Roleplaying games from historical research
Last week we discussed a gustatory society that is run by House Jerbiton, which has subscription boxes, and I talked about how if the subscription boxes were lost they could be a sort of treasure, because you’re magi could use them to get past some of the lesser limits of Hermetic magic. I had, however,…
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This week another of our “Short Stories From a Chinese Studio” This episode went live early, so apologies for the late transcript. The reason I’ve decided to share this one with the Ars Magica fandom is that it shows what a mundane person of slightly greater than average intelligence, and with no understanding of Magic…
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Sometimes I notice I’ve missed an idea that’s obvious in hindsight. Given that the book this idea is from was published over a decade ago, I can only suggest that I’ve had a lot on… There’s a limit of knowledge in the act of Hermetic creation. Although, as some genius said on the forum, you…
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The main character in this story is Richard of Cornwall, the man who goes on to become the Holy Roman Empero, basically by buying the job using money he gains from banking. In the ashcan for the Cornwall material that’s already been released he gets several pages of material, but this story is one that…
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This week another one of our episodes from the work of Song Ling Pu’s “Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio.” If you read Wikipedia it will tell you that the Indian rope trick was invented by an American magician in the early 20th Century. It is difficult to reconcile this with an account of the…
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Occassionally I find an audio source with so much useful material that I can’t properly cut out the plot hooks. Here’s a hook that comes from two little fragments of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones by George Kunz. The readers for Librivox, in these sections, were Dustim Thomas and Mike Golcyzinski. I may revisit…
Read MoreThe Games From Folktales transcripts for April 2019 are out. There is no art this month: the catch-up on monster statistics is taking all of my production time.
This week I’d like to talk to you about the artist Alexander Calder. Calder was active in the early 20th century and late 19th century, so he’s well past the Ars Magica period but I think his work is interesting enough to us that we could sculpt a mystery cult around it. You’re familiar with…
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This weeka short episode. It comes from the work of Lucy Lane Clifford, who provided the hollow faerie protagonist of “From Out of the World” last month and the creepy “New Mother” from the month before. I’m notsure what I want to do with it/ I think it’s a faerie regio. This poem was read…
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One of the advantages of doing fan work, over official work for the line, is that you can include internal contradictions. In the ashcan for the Cornwall material that’s currently out I use the date for the submergence of Lyonesse which is given in the Gesta Romanorum. There is however a piece of folklore that…
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