Grimgroth Awards and the Hermetic Museum

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…

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Mirarion : Preface

The 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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Belphegor notes

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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A note on the new vlog

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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Final update for the vanilla covenant page

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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