Roleplaying games from historical research
I was watching a documentary the other day about the ancient Olympics, and was struck by a few things which seemed useful for Ars Magica play. The first is that if you had a great bard like Pindar in your service, and you won at the Olympics, he could convince people you were so amazingly skilled…
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Two months after I planned to finish the project, I’m drawing a line under what’s been done. It’s over 10 000 words of starter information for new troupes, including setting, statistics, mystery initiations and plot hooks. The piece is coherent, although it could be expanded in several ways, and underdevelops the Welsh material. I’m glad its finished…
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So, Another thousand words on the vanilla covenant page. The additions for today are another map of Bristol, some myths about the islands, and the story of the nymph of the River Severn. I also set up the next update, which is a Mystery path based on the Cult of Nodens. My free time is really constrained right…
Read MoreSorry gang, I have a week filled with medical diagnostics. So, no update on the covenant project for now. 2013. I’m so glad you are gone. Seriously. I thought the whole slow torture with Amber thing was terrible, but then you had my doctor calling me three days before Christmas saying “You know those turning…
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I’ve been collecting books for years. In part this is because I’m a librarian, and so I’m trained to see the value in written things. In part it’s because I’m an Ars Magica author, and so I have a tendency to pick things up and think :”One day I may need this for a book…
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It’s still fermenting away on its own page. New this week: complete stats for the other three Companion level characters. Next week I’ll be skipping for the holidays, then returning with some grog kits, and the beginning of the serious folklore work. You might think the 5 000 words of folklore you see there now…
Read MoreSo, the vanilla covenant project is moving forward again: stats for specialists this and next week. Also, I found this on my hard drive while I was cleaning out. I’m guessing I did it before the associated book came out?
Read MoreI was interviewed about a MOOC I was studying, and the interview has just been published. It’s at the tail end of this bio piece about my lecturer. http://www.westword.com/2013-10-24/news/william-kuskin-university-of-colorado/
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Over on the Ars Forum, people have been suggesting we don’t have enough material for new players, and so I’ve decided to write some material which is based on making the obvious design choices. It’s about a covenant which is a castle on a hill by a faerie forest. It’s in Summer, and has senior…
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An explanation for why the blog has been so quiet of late, and a rough draft for my graphic novel essay. Final submission draft It is very similar to the rough photos. I tried to redraw it, but when I laid out the first grid, it looked too artificial. I like that this has the slightly warped…
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Games From Folktales 