{"id":1496,"date":"2018-06-23T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2018-06-23T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:00:16","slug":"plot-hooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/plot-hooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot Hooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our guest on today\u2019s show is Chris Zac, host of the excellent Twin Cities by Night<\/a><\/em> and we talk about plot hooks you can use in your Mage<\/em> Chronicles. We discuss the White Wolf RPGs Game Play and Media Facebook Group<\/a> he moderates; Matthew Dawkins<\/a>, The Gentleman Gamer<\/a>; how he got into playing role playing games; Brazilian jiu-jitsu<\/a>; Vampire: The Masquerade<\/a><\/em> and Vampire: The Requiem<\/a><\/em>; The Brian Diaries and The Brian Bookclub; internal monologues; characters embracing the consequences of their actions; using horror judiciously; Twin Cities by Night, Ultimate Evil and Juarez on Fire Chronicle; character creation; what to do when your Chronicle goes off the rails; what makes a good plot hook; their Victorian Age: Vampire Chronicle; magic as a horror device; H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s short story \u201cThe Rats in the Walls;\u201d<\/a> Mage<\/em> plot hooks; Mage 20<\/a><\/em>; Last Podcast on the Left<\/a><\/em>; Jim Jones<\/a>; Rasputin<\/a>; the influences of Stephen King<\/a>, Clive Barker<\/a> and Aleister Crowley<\/a>; the sources he uses to develop his plot hooks; The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation into America\u2019s Most Dangerous Satanic Cult<\/a><\/em> and Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World<\/a><\/em>; drink cold brew!<\/p>\n

Join us again next week. Karin Tidbeck<\/a> and I will talk about Mage: Refuge<\/a><\/em>, a text-based interactive game that takes place in a world at the dawn of a political revolution.<\/p>\n