Roleplaying games from historical research
I’m disappointed. I thought I’d found a fantasy author who used the areas around Devon as his canvas, and I had. This would have let me push the free material for Ars Magica further east, to join up with the Cornwall and Bristol channel material already available. The problem is that now I’ve discovered that…
Read MoreLike to have all 236 pages of 2021 GFF in one place? Follow the link! Sorry there’s no art this year. It’s been…well, you know.
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We return to the biography of goldsmith and adventurer Benevenuto Cellini, for him to, once again, randomly murder some guy and get away with it. Then again, knowing Cellini if he’d actually wanted to shoot the guy he would have told us that it was a great shot, using his rifle which is better than…
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Jonas Lie was a Norwegian folklorist who collected stories, somewhat in the tradition of the Grimm brothers. His work was translated into English early in the Twentieth Century. Eating the Huldrefish seems to give access to a regio, and it has many creatures from Faerie in it. The one I find most interesting is the…
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In the section which follows, note that everyone is embarrassed to have captured a murderer. They live in an honour culture, rather than a legal culture, and so it seems to them that they are acting unjustly, at least according to the biased narrator. LI I WENT on applying myself with the utmost diligence upon…
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Let’s lead out with Burton’s summary:Belluccia, daughter of Ambruoso de Ia Varra, being obedient to her father, and acting prudently in his commands, becometh the wife of a rich youth. Narduccio hight, the first-born of Biasillo Guallecchia. Her sisters, being poor, are dowered by Biasillo, and given in marriage to his other sons. There was…
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I started to write an article on trick gadgets for Magonomia, but I need to step back a little and give some basic information. Much as I’d need to explain what a cummerbund was if writing up James Bond’s gear, I need to define some terms as we go through, so the potential of clothing…
Read MoreThe transcripts for final quarter of 2021 are available. Once again, they lack graphics. Sorry about that. It’s been a heck of a year.
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Let us start with Burton’s faux-Jacobean summary of this story: Cecelia. ill-treated by her stepmother, is well entreated by three fairies. Her envious stepmother sendeth her own daughter to them, and she is scorned by them, for which reason she sendeth her stepdaughter to watch pigs. A great lord falleth in love with her, but…
Read MoreA quick little ghost story for this time. This poem mentions “Nodier” and he’s one of the authors we will be dabbling with next year. Charles Nodier’s Infernaliana was one of the earliest French collections of vampire stories. The poem below was released through Librviox. Thanks to Alan Mapstone, and the production team. In Spain,…
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Games From Folktales 