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

So what's everyone else makin'? This week Terry talks to Kris Newton of Megadumbcast, Mike Diamond of the Ascension of Babylon actual play and TL Webb's latest fiction, Crushing Depths.

Crushing Depths - Latest Hollow Earth fiction

TL Webb's Other Works

Megadumbcast Patreon - Get the megasodes

Ascension of Babylon -The Old Ways podcast

The Old Ways Patreon

Strange peoples lurk at the edges of the World of Darkness. How do we add them to our games? Pook and Terry talk the Sekrana, Chulorviah, The Watchers in the Deep, the Wyck, and other early humans.

BOOKS!

• Last Days of New Paris - A novel that imagines a surreal Paris overrun with manifestations of surrealist art.
• The City & The City - A detective story set in two cities that occupy the same space but are perceived separately by their residents.
• Perdido Street Station - A fantasy novel set in the sprawling city of New Crobuzon, filled with bizarre creatures and arcane technologies.
• Psionics Handbook - A resource book for the Dungeons & Dragons game, detailing psionic powers and characters.
• Teratology - An exploration of monsters and mythical beings from Invisible Sun
• Book of Gehenna - A dark fantasy book exploring the mythologies of the end of the world.
• Nim Chimpsky - A chimpanzee raised as a human child to test language acquisition
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - A classic science fiction novel that explores themes of evolution, technology, and consciousness.
• Sphere of Gun - A book that probably shouldn't exist

Mage draws upon sources both ancient and modern, what can they teach us about our games? Pook and Adam talk Books of Magic, the four-part series by Neil Gaiman for DC Comics in this installment of Reality Deviant Book Club.

Reading List for Hollow Earth Inspiration