Thanks! I have a copy of it, and will be nice to add it to a game am in, but am looking for past Folios.
Folios that were published long ago, and have finally made their way to their Spring Covenant, or maybe old Folios found in the library of their Summer/Autumn/Winter Covenant.
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In one saga, now in its third year real time, we introduce a folio roughly every seven years. The covenant was about fifty years old when the saga started (Elk's Run in Hibernia), and a few years after the PCs joined the covenant in 1217, the first, fifty-year old folio appeared. Oswald, with his keen interest in the library, had made a quite decent bid for their place in the queue in the early days of the covenant. They paid 3p vis to have it for three season, as pre-arranged half a century earlier, not enough to copy it in its entirety, as it happens.
A few years later they had the opportunity to bid for the Folio of 1221. They would have to pay 2p + 2p/season to have it within the first few years. They did not take any action, and stuck with old habit, and to be fair, they did not have the scribes to deal with more books at the time, anyway.
Furthermore, older folios started to appear, having completed their tour of the Order in about a century. The redcaps offer to deliver them for only one pawn for two seasons or two pawns for five.
After I designed the first few folios, the players now take turns designing them. We are not too worried about timing, here, since the books easily get delayed in transport. What is a a few years in medieval mail service?
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Would love to see the Folios you've done, and if possible, the year of their publication.
http://rpg.schaathun.net/hibernia/Annals/1224
These are the annals of the saga. It is a mess, but all the folios introduced are there, somewhere.
I am not too happy with their design. Most are too dull to live up to Bonisagus' ideals of invention and experiment. The first designs are also probably a bit over-powered. I hope to do better in the future.
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Keep in mind that a lot of standard spells have probably appeared in earlier folios, with the lower level ones being largely in the earliest folios.
I did a 30 folio thread a while back
Where most of the folios were back-hacked to show how magic had improved since Bonisagus's day. Breakthroughs that were important in the past but now are the default.
The last one posted was the only one created in play, and is over the 35 standard point buy.
Bob
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I love that thread! I just wish it had dated them, from which year came which Folio.
Yes, I took a lot of ideas therefrom in our folios.
Wherefrom do you have those 35 as a standard? I find 35 a little weak, more like a minimum than a standard.
I didn;t want to be too prescriptive as to what happened in what order.
The example in TL has a 35 buy, so I used that to not have power creep.
While that is understandable, there never was any risk. We know how to disregard prescriptions which do not suit us.
yeah, I too think 35 should be the minimum, and not the standard
My players seem to have caught the folio bug. I've been mostly using Bob's incredibly useful work, and introduced a copy of an old folio sat forgotten in a dusty corner of Cad Gadu when the players arrived to copy whatever they could get away with. From that start, they have just organised Stonehenge Tribunal to bid as a consortium for new folios and make copies of old ones they come across, all formally made known and available to any mage in the Tribunal.
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Did you set a year for each Folio?
Not all of them yet. I've gone by feel, putting things that seem like they should have been known to the order for a while in earlier folios and leaving a lot of space in the timeline. So for example the first folio I've admitted to was produced in 948 and contained the tractatus introducing Ring and Circle.
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Folios are also a nice way to introduce new guidelines from supplements.
If you start from the corebook, you may have them introduced either as breakthroughs in hermetic magic, or as someone finding a new, smart way to use existing knowledge, depending on what the guideline does and your feeling about it.
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There is a Folio of 1227 in Peripheral Code 1.
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Just as an update, I have compiled a file with various Folios, including the 1227 from Peripheral Code 1, and the great many Folios does in Bob's thread, though I left out some of them, and changed/added to others. and from others who replied both here and on the Discord. I currently have 29 Folios mapped, out of the 59 I came up with, up to and including, the Folio of 1227. Once I am satisfied with the file, and fill in the remaining Folios, I will post the link to it in this thread.
If you have ideas for Folios, feel free to send them my way... there's still 30 more to fill, most of them old ones.
Do you have a Folios with the varies characters from Legends of Hermes?
No matter what, one with Conciatta's work would have come out in the early to mid 900's. Most likely a tractatus on Vim or Magical Theory (though a Lab Text is possible if you need space efficiency) and a very important item that everyone in the Order currently uses.
Not currently, but it will be there. But there's a Folio with a Tractatus by someone else whose work was similar to hers, and a note that after she published, he was accused of plagiarism...