Apologies if you came here looking for the statistics for the creature in episode 211. The audio went live early. The transcript and statistics will be published around August 29, when the episode was due to air.
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Renascence by Edna St Milay: a mystery initiation experience
Another bonus episode to celebrate the release of the Kickstarter for Magonomia. This poem is called Renascence by Edna St Millay. I originally was going to use it for Ars Magica, as a hint to where the Criamon magi who disappeared from the Isles of Scilly went. You could instead use it as a description…
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Magonomia and the Churn Song
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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Cornwall: A legend of Holy Vale
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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Man : The Faerie Pig
A Manx story about treating elfstroke
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Cornwall : Jellyfish
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?…
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Parrot Griffons
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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Cornwall: Negotium Perambulans
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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Man – The Enchanted Isle
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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