{"id":1473,"date":"2018-05-30T18:18:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T01:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2018-06-03T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:26:59","slug":"the-perils-of-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/the-perils-of-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today\u2019s show we talk with Lee Webb about the perils of Paradox<\/a>: every modern-day fantasy story has to confront a fundamental question\u2014if magic is real where has it been hiding all this time? The answer to that question in Mage<\/em> is Paradox. We talk about Lee\u2019s new baby, Leonora; how he became involved with role playing games, Werewolf<\/em> and Mage: The Ascension<\/em>; 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<\/a>\u2019s Zeitgeist<\/a><\/em>, Jim Butcher<\/a>\u2019s The Dresden Files<\/a><\/em>, Disney\u2019s The Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice<\/a><\/em> and Neal Stephenson<\/a> and Nicole Galland<\/a>\u2019 The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.<\/a><\/em>; Dark Ages Mage<\/a><\/em> and Victorian Mage<\/em>; Museum of Jurassic Technology<\/a>; Sons of Ether<\/a>; Fermi\u2019s Paradox<\/a>; LARPing.<\/p>\n

Join us again next Saturday for the first installment of our segment, Mage Chronicles: featuring Sorcerer\u2019s Crusade<\/a><\/em> with Victor Joseph Kinzer<\/a>, co-host of Walking Away from Arcadia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n