Mage: The Podcast

Surrealism in Mage and Invisible Sun


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Mage can often provide surreal moments but how do you run a game with the surreal baked in without breaking everything? Chazz and Terry talk surrealism in Mage, references, and things to steal from Invisible Sun. 

  • Invisible Sun Preview - A free preview of the game
  • Invisible Sun - The whole game
  • Itras By - A surreal game in a strange town
  • Dreamhounds of Paris - Game of surrealists discovering the dreamlands
  • Lacuna - Surrealism  of strange agents fighting things they don't quite understand
  • Teratology Preview - Free peek
  • Teratology - Monster book for Invisible Sun

Works

  • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening - Dali painting
  • The Gone Away World - Nick Harkaway's book about a strange sci fi book
  • The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville book on destructive surrealism
  • Cicero - A print Terry finds inspiring
  • Afro Surrealism Pinterest
  • The Guardian article on modern Afro Surrealism

Artists

  • Kay Sage - Surrealist who did haunting studies of depression.
  • Alberto Giacometti - Surrealist sculpter
  • Leonora Carrington - Long-lived vibrant Surrealist
  • Yves Tenguey
  • Max Ernst

Other

  • Private Language/Beetle in a box
  • Surrealist game book 
  • Exquisite corpse examples

Chazz's Stuff

Systematic Understanding of Everything - Exalted explainer

The Fall of Jiara - Chazz's actual play


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