Watching Tale of Tales got my wife and I talking about DW fairytale adventures, so I’m about to start building random tables of traditional fairytale elements, like transformation, polar good and evil characters, wealthy and poor, things happening in threes, etc. I just need to do some research (aking to Gaiman’s Instructions) and maybe take cues from Rory’s Story Cubes: Enchanted set.
Watching Tale of Tales got my wife and I talking about DW fairytale adventures, so I’m about to start building…
Watching Tale of Tales got my wife and I talking about DW fairytale adventures, so I’m about to start building…
that’s great but now I must ask: how did you like the movie?
Nikitas Thlimmenos I’m a sucker for beautiful sets, costumes and cinematography. I also have a penchant for fantasy stories with magic. Thanks to those two things, I loved it. It didn’t matter about plot holes or anything like that, because FAIRYTALES care not for our modern requirements of sensible storylines.
(Having said that, we were uncomfortable with some of the animal and ogre cruelty but again, Fairytales)
That’s exactly how I see it. It’s much more fairytale than fantasy, and a lot of people failed to grasp that. I’m also particularly biased because I’m from Naples, and it’s about a Neapolitan director taking inspiration from a very underrated 16th century Neapolitan author. That’s why I’m super happy when someone gets it! :D
My partner and I love the film. It had some weird LotFP vibes.
If you like to make your idea a full PDF, i will offer my help
Mapforge J. Vandel First, I’m cribbing things like these: http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/images/art/161752.pdf
http://msjacoby.com/fairytalechart.html
https://teacher.ocps.net/jonathan.boardman/fairytalesstep2.pdf
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1693668/rorys-story-cubes-enchanted
Have you seen the PDF Star Force by John Harper ? It has a realy great multi d6+d6 table for setting up a story.
Mapforge J. Vandel I have indeed!
Matt, are you familiar with folklore taxonomies? Might be exactly what you’re looking for.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne–Thompson_classification_system
Oh, that used to actually contain the index. Here, try this:
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
(Edit: found an actual clickable reference)
I’d consider making some kind of move involving the Three Fates/Witches. They just seem so important. Something akin to Last Breath, but perhaps for leaving the normal world and entering the labyrinth/fairy world/threshold of adventure.
Jeremy Strandberg Bravo, thanks!
There are a few good sites for Aarne-Thompson that give you the iconic stories of each subtype and key features of each. (I used it while developing a cinderella themed board game a few years back.)
Oh, Matt Horam: have you ever played Atlas Game’s Once Upon a Time? It’s a storytelling card game based on fairy tales & folk stories. Each card is a archetypal object, character, event, or descriptor (“this can talk”).
The game itself is kinda so-so, but the cards might be similar to what you’re making.
Jeremy Strandberg I haven’t, but you reminded me of this:
http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/v/review-winter-tales/