Roleplaying games from historical research
E.G. Swain wrote a series of ghost stories set in a fictional parish called Stoneground, in England. He was a colleague of M.R. James’s, and one of the attendees of the fireside readings which have been collected as his complete works. The following story has a poltergeist in a library, which communicates through its texts.…
Read MoreThe collated transcripts are now available.
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In The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, we see a magic item which uses, what in Ars Magica terms is, Drudic magic that allows you to spend life energy instead of vis. This sort of blood magic is also sometimes practiced by Cthonic magicians, but here we just see Fatigue and Wounds poured out to…
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This week, two poems linked by the theme of hearts eaten away. I was going to save this for Halloween, but I’m sure something else will appear. The first was recorded for Librivox by Devorah Allen, and could be reskinned from the Miser’s Pot in Realms of Power: Infernal. Stats eventually. For where your treasure…
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Time for the longest poem in GFF history. This creature has turned up at least twice in Ars Magica. In the first version of The Mysteries we are told about Apollonius. In Realms of Power: Faerie, I give this story as an example of a ghula that is not from (modern) Arabic countries. Keats, though,…
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The Burton version of this story is, in his own words, summarized as “Nardiello is sent three times by his father to buy some wares with an hundred ducats each time. The first time he buyeth a mouse, the next a large crab-louse, and then a cricket, and being expelled by his father for this,…
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This is one of my favourite stories in this collection, because it’s obvious a magus with a Hermetic twist is loose in the background, mucking people about. let’s hear Burton’s take on the plot, in his weird mock-Jacobean English: Penta scorneth to wed her brother, and cutting off her hands, sendeth them to him as…
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This is your monster of the month, a little early because the Venice episode did not come together. Way back in Episode 184 (Major Weir) we discussed a Scottish regio where there were dancing skeletons. They make a return here under the control of the ghost of a suicided German count. I’ve trimmed down the…
Read MoreTime to tidy these up. Worlds on Fire Burn shift: Postapocalyptic setting. Burn shifts (mutations) 181-185. Community designs and actions (187-198] might suit us for groups like crews and conspiracies. Equipment 200-205 useful if reskinned. Beasts and obstacles [209-219} many of these are useful if reskinned – some can be directly lifted to our game.…
Read MoreSo, I’ve gone through fifty FATE Worlds supplements and looked for infomation we can use directly in Magonomia. This does not include the two most recent collections “Worlds in Shadow” and “Worlds on Fire”. The Aether Sea – This is a tall ships in space setting. It has magicians of three power levels. The lowest…
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