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…
Read MoreAnd here it is…the Games From Folktales December 2019 transcipts
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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…
Read MoreHello, just a note to explain what’s happening next year. I’m almost done with my Scillonian material, and so I put up a poll on Paetreon for the focus of my next set of readings. People chose Venice, so next year, we’ll start gathering together material for sagas set there. I’ve had a little fiction…
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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…
Read MoreIt’s the November transcripts, oh my!
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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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This week a quick episode in which we see a malevolent spirit. It is a North American story: you’ll notice some of the technologies involved in the poem aren’t in period for Mythic Europe The recording used in the episode was released into the public domain through LibriVox by Craig Franklin. The Walker of the…
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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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