Roleplaying games from historical research
What would the embodiment of Time be in Ars Magica? Mechanically it could be of any Realm. What could its embodiment be? Any story can be a faerie, an a demon can claim to be anything, but Time, in various mythologies is the thing that comes before the Magical powers of creation, which come before…
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Let us continue our supposition that the works of Lord Dunsany are the reminisces of a redcap recorded, perhaps, in The Book of Places You Must Not Go. First, the story: the version given in the podcast was released into the public domain through Librivox by Sandra Cullum When the nomads came to El Lola…
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Let us continue the thought experiment that the stories of Lord Dunsany are tales told by a retired redcap. This episode was accidentally released ahead of schedule, so there are two Dunsany stories this month. When Thangobrind the jeweller heard the ominous cough, he turned at once upon that narrow way. A thief was he,…
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I continue to believe Lord Dunsany’s work contains the reminiscences of a retired redcap. Let’s test the theory again. Thanks to Steve Vito and Librivox for the sampled recording. The argument that I had with my brother in his great lonely house will scarcely interest my readers. Not those, at least, whom I hope may be…
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I’m off on paternity leave, but I just struck a wonderful faerie description in a story by Lord Dunsany and wanted to share. So evensong was held, and candles lighted, and the lights through the windows shone red and green in the water, and the sound of the organ went roaring over the marshes. But…
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Games From Folktales 