Roleplaying games from historical research
Over on the Ars Magica Discord server, Dinonerd1 was asking about griffons with a parrot head. Here’s my take on them. It’s a reskinning of the juvenile female griffon statistics from Legends of Hermes. I’ll use this in a podcast later. The Psitticine Griffon, more commonly the psitticogrif, is a smaller and even rarer creature…
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This is the 200th episode of Games From Folktales, so you’re going to have to indulge me, dear reader. I’m sharing a fiction piece. It’s set in Cornwall and has a creature which is presumably, in Ars Magica terms, an Accuser: that is, a demon who hunts sinners and claims to be sent from God.…
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I’ve been talking with Ben from Sub Rosa about whether it would be useful to create some background information for an adventure, and record it as an audio episode, so that players on their way to a convention could absorb the background information while they’re driving. That reminded me of this little story, which I…
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This is a bonus episode. In following months we’ll be moving on from “The Stories of a Chinese Studio” by Pu to “Manx Fairy Tales” by Sophia Morrison. Morrison is kind of like the Brothers Grimm for Manx fairy tales: if you’ve heard manx fairy tales, you have heard her work. She also acted as…
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A quick story from Songling Pu: Formerly, when the Dutch were permitted to trade with China, the officer in command of the coast defences would not allow them, on account of their great numbers, to come ashore. The Dutch begged very hard for the grant of a piece of land such as a carpet would cover;…
Read MoreThe Coachman of Major Weir This creature takes the form of a wizened man in elegant clothes. It claims to be Satan himself, but that’s simply a lie. Order: Lord of the False Gods Infernal Might: 25 (Ignem)Characteristics: Int +1, Per +1 , Pre +1, Com +5, Str +0, Sta +5, Dex +5, Qik +2Size: -1: Usually takes the…
Read MoreIt’s that time: May 2019!
This week another recording from “Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio” by Songling Pu. Thanks to the readers from LibriVox who have read this book into the public domain. During the reign of Shun Chih, of the people of T‘êng-i, seven in ten were opposed to the Manchu dynasty. The officials dared not touch them; and…
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Last week we discussed a gustatory society that is run by House Jerbiton, which has subscription boxes, and I talked about how if the subscription boxes were lost they could be a sort of treasure, because you’re magi could use them to get past some of the lesser limits of Hermetic magic. I had, however,…
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This week another of our “Short Stories From a Chinese Studio” This episode went live early, so apologies for the late transcript. The reason I’ve decided to share this one with the Ars Magica fandom is that it shows what a mundane person of slightly greater than average intelligence, and with no understanding of Magic…
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