Roleplaying games from historical research
Petrus Pontium is a bridge troll who has adapted to Venetian custom. He runs a stick-fighting and wrestling school near the canal end of the Merceria. He rarely defends the bridges during official mob-style matches, but will meet challengers for single combat. When fighting or teaching Petrus wears armor, and carries a shield, weaved from…
Read MoreMythic Europe Magazine, the new pdf fanzine for the Ars Magica roleplaying game, is seeking submissions for issue #2. Issue 1 is available at various online sites. FAQ: Deadline: There isn’t one. I’ll collect submissions until there’s sufficient material to release an issue. That’s at least 50 pages of text plus public domain art, but…
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For only the second time, Games From Folktales welcomes a guest author. Tom Nowell is one of the presenters for the other Ars Magica podcast, Arcane Connection. This article has been purchased for the new Mythic Europe Magazine, which is still accepting submissions. Before reading you Tom’s piece I want to flag a couple of…
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We’ve been getting a heap of useful material out of decadent and romantic poets, so let’s continue. John Merivale was part of Lord Byron’s social circle, and this poem is about a vampiric plague in Pest, which is one of the three cities that merged to form modern Budapest in Hungary. The following recording was…
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For our Monster of the Month, we’re returning to the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Weirdly, I’m starting this story halfway through. The reason I’m doing that is because Le Fanu was an Irish author writing for an English audience, and he spends the first half of his story explaining that you can keep…
Read MoreSo, 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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