Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast

Mage: The Podcast

Episodes 362
Avg. Duration 1h 5m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 4.8 (98)
Since Apr 2018
Latest Episode May 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
91%
Hosting
anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

A podcast dedicated to exploring the Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game (RPG) based in the World of Darkness.

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Recent Episodes

S10E358 Crossover: Rokea in Mage

May 23, 2026 51m

Adam swims with the sharks to bring you information and ideas to help you add the Rokea, the shape shifting sharks of the World of Darkness, to your games.  What are the Kahu hiding? What lies at the…

S10E357 Reality Deviants Book Club: Dark City

May 09, 2026 34m

Adam and Pooka discuss Dark City (1998). Another movie that paints the World of Darkness on the screen for you to see. This one aligns so closely with Mage: The Ascension (First Edition) ; watch out…

S10E356 Paradigm Shift: Stygian Library

Apr 25, 2026 51m

Adam talks about Emmy Allen’s Stygian Library, the library that doesn’t end. Will your players find the knowledge they’re looking for? Can they evade the mysterious librarians and their super…

S10E355 Mage Fiction: Such Pain

Apr 11, 2026 44m

Pooka and Lee discuss Such Pain, the first Mage novel published in 1995.  Can novel-length stories help you envision the world of Mage?  Did the author hit it out of the park with this one?  Hear…

S10E354 Reality Deviants Book Club: Arthur Machen

Mar 21, 2026 33m

Adam and Pooka discuss the weird fiction of Arthur Machen, Welshman extraordinaire. Do turn of the century horror stories offer anything to modern Mage games? Is this a boon to Victorian Mage…

S10E353 Media Club: Buckaroo Banzai

Mar 07, 2026 46m

Adam, Jenna, and Pooka take a gleeful ride through The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, celebrating its pulpy charm, wild 80s style, oddball science, and Mage-ready Etherite…

S10E352 Truth Until Paradox

Feb 21, 2026 50m

Truth Until ParadoxPooka and T.L. Webb crack open Truth Until Paradox, Mage’s first fiction anthology. They chat why tie-in stories matter, then speed-tour 17 wildly uneven, very ’90s…

S9E352 Stone Lore

Feb 07, 2026 52m

The most powerful skill in Mage is uncovered at last.  Join Adam and Pooka as they lay bare the stone cold facts about Stone Lore.  The mystic qualities of malachite, how to use Stone Lore in your…

S9E351 PAX Unplugged Conversations, Part 2

Jan 24, 2026 1h 4m

Once again, we’re going back in time to PAX Unplugged 2024 and a series of interviews conducted by Terry Robinson. This installment features five conversations with various folks in the gaming space.…

S9E350 Crossover: Ananasi in Mage

Jan 10, 2026 38m

Adam talks about bringing the Ananasi into games of Mage the Ascension. Ananasi are the were-spiders of Werewolf the Apocalypse. Where do they come from? How do they operate? What can they bring to…

S8E349 PAX Unplugged Conversations, Part 1

Dec 27, 2025 1h 10m

This episode travels back in time to PAX Unplugged 2024, where Terry Robinson captured interviews and loose, late-night conversations with creators and friends. This first installment (of two, or…

S8E348 Making Sense of the Digital Web

Dec 13, 2025 1h 46m

Adam and James walk you through the Digital Web books. Then James discusses topics to consider when taking your players to the digital realm.  Where is it in the Mage cosmos? How do you get there?…

S8E347 Tomes of Magick: Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magicks

Nov 29, 2025 1h 30m

What hath Empire wrought? Pooka and Jenna poke at that question today as they open up the supplement Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magicks for Victorian Age Mage. The book features dozens of items,…

S8E346 Paradigm Shift: Gardens of Ynn

Nov 15, 2025 26m

Ever wandered into a garden so beautiful you forgot the way out? 🌿 In this week’s Mage: The Podcast, Adam explores The Gardens of Inn — a mysterious, decaying fae realm from the OSR classic by Emmy…

S8E345 Reality Deviants Book Club: The Crow

Nov 01, 2025 28m

Howdy, Mage fans! Adam and Pooka are back with big news, a new Changeling magic book, and invites to TryItCon2: TerryCon and PAX Unplugged. This time they dig into The Crow, from comic grief to film…

S8E344 Memorial for Terry Robinson

Oct 18, 2025 53m

Today's episode is a memorial to our departed friend and co-host, Terry Robinson. Join Adam, Bryce, Charles, Josh, and Pooka as they share some memories, followed by a series of messages submitted…

S8E343 Tomes of Magick: Zero Edition, Part 2

Oct 11, 2025 35m

In Part 2 of our Mage Zero Edition deep-dive, Adam and Pooka sift the fun esoterica—early Tradition names (Parmenidians, Initiates of the Invisible World), a clearer Celestial Chorus, Dreamspeakers’…

S8E342 Tomes of Magick: Zero Edition, Part 1

Oct 04, 2025 43m

Adam and Pooka crack open a lost treasure — Mage: The Ascension, Zero Edition, a 1993 manuscript that shaped the game’s future. They share laughs, lore, share their thoughts on what was best left…

S8E341 Tomes of Magick: Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters

Sep 20, 2025 1h 24m

Pooka and Bryce crack open Victorian Mage: Bizarre Tales and Unusual Characters. From ghostly X-ray photos to occult artists and Umbra conspiracies, what stories and characters wait around the globe…

S8E340 Never-Real Worlds

Sep 06, 2025 54m

Adam and Pooka explore the wild world of Paradox, those cosmic smackdowns that keep Mages humble. They chat about realms where magic bites back, share tales from the table, and review Never-Real…

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