Fairy
Tales to help you create Fantasy Worlds and RPG's
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Russian
Fairy Tales
The
Fiend
The
Dead Mother
The
Treasure
The
Awful Drunkard
The
Bad Wife
The
Smith and the Demon
Ivan
Popyalof
The
Norka
Baba
Yaga
Vasilissa
the Fair
The
Headless Princess
The
Soldiers Midnight Watch
The
Soldier and the Vampire
Welsh
Fairy Tales
THE
MIGHTY MONSTER AFANG
THE
TWO CAT
WITCHES
HOW
THE CYMRY LAND BECAME INHABITED
THE
GOLDEN HARP
THE
GREAT RED DRAGON OF WALES
THE
TOUCH OF IRON
THE
TREASURE STONE OF THE FAIRIES
A
BOY THAT VISITED FAIRYLAND
THE
WELSHERY AND THE NORMANS
THE
WELSH FAIRIES HOLD A MEETING
POWELL,
PRINCE OF DYFED
WHY
THE BACK DOOR WAS FRONT
THE
RED BANDITS OF MONTGOMERY
THE
FAIRY CONGRESS
Grimm's
Fairy Tales
The Goose
Girl
The Gnomes
and the Princess
The King
of the Golden Mountain
The Water
of Life
Our Lady's
Child
Hansel
and Gretel |
Fairy Tales for RPG Games
Role Playing Games are one of the greates art forms of today combining
story telling, writing, fine art, and acting into one of the most
imaginative forms of collabritive creation possable.
Much of what RPG's are has been inspired by one of the old forms of
story telling of the past, that is the fairy tale, much like role
playing games the fairy tale where a method of story telling, that drew
on the ideas of the fantasy world. Whenever you play RPG games you are
drawing on the tradition and creativity of thousands of years of human
history, a history which can be found in the fairy tale.
These articles are an explination of fairy tales as they pertain to
fantasy role playing games, as will as a list of fairy tales which are
useful for creating role playing games.
Introduction
to Using Fairy Tales to Create Fantasy Worlds and RPG Quests
What
Hansel and Gretel Means for the Fantasy RPG World.
Using the Mighty Monster AFang to Play RPG Games.
The
Soldier and the Vampire, a fairy tale from the land of vampires for
your RPG.
"The
Headless Princess" and "The Soldiers Midnight Watch" and the Fantasy
Role Playing Game
Propp's Fairy Tale Functions and the Fantasy Role Playing Game
All these and more Fairy Tales of interest can be found at our sister
site www.zeluna.net
The
Fiend
In this dark story of a girl who
falls in
love with a man who turns out to be a demon the importance of elders
are shown, as too is the risks of loving in a world with magic and
demons. This folktale is perfect for helping to generate quest ideas
for in the dark world of fantasy RPG's any girl could find herself in
the same place as this girl.
The
Dead Mother
For those who want to create a dark world, a
horror
setting this is the perfect story, for few tales are darker then a
mother who rises and then kills her child by accedent. This of course
prompts the question why and how did the mother rise from the grave. In
your world an area could have the viel between life and death weakened,
so that people unwittingly return to wreck havic on those they love.
This of course would lead to many questions including how do the PC's
deal with dead who don't know they are doing evil, especially as these
are peoples loved ones? And of course how do they fix the vail.
The
Treasure
The priest in this tory turns into a demon,
when
people are dependent on a priest what happens if that priest is greedy,
and what happens if he turns into a demon?
The
Awful Drunkard
The father of the character of this fairy tale
is
captured by devils and used as a slave. Sometimes great adventures are
not to save the world but to save a single person from a horrable fate.
The
Bad Wife
The man in this tale makes friends with an imp
and
goes about the country side pretending to cure people of the ills that
the imp causes. Then the imp wishes to kill someone.
The Smith and the Demon
One of the darkest of all Russian tales for
its
theme, for in this story a smith learns that he must respect evil as
much as good. In your fantasy world this story can act as a means by
which a people could start down the path of worshiping evil. It is also
interesting because it shows a demon in a painting.
Ivan
Popyalof
A family of snakes that blots out the sun, and
causes ill across the whole land.
The
Norka
In this story they enter the other realm, and
must
do so to kill the monster. Further they build a castle by the portal to
the other world. Both interesting ideas for your RPG.
Baba
Yaga
Vasilissa
the Fair
Another story that describes Baba Yaga in some
detail.
The
Headless Princess
Even on dying a princess comes back to life to
haunt
the boy responsable for her death. As a witch she can come back to life
if she breaks him, and so he must remain in a magic circle and ignore
all her tricks, or he will die and she will live.
For RPG's this ability could easily be written into many of the darkest
villions, that killing them is not actually the end of them.
The Soldiers Midnight Watch
As with the story above those who are dead can
come back to life if they can break those responsable for their death.
The
Soldier and the Vampire
The vampire in this story is interesting,
though not what we traditionally think of as a vampire.
Welsh fairy tales are interesting
because
unlike Grimm's fairy tales they are fairy tales in the happier sense of
the word. They are stories where mighty hero's combat great evil, where
fairies are described in detail as they hold court and make human
friends.
THE
MIGHTY MONSTER AFANG
Perfect for fantasy role playing games this is the tale of a monster
which no one can defeat until a young lady and her love find a way to
trick the creature. This story is a good tale because it is a story
much like one would find in a fantasy world.
THE
TWO CAT
WITCHES
HOW
THE CYMRY LAND BECAME INHABITED
THE
GOLDEN HARP
THE
GREAT RED DRAGON OF WALES
THE
TOUCH OF IRON
THE
TREASURE STONE OF THE FAIRIES
A
BOY THAT VISITED FAIRYLAND
THE
WELSHERY AND THE NORMANS
THE
WELSH FAIRIES HOLD A MEETING
POWELL,
PRINCE OF DYFED
WHY
THE BACK DOOR WAS FRONT
THE
RED BANDITS OF MONTGOMERY
THE
FAIRY CONGRESS
The Goose
Girl
The Gnomes
and the Princess
The King
of the Golden Mountain
The Water
of Life
Our Lady's
Child
Hansel
and Gretel |