Some RPGs are swashbuckling sagas, others are intimate dramas, and others are simply about surviving a brutal world. Mage can be all those things, but how? Professional game and fiction writer Rai Cole of the Bonus Experience podcast gives solid advice on how to build your Mage setting, how to change the stock World of Darkness, and things you can steal from other games that work well in the Storyteller System.

Games Mentioned

• Monster Care Squad - A game where you serve as vets for sick monsters
• Americana - A supernatural game about a greaser era that never was. BXP interview about it.
• Blades in the Dark - A game of stress and choices with a free public SRD
• Last Blood - Comic about vampires protecting humans against zombies

Rai's Other Work

• A Light Extinguished - Scion Quickstart
• Bonus Experience - Rai and Monica's podcast about game design
• Cult of the Blood Gods - Book on blood cults in Vampire
• RaiWCole on Twitter

Community Works

• 9 Things I Like about Mage by Camak
• Players Becoming Characters by Undead Foodstuffs'  

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