Games From Folktales
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Episodes
025 - A Covenant for Shallot
025.1 - Robinsonades
The way my podcast plan works, I can squeeze in an extra five minutes this month. You'll still get an episode Friday (the biggest ever).
024 - Curdling magic
023 - Ptolemaic survivals
022 - Environmental determinism and the Order of Hermes
021 - Clown punching in Mythic Europe
020 - Why do magpies keep following me
Trivial things make for excellent stories.
019 First fruits
018 Prosthetic parasites
017 Pre-Romantic Models of Love
A comparison of how love is constructed in classical and romantic stories, arguing that the classical form serves gaming better. The lecture which prompted this series of ideas is available at https://youtu.be/sPOuIyEJnbE After the recording was scheduled for release, a more succinct version was published at https://youtu.be/WPXbaJC2hLo
015 Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
014 The Patient Art of Aquam
The Ars Magica rules give a creation penalty for water that is slightly unnatural. What is slightly unnatural water?
016 The Fall of Babbulkund
With thanks to Alex Clarke from Librivox.
013 Don't eat the werebear
Finnish wizards and fine dining.
012 What is a sampo?
A note on the Kalevala, and the McGuffin within it.
011 Mythic Europe is tiny
You may not need travel magic: everything is closer than you think.
10a - End of Season 1: we break to Librivox
Series 1 is finished and scripts are available form the website. I'll be taking a few weeks off to push for a milestone on librivox.org: 10 000 free audio books, by our eleventh anniversary! Season 2 kicks off in August
010 Letter to Sura
An ancient ghost story, and perhaps an alien abduction.
009 - Intersexuality
008 - Charles Darwin wrecked our dragons
007 - Mass Hysteria
005 - Gods can't see you in roleplaying games
The ancient Egyptian gods can be fooled if you have enough money. Does that make sense?
006 - Dressing like a murder hobo
What does your clothing signal?
004 - The Colour blindness of ancient peoples
003 - What do your hands say in Mythic Europe?
002 - Sacrificing Horace to Clocina
A minor Roman god with whom you are in daily, slightly disgusting, contact. With thanks to Dr Heather Mbye.
001 - We Start At The Appendix
In 1220 Mythic Europe, no-one has an appendix. When they start appearing, what does it mean?