Cook Games publication on how to tackle adult themes.

The Lottery - Short story about a community that practices an annual sacrifice ritual.

The Wicker Man - Movie about an out of towner brought in as sacrifice to a dark thing

10 Candles - A gothic horror game (rather than survival horror) where everyone dies at the end.

Betrayal at the House on the Hill - Board game of discovery then action where tension builds with an omen mechanic.

The Expanse RPG - a Green Ronin game, variant of AGE with a number of interesting mechanics like Churn to create tension and Fortune to replace Health.

Dark Heresy - Game set in the Warhammer Universe with purity and sanity mechanics

Jacob's Ladder - 1990 film about someone recovering from trauma and it not going well. Psychological horror.

Faculty of Horror podcast - a non-scary discussion of horror movies and how they work.

Cosmic Horror in Mage - Our episode on cosmic horror 

Sins Washed Away - the latest CoD publication from the Darker Days folks

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