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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A new look, and a new year
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.
I’ve finally made a start on the Against the Dark page
It’s taken a while, but I’ve started my notes on Against the Dark, my twentieth Ars Magica book.
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A gathering of thoughts
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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Ars Magica Note: London Bridge
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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The Story of The Shoes – The First and Last of the Stories of Marco the Liar to his Grand-Daughter
“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…
Read MoreHow The Tremere Killed A Diedne Archmaga
“Grandfather, come see! I planted that hobnail and a weird little weed has come out of the ground!” “Really? Ah, yes, a shoe tree.” “That’s…well, not ridiculous but really weird. It has bark that’s like, well, leather!” “Yes, it’s a faerie plant. They are often strange. The shoes it grows contain Rego vis, but better…
Read MoreThe Story in Which Rosa Discovers a Family Secret
“Rosa, you’re bleeding. Are you hurt?” “Oh, I cut myself on something. It doesn’t string like it did, but it just won’t stop bleeding.” “What did you cut yourself on?” “It’s a sharp little square with a point on it. It sunk right into my finger!” “Oh, that’s a hobnail that’s snapped off from the underside…
Read MoreMarco stories update
Hi all, Rather than stretch out the Marco stories, I’m going to move the last three stories up to today, tomorrow and the next day. The idea of Nagademon and NanoWriMo is to force yourself to work to deadline, and stretching things out to get the 30 stories I originally envisaged is kind of cheating, so I’ll…
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