{"id":1449,"date":"2018-04-28T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2018-04-28T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:22:59","slug":"metaplot-in-mage-the-ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/metaplot-in-mage-the-ascension\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaplot in Mage: The Ascension"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>On today's show <em>Mage: The Ascension<\/em> co-creator <a href=\"https:\/\/satyrosphilbrucato.wordpress.com\" title=\"Satyros Brucato\">Satyros Brucato<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darker-days.org\" title=\"Darker Days Radio\">Darker Days Radio<\/a><\/em> co-founder Mark Hope join us to to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metaplot\" title=\"metaplot\">metaplot<\/a> in <em>Mage<\/em>. We talk about how Mark got into RPGs and <em>Mage<\/em>; what is metaplot and how does it relate to <em>Mage<\/em>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/House_of_Helekar\" title=\"House of Helekar\">House of Helekar<\/a> and the beginning of the metaplot; the cautionary tale of Vormaas; if Amanda will return to <em>Mage<\/em>; should you check in with your players regarding the metaplot; <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Year_of_the_Reckoning\" title=\"The Year of the Reckoning\">The Year of the Reckoning<\/a>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Avatar_Storm\" title=\"Avatar Storm\">Avatar Storm<\/a>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Horizon_War_Trilogy\" title=\"Horizon War triology\">Horizon War trilogy<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Porthos_Fitz-Empress\" title=\"Porthos Fitz-Empress\">Porthos Fitz-Empress<\/a>; the Whiteout; how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Perelman\" title=\"Ron Perelman\">Ron Perelman<\/a> wiped out 30% of the comic book and gaming industry in the 90s and how it effected the metaplot for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wraith:_The_Oblivion\" title=\"Wraith: The Oblivion\">Wraith<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Changeling:_The_Dreaming\" title=\"Changeling: The Dreaming\">Changeling<\/a><\/em>; will there be future <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mage:_The_Sorcerer%27s_Crusade\" title=\"Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade\">Sorcerer's Crusade<\/a><\/em>-related releases; how to use Threat Null as antagonists but still keep the Umbra open for player exploration; what elements didn\u2019t make it into the <em>Mage<\/em> metaplot; what happend to the Jade Demon; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Trouble_in_Little_China\" title=\"Big Trouble in Little China\">Big Trouble in Little China<\/a><\/em>; what the main difference in game mechanics between <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rpgbooks.wikia.com\/wiki\/Victorian_Age:_Mage_Rulebook\" title=\"Victorian Age: Mage\">Victorian Age: Mage<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Mage:_The_Ascension_20th_Anniversary_Edition\" title=\"Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition\">Mage 20<\/a><\/em> is.<\/p>\n<p>Join us next week when Antonios Galatis reads his short story, \u201cLife,\" from the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truth-Beyond-Paradox-World-Darkness-ebook\/dp\/B071H7TKS3\" title=\"Truth Beyond Paradox\">Truth Beyond Paradox<\/a><\/em> anthology.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/zcast.co\/mini-zcast-player\/lzvRq3sez2\" width=\"350\" height=\"80\" style=\"width: 350; height: 80; border: none; margin: 0; padding: 0;\" scrolling=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Mage: the Podcast<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mage-the-podcast\/id1372908086?mt=2\" title=\"iTunes\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ivohu77qwdojatce4funzybr47y\" title=\"Google Play\">Google Play<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Video-Games\/Mage-The-Podcas-p1121303\/\" title=\"TuneIn\">TuneIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magethepodcast\" title=\"@magethepodcast\">@magethepodcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s show Mage: The Ascension co-creator Satyros Brucato and Darker Days Radio co-founder Mark Hope join us to to discuss metaplot in Mage. We talk about how Mark got into RPGs and Mage; what is metaplot and how does it relate to Mage; the House of Helekar and the beginning of the metaplot; the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/metaplot-in-mage-the-ascension\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metaplot in Mage: The Ascension&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[125,130,131,132,31,126],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listen","tag-magetheascension","tag-magethepodcast","tag-metaplot","tag-onyyxpath","tag-rpg","tag-whitewolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/E44CE86E-8E8A-4DEF-A3CE-02A0084612CF.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}