Troll Lord Games

Ok, so I have been painting the living room in the house we are taking over. ( I call it the new Raven's Keep. The wife hates the name.) And as I was painting breathing in the lovely fumes my mind was working on the important stuff like gaming, old comic books, pulp writers and the St. Louis Cardinals and then it hit me.

Ok well a set of blinds fell off a window and banged me gord but, that was when the idea struck.

Were in the beginning of a new era of gaming. C&C seems to be doing well and I have talked to alot of people that miss some of the older entertainments. So, since we seems to be moving back on the timeline a bit what about spinning the wayback machine a bit and contact some guys names Guido and see if we can get someone to fund an old style pulp magazine, or sum such?

Bring back something like Penny Dreadfuls or Wierd Tales to introduce a whole new generation of people to the classic days of S&S, Sci-fi and even the odd western.

It may just be the fact my moonshine jug and the paint thinner were a bit too close together when I got a few drinks but I know I'd like to see it. Anyone else interested in seeing something like this come back?
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You know, I think Weird Tales is still around. I see it on magazine stands from time to time. It's just not the juggernaut that it once was.

Didn't Paizo or WotC purchase Amazing Stories? I don't remember if anything ever came of that.

If you ask me, the strongest fantasy writers these days are writing children's / young adult literature. People like Phil Pullman, Holly Black, and Jonathan Stroud.

In the adult field, I don't know that we have writers like Howard, Wagner, and Lovecraft anymore.

Or maybe it's just because there's no longer a great arena for them to be tried and discovered...

There is this: http://www.swordandsorcery.org/ for your s&s needs. There are a number of new sword and sorcery stories in the works which will be released in the next few years. There is also a Yahoogroup that consists of S&S writers. (I know this because I own it)
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I'm a huge fan of the pulps and the adventure stories! We would love to do this. Weird Tales is definately still around, but it doesn't seem to have the same magic as the old one did. Maybe its just me. Of course back in the 1930s that stuff was so very fresh!

Steve
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I suppose the hard thing would be soliciting authors who can recapture the era.

serleran wrote:
I suppose the hard thing would be soliciting authors who can recapture the era.

True. I am currently retconning some of my stuff to recapture the S&S feel over High Fantasy but I am pretty critical of my own stuff and it would take alot to show it to others besides friends and such.

However, with the need of more pulp styles out there I have been rereading my own Lovecraft, Lieber, Burroghs and other books so I have a point to work with. Maybe soon I can have something I think is good enough to share.

FWIW my own handle "julian grimm' is a name of one of my written characters who was always more S&S than High Fantasy. He has two "brothers" Janus and Kaleb.
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eibon wrote:
There is this: http://www.swordandsorcery.org/ for your s&s needs. There are a number of new sword and sorcery stories in the works which will be released in the next few years. There is also a Yahoogroup that consists of S&S writers. (I know this because I own it)

Could we have a link to the yahoo group?
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Julian Grimm wrote:
Could we have a link to the yahoo group?

Sure, it is for writers, and it is a private group, meaning the archives are not public. If you are interested in s&s writing, here is the link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swordandsorcerywriting

Just let me know you are from here for me to approve you.
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Troll Lord wrote:
I'm a huge fan of the pulps and the adventure stories! We would love to do this. Weird Tales is definately still around, but it doesn't seem to have the same magic as the old one did. Maybe its just me. Of course back in the 1930s that stuff was so very fresh!

Steve

I am an addict of pulp fantasy/science fiction/weird-horror stories. I am working on a few illustrated and written pieces that fit into this genre and I know that the Yahoogroup has members busy writing a variety of sword and sorcery pieces.

Another Steve
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"All that we are destined to behold will reveal itself at the proper time," said Eibon.

--Clark Ashton Smith

I've written a few S&S, sci-fi, high-fantasy, and pulp in my time. A few would be quite an understatement. I'm sure that if you guys, the Trolls, petitioned for writers, you'd have a fair amount of submissions for a short story kind of magazine.

Well, at least I'd be attempting to submit my yarns, along with a few other amateurs I assosciate with.

What we need is to make this happen. I was already thinking of starting a challenge on the Yahoogroup with prizes (I know a bookdealer who has a lot of older S&S/pulp material and he gives me good deals) and perhaps, if there is enough interest, this can take off of the ground.
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"All that we are destined to behold will reveal itself at the proper time," said Eibon.

--Clark Ashton Smith

I'm working on repolishing some stuff but, it's not going as well as I'd hoped. I think I'll just start fresh and go from there. Hopefully this weekend I'll get time to write at least one short story and maybe start a second.
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