Roleplaying games from historical research
I started the reading for my Mythic Sicily project tonight and I find I’ve a bigger task than I imagined. I thought I’d just be covering the court of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Marvel of the World. There are many reasons for being interested in it, from a roleplaying game perspective. It turns…
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I work for the only public library service in this country that doesn’t charge you for interlibrary loans*. This means I can have rather more interlibrary loans than most other people, but it does mean that I get myself into situations like the one I’m currently in. I’m going to be doing a Mythic Sicily…
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When you decide to solo a really large book, you are giving a huge portion of your life to something. The only reason it isn’t daunting is because you carefully conspire with yourself not to notice what you are doing. I’ve just finished The Gladstone Colony, other than a couple of hours of edits. In…
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I’ve set up single page versions of Thirty Objects of Desire and The Stories of Marco the Liar, which were a supplement and a fiction project spurred on by NaGaDeMon.
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So, a new theme, a new look, and a new year. What’s happening this year on Games From Folktales? I over committed myself last year: I think I wrote pieces for seven books, which is a few too many with a new baby. That left me little time for the blog. This year I’m probably taking things…
Read MoreOne of the other authors, who goes by Jarkman on the web, has started his own blog. It’s still being set up, but if you find what’s going on here interesting, you’ll probably like My Life As a Grog.
It’s taken a while, but I’ve started my notes on Against the Dark, my twentieth Ars Magica book.
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So, could we design an Ars Magica game which starts at, for example, around 1875 (the greater Regency era, if you will) and runs until the end of the reign of Victoria? What would it look like? My suggestion is either that Issac Newton, in his Principia Magica, or Roger Bacon in his New Atlantis takes…
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Apparently London Bridge had a chapel in it, which means that in an Ars Magica sense, it had a Divine Aura. It also had a band of men who served the chapel and kept order on the bridge, and shops and residences. I think a covenant built on the bridge would be an excellent…
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“Rosa”, the letter says, on its outside, “whatever you do, do not break the seal of this letter until you are by the shoe tree, and wearing a new set of unloseable shoes. Our lives may depend on it.” The letter is sealed with red wax, with the intaglio of de Marco, so the little girl…
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