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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 20:21:26 GMT -5
D&D ('74 edition) those who don't care for Burroughs' Martian adventures where John Carter is groping through black pits
How many of you read ERB's Barsoom books before you read the TLBB?
IMHO there is heavy influence of Barsoom on the rules. Not just in the Barsoomian beasts in the wilderness encounter tables. I refer to flavor of the rules. The swashbuckling, go for break, lone hero or handful of heroes versus hordes of beasts. Mass combats in between "groping through the black pits" of the dungeon. Discuss s'il vous plait!
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 1, 2018 20:45:06 GMT -5
I had read about 70% of Burroughs stuff including the John Carter books before I got to college. I spent the next 30 years tracking the rest of them down the other 30%. The first ERB books I read were five hardback Tarzan books that were printings from the late 30's that my dad and his younger brothers read. My youngest uncle passed them on to me when I was 7 or 8 years old. I felt bad when I read the last one and there were not going to be any more. There have been several unauthorized ones, but I have never seen any of those.
I read the John Carter books in high school.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 21:00:58 GMT -5
ERB's works are available free and legally here in the Australian Gutenberg site. The Barsoom books are in both HTML and EPUB/Kindle. It's an excellent resource.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Jul 2, 2018 2:22:41 GMT -5
I got into D&D WAY before I got into ERB's Barsoom books. I need to finish them & read his other books asap. I love Barsoom.
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 2, 2018 17:47:55 GMT -5
There was no d&d when I read all the Barstool, Peleucular, and Tarzan books. And most of the rest of ERB.
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Post by True Black Raven on Jul 2, 2018 18:24:25 GMT -5
There was no d&d when I read all the Barstool, Peleucular, and Tarzan books. And most of the rest of ERB. I don't think I am familiar with Barstool and Peleucular, I've read all the Tarzan books though. Barstool, is that the one about John the Bartender and Crazy Gugginhamsandwich? And Peleucular is that the one about The Peculiar Rabbit aka The Jackalope? |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 2, 2018 18:29:06 GMT -5
Exalts coming for a callback to the great Frank Fontaine. Or was it D. C. Fontana? Always getting those two mixed up.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Jul 2, 2018 18:40:41 GMT -5
I checked out Gods of Mars, so i can get back into the swing of reading (I hope).
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 2, 2018 19:30:14 GMT -5
Exalts coming for a callback to the great Frank Fontaine. Or was it D. C. Fontana? Always getting those two mixed up. You were right the first time, the great Frank Fontaine. |
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Post by True Black Raven on Jul 2, 2018 19:50:38 GMT -5
Exalts coming for a callback to the great Frank Fontaine. Or was it D. C. Fontana? Always getting those two mixed up.  Thank you! Here is how you keep it from being mixed up, the D is for Dorothy and she is 79 and wrote for Star Trek and many other things including The Six Million Dollar Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Frank is the funny one and if he was still alive he would be 98. He had 11 children, 2 daughters and 9 sons. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 2, 2018 21:54:50 GMT -5
Exalts coming for a callback to the great Frank Fontaine. Or was it D. C. Fontana? Always getting those two mixed up. Thank you! Here is how you keep it from being mixed up, the D is for Dorothy and she is 79 and wrote for Star Trek and many other things including The Six Million Dollar Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Frank is the funny one and if he was still alive he would be 98. He had 11 children, 2 daughters and 9 sons. Yeah, but they were both Caucasian and wore hats. Easy to confuse since all white people look alike. (That should really be "orange-pink" people.) |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 2, 2018 23:27:13 GMT -5
Thank you! Here is how you keep it from being mixed up, the D is for Dorothy and she is 79 and wrote for Star Trek and many other things including The Six Million Dollar Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Frank is the funny one and if he was still alive he would be 98. He had 11 children, 2 daughters and 9 sons. Yeah, but they were both Caucasian and wore hats. Easy to confuse since all white people look alike. (That should really be "orange-pink" people.) Look alike! I have know four sets of identical twins and I from the first meeting on could always tell them apart, even if no one else could. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 3, 2018 0:22:57 GMT -5
Well sure, if you saw them in two and count the rings.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 3, 2018 7:10:49 GMT -5
Well sure, if you saw them in two and count the rings. Oh cool, we think alike, you guessed my method.  |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 3, 2018 7:12:35 GMT -5
Well sure, if you saw them in two and count the rings. Oh cool, we think alike, you guessed my method. Which of these options is more scary? |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 3, 2018 7:12:59 GMT -5
Well sure, if you saw them in two and count the rings. Oh cool, we think alike, you guessed my method. When I sawed them in two they had the same number of rings, so I had to fall back on the mirco differences in their faces, posture, other body language and personality and I could tell from the stuff that they could not hide. All of them loved to fool people, I freaked them and other people out because I could tell them apart. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 3, 2018 7:13:37 GMT -5
Oh cool, we think alike, you guessed my method. Which of these options is more scary? Yes. |
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Post by mao on Jul 7, 2018 8:31:40 GMT -5
Back in 1977,, one of my freinds went bat crap crazy w Barsoom, and of course he had a PC John Carter along w his home city, I read the books 3 years earlier.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 7, 2018 15:52:29 GMT -5
Back in 1977,, one of my freinds went bat crap crazy w Barsoom, and of course he had a PC John Carter along w his home city, I read the books 3 years earlier. Have you read all of them? |
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Post by mao on Jul 7, 2018 15:55:35 GMT -5
Back in 1977,, one of my freinds went bat crap crazy w Barsoom, and of course he had a PC John Carter along w his home city, I read the books 3 years earlier. Have you read all of them? I really used to like ERB, so yes I think I read all 11 books at least 3 times when I was like 16 or so, so pre D&D for me |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 7, 2018 15:58:21 GMT -5
Have you read all of them? I really used to like ERB, so yes I think I read all 11 books at least 3 times when I was like 16 or so, so pre D&D for me Used to like? Burned out or some other reason that it is used to? |
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Post by mao on Jul 7, 2018 16:45:23 GMT -5
I have very fondmemories
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 7, 2018 21:07:38 GMT -5
Back in 1977,, one of my freinds went bat crap crazy Did he buy the moon, name it "Bat Moon," then drive for Uber? I saw him on Studio C. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 7, 2018 21:08:17 GMT -5
Back in 1977,, one of my freinds went bat crap crazy w Barsoom, and of course he had a PC John Carter along w his home city, I read the books 3 years earlier. Have you read all of them? At the same time? Mostly yes. |
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Thank you!
