Roleplaying games from historical research
Have you heard the story of the rotting princess? She usually gets a paragraph in the histories of Venice. Just a small one, near the beginning. She’s a useful starting point. She’s where you can say things started to careen off course. She’s to blame for all of the vanities of Venice. She was an…
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Here Dunsany has a little side story, a phantastical episode, but for us it’s a useful snippet. The hero meets a magician who keeps forcing him to undergo mystogogic initiations. The recording was released into the public domain by Ed Humpel, through Librivox. *** The sound of their knocking boomed huge and slow through the…
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I recorded a Christmas episode earlier this year, but because of the vagaries of podcast production, it drifted to early December. Here’s a replacement, about the Abbey of Saint Nicholas at Tresco. Nicholas, in local lore, is a fearsome chap : he’s far more similar to the weapon smuggler who turns up in the Narnia…
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This week another one of our folktales from Man by Sophia Morrison. This is The Old Christmas, which was read into the public domain through LibriVox by Larry Wilson. Thanks to him and his production team at LibriVox. I just like to stress that this folktale comes from at least the Sixteenth Century because the…
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There’s an impish faerie that is only seen in Mythic Europe during the twelve days of Christmas, the kallikantzaros, which has never been used in any of the supplements. As the Yule is approaching, I’d like to bring them out, but give them a fresh coat of paint by combining them with “The Goblins Who…
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Apologies: I hadn’t noticed this transcript wasn’t live. The episode says its the final Morrison folktale from the Isle of Man, but it isn’t. After recording them I swapped the order to put the Christmas traditions into December. “The City Under The Sea” is a folk tale from a later time, where a person is…
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This week we quote hard: welcome to the medieval equivalent of H H Holmes’s hotel. Thanks again to Ed Humpel and Librivox. The door opened after a while and mine host appeared. “It is late,” he said. Rodriguez smiled acquiescently and mine host withdrew, and presently leaving Morano whom his master’s voice had waked, to…
Read MoreI’ve added statistics to the episode transcript discussing these creatures, but here they are, for easy access. The Siren of the Pier Faerie Might: 15 Characteristics:(human form) Int +1, Per +1, Pre +0, Com +1, Str 0*, Sta 0* , Dex 0*, Qik 0*.*These scores are provided by the host body. Size: 0* (*as host) Virtues and…
Read MoreThe Outlandish Knight, the Final Victim and the Mercenary Parrot were described in episode 205. The Outlandish Knight The Outlandish Knight is simpler version of the Glanconer (Realms of Power : Faerie p 74-75). He doesn’t kill by draining life energy along an arcane connection: he just whisks girls away to murder them in a…
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This week one of our Isle of Man episodes: the Buggane of the broken church of St Trinian’s. The recording used came from the book by Sophia Morrison and was released into the public domain through LibriVox by Kurt from Tucson. A long time ago there came some monks to the broad, rough meadow, which…
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Games From Folktales 