Paradigm Shift: Stygian Library

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Adam discusses Emmy Allen’s Stygian Library and its implications for Mage games.

Adam talks about Emmy Allen’s Stygian Library, the library that doesn’t end. Will your players find the knowledge they’re looking for? Can they evade the mysterious librarians and their super computer? The sister volume to Gardens of Ynn is full of ideas that may find a place in your Mage games. Just watch out for the ink blots. They stain. Show Notes Stygian Library overview (DriveThruRPG) - A strange old place, part haunted mansion, part endless library tucked outside the world. Coins and Scrolls - OSR procedural dungeon design basics Mage: The Ascension (White Wolf overview) - At its heart, Mage is all about the long road to Ascension. Nt just for one soul, but for all of humanity. Trouble is, nobody’s pinned down exactly what that means or how you get there. Umbral Realms & High Umbra concepts - Folks also call it the Spirit World, the Shadow, or the Velvet Shadow, one of those places that’s right there beside our world, even if you can’t quite touch it. It runs alongside the everyday, separate but close, like a reflection in a dark window just waiting to be noticed. Procedural generation in RPGs (design concepts) - “Xandering” a dungeon means designing it like the…

People in this episode

Host: Adam

Topics covered

• RPG design
• Stygian Library
• Mage: The Ascension
• procedural generation
• dungeon design
• Umbral Realms

Keywords

• Stygian Library
• Mage: The Ascension
• procedural generation
• dungeon design
• Umbral Realms
• Emmy Allen

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DriveThruRPG

Books & works: Stygian Library, Gardens of Ynn, Mage: The Ascension

Places: Spirit World, Shadow, Velvet Shadow

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