A Five and a Half Foot Long Hand-Printed Scroll (Fall of Magic) with Tasha Robinson

Transcript

This week I’m joined by Tasha Robinson, film editor at Polygon, Games on Demand aficionado, Golden Cobra honorable mentionee, and author of this excellent piece about today’s game and mechanic: Fall of Magic and the five and a half foot long handprinted scroll at its heart.

There’s a lot to say about such a unique physical object, and also a lot to cover about maps in RPGs at large. We get into all of it. Consider this the third part of the travel series this season opened with.

Pack your bags. It’s a heck of a journey.

Further reading:

* Fall of Magic by Ross Cowman

* Tasha’s article about Fall of Magic and City of Winter

* Tasha’s article about larps about AI

* Tasha’s archive on Polygon

* Tasha’s Golden Cobra honorably mentioned larp The Regency Committee on Decorum and Punchbowl Poop Prevention

* Rusalka by Nick Wedig

* Wild Beyond the Witch Light

* Doskvol Street Maps by Tim Denee

* Blades in ‘68 on Twitter

* Beak Feather and Bone, another mapmaking game from Possible Worlds Games

* Dread by Epidiah Ravachol

Socials:

Tasha on Bluesky and Twitter.

Sam on Bluesky, Twitter, dice.camp, and itch.

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