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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The Umbra contains mysteries and wonders enticing to mages seeking wisdom and power. But how to navigate the Otherworlds and secure their boons? Infinite Tapestry answers this in spades and Adam and Terry talk patrons, realms and planets.

Books mentioned:

Infinite Tapestry - This book

Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds - Previous Umbra book for mage

W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - Werewolf book that outlines the Middle Umbra

Mage has many strange places and the Umbra doubly so but how can we use them in games? Charles and Terry talk Autochthonia, The Fortress of Government, The Far Shores, and the Copernicus Research Station

Books mentioned:

Beyond the Barriers, the Book of Worlds - The first book about the Umbra

Infinite Tapestry - Revised book about the Umbra

Dead Magic II tells of magicks rare or hidden but not yet gone, some ignored by the major players, and some that lay in wait. Adam and Terry talk rune magick, the Dreamtime, lightning divination, tikis, and of course the Salmon of Wisdom.

• Dead Magic II: Secrets and Survivors - This book
• Licensed Mage Tarot deck - Reasonably priced version of the Mage tarot for less than the infinity dollars of the 90s one.
• Tarot Art Pack - Just the pictures, free!
• Tarot Sleeves - Sleeves for tarot cards
• Storyteller's Thesaurus - Book listing types and variants of objects.
• Sooth Deck - Divinatory and gameplay aide for Invisible Sun
• Fantod Deck - A gloriously weird pack made by Edward Gorey
• Mage Books
• Dead Magic - The first volume in the series
• Paradigms Explored: Wyrd and Weft - Another view of Norse magick
• Scion Second Edition - Revised version of Scion setting

Mage is a big setting with big questions and M20 provides a set of Future Fates to help a Storyteller build their setting, but how do you use them? Victor and Terry walk through the options presented and share their experience building Mage worlds.

Books discussed:

Ascension's Landscape - Terry's Storyteller Vault title on the topic.

Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary - Contains all the Future Fates

With Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, Revised brings the total number of Mage city books....to one! Vegas is a city where money and magick flow freely and  Adam and Terry talk questionable Nodes, neat rotes, and an Awakened mime.

This book - Fallen Tower: Las Vegas

Next book - Dead Magic II: Secrets and Survivors

Above Las Vegas

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Kathy Ryan was on the Mage train since almost the beginning and she shares her experiences adding Amanda and Senex, shifting the Marauders and the Nephandi, and some of her notes for what her M20 metaplot would have been.

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Rich Bastard's Guide to Magick - Preorder for M20 high power book

Books mentioned

• Book of Worlds - Book where we get information about Amanda's Avatar and the twice-born.
• Swords of Faith - The compilation of the Euthanatoi, Celestial Chorus, and Akashayana of which the first contains much of the Amanda plot
• M20 Core - The big book
• Book of Chantries as part of Mage Chronicles 1 - The big dose of setting that needed to be steered

Other References

• Wolf 359 podcast - Sci fi podcast
• Magnus Archives - Horror podcast
• Cordwainer Smith - Sci fi author
• The War of the Worlds album - Jeff Wayne's reinterpretation of War of the Worlds 

The mysterious Rogue Council calls on mages to again pursue the Ascension War in the face of despair and the Technocracy responds. Adam and Terry talk the Sphinx, Annunaki, and Panopticon in Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council. 

Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council - This book

Fallen Tower: Las Vegas - Our next book

Anders Mage Page Egypt Chronicle - So much sphinx, so so so much sphinx

Greg Stolze, prolific author of RPG books for Hunter, Demon, A Dirty World, and Mage fan favorite, Unknown Armies, talks Invisible Clergy, obsession fueling magic, writing game fiction, how he'd write WoD angels and crowdfunding projects.

New Stories of Unknown Armies Indiegogo - The project discussed at the end

Greg's Projects

• Greg on Twitter
• Greg's web page
• Free fiction
• Unknown Armies Book 1: Play - Core book to play the game, player's guide and rules
• Unknown Armies Book 2: Run - GM guide
• Unknown Armies Book 3: Reveal - More weird, great inspiration
• A Dirty World - A Noir game of hard choices