{"id":1518,"date":"2018-07-21T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T00:08:30","slug":"myth-in-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/myth-in-mage\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth in Mage"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>On today\u2019s show we chat with Josh Heath, Chief Operations Officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlevelgames.ca\" title=\"High Level Games\">High Level Games<\/a> and host of <a href=\"https:\/\/keepontheheathlands.podbean.com\" title=\"Werewolf: The Podcast\">Werewolf: The Podcast<\/a>. We discuss Onyx Path\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storytellersvault.com\" title=\"Storytellers Vault\">Storytellers Vault<\/a>; why he loves <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse\" title=\"Werewolf: The Apocalypse\">Werewolf: The Apocalypse<\/a><\/em>; how he got into RPGs; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robotech_(role-playing_game)\" title=\"Robotech\">Robotech<\/a> and AD&amp;D; his duties and responsibilities as Chief Operations Officer for High Level Games; Josh name dropped on last week\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/onyxpathcast.podbean.com\" title=\"Onyx Pathcast\">Onyx Pathcast<\/a><\/em>; the <a href=\"https:\/\/utilitymuffinlabs.com\/25-years-of-vampire-the-masquerade\/\" title=\"25 Years of Vampire: The Masquerade\">25 Years of Vampire: The Masquerade<\/a> podcast; what Josh has learned re-visiting <em>Werewolf: The Apocalypse<\/em>; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Campbell\" title=\"Joseph Campbell\">Joseph Campbell<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hero%27s_journey\" title=\"Myth Cycle and Hero\u2019s Journey\">myth cycle and hero\u2019s journey<\/a>; the forthcoming <em>Gods, Monsters and Familiar Strangers<\/em> WoD book Josh worked on; modern mythology and the <em>why<\/em> of the universe; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_Scranton\" title=\"Roy Scranton\">Roy Scranton<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-Die-Anthropocene-Reflections-Civilization\/dp\/1531889271\" title=\"Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization\">Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization<\/a><\/em>; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Wagner\" title=\"Richard Wagner\">Richard Wagner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norse_mythology\" title=\"Norse mythology\">Norse mythology<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_Thomas\" title=\"Roy Thomas\">Roy Thomas<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thor_(Marvel_Comics)\" title=\"The Mighty Thor\">The Mighty Thor<\/a><\/em> comic book series; fairy tales; using myth in a group game; myth in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars\" title=\"Star Wars\">Star Wars<\/a><\/em>; mythological creatures, concepts and magic in the modern world; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Gaiman\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Gods\" title=\"American Gods\">American Gods<\/a><\/em>; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mage:_The_Sorcerer's_Crusade\" title=\"Mage: The Sorcerer\u2019s Crusade\">Mage: The Sorcerer\u2019s Crusade<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/whitewolf.wikia.com\/wiki\/Dark_Ages:_Mage\" title=\"Dark Ages: Mage\">Dark Ages: Mage<\/a><\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\" title=\"Comic-Con\">Comic-Con<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join us again next week: Panos V Skordas joins us to talk about his <em>Ahriman Chronicles: The Vile Nature of an Ascension War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/mage-the-podcast\/embed\/episodes\/Myth-in-Mage-e2th3f\/a-a8l316\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/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 our Mage Chronicle on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/hashtag\/MTRPG\" title=\"#mtrpg\">#mtrpg<\/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\u2019s show we chat with Josh Heath, Chief Operations Officer at High Level Games and host of Werewolf: The Podcast. We discuss Onyx Path\u2019s Storytellers Vault; why he loves Werewolf: The Apocalypse; how he got into RPGs; Robotech and AD&amp;D; his duties and responsibilities as Chief Operations Officer for High Level Games; Josh name &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/myth-in-mage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Myth in Mage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[125,130,150,133,31,126],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listen","tag-magetheascension","tag-magethepodcast","tag-myth","tag-onyxpath","tag-rpg","tag-whitewolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0382.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}