Roleplaying games from historical research
A change of pace on the Venice material – I think that trying to draw all the folklore together, like I did with Cornwall, may be a fool’s errand. I keep heading off into the weeds. My plan is to keep adding the folklore I find, but to try and give the whole thing a…
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This week I’m taking time to get the backlog of monsters sorted. As a sort of filler, here’s a poem about a troubadour trying to rescue a maid, by W.S. Gilbert, of musical hall fame. *** A Troubadour he playedWithout a castle wall,Within, a hapless maidResponded to his call.“Oh, willow, woe is me!Alack and well-a-day!If…
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This section is where Dunsany starts paying off his earlier bits of folklore, so there’s not much new to discuss, but I do want to flag that Zironderel has the same attitude to magic that House Jerbiton does. Magic causes beauty, even natural beauty. Thanks again to Librivox and Michele Fry for the recording. CHAPTER…
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The story which follows seems folkloric, but the MonsterTalk podcast has done some digging and found the places mentioned don’t seem to accord with real geography. The original writer was a bit of a racontuer, known for great dinner stories, so this may have been his own work. For example the reaction of the young…
Read MoreThe transcripts are live. Once again, they are very minimal recording notes. I’m sorry they don’t have art in the way they used to, but I thought it more important to get them up to date than to polish them. Many of these episodes will eventually be recut into other forms (like the Cornwall material…
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This ends the main run of The Pentamerone. I won’t be recording “The Three Citrons”, the final story, because it’s a parallel to the deeply racist frame story. Following this, I’m going to upload the three Librivox stories I couldn’t find a use for as a bonus episode, and then I’m going to summarize the…
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Games From Folktales 