Roleplaying games from historical research
This is the 200th episode of Games From Folktales, so you’re going to have to indulge me, dear reader. I’m sharing a fiction piece. It’s set in Cornwall and has a creature which is presumably, in Ars Magica terms, an Accuser: that is, a demon who hunts sinners and claims to be sent from God.…
Read MoreThe Coachman of Major Weir This creature takes the form of a wizened man in elegant clothes. It claims to be Satan himself, but that’s simply a lie. Order: Lord of the False Gods Infernal Might: 25 (Ignem)Characteristics: Int +1, Per +1 , Pre +1, Com +5, Str +0, Sta +5, Dex +5, Qik +2Size: -1: Usually takes the…
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Occassionally I find an audio source with so much useful material that I can’t properly cut out the plot hooks. Here’s a hook that comes from two little fragments of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones by George Kunz. The readers for Librivox, in these sections, were Dustim Thomas and Mike Golcyzinski. I may revisit…
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This week and excerpt from “Strange Stories of a Chinese Studio”. The following story contains a creature that is either a revener that has unique limitations but is more pwoerful than usual, or a faerie. The statistics for each version will eventually be given on this blog. The following story was recorded into the public…
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This week, Major Weir’s Infernal regio in Edinburgh. LibriVox is a community group which records books that are in the public domain into the audio format. I believe this recording is by Colleen McMahon and I thank her for putting it in the public domain. It demonstrates something interesting about folk tales – things which…
Read MoreI’m trying to work through the backlog of monster statistics, so here are a batch for this month. Thanks to jason72 and Ignes Fesitvus for reminding me where these statistics were, and for the suggestion to use a mongoose as the base for ferret statistics. Srendi Vashtar – Tiny Faerie God Faerie Might: 5 (Animal)…
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This is a traditional story, retold here by Lucy Clifford. It was a source for Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline”. It has two faeries contesting for a pair of feral children. The first mother has a series of prohibitions and she vanishes when they are broken, like a selkie wife, so the temptation to say she is…
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The Worm and the Angel As he crawled from the tombs of the fallen a worm met with an angel. And together they looked upon the kings and kingdoms, and youths and maidens and the cities of men. They saw the old men heavy in their chairs and heard the children singing in the fields.…
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