Werewolves see the Otherworlds differently with different senses, different passages, and possibly different places. Adam and Terry talk Umbra, Umbra Rev and W20 Umbra from the Scar to the planetary court.

Axis Mundi - A big book of spirits for Mage and Werewolf

Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - First Werewolf Umbra book

Umbra (Revised) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book

W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book

Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast

Umbra high-level overview

Spirit high-level overview

Werewolves guard against mages raiding their caerns for quintessence but no one can stop us from raiding Werewolf books for story ideas! Adam and Terry talk Umbra, Umbra Rev and W20 Umbra from Chaos Stones to the Kami.

Axis Mundi - A big book of spirits for Mage and Werewolf

Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - First Werewolf Umbra book

Umbra (Revised) - Revised edition Werewolf Umbra book

W20 Umbra: The Velvet Shadow - W20 Werewolf Umbra book

Umbra Revised on Werewolf the Podcast

Umbra high-level overview

Spirit high-level overview

The Void Engineers get pigeon-holed as the Convention of space marines and voidships, but that's just one part. Bryce and Terry talk about what the Void Engineers do on Earth and how to run planetside VE stories.

M20 was a leap forward in how a character does magick with focus but how do we bring instrument, practice, and paradigm alive at the table? Charles Siegel walks through optional systems, high level explainers, and his reference work, Prism of Focus.

Prism of Focus on Storytellers Vault

M20 Victorian Age describes a world on the cusp of modernity steeped in gaslit mystery. Pook and Terry talk the perils of the straits, the intrigue of empire, and odd magicks re-emerging after centuries.

M20 Victorian Age Mage - This book

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War - Book that discusses the rise in standard of living in the Western world

Changeling the Podcast's Discord - Organizing spot for the C30 project

Changeling the Podcast page - Their podcast!

What does magick look like in Shakespeare's England with Dee as Elizabeth's court astrologer and Walsingham's spies everywhere? Nathan Foxgrove joins to talk Navalon, the last skyriggers, and the Book of Oberon.

Book of Oberon - Reconstructed grimoire

The Fairie Queene - Looooong poem dedicated to Elizabeth

Monas Hieroglyphica - John Dee's glyphs

Real World Magic Texts with Brian Johnson

Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland - Book about why America is weird

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1 - Book on settlement of the British in the US

Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 - Big book of reformations

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard play

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam

Dark Eras: Requiem for Regina (Vampire: the Requiem, Changeling: the Lost) - Chronicles Dark Eras setting in Elizabethan England

John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

Dreamcatchers book for Hunter - Discussion, not the text

Mage is an intimidating game to run, so besides the rules, what to keep in mind when you start? Simon from Walking into Shadow and Terry talk recommendations to get a game a Mage that won't fall apart in one sitting.

Links!

Hellblazer

Fiasco

Band of Blades

Beating the Plot

Hamlet's Hitpoints

The Deep Umbra is vast and dangerous but full of wonders. So how do you get there? Hal Case, author of Umbral Pilots for W20 and M20, talks spirit-powered spaceships, plasma klaives and Garou/Mage relations.

Umbral Pilots - This book

The Shipyard - The expansion for the book

Dead Ends - Book of liches

Convention Book: Void Engineers - Rev resource on Mage Space

Arcanum House on FB

Arcanum House on Instagram

Rage across the Heavens review on WtP

Totem list

Set design of Alien

Rimrunners

Agon RPG

WEIRD EPISODE! First a little bit on how 2023 went for Mage the Podcast then a lost conversation with Noah H of The Story Told on Chronicles of Darkness and RPG art.

Noah's Wraith 20 overview

Noah around places:

• Noah on Instagram
• Noah on Artstation
• Noah on Facebook

Sandman is one of the most highly lauded comic runs to have ever been published, what can we take from it for our games? Pook and Adam discuss mood, inspiration, and TS Eliot in this edition of Reality Deviant Book Club.

The Annotated Sandman, which was a late 90s/early 00s passion project to capture as many internal connections and external references as possible, issue by issue.

TXT archive from an earlier version of the website

Vertigo released their own very expensive series with the same name, with "proper" annotations, but... using the power of the early internet to situate and discover the series' intertextuality felt a lot more magical.