Roleplaying games from historical research
This week: another monster. I originally was writing this up, I wasn’t sure how to approach it. Is it a vampire with a very complicated way of mesmerizing and then consuming you? But then I thought, no. Maybe this is an infestation. Rather like the maggots in Realms of Power, The Infernal or like a…
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This has a certain American feel, but can be easily transposed into feudal times. Statistics for the monsters eventually. Thanks to Tennishoes and his Librivox production team. *** Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The difficult and…
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One of the annoying things in my Cheshire folklore review is that I keep finding excellent spots for covenants, but little folklore around them to support campaigns. I discovered there’s a mineral found only in a couple of places, called “blue john” and though that it was likely useful as a vis source. Blue John…
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Our monthly foray into Longdendale to find material for a saga book. There’s a barguest the size of a cow! Thanks to the reader, Tony Scheinman, and his Librivox production team. NTIL the latter half of the nineteenth century there might have been numbered among the curious old buildings for which the township of Godley has…
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Our monthly return to Cheshire, to patch together a saga book. May I offer the ghost of a witch in a ruined cottage? Thanks to Doc DL Martin and her Librivox production team. N the township of Godley, on the fringe of what was formerly an unenclosed common known as Godley Green, stands an old farm,…
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A further link in the chain of stories to create a story book set in Longdendale. Proof of a constant culture of magic in the valley. We have a story that will seem familiar to fans of early Americana. Thanks to RandyReads and their Librivox production team. ONGDENDALE has always been noted for the number of…
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Let’s keep running around with a butterfly net through the folklore of Cheshire, grabbing things to use in a setting. There’s a local magical tradition of multi-form shapeshifting witches. Thanks to Brian Fullen and his production team for this recording. This is a pretty simple style of magic to create statistics for: the person gets…
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For our monster of the month, two merfolk variants. One is a vicious triton similar to the Daughter Summoned To the Comb in Mythic Europe Magazine #1, with an added power to enthrall via eye contact. The other is a faerie seducer. These recordings were made for Librivox by Dale Grothmann and Alan Mapstone. Thanks…
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I heard this poem and was developing it as a monster. I was preparing a sort of Frankenstein’s monster figure, a revener that, when you killed it, turned out to just be a vessel for a demon that was sitting in its chest cavity. Then I realized I’d seen something directly similar: this is the…
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This is more of a puzzle than a story. The magi want the confession under the hand of the skeleton of Lord Lovel. An influx of air will destroy the pages. How do they use their magic to read or transcribe them? Thanks to Shrimpfish and their Librivox production team for the recording. ***Francis Lovel…
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Games From Folktales 