How do you play a grog in troupe play or build a Covenant? What would magick look like if it had firm limits and Quiet brought wisdom? Thrice Great joins to talk Ars Magica and what we can take from Mage's cousin.

• Tomes of Magick: Order of Hermes - Episode on the 2e Tradition book
• Tomes of Magick: Tradition Book: Order of Hermes - Episode on Revised Tradition book
• Project Redcap - A large Ars Magica wiki
• Lion Rampant - Early game company that produced Ars Magica
• Atlas Games - Current publisher of Ars Magica
• Order of Hermes Revised - Revised Tradition book on the Order of Hermes
• Songs of Science - Includes 2e Order of Hermes Tradition book
• Ars Magica 5e Core Book - All you need to play Ars or learn about its world
• Most of the books for Ars Magica 5th Edition in digital form

M20 introduces the Crafts coming together to be a new player in the Ascension War. So where did the Crafts come from and how are they organized? Victor and Terry talk how the Disparates may cooperate...and how they don't.

Book of Crafts - 2e book outlining the Crafts

Book of Secrets - M20 book outlining how the Disparates mete out justice

Dragons of the East - Revised book of East Asian Crafts

In M20 Book of the Fallen, the Nephandi receive their most detailed presentation to date. Adam and Terry talk plot options, infernal axes, the Caulborn, shells of creation, and Fallen schemes.

Revised Book of Madness - Previously most detailed presentation

Book of Madness - First detailed presentation

Movies inform much of culture, why shouldn’t they inform our games? How do we use the Kuleshov effect, Formalism, and mise-en-scène at our tables? Yui joins to talk movie terms, ideas, and inspirations that we can use in our Mage games.

• Comrade Yui on Letterboxd
• Comrade Yui on Twitter
• Movies mentioned!
  • What Dreams May Come
  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • Constantine
  • Patlabor 2: The Movie
  • The Art of Self Defense
  • Army of Shadows
  • Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • I Heart Huckabees
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Stranger than Fiction
  • Grosse Point Blank

Hermetic, Batini, Taftani, and Chorister magick often invokes concepts in Jewish mysticism but what beliefs and practices do they draw from? Charles Siegel talks Jewish mysticism and how to use it in your games.

Books and sources Charles mentioned - The text references wouldn't reasonably fit so they're listed here as part of the show outline

Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah - Wraith book on the Holocaust that's well done

The shadowy upper echelons of the Technocracy have shifted over time but Control is its best known incarnation. Control has been shrouded in secrecy and Victory and Terry walk through its possibilities.

Books!

• Book of Mirrors - 2e walkthrough of Technocracy organization
• Technocracy Assembled Volume 1 - First set of Convention books
• Technocracy Assembled Volume 2 - Second set of Convention books
• Guide to the Technocracy - Biggest walk through prior to M20
• Ascension - Possible interpretation of the Technocracy
• Technocracy Reloaded - M20 update

Gods and Monsters delivers a broad range of characters and creatures from down and out Sleepers to incalculably powerful godforms. Adam and Terry talk Loa, HIT Marks, Talos, and a whole lot of Merits and Flaws.

Mage Chronicles Volume 2 - Book that contains Ascension's Right Hand

M20 Gods & Monsters - This book

Listen to our interview with Satyros Phil Brucato, Hiromi Cota, James Sambrano and Isabella Price about M20 Gods & Monsters

Book of the Fallen - Next book

Different lines produce different cosmic beings so how do we use the lion-faced serpent Ialdabaoth, Gaia, the August Personage of Jade, and the Triat in our games? Josh and Terry talk cosmic beings where they can fit into Mage.

Books referenced:

• Book of Madness - Ialdabaoth!
• Book of the Wyrm - A discussion on the nature of the Triat
• Rage Across the Heavens - A lot on the Werewolf Celestines and Incarnae
• Book of the Weaver - Information on Stasis spirits
• Book of the Wyld - Gorgons!

Opcast - Josh's Trinity podcast

Does Ascension kill you? Do mortal spacecraft enter the Umbra? Are the Spheres real and if not what are the Shard Realms? Charles and Terry talk some of the squirrelier questions of the Mage setting and their answers.

Books mentioned:

Bog Mummies - MORE MUMMIES!

Book of Fragments - Book on Minor Spheres

Imperial Mysteries - Book on Archmastery for Awakening

Convention Book: Void Engineers - Tegmark Lensing!

What goes into a kitting out an actual play? What equipment do you need? How do you balance the books? Patrick McNamara from Dogfood Studios joins to talk Mage of Sail and how to make it as an actual play.

Patrick McNamara on Twitter

Patrick McNamara on Patreon

Patrick McNamara on Twitch

Equipment discussed: 

Shure SM7B - High quality desktop mic

Shure SM58LC - A more manageable XLR

Yeti Blue - A perfectly fine mic