This Mythic place is full of beasts, but not the dumb creatures of our prophesised future.
They birthed the fables, ushering our children into sleep.
In turn, the fables changed them. Embodiments of those old tales of virtue and vice.
Uncaring faunic tutors, at once purposeful and wild. Unspeaking, but as rich a text as any story or song.
Blind Boar
All condole his sightless leer Yet he walk and wander all-no fear Those eyes a clouded cold abyss Still he roamed, no hoof amiss
Roaring Coot
A creature of the most aloud in flap and honk and bellow Cried so loud the sky a-fell down star and moon o'yellow
Sky saw the bird Without a word A screaming rise!
The heavens shot asky so fast no swifted bird might follow
Deathly Crocodile
A snap of jaws, twisting down To a greenly grave, notten found In the low water, soul-glutton vile His snap bring blood, his eye bring bile
Witchy Goat In a rainful spring when the newgoats sing a pale one listens from the gloom
one for pity two for luck but horns-of-three calls curs-ed doom
Talking Hyena Of all the creatures blessed with tongue Hyenas squander most It speaks alone as luring lies So death may soon approach
Mole-a-Brightly Mole a-Brightly, great of mind But untouched thoughts, so hard to find Scrawl and scramble, deep in earth A dark domain of lauded worth
But as he grows, his mind doth close To those unseen, he turns his nose He cannot see beyond his own Flinching from the path unknown
Yet how he shines, a bright light still! His wisdom sought, his counsel skilled But oh the cost, of being blind To all but what he knows to find
Elsewhere there’s been some interesting discussion of FKR style play over at Underground Adventures by Wizard Lizard.
There’s an intro to the FKR style, for those who are new. I wanted to pull a quote from there, but to be honest it’s one of those posts that doesn’t really work unless you dig down and digest the whole thing, so go and jump over there.
I've been running an FKR campaign for just over a year now (mashup of Wanderhome and Dolmenwood), and it's been very freeing as a GM. No need for a charisma check; if it makes sense in the fiction and is narratively satisfying, it happens. I love it.
The more I read about FKR the more I realize that’s what I was playing in my first game in the 80’s. We didn’t know any rules, GM almost never rolled dice. Sheet had only hits, weapon and inventory.
I've been running an FKR campaign for just over a year now (mashup of Wanderhome and Dolmenwood), and it's been very freeing as a GM. No need for a charisma check; if it makes sense in the fiction and is narratively satisfying, it happens. I love it.
The more I read about FKR the more I realize that’s what I was playing in my first game in the 80’s. We didn’t know any rules, GM almost never rolled dice. Sheet had only hits, weapon and inventory.