Roleplaying games from historical research
This week: when noblemen ruin perfectly good vis sources for no reason. The recording used in this episode was released into the public domain through LibriVox. Thanks again to all the LibriVoxians! Once upon a time a knight was riding in the country beyond Gloucester and came to a forest abounding and boars stags and…
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The works of Lord Dunsany provided many dozens of plot hooks, and monsters, for the early episodes of this podcast. It also provided material for the longest. In my fossicking I took the easy pieces, in his short story collections, and left Dunsany’s novels alone. I thought them insufficiently fantastical. I was, however, mistaken. Time…
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One of our Isle of Man episodes. This story was originally collected by Sophia Morrison and was recorded into the public domain by Andrew Calvillo. Thanks to Andrew and all the people at LibriVox. After the story I’ll be popping up with a few observations. It was Midsummer Day, and the Peel Herring Fleet, with…
Read MoreTwo months worth of transcripts, July and August.
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This week, an extract from English Fairy Tales that calls back to a previous episode from the Cornish series. The tales of Jack the Giant-killer that I’m familiar with come from Cornwall so they deal with his early career and his retirement after he becomes a Knight of the Round Table, but it turns out…
Read MoreThis is a bonus episode to explain what’s been going on on the blog and to give you a little reassurance about the future of Games from Folktales. The way my podcast plan works I get a 50 MB or data per month for a $5 payment, which is covered by the blog’s Patreon donors…
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A quick episode this week, which is from our Isle of Man series, in which we learn the valuable lesson to not mock hellhounds. The recording which follows was released into the public domain by Larry Wilson through LibriVox: thanks to Larry and all the LibriVox. See a few plot hooks at the end ***…
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Episode 202 was so overwhelming I’ve decided to cut the material from Kunz’s “Curious Lore of Precious Stones” into many small pieces. Each has three or four types of gemstone. The first episode contains plot hooks which suit all stones – this one only those which suit each particular stone. Agate Kunz notes : The…
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This week, one of our Isle of Man episodes. If your characters want to found a covenant they need somewhere that has an aura. Maybe this folktale can provide them with the perfect place and, if they can find the right spells to counter the Faerie Wizard’s petrification magic, they might have some brave and…
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This week is a hybrid episode where we show the difference between Ars Magica and Magonomia. If you are listening to this podcast episode when it is released, the Magonomia Kickstarter will be closing within a week or so. In Ars Magica faeries are liminal spirits. Fairies in Magonomia are Elizabethan spirits. The easiest way…
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