Roleplaying games from historical research
I was listening to a somewhat modernised version of The Cantebury Tales and was struck by a description of a demon given there. This is from The Friar’s Tale. It uses the word “sompnour” which is a “summoner”, a sort of bailiff that calls people to the ecclesiastical court. The friar hates, and is hated…
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A trophaeum is a monument to military victory. For example, if you killed a hundred enemy warriors and piled their armaments together, that hill would be a trophaeum. I’m struck that in the modern Order, there are no trophaea to the Schism War. It may be that the Guernicus demand for Damnatio Memoriae, which led…
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A longer chapter this week. As part of this project, the material extracted from Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England will eventually become a gazetter. This means this material has a rawer feel than some other episodes. It also doesn’t have statistics, although those should eventually be forthcoming. The Hooting Cairn Cairn Kenidzhek…
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Another leftover foe from Antagonists. Terpsichore is a Vessel of Iniquity who causes dancing mania. She has found far fewer victims available since the beginning of the processions, since Abaissier’s victims and hers overlap. Terpsichore is not above assisting those investigating the flagellant movement, because its dissolution would allow her to continue her own plans.…
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For the next three weeks, I’ll be posting one new creature a week. These were left out of Antagonists because I’d already made things complex enough, and the process of editing is basically one of simplification and clarification. So, two demons and a tribe of faeries were left over. I can see how two of…
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Games From Folktales 