Hello, the scripts for the first quarter of 2022 are out!
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Cellini meets the Angel of Death
A couple of quick comments, beyond the usual reminder to look at how many times Cellini tells you that he is better than other people, including you, We have some characters who, for context, need a little bit more description. The angel of death he meets is not the Jewish angel of death covered in…
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Atlantis by Clark Ashton Smith
A quick bonus episode to give you a little regio, from the poetry of Clark Ashton Smith. The recording was released through Librivox by Rosslyn Carlyle. Thanks to her and her production team. Above its domes the gulfs accumulate.Far up, the sea-gales blare their bitter screed:But here the buried waters take no heed—Deaf, and with…
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Venice – The Confined Canoness
This week a little sliver of Venice. This is from my recording of the biography of the dogaressas of Venice for Librivox. It’s the story of the daughter of a doge who was married into a rival family. When the rival family rebelled anyway she, and all of her children, and anyone who was married…
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The Vendor of Tears by William M. Conselman
This is our monster for the month. He’s clearly a faerie who sells Arcane Connections. Stats eventually. This recording was released through Librivox by Dale Grothmann. Thanks to Dale and his production team. *** The Vendor of TearsBy William M . ConselmanThe little old man closed my library door and stepped nimbly forward. He bowed…
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Magonomia – The Anglo-Moroccan Alliance
If we were doing a proper product here, I would not be the guy to write this: I know at least two of the old Ars Magica gang who would be better choices. That being said, there are plot hooks here we can use, and I’d like to flag them for your table. So, in…
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Magonomia : Elizabethan pistols
Lets talk Elizabethan guns. Pistols aren’t great in the start of the reign. The problem isn’t range or accuracy, both of which are bad, but they still trump swords and daggers in close combat, so that gives them a use case, the problem is the trigger mechanism. Early pistols are matchlocks. Time for some engineering.…
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Cellini – the necromancer, the mistress and the assassin.
A huge chunk from the Autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini in this episode. There’s some period magic here which is what originally drew me to this author. In this section I initially didn’t include the bit at the end about the assassin, but I want to be able to call back to it when, later. In…
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The Lavender Dragon by Eden Phillpotts
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…
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The Invisible Monster / The Horror at Martin’s Beach by Sonia Greene
This is the monster for the month. Greene was a an independently wealthy heiress and later a journalist. I believe Greene wrote this before her marriage to HP Lovecraft, although I’ve read he may have helped edit this in some way. Stats eventually. *** I have never heard an even approximately adequate explanation of the…
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Games From Folktales 