Roleplaying games from historical research
To be rich is a luxurious sensation—the more so when you have plumbed the depths of hard-up-ness as a Fleet Street hack, a picker-up of unconsidered pars, a reporter, an unappreciated journalist—all callings utterly inconsistent with one’s family feeling and one’s direct descent from the Dukes of Picardy. When my Aunt Dorcas died and left…
Read MoreI wanted to write up a Demon of Hysteria for this episode, but it turns out I had a spare one from years ago, and they match perfectly.
Read MoreThe one representation we have of the shrine of Cloacina indicates it had two figures upon it. They are both, apparently, Cloacina. I had thought I’d do faerie queen who was the protrectress of the discarded – the two faces being a Cthonic monster (the Queen of Sable Rivers) and a faerie godmother (The Keeper of…
Read MoreMinor creatures, released from Hell for a foolish soul. Their relatively powerlessness and lack of physical detail are in deliberate mockery of the artist who sacrificed everything to give his painting life.
Read MoreFor the next 30 days, the goal is to put up a post a day, filling in statistics for creatures that were described, but not numerically defined, in earlier episodes of the podcast. I may well fail, but we’ll see how it goes. These posts won’t make it intact into the podcast: they are supplemental…
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I had come to the Art Museum to see the special show of Goya prints, but that particular gallery was so crowded that I could hardly get in, much less see or savor anything; wherefore I walked out again. I wandered through the other wings with their rows and rows of oils, their Greek and…
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A little bonus episode for Hallowee’n. I have walked a great while over the snow, And I am not tall nor strong. My clothes are wet, and my teeth are set, And the way was hard and long. I have wandered over the fruitful earth, But I never came here before. Oh, lift me…
Read MoreI’m not sure why this didn’t go live properly…so here’s a link for September’s GFF collated notes. Thanks for spotting it Daniel! GFF Sep 2018 (1)
Read MoreThis month’s notes contain a few long episodes which accidentally went live in May. There are no stats – my November project this year is to try and do a series of stats every day. I’ve not cheated properly this time, so…we’ll see. 8)
The strait between Cornwall and the Scilly Islands is renowned as a haunt of eels. I’d presumed these were conger eels, which live their entire lives at sea, but it seems that the common eel is also found in these waters. The common eel is at the centre of one of the weirder bits of…
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