The Rhymers of Blackmoor

[aldarron]

The Finnic song magic in blackmoor is more or less the faerie song magic as described in Adventures in Fantasy. Remember the anecdote about players having to judge how good a song the mage player had sung before Arneson would tell him if the spell worked or not?

Cool connection to AiF there! IIRC the FFC doesn't use the term Faerie, but does mention Pixies in connection with the Wizard of the Woods. Perhaps these Rhymers have some link to the WotW?

-Havard

Pixie magic. Yeah, sounds good. I'd personally also extend it to Elven magic per AiF, maybe dwarves too. I wouldn't limit it to just the pixies of the Wizards' Wood, though, but to any pixie forest.

I suspect the "Mythic/Faery tale" nature of the creatures and magic in AiF is probably Richard Sniders idea, and you're right that you don't see that aspect much in the FFC. Its definetly the direction Snider took his Powers and Perils.