Roleplaying games from historical research
Two minor notes for this section. Zironderel says she disenchants then reenchants the sword, but instead I’d argue she just supresses its magic. Statistics for the lesser wisps are already found in Realms of Power: Faerie, but statistics for Greater Wisps and the Kennel Trolls will be added eventually. CHAPTER XXVI: The Horn of Alveric…
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In Second edition, there was a magus mentioned called Pendule. He refused to join the Order, but met with some members in secret, teaching them his techniques. The key sentence is that his magic was more sensual than Hermetic magic. He expected the magic to change the magus, not be dominated by the magus, as…
Read MoreThe transcripts for January to March 2021 are available. There’s no art, again, for which I apologise, but it seemed more important to catch up.
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This week, we continue our charge through the Pentamerone. Thanks again to Joy Chan for her recording. I’ll be popping in with bits of folklore, and a surprising amount of culinary lore. XXIII: THE TWO CAKES In the penguin edition, the word “pizza” is used wherever “cake” is used here. It’s not a modern pizza,…
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And here we see Venice’s absolutely stupidest causus beli. Literally ever. It starts six years before the game period, and ends four years before, so a new group of magi might meet at a gathering held to watch the festivities. During his dogado a year of Jubilee was appointed by the Pope—1214—in thankfulness for the…
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This is another one of the episodes I can sit out, while Dunsany pays off his earlier work, but I’ll note a few things. Orion offers a story to the troll, and he accepts it, redefining his statistics. Orion can not stray into Faerie or his faerie half will claim his mortal half, much as…
Read MoreI’m unable to sleep because I’ve been bedridden for days with influenza, so I’m writing this up a week in advance. I apologise if I’m not entirely lucid: my wife has noticed that I’m extremely absent minded on flu medication. The podcast celebrates its fifth birthday on May 25th. It has about 40 people who…
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In Against the Dark I tried to have House Tremere researching ways to overcome the Parma Magica using massed fire. This doesn’t work, because hte Parma is not ablative and cannot be made so by research. In the process, I discovered there’s a a new Greater Limit of magic, one that’s clear not just to…
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There was a virtue Lands of the Nile, called in Wisdom From Ignorance, which allowed practitioners to gain Abilities from documents which they can not understand. I was reminded of this recently by a minor essays from Aldous Huxley. He discusses a similar state of mind, but in his case he’s not meditating on heiroglyphs,…
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We return to the Pentamerone. I’ve not mentioned the scatological humour this time unless it illuminates a particular point. Just assume it’s there. XXVI: THE MONTHS It is a saying worthy to be written in letters as big as those on a monument, that silence never harmed any one: and let it not be imagined…
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Games From Folktales 