Roleplaying games from historical research
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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This week and excerpt from “Strange Stories of a Chinese Studio”. The following story contains a creature that is either a revener that has unique limitations but is more pwoerful than usual, or a faerie. The statistics for each version will eventually be given on this blog. The following story was recorded into the public…
Read MoreIt’s the March 2019 transcripts. These include supplementary statistics for creatures described in earlier episodes.
This week we start a new series of posts by a particular author. For the last few years we’ve been doing the works of Lord Dunsany, which I hope eventually to collect together into a vast annotated omnibus. Since then we’ve had some M.R. James, some Benson but for the next six or seven months…
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This week, Major Weir’s Infernal regio in Edinburgh. LibriVox is a community group which records books that are in the public domain into the audio format. I believe this recording is by Colleen McMahon and I thank her for putting it in the public domain. It demonstrates something interesting about folk tales – things which…
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