As is becoming the tradition in Ars Magica fandom, I’m trying to do a post a day for November. These short pieces will be collected for an omnibus podcast episode each week.
The posts will be a mix of Cornish folklore and short Dunsany posts. I know that as concepts go, its not nearly as coherent as the fictional “chapter a day” thing,but it’s what I have close to hand, and lets me draw in some of the tiny fragments of the two ongoing projects on the blog, and make them into large enough chunks to record.
In NanoWriMo people aim for 1000 words a day,. but game mechanics are so much harder to write than words I’m not going to count this year. The pdf transcript for the standard episodes of the podcast is already loaded for distribution, so I’ll do a second one for this.
See you on the other side.
Games From Folktales 
Just a quick extra note. I was doing Cornwall once a month, and had already set up podcasts to go live in the last week of November and December. I’m going to pull at least one of those into this series, so that it’s not just waiting around for a month. Apologies if it is out of sequence, or wishes you a merry Christmas or something….
I’ve currently written posts for up to the 6th., plus I have the four regulars preloaded (9/16/23/30). The Cornish material might get padded out with character stats, or I might swap over to Food of Death by Dunsany.
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Change of plan…all of the Cornwalls I had planned, all the way out to March are getting loaded into this. I know it’s cheateing, but otherwise it’s just incoherent as a project. When I’m through Hunt I’ll be stealing bits from either Carew (early tourist guide, basically) or Polwhele (military and economic history). I have enough folklore to write up a couple of hundred hooks, but I need some of the mundane stuff now for the basic trappings of life. Who was in charge? What were the cities called? Is there a map? What are the industries? That sort of thing.
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