Announcement

**Darksider** · 05-17-2016, 03:12 AM

Stickied as per request.

**Dwight** · 05-17-2016, 03:18 AM

Originally posted by Darksider View Post

Stickied as per request.

Now if we could just get one on the main page for "X" splat world population.

**OmegaZ** · 05-17-2016, 06:56 PM

I would definitely recommend adding The Wire to this list for a great look at Syndicate enforcers and how they work on the "lower" end of the socio-economic spectrum. Damn good show, if nothing else.

**Asmodai** · 05-18-2016, 05:06 AM

It's nice that we got this stickied. I'm gonna have another round through all the recent posts and fix it up. Thanks Darksider !

**Dwight** · 05-18-2016, 05:09 AM

I would like to add The Man From U.N.C.L.E to the list for anyone wanting to run a swinging 60's technocracy game.

**Faradn** · 05-18-2016, 09:04 PM

Do you want us to PM commentaries to you or add them to the thread?

**Darksider** · 05-18-2016, 09:20 PM

No problem Asmodai. You're welcome.

**Asmodai** · 05-19-2016, 03:31 AM

Originally posted by Faradn View Post

Do you want us to PM commentaries to you or add them to the thread?

I expect a ton of new subsmisions and ideas coming here.We repeat this topic at least thrice a month, so I feel it'd be great to keep it collected. It's a centralised place to discuss these things. I hope that people might add more ideas and possibly capsule reviews and their relevance to Mage, so I'd like to link it up with every topic in the first topic. Once we go through the maximum posts for the topic I hope we get it locked and start a new one with all the collected information and links to all the topics we discussed.

It's a bit ambitious, but I feel we have a lot of stuff to talk about here, and it will help new people coming in.

**Faradn** · 05-19-2016, 12:38 PM

The thread it is then. Thanks for clarifying.

**DeeDee** · 05-19-2016, 09:13 PM

The Dresden Files should most certainly go into literature and could even be put there as a tv series.

**Bluecho** · 05-20-2016, 01:45 AM

Well, since we're listing suggestions in the thread, I have a few of my own:

-American Horror Story Coven: A dark (but darkly comedic) television series, that basically depicts a three way war between the Verbana, Ba'ta, and witch hunters, centered around New Orleans. All twisted around the decline of the old generation of witches, and the rise of the new one. The witchcraft sometimes is devolved into straight X-Men style super powers, but characters occasionally get down to the work of using Instruments like proper practitioners (mostly when they need something more than the standard complement of Rotes). Again, the show has a lot of mature themes, but it can work very well as a primer for the Practice of Witchcraft.

-Bartimaeus Series: Alternate history where magicians control the world as a magical police state. Magic largely built around the ritualistic summoning, binding, warding, and exploitation of spirits from another dimension (whose nature can best be described as being a realm of infinite formless possibility). Good resource for Hermetic and Taftani characters, and an interesting model for what would happen if the Order of Hermes had taken over the world instead of the Order of Reason.

-Read or Die Series: It spans Light Novels, Manga, and Anime, so good luck cataloging it. It's about an alternate history where the British Empire is a major force in global politics, and the British Library is an organization empowered to defend the Empire and fight book crimes. Suggested because of its use of people with supernatural abilities (such as the series's ubiquitous Paper Mastery), stylized Etherite-like science, a theme of history's true form being concealed from the public by powerful people, and extreme Erudition. All such flavorful stuff for Mage Players and Storytellers to sink their teeth into.

-Shin Megami Tensei Series: A broad collection of video games, spanning multiple styles and eras. There's the proto-SMT material, (sadly untranslated) novels that mixed Western Occultism, Japanese folklore, and the early computer age. There's the first two proper Shin Megami Tensei games, where hacking mixed with demon summoning against a backdrop of nuclear apocalypse. There's Shin Megami Tensei III, which was a different kind of apocalypse, melded with a conflict over whose Paradigm will define the new reality (as well as the larger plot of great Incarna and Celestials fighting over dominion in a multiversal context). There's Digital Devil saga, which is the Matrix mixed with a lot of Hindu symbolism (as well as cannibal shapeshifters, which might pull Werewolf and Vampire into the mix). And there's the Persona series, where I can start by pointing out they directly inspired the Mirainohmen as a Craft, and go from there.

**OmegaZ** · 05-20-2016, 03:28 PM

Glitchspace: indie game that does a great job of showing how Virtual Adepts and the Technocratic Data sphere do Correspondence magic.

**JBRocky** · 05-20-2016, 04:34 PM

Dang looked at my old Books but just remember for the Syndicate: Wall Street, and Profit, and for the NWO there is any of the Bond Films.

**Crowley** · 05-20-2016, 07:05 PM

Jojo Bizarre Adventures (?)

Announcement

The collected Fiction Inspirations for Mage: The Ascension

The collected Fiction Inspirations for Mage: The Ascension

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment