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Paradox: A Mage the Ascension Podcast

Paradox: A Mage the Ascension Podcast

By: Jen Peters
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Summary
Paradox is a podcast about the TTRPG Mage: the Ascension and discusses the rules, mechanics, esoterica, and lore of the system in a combination of short- and long-form episodes. Contact and Inquiries through Comments or paradoxproductionspodcast@gmail.comCopyright 2024 All Rights Reserved
Episodes
  • Episode 33 - Bag of Tricks
    Nov 2 2026

    Let's give Focus (or *cough* foci *cough*) another shot, shall we? You can really tell where I went off-script for this one. But writing it helped me understand it better, so I hope it helps all of you, too.

    For anyone who got switched off Daylight Savings today, this drop might be a bit off time-wise because I'm in BC and we're just keeping the same time all year. So it's set for 6 PM my time.

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    If you are feeling generous and want me to keep doing what I'm doing and appease the subscription overlords, I've added a tip jar - but no pressure: https://ko-fi.com/tiptheparadoxspirits

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    Jen is a cast member at Dork Tales with a particular love for World of Darkness games, especially Mage: the Ascension. Catch her on the Dork Tales channels in their Victorian Era Mage game, or, if you subscribe to the Dork Tales Patreon, you can watch her as the Storyteller in Technocracy: Zero Sum (now almost all on YouTube for everyone!).

    #rpg #podcast #ttrpg #magetheascension #mage #m20 #whitewolf #onyxpath #dorktales

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    The following music was used for this media project: Music: Subversion by Phat Sounds

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    29 mins
  • Episode 32 - The Thinning of the Veil
    Oct 2 2026

    Back in black with my actual proper editing tech! It's time to check out the Kha'vadi in this month's episode. As I mention at the top of the episode, yesterday (September 30th) was Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as well as Orange Shirt Day - Every Child Matters. I promised a link to Phyllis' story, so here you go: https://orangeshirtday.org/about/phyllis-story/ Mage is literally about these issues (among others), and a Kha'vadi episode is exactly the right place to bring them up. I know some people get mad about "politics" in their hobbies. If that's you, you simply don't have to listen. I won't compromise what I believe in to keep everyone comfortable. I'm probably having pre-arguments over here, but I'm bad at seeing comments when they come in, or responding to them, so I don't want there to be any questions about my intent. And to those of you who have left comments - thank you! I appreciate you! On a different note - Episode 0 of the new all-Hermetic mage game Sword of Damocles we're playing at Dork Tales dropped on Twitch last week. New episodes will premiere through Patreon first and in a few months will be available on YouTube for free. I'm so excited for my character. Hope those of you who like Actual Plays will come check it out.

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    If you are feeling generous and want me to keep doing what I'm doing and appease the subscription overlords, I've added a tip jar - but no pressure: https://ko-fi.com/tiptheparadoxspirits

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    Jen is a cast member at Dork Tales with a particular love for World of Darkness games, especially Mage: the Ascension. Catch her on the Dork Tales channels in their Victorian Era Mage game, or, if you subscribe to the Dork Tales Patreon, you can watch her as the Storyteller in Technocracy: Zero Sum (now almost all on YouTube for everyone!).

    #rpg #podcast #ttrpg #magetheascension #mage #m20 #whitewolf #onyxpath #dorktales

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    The following music was used for this media project: Music: Subversion by Phat Sounds

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    27 mins
  • Episode 31 - I Know a Guy
    Sep 2 2026

    Heads up about this episode - it's not perfect. Of course, my carefully planned return went to pieces the moment I looked away. I found an issue with Episode 31 and so figured I'd fix it and edit it quickly while I was out of town given that I had access to everything I needed access to - boy was I wrong! I forgot the edited version of the episode, so had to cobble something together AND I forgot some important things like the wifi dongle to let my desktop go online and authenticate the subscription our corporate overlords insist we buy.... I managed to find an open source editing program that I could use from my laptop at least (not Audacity, I had to do it from my web browser because it's a work laptop shhhh), so I could at least get you all something today. However, I am aware that the pacing of my sentences is off, the sound is off where I obviously re-recorded some lines and, well, it's just not up to my usual audio editing standards. I still wanted to get this out on time though, and once I get back to my usual setup I can get a do-over and reupload it.

    Sorry for the potato audio, maybe the content will at least make up for it though.

    If you are feeling generous and want me to keep doing what I'm doing and appease the subscription overlords, I've added a tip jar - but no pressure: https://ko-fi.com/tiptheparadoxspirits

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    Jen is a cast member at Dork Tales with a particular love for World of Darkness games, especially Mage: the Ascension. Catch her on the Dork Tales channels in their Victorian Era Mage game, or, if you subscribe to the Dork Tales Patreon, you can watch her as the Storyteller in Technocracy: Zero Sum (now almost all on YouTube for everyone!).

    #rpg #podcast #ttrpg #magetheascension #mage #m20 #whitewolf #onyxpath #dorktales

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    The following music was used for this media project: Music: Subversion by Phat Sounds

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    28 mins
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In-depth explanations of the subjects covered was phenomenal. It was excellent to get me and my friends into mage, and get me settled as the forever ST. My favorite episode definetly has to be the Metaplot Madness episode

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An amazing podcast with a lovely host and pleasant guests, and despite being an indie project, mostly maintains a good audio quality.

My main take away from the podcast has been refreshing stuff I used to know but forgot or got foggy on after not playing mage for a while.

This has been great to listen to while at work, since I have no other outlet for my hyperfixation on my upcoming mage game.

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