The Perils of Paradox

On today’s show we talk with Lee Webb about the perils of Paradox: every modern-day fantasy story has to confront a fundamental question—if magic is real where has it been hiding all this time? The answer to that question in Mage is Paradox. We talk about Lee’s new baby, Leonora; how he became involved with role playing games, Werewolf and Mage: The Ascension; what is Paradox and how it might effect characters and reality; how to avoid Paradox and how to get rid of it; how Paradox effects Marauders and Nephandi; examples of Paradox in movies and literature: Bruce Sterling’s Zeitgeist, Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files, Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland’ The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.; Dark Ages Mage and Victorian Mage; Museum of Jurassic Technology; Sons of Ether; Fermi’s Paradox; LARPing.

Join us again next Saturday for the first installment of our segment, Mage Chronicles: featuring Sorcerer’s Crusade with Victor Joseph Kinzer, co-host of Walking Away from Arcadia.

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