Hello! The ashcan version of the players’ chapter is all but ready to be released. I accidentally gave unclear instructions to the cartographer about a map and he labelled it in Italian and English, so once he tidies that up I’ll have that ready to go out. The temptation, of course, is to put it…
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Goethe: The Erl-King, The Treasure Seeker and the Magician’s Apprentice
This is the second episode of poems from Goethe. Two of these will get stats eventually, and the middle is what happens when you fumble while selling your soul. Alan Mapstone pronounces “Erl king” in a way that I’m forced to admit is correct, but sounds strange to my ear. The word he’s saying is…
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Venice : A Revener on the Lagoons from Horatio Brown
I found a little ghost story in my researches for Venice. It has what we’d call a revener in Ars Magica (see Realms of Power: The Infernal). I’m not usuing this story in the Venice material, although I suggest a valle, as described later, might make a good navigable point outside The Shoruded Glen ritual…
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The Cranes of Ibycus by Frederich Schiller
The Birds of Nephelococcygia were first described for Ars Magica in Realms of Power: Magic. They didn’t really get much use after this, but they’re an interesting group, because they offer a soft Titanomachy, without all of the destruction required of the Viktir version in Deis Irae. These creatures are based on a play by…
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Witch Stories: The Ghost and the Succubus
A couple of little stories from Linton. The creatures here are an infernal ghost and a succubus, both of which can be modelled using Realms of Power: Infernal. Thanks to the Librivox readers and production teams. Stats eventually. THE GHOST OF THE BLACK-BROWED MAID If bodies were safe after death, characters were not. Isabel Heriot…
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Goethe: The Bride of Corinth
This is the first of a series of episodes based on ballads from Goethe. The poem given here is based on two ancient Greek stories. The story’s core is that of Machates and Philinnion from Phlegon’s “Book of Marvels”, but in that story the bride is not obviously a vampire. She’s a member of the…
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“The Gold Bread” by Edouard R. L. Laboulaye
This time a story of (arguably not) dwarves from The Transylvanian Tribunal. The reading you’re about to hear is from LibriVox by J GO. Thank you for the recording. It was written by Edouard Laboulaye whose work isn’t seen a lot in English. On the off chance that some of the American listeners are going…
Read MoreVenice Draft 0.1
The Draft Zero version of Mythic Venice has been updated. Structurally the core parts are in place. Now what I’ll be doing is going through and making sure every bit of lore has a clear plot use. Currently it is 53 000 words long, which is about two-thirds the length of one of the standard…
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Divine Methods and Powers by Angela Black
A welcome to Games From Folktales’s first guest author, Angela Black. *** In the default conception of Mythic Europe, miracles of Faith are rare. Whether this is for game balance or simply due to our modern sensibilities, it doesn’t exactly fit the medieval mindset on divine intervention. Miracles – while still wondrous – were relatively…
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The Awful Bugaboo by Eugene Field
A bugaboo, or bugbear, is a variant of the faeries that scare parents into seeing to their children. In Realms of Power : Faerie this would be a variant of the ogre Gello. Thanks to Ann and her production team for the recording. *** THERE was an awful Bugaboo Whose Eyes were Red and Hair was…
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