Ars Magica – Page 50 – Games From Folktales

September 7, 2017August 27, 2017

Dunsany: The Quest of the Queen’s Tears

Let us continue the conceit that the works of Lord Dunsany are the reminiscences of a retired redcap. This time, we have a queen, a quest for her hand, a hero, his servant, and a monster. What could better suit our purpose? My comments are in blue. Apologies for formatting errors: I need to change my work processes to stop this happening again. *** Sylvia, Queen of the Woods, in her woodland palace, held court, and made a mockery of her suitors. She would sing to them, she said, she would give them banquets,…

GFF Aug 2017

August 31, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall: Merrymaids

Merrymaids is one of those podcasts which is made of layers of inculcations. It makes more sense in a graphical format, so I hope you’ll pardon the jpgs extracted from the monthly digest.

August 24, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall: The Romance of the Rocks

Yet another bonus episode due to an early release. On the first pass this was the least promising chapter or Hunt’s book, but elements of it are useful as vis sources and environmental modifiers. It’s also our first introduction to Ambrose Merlyn, who we’ll need to keep an eye on. The stones The Cornish in…

August 17, 2017November 23, 2017

Cornwall : The Damned Soul of Tregeagle

.Following the tremendously long section on the tribes of the fae, Hunt, whose text we are following, narrows his focus to a single person: the damned soul of Jan Tregeagle. There is not a lot known about the life of Tregeagle. He is said to be one of the family that owned Trevorder, near Bodmin. He lived…

August 12, 2017

Gahhh….

So, two episode transcripts went live early. Rawls and Extended Mind. The episodes themselves haven’t gone live, and will come out on the 17th and 24th. Solving one problem with another, you know that a Cornwall episode went live early? I’ll use its transcript to plug one of the holes this Friday.

August 12, 2017November 23, 2017

The Extended Mind and Hermetic Magic

When the podcast does these episodes on philosophy, it’s often necessary to begin by explaining terms. In 1998, Clark and Chalmers released a book called “The Extended Mind” in which they posited that material objects beyond the skull or skin could be part of an environment which, when coupled with the mind, formed a system,…

August 12, 2017August 12, 2017

Orotolans: hiding sins from God with a towel

Preparing the ortolans Ortolans are tiny, so they need to be trapped, not shot from the sky with a bow, or torn by a falcon. They don’t flock, which makes this even more challenging to collect in numbers. Trapped orotolans are kept in the dark. This tricks them into thinking it is night, when they…

GFF July 2017