Games From Folktales

Yet another bonus episode due to an early release. On the first pass this was the least promising chapter or Hunt’s book, but elements of it are useful as vis sources and environmental modifiers.  It’s also our first introduction to Ambrose Merlyn, who we’ll need to keep an eye on. The stones The Cornish in…

.Following the tremendously long section on the tribes of the fae, Hunt, whose text we are following, narrows his focus to a single person: the damned soul of Jan Tregeagle. There is not a lot known about the life of Tregeagle. He is said to be one of the family that owned Trevorder, near Bodmin. He lived…

When the podcast does these episodes on philosophy, it’s often necessary to begin by explaining terms. In 1998, Clark and Chalmers released a book called “The Extended Mind” in which they posited that material objects beyond the skull or skin  could be part of  an environment which, when coupled with the mind, formed a system,…