Roleplaying games from historical research
Thomson borrows here, in a footnote I’ve cut out, from Swinburne’s Three Ladies. These were covered in an earlier episode or two. His three are Death, Annihilation and Oblivion. Death is an angel, close to the Christian conception, that leads people to paradise. She is bound to Earth, and does not wish to be, and…
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When I had COVID, my “use it or lose it” style of podcasting plan led to me recording three episodes. I have virtually no idea what’s in them, except that I swept a history of English haunted houses for stories that are Elizabethan and before. Thanks to the Librivox recording teams. Usually I script in…
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When I had COVID, my “use it or lose it” style of podcasting plan led to me recording three episodes. I have virtually no idea what’s in them, except that I swept a history of English haunted houses for stories that are Elizabethan and before. Thanks to the Librivox recording teams. Usually I script in…
Read MoreI’ve prepared and uploaded these early, so that I have the decks clear for the Magonomia Bestiary Kickstarter in late October 2022.
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This week we return to the biography of Benvenuto Cellini. At this stage Cellini has made his way to Paris and entered the service of King Francis the First. King Francis gives him use of a castle in Paris but, and this is why I included it, you’ll notice when he says someone alreadylives there…
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This the last episode in our Hallowe’en Week, which is in September because late in October the podcast will switch to supporting the Kickstarter for the Magonomia bestiary. The Magonomia bonus episodes will go live: two a week for five weeks which is the 30 day period that the Kickstarter is active. I’m sharing the…
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A little poem to continue Hallowe’en Week, from Madison Cawein. This recording was released in the public domain through Librivox. The moonbeams on the hollies glow Pale where she left me; and the snow Lies bleak in moonshine on the graves, Ribbed with each gust that shakes and waves Ancestral cedars by her tomb…. She…
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A further seasonal poem, read into the public domain by mathemagic through Librivox. Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves,Proud of her height as when she lived, she movesWith all the careless and high-stepping grace,And the extravagant courtesan’s thin face. Was slimmer waist e’er in a ball-room wooed?Her floating robe, in royal amplitude,Falls in deep folds…
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This was produced for a Hallowe’en Week post-a-day, but when that crossed over with the Magonomia Bestiary Kickstarter, I moved it to September. In the episode I mention “older episodes” based on a book called “Haunted Homes”. Those haven’t been released yet: they are pencilled in for September 22, September 29, and October 13. I…
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A little Halloween poem, read by Dale Grothmann. It lies beneath a sunless sky,Deep in the entrails of a bog;Gnarled willows hide it, lifting highTheir tortured arms; and never frog,Nor newt, nor toad, nor dragonflyDare come within its deadly fog.For evil spirits there are boundWithin its slime: an impious runeThey chant, nor is there other…
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Games From Folktales 