{"id":1492,"date":"2018-06-20T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T05:38:16","slug":"themes-in-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/themes-in-mage\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes in Mage"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>Adam Simpson discusses themes in <em>Mage: The\u00a0Ascension<\/em> and how to use them in\u00a0your games; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stewart_Wieck\">Stewart Wieck<\/a>\u2018s theme of Mage\u2019s bringing change to society; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock\">Woodstock<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi-hole\">Pi-hole<\/a>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Digital_Web\">Digital Web<\/a>; Satyros Brucato\u2019s theme of empowerment in <em>Mage<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Hyper_Intelligence_Technologies\">HIT Marks<\/a>; four themes in <em>Mage<\/em>: magic isn\u2019t something you do but something you\u2019re part of, needing to work with others who are different from yourself, transcending your limitations, and overcoming pride and self-centeredness to reach something greater than yourself; introdcuitng mystric weirdness into a Mage\u2019s life after they have Awakened; giving players information they must keep secret from fellow Cabal members; riddles posed by AIs; aiding a security guard; <a href=\"mailto:magethepodcast@gmail.com\">let us know<\/a> what\u2019s stopping you from running a <em>Mage<\/em> Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>Join us again Satruday. Chris Zac, moderator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/862703457198327\/\">White Wolf RPGs Game Play and Media Facebook Group<\/a>, will talk about plot hooks you can use in your next Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/zcast.co\/mini-zcast-player\/9zMKJPHgEn\" 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\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ivohu77qwdojatce4funzybr47y\">Google Play<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Video-Games\/Mage-The-Podcas-p1121303\/\">TuneIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Mage Chronicle on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/hashtag\/MTRPG\">#mtrpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magethepodcast\">@magethepodcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Simpson discusses themes in Mage: The\u00a0Ascension and how to use them in\u00a0your games; Stewart Wieck\u2018s theme of Mage\u2019s bringing change to society; Woodstock; Pi-hole; the Digital Web; Satyros Brucato\u2019s theme of empowerment in Mage; HIT Marks; four themes in Mage: magic isn\u2019t something you do but something you\u2019re part of, needing to work with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/themes-in-mage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Themes in Mage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[125,130,133,31,126],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listen","tag-magetheascension","tag-magethepodcast","tag-onyxpath","tag-rpg","tag-whitewolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0139.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","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=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}