This minisode is with Max from Saga Experience which is trying to create a new type of virtual tabletop with a kind of built in game engine. We talk about our favorite numbers, virtual tabletops, and outcome distributions. Regular episode will be out Saturday!

Saga Experience - Their webpage

Saga Experience Discord - Talk to 'em! Tell them you want a freeform magick system. :3

Saga Experience Youtube - See it in action

What does faith look like as the End Times approach? What is the role of shepherds when monsters walk the earth? Adam and Terry talk how the Chorus as broadened even as theology seemingly declines in Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus.

Next up: Guide to the Traditions

Our discussion of the previous Celestial Chorus book

Swords of Faith which includes the prior Tradition Book and two others

Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus on Drivethrurpg

Mage is a game suited for many genres from pensive journey to space opera but the rules don't always give us fast-paced action. Bryce Perry of Darker Days Radio talks with Terry about things to steal from games like Torg and how to speed up combat.

Games to steal from:

• Torg - Game geared towards action and adventure with group leveling and dramatic build-up system.
• Unknown Armies - Urban fantasy game where broken people save the world. 
• Blades in the Dark - The best game
• Ars Magica - For when the Order of Hermes isn't enough and you want all the hermetics.

Our episode on Tales of Magick: Dark Adventure

Darker Days Radio mailing list

In the 21st century, the Ahl-i-Batin quietly invoke the Khwaja al-Akbar while the Taftâni fight druj and pursue Asha with explosive ferocity. Adam and Terry talk math, carpets, figs and other goodies from Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batin & Taftâni.

• More information on the Entelechy in Ascension
• Previous information on the Ahl-i-Batini in Book of Shadows

The Traditions claim to represent all of mystick magick but may were left out of the Grand Convocation. So what is a Tradition and what makes them special? Victor and Terry talk Traditions over time, areas to explore, and how to build your own. 

The Hermit Hipster's Patreon

Video on Tradition Book

Garou Nation - Werewolf explainer by the team of Juarez by Night

Books mentioned:

• Guide to the Traditions - Revised guide to mystick politics
• Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani - Two groups that maybe could be Traditions
• Dark Ages Mage - Game that uses Fellowships instead
• The Fragile Path - Book on the founding and betrayal of the First Cabal
• Book of Crafts - Book of well, Crafts

No longer lead by monastic ascetics the Akashayana are ready to bury old ways but can they hold together long enough to change? Adam and Terry talk new sects, new rotes, new wonders and a whole lot of Do in Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood.

This book: Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood on Drivethrurpg
Next book: Lost Paths: Ahl-I-Batin and Taftani on Drivethrurpg

Fist of the North Star
Theravada - Type of Buddhism discussed largely in this book.
Mahayana - More popular branch of Buddhism

The world of Mage is teeming with strange creatures so why not add dragons? Scion: Dragon explores the powers and agendas of the mythic creatures and their heirs and developer Danielle Lauzon shares how dragons can go in your Mage game.

The Kickstarter campaign!

Scion core books:

Scion: Origins - Book outlining starting Scions and the storypath system 

Scion: Hero - Book on more powerful Scions 

Danielle's author page

Danielle's Twitter account

The grip of Paradox has tightened but sorcerers, psychics, extraordinary citizens, and practitioners of limited or codified magick are unhindered. So what are they up to? Adam and Terry talk new groups, new paths, new systems, and PSYCHIC POWERS in Sorcerer Revised.

Next Book: Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batini and Taftani

World of Darkness: Sorcerer - Prior Sorcerer book which was less free-form and overall smaller
Prior Episode on Sorcerer
Hunters Hunted II - Another book on antagonists including some magickal and semi-magickal societies as well as numina.

True Faith was not in this book but it's expanded in Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus 

What games did you play in 2020, and more importantly, what hacks, mechanics, settings, and ideas can we take from them to bring into Mage? Mike from Darker Days Radio talks Sanity from Call of Cthulhu, quick stats from the Pip system, focus from Soulbound, and more as we review the games we played in 2020.

Games mentioned

• Wrath and Glory - The story of eight systems cut off from the rest of the Warhammer world
• Pip system - A simple stat system that's kid-friendly
• Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition - Recent edition of one of the oldest RPGs
• Tomb of Dreams - Exalted 3e quickstart game
• Soulbound - Another Warhammer game which is where the Focus discussion comes from 
• Mork Borg - Black metal d20 RPG
• Genesys generic system - Fantasy Flight's house system where each die roll tells a story
• Revised Mage Quickstart - Simplified version of Mage Revised

Podcasts mentioned

• The Story Told - Generic RPG podcast which also does a recurring Exalted liveplay
• Gehenna Gaming - Horror gaming rpg group
• Darker Days Radio - Horror RPG podcast
• Systematic Understanding of Everything - An Exalted explainer podcast

A bonus episode to go with our episode on Dragons of the East.  

Adam Simpson offers some ideas for bringing East Asia into your Mage Chronicles.

Seven Branch Sword

• https://michael-chen-mg2n.squarespace.com/news/2017/10/12/legendary-7-branched-sword-of-japan
• https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/seven-branched-sword-mystical-ceremonial-sword-japan-003185
• http://nihonshoki.wikidot.com/scroll-9-jingu (look for Death of the King of Baekje)

Books

• Religion in Contemporary Japan by Ian Reader. University of Hawaii Press 1991
• Japanese Religions Past & Present by Ian Reader, Esben Andreasen & Finn Stefansson. University of Hawaii Press 1993
• Ninja Attack! by Hiroko Yoda & Matt Alt. Kodansha International 2010
• True Path of the Ninja by Antony Cummins & Yoshie Minami. Tuttle Publishing 2011
• Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa. Kodansha International 1967 (1992)
• Yokai Attack! by Hiroko Yoda & Matt Alt. Tuttle Publishing 2008
• Kojiki by Donald L. Philippi (translator). University of Tokyo Press 1968
• The Classic of Mountains and Seas by Anne Birrell (translator). Penguin Classics 1999
• The Journey to the West by Anthony C. Yu (translator). University of Chicago Press 1977