The Tin Islands project for Ars Magica is beginning to take some shape in my mind. Here’s what is going to make it distinctive. All players will get a two page version of the basic Ars Magica rules. My first attempt at this is over here. All Latin terms will be given in English, other than…
Read MoreA rough idea of the poll’s outcome
So, the poll has run for a sufficent time to get useful data. So here we go. As a group, readers want an adventure for newbies that can be run at cons. So my first take on this is that the characters are junior magi in a covenant which is threatened with annihilation, and they…
Read MoreA miscellany of little faeries, left over from Realms of Power : Faerie
The section for Realms of Power : Faerie is now complete, and includes most of the little faeries cut from the book for length.
Read MoreMagi of Hermes section is up!
The section on Magi of Hermes is up. It’s not very detailed, but does contain some spells designed for a character I began to create, then did away with, during the pitching stage. I don’t recall her at all. That’s one of the virtues of this project: it makes me check my old files for things…
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Lords of Men: How Avoiding Something You Love Improves Your Writing
The section on Lords of Men is now complete, at least to the “first thoughts” stage. It talks a lot about my love of Pendragon, and how Lords differs from that earlier game, and why it suits Ars Magica better with those thematic differences.
Read MoreRival Magic table of contents is up!
Michelle has just posted a link to the Rival Magic TOC. It looks like December’s still a posibility for sale date.
Read MoreHow Tori Amos, Nextwave and Kasey Chambers entered Mythic Europe
So, first post on the blog! The first dozen or so posts will be, like this one, little pointers indicating that parts of the site have been completed. The first pages I’ve completed are about Librivox and my magazine articles. I’ve also just finished the first run at the page for Tales of Mythic Europe,…
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Games From Folktales 