{"id":2149,"date":"2018-11-10T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:47:25","slug":"enlightened-grimoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/enlightened-grimoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlightened Grimoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>On today\u2019s show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/charlessiegelstv\/\" title=\"Charles Siegel\">Charles Siegel<\/a> joins us to talk about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storytellersvault.com\/m\/product\/249171\" title=\"Enlightened Grimoire\">Enlightened Grimoire<\/a>, a book that contains every single rote ever published and updated for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/m\/product\/149562\" title=\"Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition\">Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition<\/a> rules. We discuss the Soft Apocalypse RPG I\u2019m working on based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_McIntosh?wprov=sfti1\" title=\"Will McIntosh\">Will McIntosh<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soft-Apocalypse-Will-McIntosh\/dp\/159780276X\" title=\"Soft Apocalypse\">book<\/a> and the game mechanics I\u2019m considering to run it (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/m\/product\/239958\" title=\"Strain\">Strain<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evilhat.com\/home\/fate-core\/\" title=\"Fate Core\">Fate Core<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/m\/product\/92743\" title=\"Savage Worlds\">Savage Worlds<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/m\/browser\/publisher\/Steve-Jackson-Games\/12199\" title=\"GURPS\">GURPS<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/buriedwithoutceremony.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/simple-world.pdf\" title=\"Simple World\">Simple World<\/a><\/em>, etc); the 1,500 rotes that appear in 200 pages of the Enlightened Grimoire; why he wrote the Grimoire; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storytellersvault.com\/m\/product\/162241\" title=\"How Do You DO That?\">How Do You DO That?<\/a> book; who he consulted to write the Grimoire; the biggest challenge he faced writing the Grimoire; the most popular rotes and his favorite rotes; why he prefers to play Spirit Mages; how he got into role playing games and <em>Mage<\/em>; how his Chronicles have changed over the decades; the types of Chronicles he likes to explore; future projects he\u2019s working on for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storytellersvault.com\" title=\"Storytellers Vault\">Storytellers Vault<\/a>; advice for writing material for the Storytellers Vault; tools he used to wrote the Grimoire; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storytellersvault.com\/m\/product\/258450\" title=\"Paradox: The Brainstorming\">Paradox: The Brainstorming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like a free copy of the Enlightened Grimoire <a href=\"mailto:magethepodcast@gmail.com\" title=\"email us\">email us<\/a> or contact us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magethepodcast\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> and we\u2019ll randomly choose a winner on next week\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>Join us next week! Adam Simpson continues his Tomes of Magick segment and will be discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storytellersvault.com\/m\/product\/40\" title=\"Book of Chantries\">Book of Chantries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/mage-the-podcast\/embed\/episodes\/Enlightened-Grimoire-e2th36\/a-a8l30t\" 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 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 Charles Siegel joins us to talk about the Enlightened Grimoire, a book that contains every single rote ever published and updated for Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition rules. We discuss the Soft Apocalypse RPG I\u2019m working on based on Will McIntosh\u2019s book and the game mechanics I\u2019m considering to run it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/enlightened-grimoire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enlightened Grimoire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[125,130,127,31,153],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listen","tag-magetheascension","tag-magethepodcast","tag-podcast","tag-rpg","tag-storytellersvault"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/photo-enlightenedgrimoire.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","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=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}