Roleplaying games from historical research
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…
Read MoreI’ve ported most of Games From Folktales to YouTube, so if you hate podcatchers, it’s now available in YouTube and Youtube Music. It’ll still be in any podcatcher that indexes from iTunes. As a bonus, I’ve scraped the audio out of the three useful episodes of the old vlog, and turned them into an episode. Sadly…
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A short Dunsany piece in which we see either an angel, or an accuser at its work. Accusers are demons who claim to punish humans on behalf of God. Statistics are provided at the end of this post. I like that this angel, or demon, has installed neon lights in the extension he is building…
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This is a variant of the glanconer, which is written up in Realms of Power: Faerie (page 74 and 75). Thanks to Clarica for the recording. A ghost, that loved a lady fair, Ever in the starry air Of midnight at her pillow stood; And, with a sweetness skies above The luring words of human…
Read MoreThree episodes went live prematurely on the podcast or blog earlier this year. This post, and the one which accompanies it today, are the transcripts for those stories. * OF all the pupils at the knight school Gawaine le Cœur-Hardy was among the least promising. He was tall and sturdy, but his instructors soon discovered that…
Read MoreThis is for an episode of the podcast which went live early. It’s a short story by M.R. James. Statistics for the monster are found at the end of this post. … Everyone who has travelled over Eastern England knows the smaller country-houses with which it is studded—the rather dank little buildings, usually in the…
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A description of a conscious space: in Ars Magica terms, a faerie embodied as a copse of woodland. Statistics in November. Thanks to Dennis Smith for reading this into the public domain through Librivox. *** From Southwater, where he left the train, the road led due west. That he knew; for the rest he trusted to…
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