Roleplaying games from historical research
So, the blog has been a little quiet (I’ve been off doing Coursera) but there’s some material upcoming: My Sicily notes. These really are notes: they are some of the raw material out of which I’ll later build story hooks and paragraphs of text. I need more, particularly geography, but we’ll see how far this book takes us…
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In 1221, Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, passed a law that said in his kingdom of Sicily, no-one was ever to be charged for robbing, or beating up, buffoons and jesters. The laws passed at the time also included the punishment of gamblers who took the name of God in vain, the demand that…
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I wrote a timeline for the Tribunal book, but asked for it to be cut, because it was taking up space that could be used for ideas set in 1220. Here it is, for your covenant’s deep history, or play in non-standard time periods. You’ll notice it contains primarily Hungarian material. If it also contained…
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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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