Roleplaying games from historical research
This is a tiny episode, recorded sometime ago when I was doing all the Duunsany material. It’s only about a minute long but it’s his take on the armies of ghosts which we covered in one of the previous books. I remember a Criamon magus putting on the cap of their leader. Now for a…
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These transcripts are from the two episodes originally published in the January microepisode week. There was a third episode that week, and it has a separate transcript. Microepisode week is to allows me to use up plot ideas that have been sitting in my notebooks for a while. I’ve noticed that ideas that go out…
Read MoreArs Magica’s combat system has always been a bit of a problem. The current one doesn’t let a nudist with a sharpened stick dependably defeat a knight, or require that your character’s actions be subsumed into a small tactic unit roll, but there are obvious problems with it, and these make the game difficult to…
Read MoreThe night after I put the Cornwall gazetteer out as a finished draft, I received a “like” on the blog from a Cornish folklore and photography site, called The Cornish Bird. I’d like to recommend it, because its writer has walked to many of the places described in the gazetteer, and her photographs are great…
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Merry Christmas! A little ghost story for the Noel. *** The King of Duntrine had a daughter when he was old, and she was the fairest King’s daughter between two seas; her hair was like spun gold, and her eyes like pools in a river; and the King gave her a castle upon the sea…
Read MoreIs there any point in these sorts of “stats only” collections? Can you use the monsters without the fiction that they are drawn from, which gives them context? The attached file says it is for Episode 175 – that’s still the plan, with more monsters, and possibly the source stories as well.
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I originally wrote this story up as two elementals, feuding for status, but I think they are likely faeries, as they are interested in the death of humans. Is the fog a sort of meteorological vampire? Can you set it on your enemies? Protect your own ships? Does the Old Winter have a court with…
Read MoreSo, the plan for 2019 is to have weekly podcast episodes and blog posts. The blog posts will be collected into monthly pdfs, and then collected into an annual. The big plans for the year? I’m going to collect the demons into a single document I’m going to collect the Lord Dunsany stories into a…
Read MoreHi, Every so often, it’s useful to look at the podcast project and see if its worth the work. Originally I was going to do an annual check-in, but I lost that chance this year because of some playing about that Patreon were doing. So, time for the semiannual audit, as part of the planning…
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I’ve been listening to a book on the history of art forgery, and it mentions that there are several marble copies of a famous bronze statue, which seems likely to house a Spirit of Artifice or a minor Faerie god in Mythic Europe. An epitrapezios is a statue which, in Classical Greece, was meant to…
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Games From Folktales 