Roleplaying games from historical research
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…
Read MoreSo…178 pages of Ars Magica goodness. Note that this is a collection of the episodes as originally published. I’ve since gone through and statted out quite a few of these, but those are going to be collected in new little booklets in 2019. So far they are going to be a Dunsany book and a…
Read MoreWhy, yes, it is really early… I regret that the air elementals don’t have stats, but all air elementals are basically the same guys. Except this one is a sociopath.
Read MoreA bonus episode to celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, on December the Fifth. I’ve cut the earlier part of the lay, because it doesn’t serve storytelling. I’d note that he’s the saint for merchants, seafarers, and thieves. The thieves sometimes call themselves the “clerks of St Nicholas”.
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“Are there any old legends attached to the castle?” asked Conrad of his sister. Conrad was a prosperous Hamburg merchant, but he was the one poetically-dispositioned member of an eminently practical family. The Baroness Gruebel shrugged her plump shoulders. “There are always legends hanging about these old places. They are not difficult to invent and…
Read MoreThis was part of a writing challenge to stat up monsters from the older episodes of the podcast. So, four monster tiny demons, which are going to be added to a demon booklet for a future anniversary.\
Read MoreReveners are demons that reanimate corpses. Julia Stone is unusual in that her corpse stays safely tucked away in its tomb, only stepping out into the world through her painting
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In the Scilly Isles there’s a missing covenant called Stellasper. We know of it only that it was a Criamon clutch, that its name suggests astrology, and that its people vanished together. To supplement the Cornish gazetter, that I produced earlier in the year, I’d like to consider how to expand the saga seeds within…
Read MoreEfiygia is the patroness of artists so obsessed with their vision that they are willing to sacrifice everything for its fulfilment. She is a creature of large cities : despite their Dominion aura, they are the only places where her victims can be found in groups. Order: Lady of the False Gods Infernal Might: 40 (Terram) Characteristics: Int…
Read MoreReveners are demons that reanimate corpses. This revener is weaker than most: it can only animate one corpse at a time, and it does not seek to terrify. Far from it – it wants humans to desire, and to pledge themselves, to its beautiful bodies. Order: Vessel of Iniquity Infernal Might: 10 Characteristics: (human form) Int 0, Per…
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Games From Folktales 