The ancient kingdom of Spidernesti
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"The House of Stars became the House of Spiders".
That's the line from Tanis's secret journal that the heroes managed to
decipher. And the druidess rea...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
The plague: fun for the whole family
Today we screened this short film in one of my classes as part of a look at Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. I thought maybe fans of later-period historical fantasy might dig on it. Certainly as I was reading Defoe's book I thought it would make great fodder for Warhammer Fantasy or Lamentations of the Flame Princess type games. The lumpy looking dude standing guard outside the infected tavern is a government-appointed goon charged with making sure no one in a quarantined building escapes.
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Very, very cool.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I was rooting for the wigmaker to snap out of it and do something heroic! :)
ReplyDeleteMe, too, Blakdout, but at the same time I found myself asking how I would feel were it me, in modern day. Am I willing to give up my life and cross the authorities for the sake of a child who might be infected? By no means an easy decision, even though the right decision seemed obvious.
ReplyDeleteBut I hoped, still.
Pretty ghoulish note about wigmaking, though. I'll have to remember that for my next WFRP game.