Roleplaying games from historical research
There are four sites near Longdendale that seem obvious as covenant locations. These are suitable either for player characters or, if they are settled in this area, a rival covenant. Highstones The simplest of the four suggested settings is at Highstones. This location was a Roman “fortlet”, a sort of waystation between the large fortress…
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Let’s keep running around with a butterfly net through the folklore of Cheshire, grabbing things to use in a setting. There’s a local magical tradition of multi-form shapeshifting witches. Thanks to Brian Fullen and his production team for this recording. This is a pretty simple style of magic to create statistics for: the person gets…
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The collection of interesting trivia around Cheshire continues. A magic book, a likely regio, and a bound spirit. Thanks to Nick D and his Librivox production team. HERE is a spot prettily situated near the town of Glossop, known as Mossey Lea. It is notable as having been the home of a great magician, who dwelt…
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Eligius Caul is a faerie-blooded human whose book arcade acts as a navigational aid and safe harbour within the Merceria. A tall, shy man, Caul spends a great deal of time spinning tall stories to convince people to visit his book arcade. It’s three stories high and has a beautiful rainbow over the broad entrance.…
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One of the team from the other Ars Magica Venice book reached out to me and asked if I could support their Backerkit campaign with a podcast episode, and I’m happy to. I’d like to quickly note this isn’t a paid advertisement and I don’t have any access beyond my status as a subscriber to…
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For our monster of the month, two merfolk variants. One is a vicious triton similar to the Daughter Summoned To the Comb in Mythic Europe Magazine #1, with an added power to enthrall via eye contact. The other is a faerie seducer. These recordings were made for Librivox by Dale Grothmann and Alan Mapstone. Thanks…
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In Ars Magica, places that are old develop Magical auras. This is particularly true of places that have been used for arcane practice, like temples, but more generally, if you find a ruin, and it goes back to the Roman era, it may well have a Magical aura. The question is, can that process of…
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I heard this poem and was developing it as a monster. I was preparing a sort of Frankenstein’s monster figure, a revener that, when you killed it, turned out to just be a vessel for a demon that was sitting in its chest cavity. Then I realized I’d seen something directly similar: this is the…
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This is more of a puzzle than a story. The magi want the confession under the hand of the skeleton of Lord Lovel. An influx of air will destroy the pages. How do they use their magic to read or transcribe them? Thanks to Shrimpfish and their Librivox production team for the recording. ***Francis Lovel…
Read MoreNow that Mythic Europe Magazine Issue One is out, its time for me to buckle down and put some podcast episodes in the can. Much as the Cornish and Venice episodes eventually collated into a book, the larger series of episodes may eventually cohere into a larger work. The three broad series in the upcoming…
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Games From Folktales 