Sources run the gamut for how many mages are running around the World of Darkness, how should your game change based on their commonality? Terry and Bryce talk low mage counts games and how to run them.

Ascension's Landscape - Terry's book of storyteller advice

Hidden Lore - 2e overflow book with mage count

Malcolm Sheppard's Distribution - Former writer's opinion on how many mages

Metaplot can be hard to approach, so how do pick what to add? How do you fill in what happened since Avatar Storm? Terry and Michael talk Avatar Storms, the Sphinx, STV supplements, and many many factional plot hooks.

The Riddle of the Sphinx - Michael's book on adding plot between Revised and M20

Strange Yesterdays - Alternatives to the 2e/Revised metaplot

The Year of the Lotus added East Asian elements to many gamelines, what can Mage players take from the supplements for other lines? Adam and Terry talk the Shih, the Shen, and ass tattoos in World of Darkness: Demon Hunter X.

World of Darkness: Demon Hunter X - This book

Land of Eight Million Dreams - Next book

Mages can live centuries with minds both powerful and fluid, how do we feature memory as a central story idea? Bryce and Terry talk the Mind Sphere, strategic forgetting and There Is No Antimemetics Division.

There Is No Antimemetics Division (CC) - One of the inspirations for the episode. Also available in dead tree form

SCP Foundation - Wiki that also contains information on some of the memetic entities mentioned

Nibiru - Billed as a science fiction game of lost memories

Mummy the Curse - Another game heavily featuring memory

M20 still has several releases in queue and Hiromi and Travis talk about them including two for M20 Victorian and two for M20's contemporary setting. This is an edited recording of the Oppcon 2024 M20 panel.

Travis Legge on DTRPG

Hiromi Cota on DTRPG

What if reality were even more malleable than Mage lets on and conspiracies existed to incept some new truth into existence? This is the world of The Department of Truth and we talk how to bring it into a Mage game.

The Department of Truth omnibus - First 17 issues. On sale as of this posting

Types of Conspiracies in the World of Darkness - Previous episode on a similar topic

Babalon Working - A working involving a prominent figure in Crowley's Thelema

Jack Parsons - He...he did some stuff

Splashin' Around - The song that got stuck in my head

Mage can be tuned to a lot of different play experiences but knowing how to do that is hard. This episode addresses just three things: who call for rolls, when to call one, and how to look at the results.

Finite and Infinite Games - Philosophy book on the nature of play

The Hedge serves as both a strange place with its own denizens and border between Arcadia and the mundane world in Changeling the Lost. How can we use it in the World of Darkness? Lauren Roy joins to explain how!

The Hedge - This book!

Damnation City - A darn good book on city building

Changeling: The Lost 2e

SNL Well Skit

Lauren works

Gnosticism has ancient roots and is mentioned at across various WoD lines. How can we reflect Gnosticism and Gnostic magick in Mage? Pook joins to talk Sophia, Yaldabaoth, the Pleroma, and the Cainite Heresy.

Nostradamus's Cherry Jams

World of Darkness Books

Cainite Heresy - Dark Ages Vampire book with a wild take on Gnosticism.

The Paradigm's Progress - Pook's book on Paradigm advancement

Other Books

• Michael Baigent - A British author known for his works on the historical Jesus and conspiracy theories.
• Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - A science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores themes of reality and illusion.
• Valis - A science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that delves into Gnosticism and reality.
• Current Gnostic churches - Modern religious movements influenced by ancient Gnostic traditions.
• The Thunder, Perfect Mind - A Gnostic poem discovered among the Nag Hammadi library texts.
• The Gospel of Truth - A Gnostic text that provides a unique interpretation of Christian teachings.
• The Gospel of Judas - An ancient Gnostic text that presents Judas Iscariot in a positive light.
• Voight-Kampff test - A fictional test used in the Blade Runner universe to distinguish humans from replicants.

The Maya and Dreaming are only lightly described in Mage, where can we look to for more options? Why Changeling! Terry and Adam read Dreams and Nightmares with an eye to using it in Mage with all its trods, mists, and chimera.

Dreams and Nightmares - This book

Changeling the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition - The most recent core book