tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post6067695216402005039..comments2024-03-28T01:53:34.870-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Hail, Hyboria!James Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-65075522913248208232008-08-07T22:38:00.000-04:002008-08-07T22:38:00.000-04:00Liked this! I'm reading Conan again for 1st ti...Liked this! I'm reading Conan again for 1st time in 30 yrs, told D&D friends, they showed me your blog. Lyon Sprague De Camp (famous sci fi writer & ed. of Conan) writes in the intro:<BR/><BR/>"Howard's adventure fantasies belong to a kind of fiction called heroic fantasy . . . laid in a world not as it is, or was, but as it ought to have been."<BR/><BR/>Your words reminded me of his!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10381744563780014966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-53909282989601314672008-06-18T12:35:00.000-04:002008-06-18T12:35:00.000-04:00Wonderful advice for anyone prepping to design the...Wonderful advice for anyone prepping to design their own homebrew setting.<BR/><BR/>Another good example, although I don't think it's a sleek as Howard's, is EGG's setting in <I>The Anubis Murders</I> et al - a faux earth that looks and feels kinda sorta like earth, but is, well, cooler. It's the same with Hyboria - Howard took all the "cool" places you'd want to adventure in, and wove an illusion of verisimilitude around them to make it work, for the purposes of his pulp storytelling "yarns". The same works very, very well for gaming. Pluck the choicest fruits from the tree, give 'em a little polish to make them shine even brighter, and arrange to taste.<BR/><BR/>My own woeful tale of the disaster that is the Harn campaign I'm stuck in (but leaving) is made all the more telling when I loaned the GM my three-volume Del Rey Conan anthologies, and he very obviously tried to read and failed. He gave them back to me a few weeks later and muttered something about how "he'll just buy copies of his own eventually", and then moved on to read something else. Pathetic.Jack Badelairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10932441028544500024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-4527756725033157662008-06-18T10:11:00.000-04:002008-06-18T10:11:00.000-04:00There was a good article recently over at the Cimm...There was a good article recently over at the Cimmerian blog concerning the use of the word "Hyboria". Here's the link: http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=1088<BR/><BR/>I love your blog, James . . . do keep up the good work!Scott Odenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917296669418463518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-86191322371618882032008-06-18T03:03:00.000-04:002008-06-18T03:03:00.000-04:00Indeed. I'm a big Howard fan. I always loved the v...Indeed. I'm a big Howard fan. I always loved the vague historical connections.<BR/><BR/>Zingara-Spain<BR/>Argos-Greece<BR/>Stygia-North Africa/Egypt<BR/>Aquilonia-(I always associated it with Rome, but it's acutally more like a generic middle Europe)<BR/>Cimmeria-this one always confused me. It has Nordic and Celtic themes.<BR/><BR/>There was a fantastic story (I forget the title) that was a 'lost' Babylonian (guessing here) city. Good stuff. If the reference is lost I'll have to dig out my book and find it.Sham aka Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329116400656617173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-81151288381855714362008-06-17T20:55:00.000-04:002008-06-17T20:55:00.000-04:00Your analysis is spot on, and you're right about m...Your analysis is spot on, and you're right about missing out on some fun by being a stickler for history.<BR/><BR/>The Conan, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, and Solomon Kane works are just jam packed with gaming goodness.Jason Langloishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02507550527211520786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-23377936255220464602008-06-17T16:26:00.000-04:002008-06-17T16:26:00.000-04:00I recently went back and read many of Howard's ori...I recently went back and read many of Howard's original stories, and I have to agree, as the same thing struck me on reading them, Hyboria is a very good fantasy setting and is actually well suited to D&D. In some ways, Greyhawk is Hyboria with Middle Earth attached.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05646247954542936623noreply@blogger.com