Roleplaying games from historical research
Time for the longest poem in GFF history. This creature has turned up at least twice in Ars Magica. In the first version of The Mysteries we are told about Apollonius. In Realms of Power: Faerie, I give this story as an example of a ghula that is not from (modern) Arabic countries. Keats, though,…
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The Burton version of this story is, in his own words, summarized as “Nardiello is sent three times by his father to buy some wares with an hundred ducats each time. The first time he buyeth a mouse, the next a large crab-louse, and then a cricket, and being expelled by his father for this,…
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This is one of my favourite stories in this collection, because it’s obvious a magus with a Hermetic twist is loose in the background, mucking people about. let’s hear Burton’s take on the plot, in his weird mock-Jacobean English: Penta scorneth to wed her brother, and cutting off her hands, sendeth them to him as…
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This is your monster of the month, a little early because the Venice episode did not come together. Way back in Episode 184 (Major Weir) we discussed a Scottish regio where there were dancing skeletons. They make a return here under the control of the ghost of a suicided German count. I’ve trimmed down the…
Read MoreTime to tidy these up. Worlds on Fire Burn shift: Postapocalyptic setting. Burn shifts (mutations) 181-185. Community designs and actions (187-198] might suit us for groups like crews and conspiracies. Equipment 200-205 useful if reskinned. Beasts and obstacles [209-219} many of these are useful if reskinned – some can be directly lifted to our game.…
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Games From Folktales 