Roleplaying games from historical research
This is an Armenian folktale, from a collection called “The Golden Maiden” by A G Seklemian. This story, and the one which will follow next week, are both possible starting points for a Spring covenant. This one is also of interest to us, because it suggests there is a political structure in the least-powerful tribe…
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This week another of our episodes from Lord Dunsany’s Don Rodrigo: The Chronicles of Shadow Valley. In thisepisode Don Rodriguez and his servant Morano have been accepted as guests (and kind of captured) by a wizard who holds the Chair of Magic at the University of Sagossa, and he is almost forcing them through an…
Read MoreSo, 165 pages of transcripts for the last year, now ready!
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This week I am cheating by having another look at a creature already covered on the blog that accompanies the podcast. A very long time ago. we created some introductory material for Ars Magica called the Covenant of Sabrina’s Rest. Sabrina’s Rest is named after the goddess of the River Severn. As source material I…
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Have you heard the story of the rotting princess? She usually gets a paragraph in the histories of Venice. Just a small one, near the beginning. She’s a useful starting point. She’s where you can say things started to careen off course. She’s to blame for all of the vanities of Venice. She was an…
Read MoreAnd here it is…the Games From Folktales December 2019 transcipts
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Here Dunsany has a little side story, a phantastical episode, but for us it’s a useful snippet. The hero meets a magician who keeps forcing him to undergo mystogogic initiations. The recording was released into the public domain by Ed Humpel, through Librivox. *** The sound of their knocking boomed huge and slow through the…
Read MoreHello, just a note to explain what’s happening next year. I’m almost done with my Scillonian material, and so I put up a poll on Paetreon for the focus of my next set of readings. People chose Venice, so next year, we’ll start gathering together material for sagas set there. I’ve had a little fiction…
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I recorded a Christmas episode earlier this year, but because of the vagaries of podcast production, it drifted to early December. Here’s a replacement, about the Abbey of Saint Nicholas at Tresco. Nicholas, in local lore, is a fearsome chap : he’s far more similar to the weapon smuggler who turns up in the Narnia…
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This week another one of our folktales from Man by Sophia Morrison. This is The Old Christmas, which was read into the public domain through LibriVox by Larry Wilson. Thanks to him and his production team at LibriVox. I just like to stress that this folktale comes from at least the Sixteenth Century because the…
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