Roleplaying games from historical research
This bonus episode isn’t an advert for Magonomia, which is a game of Renaissance wizardry, published by some of the Ars Magica authors, but you should check it out at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shewstonepublishing/magonomia-the-rpg-of-renaissance-wizardry A note on conflict of interest: if it funds I will be writing some of their stretch goals. It’s a game of a Renaissance…
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The legend which follows comes from “Scilly and its Legends” by Reverend Whitfield. When I originally read it I just gave up and said “No, we obviously aren’t going to be getting anything more of value from the good Reverend.” I was mistaken because, superficially the following story sounds like a simple miracle. Simple miracles…
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A Manx story about treating elfstroke
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I was recently at a jellyfish spawning lab, where I discovered the jellies I’d swum through during my SCUBA lessons were Moon Jellyfish. This led me down a rabbit hole of thought – the largest jellyfish in the world wash up occasionally on the shores of Cornwall. Could a magus take one as a familiar?…
Read MoreAnd so, we cruise past episode 200…in these transcripts.
Over on the Ars Magica Discord server, Dinonerd1 was asking about griffons with a parrot head. Here’s my take on them. It’s a reskinning of the juvenile female griffon statistics from Legends of Hermes. I’ll use this in a podcast later. The Psitticine Griffon, more commonly the psitticogrif, is a smaller and even rarer creature…
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This is the 200th episode of Games From Folktales, so you’re going to have to indulge me, dear reader. I’m sharing a fiction piece. It’s set in Cornwall and has a creature which is presumably, in Ars Magica terms, an Accuser: that is, a demon who hunts sinners and claims to be sent from God.…
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I’ve been talking with Ben from Sub Rosa about whether it would be useful to create some background information for an adventure, and record it as an audio episode, so that players on their way to a convention could absorb the background information while they’re driving. That reminded me of this little story, which I…
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This is a bonus episode. In following months we’ll be moving on from “The Stories of a Chinese Studio” by Pu to “Manx Fairy Tales” by Sophia Morrison. Morrison is kind of like the Brothers Grimm for Manx fairy tales: if you’ve heard manx fairy tales, you have heard her work. She also acted as…
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A quick story from Songling Pu: Formerly, when the Dutch were permitted to trade with China, the officer in command of the coast defences would not allow them, on account of their great numbers, to come ashore. The Dutch begged very hard for the grant of a piece of land such as a carpet would cover;…
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