I've sent another installment of Up on a Soapbox to Matthew at the DRAGON. It's a short recounting of Gronan's crocadile pit adventure. I'm crafting a couple of more as well, both having to do with Robilar's adventures.
Rob
Rob
- The Herald
- Dhalt: Lesser God of The Original Campaign
- RJK's Original Castle Levels 1973-1985
- The Round Table
- The Alchemy
- The Dungeon
- Twelve Labors of Drystaff (Novel)
- RJK Short Story Compilation
- Tower of Blood
- Cairn of the Skeleton King
- Bottle City
- El Raja Key's Arcane Treasury
- Lake Geneva Castle & Campaign
- Daemonic & Arcane
- The Stalk
- Tke Original Boreal Level
- The Original Living Room
- Merlynd's Castle
- Dark Druids 2nd Edition
- RJK's From The Vault
- The Abyss
- The Gallery
- Fantasy Fiction: Its Works and Authors
- Castle El Raja Key
- World of KalibruhnThe 3rd Fantasy RPG World
- Lost City of the Elders
- Zayene
- Maure Castle
- Ice Grave/Horrid Swamp
- The Myre Lands
- Dark Chateau
- The Barbarous Coast
- Dark Quest
- City of Brass
- Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure
- Garden of the Plantmaster (CU & d20)
- Fate of Istus
- Robilar Remembers
- Otto's Observatory
- WoG Memories
- Dave Arneson's Blackmoor
- The Colonel's Corner
- Castle Zagyg
- Castle & Crusade Rules/Movement
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 The Pied PiperRJK |
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Posts: 4330 (02/08/04 20:10:53) Demon Lord of Puns |
Cool!! Can't believe I've been buying Dragon again after about a ten-year hiatus ('90 - '00)... all to collect these Up On A Soapbx stories. Heh!!
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grodog |
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Posts: 1433 (02/08/04 23:28:29) Grand Marshall of Kalibruhn, |
Sounds great Rob! Keep 'em coming---you'll keep giving me another reason to resubscribe!
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Gronan of Simmerya |
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Posts: 1235 (02/09/04 07:05:02) Lord of the Barbarian Lands |
Cool! Let us know what issue it will be in.
"The ring, Master, the ring!" (tug tug tug) Gronan
"CHARGE!" is an ancient Simmeryan word meaning "Them buggers over there stole our beer!" |
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Posts: 576 (02/10/04 08:30:54) Grand Master |
A Quick FYI
Because of considerable urging by gamers, after the series concludes in about 12 months or so (when ideas are exhausted) we plan to compile all the "Up on a Soapbox" columns pertaining to adventures and publish them in a small book. Rob and I will add some other old material that's been published elsewhere, some new tales too for sweeteners. Cheers, Gary |
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Banabus |
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Posts: 1020 (02/10/04 09:03:16) Earl of the Eastern Realm |
that is great news Gary.
Ken Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics
Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you Slice N Dice: Game and Pizza Parlour WWBYD What would Brigham Young do ? www.geocities.com/J_Elric_Smith/Index.html |
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Gronan of Simmerya |
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Posts: 1235 (02/10/04 12:16:23) Lord of the Barbarian Lands |
Oh, thank Cram and Mirthless! I was dreading the idea of continuing to pay six bucks for a page or two.
Gronan
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ColPladoh |
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Posts: 576 (02/10/04 15:29:15) Grand Master |
Gronan,
Cran? You mean have deserted the Great Spider? Unbelievingly, Gary |
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Gronan of Simmerya |
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Posts: 1235 (02/10/04 15:45:22) Lord of the Barbarian Lands |
Hey, Gronan has always sworn by Cram and Mirthless, grim gods of the Simmeryan people.
Gronan
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ColPladoh |
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Posts: 576 (02/10/04 16:36:08) Grand Master |
Gronan speaks with a forked tongue. I recall his master soeaking in glowing terms of the Great Spider...
Heh, Gary |
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Falconer GH |
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Posts: 407 (02/10/04 18:50:26) Lord Falconer, Royal Historian |
You can certainly count me in to purchase a copy! Regards.
-- Michael Falconer - www.dwarvenmilitia.com/falconer/greyhawk/
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snaebjorn |
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Posts: 159 (02/10/04 21:14:22) Lord of the Southern Marches |
Chello!
