Roleplaying games from historical research
Thanks to all of the Ars Magica fans who voted for the Grimgroth Awards. I’d like to thank CJ and his henchpeople for all of the effort involved. I’d particularly like to congratulate Ben McFarland for the Dragon Abbott. I remember reading the draft of it and thinking “This is brilliant and I have never thought…
Read MoreThe Mirarion was a fiction piece I started last year and has stalled due to my health issues. I do hope to get back to it eventually. This was my first shot at a beginning. I think it’s too slow, so you’ll see the proper beginning next week. *** He asked me what I remembered…
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I recently finished recording the final volume of On War by Carl von Clausewitz for Librivox. Librivox recordings are legally available for free, and are in the public domain so you can reuse them for other projects. I’m really proud of how it has turned out, and the enormous effort that Linda and I put…
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One of the posters over on the Ars board is doing some great stuff with Baal-peor’s mystery cult initiations. Check them out. A few suggested additions for your saga: In later demonology Belphegor is the demons of inventiveness, so he’s the one who knows where all of the Original Research is lost. He may also…
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I’ve added a few extra vlog posts to my YouTube channel. They are not fantastic, but I’m still learning how the equipment works. I apologize if you get two Google+ or Facebook notifications about this post (one from WordPress and one from Youtube. I’m going to have that sorted for the next video. The first is…
Read MoreI’m not sure how much of my stuff made it through the translation process, or if they just wrote from scratch, but the cover of Alliances is floating around the web and it fills me with pride. I’m not sure what Ludogames’s policy on sharing their graphics is, so if they want me to take…
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I’m doing some practice vloging, with an Ars Magica sort of theme. My current plan is to load one of these a week, on Friday, Australian time. The current plan is Introduction (which is up) Cookbook (which is about the writing process for Covenants, and is recorded) and then some material suggested by commenters. The…
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Longevity rituals are kind of the ugly ducking of the Ars Magic item design process. Initially they used a Creo Corpus total, but that was boring because it meant any sane magus eventually became a Creo Corpus expert. Now it has the odd effect of making most magi look younger than me, and so you…
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I was watching a documentary the other day about the ancient Olympics, and was struck by a few things which seemed useful for Ars Magica play. The first is that if you had a great bard like Pindar in your service, and you won at the Olympics, he could convince people you were so amazingly skilled…
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Two months after I planned to finish the project, I’m drawing a line under what’s been done. It’s over 10 000 words of starter information for new troupes, including setting, statistics, mystery initiations and plot hooks. The piece is coherent, although it could be expanded in several ways, and underdevelops the Welsh material. I’m glad its finished…
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Games From Folktales 