The Verbena Circle introduced in the 90s is now grown and tackles the contemporary problems of some very old practices. Adam and Terry talk deadly healing, the limits of Merlin, and the Paths of the Wyck in Tradition Book: Verbena.

Tradition Book: Verbena - This book

Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts - Next book

Jason Pitre is a writer and developer whose games often focus on beliefs and the fight to change them which really sounds like Mage. Jason is also a big Mage fan and talks how to adapt his work for your table. 

Genesis of Legend Publishing - Jason's firm

RPG Design Panelcast - A podcast Jason rights on game design

M5 Hack - From our Patrick McNamara interview plus what Terry put together.

Jason's Game

• Spark Roleplaying - a game of shifting beliefs
• Spark Roleplaying on DrivethruRPG
• After the War on DrivethruRPG
• After the War in hardcopy on Indie Press Revolution
• Sig: Manual of the Primes on DrivethruRPG

Seeking to reverse the Curse of Caine, vampires say "dare we spit in God's eye?" while mages grab a hose and say "hold my beer". Adam and Terry talk forbidden texts, Cold War Technocracy, and so many NPCs in The Red Sign.

The Red Sign - This book

The Yellow King RPG - A Pelgrane Press book including four time periods

The King in Yellow - The short story collection containing the stories that contains references to the play....the King in Yellow

Chaos magic seeks to boil ritual to its essence and change the world while discarding the baggage of previous movements but how to add it to a Mage game? Yui joins to talk egregores, servitors, sigils, and Speed posters.

Penny Dreadful Mage Novel

Grant Morrison on Sigil Creation - Note, this video starts with him literally screaming

Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic - One of the popular texts on chaos magic. 

Condensed Chaos - Phil Hines' chaos magic book

Yui on Twitter

Tradition Book: Sons of Ether gives a sneak peak of what the end times in the World of Darkness could be but first it shares much more. Adam and Terry talk Ethics Councils, missing archmasters, and some crackpot science.

Next: Tradition Book Verbena

Flash Gordon - On The Planet Mongo - Titan Books

The Shadow Out of Time by HP Lovecraft

Some Thomas Dolby

She Blinded Me With Science

Flying North

I Live In A Suitcase

Windpower

One of Our Submarines

Mage can often provide surreal moments but how do you run a game with the surreal baked in without breaking everything? Chazz and Terry talk surrealism in Mage, references, and things to steal from Invisible Sun. 

• Invisible Sun Preview - A free preview of the game
• Invisible Sun - The whole game
• Itras By - A surreal game in a strange town
• Dreamhounds of Paris - Game of surrealists discovering the dreamlands
• Lacuna - Surrealism  of strange agents fighting things they don't quite understand
• Teratology Preview - Free peek
• Teratology - Monster book for Invisible Sun

Works

• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening - Dali painting
• The Gone Away World - Nick Harkaway's book about a strange sci fi book
• The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville book on destructive surrealism
• Cicero - A print Terry finds inspiring
• Afro Surrealism Pinterest
• The Guardian article on modern Afro Surrealism

Artists

• Kay Sage - Surrealist who did haunting studies of depression.
• Alberto Giacometti - Surrealist sculpter
• Leonora Carrington - Long-lived vibrant Surrealist
• Yves Tenguey
• Max Ernst

Other

• Private Language/Beetle in a box
• Surrealist game book 
• Exquisite corpse examples

Chazz's Stuff

Systematic Understanding of Everything - Exalted explainer

The Fall of Jiara - Chazz's actual play

Wonders trace back to 1e but in Forged by Dragon's Fire they are completely fleshed out. Adam and Terry talk Wonders Artifacts, Inventions, Talismans, Devices, Periapts, Matrices, Fetishes, Grimoires, Principiae, and Familiars.

Books

• Technomancer's Toybox - 2e Technomancer book
• Mage Storytellers Companion - Previous book on new Wonders
• M20 Gods and Monsters - Big book of familiars
• Forged by Dragon's Fire - This book
• Tradition Book: Sons of Ether - Next book

Patrick McNamara ran a Mage hack based on Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition for Club Penny Arcade and shares his tweaks, hacks, ideas, and what it's like running Mage the Ascension for one of the most widely known groups in tabletop play.

Key Books:

• Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition - Foundation of the system
• Mage the Awakening 2nd edition - Foundation for Reach used to determine Paradox dice
• M20 Quickstart - a pretty good run-down of the M20 rules

Animal House Podcast

Animal House Video

Animal House Rules Quick Reference (Must be Club PA member on Patreon)

Patrick McNamara Twitch

Adam Neely's 24 Hour Album project

The Order has lost Doissetep, waged a questionable war against vampires and lost many masters but the Hermetics are far from defeated. Adam and Terry talk new houses, new praxes, new rotes, and new chantries in Tradition Book: Order of Hermes.

Things mentioned!

• Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica - Rare book library
• The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast - A podcast that covers much of the corpus hermeticum
• Embassy of the Mind - Hermetic documents

Books!

• Tradition Book: Order of Hermes - This book
• Forged by Dragon's Fire - Next book

Sleepers wildly outnumber the Awakened but a few know something about the supernatural and use it to their own ends. Josh and Terry talk the Orpheus Group, Pentex, the NSA, and the Arcanum, what they know, and how to use them.

Sources:

Pentex

• W20 Book of the Wyrm
• W20 Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook
• Subsidiaries: A Guide to Pentex

Arcanum

• Mage Chronicles 2 - Includes both Halls of the Arcanum and Ascension's Right Hand
• Halls of the Arcanum 

The Orpheus Group

• Orpheus: End Game - Lots of info on Grandmother and some previously unanswered questions
• Orpheus Core
• Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition - Also contains a condensed but complete version of Orpheus without the Grandmother metaplot

Government Groups

• Project Twilight - Contains Bob Schnoblin's Pyramid of Satanic Power
• V20 The Hunters Hunted II - a massive update to mortal groups and mortal-ish groups

Bob Schnoblin's Pyramid

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