Hoody hoo! A collection! I can't wait.... ::does happy dance due to the archbishop's revelation of a soon to be released (1 year?+) tome of knowledge::  Tony Lord Snaebjorn, Baronet Skogsgardr
C&CS "It was an age of dark beliefs and of practises that were no less dark; and witchcraft and sorcery were rampant throughout the land, among all classes." Clark Ashton Smith, "The Necromantic Tale" |
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Gronan of Simmerya |
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Posts: 1235 (02/10/04 21:50:56) Lord of the Barbarian Lands |
I'm not saying the Great Spider wasn't part of my youth, but greatest loyalty went to the big "C", and I don't mean Cthulhu.
Besides, you know about barbarians and big spiders (cf "Tower of the Elephant"). Gronan
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Posts: 4330 (02/11/04 01:08:20) Demon Lord of Puns |
Ahhh... I remember that! It was the imprisonment of Yag-Kosher by the evil Celt wizard, O'Yara. Gronan had to find the "Fart of the Elephant"--a "gassly" artifact--in order to free Yag. And there was a 'swinging' spider in the tower (he had his own bachelor pad and everything!) that liked to munch on thieves. But that spider was no relative to Yezundheit, the Great Sneezing Spider! ^__^
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ColPladoh |
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Posts: 576 (02/11/04 09:24:00) Grand Master |
Good Grief!
What have we wrought here? How true the old addage, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." Gary |
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Posts: 4330 (02/11/04 09:56:11) Demon Lord of Puns |
But Gar; I was just indulging in the lore of Hyborin'ya! And it's all true, by the great deity Assureya! ^__^
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Gronan of Simmerya |
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Posts: 1235 (02/11/04 12:05:01) Lord of the Barbarian Lands |
I thought it was the "Hylybored Age", myself.
Ah, those days of youth, wandering through the frozen realms of Ashpan, Varnishedham, and Hyperventilate, adjoining my homeland of Simmerya... Not to mention Aquiphobia, proudest kingdom of the West... Zoombooby and Placekik down south... Gush and Undir... Cornerland... Turnip, ruled by King Pulyerbeard... Sigh. Such memories. Gronan
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Posts: 576 (02/11/04 12:25:37) Grand Master |
Those posts leave me dumbstruck...
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The Pied PiperRJK |
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Posts: 6272 (02/12/04 04:47:56) Lord of Dimensions |
Ah. Gary was double-teamed by the Swine-Swillin' posters from the Abyss! You have to take care, EGG, when these two
quaffers are about. They'll change the latitide and longitude of even a heavily starched subject. REH is no doubt rolling over in his grave. Which reminds me about something serious here (OH MY GOD!). What is one's favorite Conan REH story (not the novel) and why? Whoever posts first, start it as a new topic. |
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Melkor |
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Posts: 11 (03/08/04 16:58:20) Knight of the Realm |
As someone new to the website, and not a recent subscriber to Dragon Magazine, the Up on a Soapbox column might well be my one reason for buying the magazine.
How long have you and Gary been contributing (when did the column first appear) ? Thanks! |
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Banabus |
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Posts: 1020 (03/08/04 17:22:02) Earl of the Eastern Realm |
up on a soap box has been in dragon for years
 Ken Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics
Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you Slice N Dice: Game and Pizza Parlour WWBYD What would Brigham Young do ? www.geocities.com/J_Elric_Smith/Index.html |
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- The Herald
- Dhalt: Lesser God of The Original Campaign
- RJK's Original Castle Levels 1973-1985
- The Round Table
- The Alchemy
- The Dungeon
- Twelve Labors of Drystaff (Novel)
- RJK Short Story Compilation
- Tower of Blood
- Cairn of the Skeleton King
- Bottle City
- El Raja Key's Arcane Treasury
- Lake Geneva Castle & Campaign
- Daemonic & Arcane
- The Stalk
- Tke Original Boreal Level
- The Original Living Room
- Merlynd's Castle
- Dark Druids 2nd Edition
- RJK's From The Vault
- The Abyss
- The Gallery
- Fantasy Fiction: Its Works and Authors
- Castle El Raja Key
- World of KalibruhnThe 3rd Fantasy RPG World
- Lost City of the Elders
- Zayene
- Maure Castle
- Ice Grave/Horrid Swamp
- The Myre Lands
- Dark Chateau
- The Barbarous Coast
- Dark Quest
- City of Brass
- Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure
- Garden of the Plantmaster (CU & d20)
- Fate of Istus
- Robilar Remembers
- Otto's Observatory
- WoG Memories
- Dave Arneson's Blackmoor
- The Colonel's Corner
- Castle Zagyg
- Castle & Crusade Rules/Movement
