Roleplaying games from historical research
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…
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.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…
Read MoreSo, two episode transcripts went live early. Rawls and Extended Mind. The episodes themselves haven’t gone live, and will come out on the 17th and 24th. Solving one problem with another, you know that a Cornwall episode went live early? I’ll use its transcript to plug one of the holes this Friday.
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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,…
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Preparing the ortolans Ortolans are tiny, so they need to be trapped, not shot from the sky with a bow, or torn by a falcon. They don’t flock, which makes this even more challenging to collect in numbers. Trapped orotolans are kept in the dark. This tricks them into thinking it is night, when they…
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I’ve been saying in various episodes the next Dunsany will be Tale of Pombo the Idolater. The problem with that is that the plot hooks it offers overlap strongly with the Three Literary Men. They seem to have been written as companion pieces, and so I don’t want to bore listeners with the same set…
Read MoreI pressed the wrong button and the episode for August 26 has gone live early. I’ll be putting the notes up closer to the day. I also plan to replace it with an episode on Cornish mermaids. So – accidental extras!
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This is the first time I’ve done a two part episode. Last week I covered Cornwall’s Small People, who are the faerie tribe with the greatest footprint in Hunt’s Popular romances from the west of England. This week, the other four of Hunt’s tribes. I’d repeat that Hunt’s taxonomy clearly doesn’t include at least two…
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Games From Folktales 