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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 :  16:35:15  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
I decided to post this in its own separate topic... At the moment, when doing a search, if the result is found in a multipage thread, you have to look at every page until you find what you want. So to make things easy on anyone searching for all of the Spin A Yarn stories, I decided to have a new topic, dedicated only to all of those stories -- and, more specifically, the links to them.

I'll update this post each year, to keep all the links handy.

Edit: At this time (08/01/2022), all these links are broken. I'm leaving them, though, as a reference; some of the times that I've found lost content on WotC's site, it's been by extrapolating and/or combining old URLs and new.

The 2001-2008 Spin a Yarns can be found at http://www.o-love.net/realms/sam_elm.html


2001:
"Never A Warpig Born"

2002:
"Ladies Night at the Yawning Portal"

2003:
"Only a Woman Can Take This Sort of Abuse, Part One"
"Only a Woman Can Take This Sort of Abuse, Part Two"

2004:
Introducing "The Night Tymora Sneezed"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part One"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Two"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Three"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Four"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Five"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Six"

2005:
"The Lady of the Mists"

2006:
Introducing "Every Revel a Masterpiece"
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (part 1)
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (part 2)
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (part 3)

2007:
Introducing "The Weaver of Dreams"
"The Weaver of Dreams" (part 1)
"The Weaver of Dreams" (part 2)
"The Weaver of Dreams" (part 3)
"The Weaver of Dreams" (part 4)

2008:
Introducing "Volo Breaks a Hot Tale"
"Volo Breaks a Hot Tale" (Part One)
"Volo Breaks a Hot Tale" (Part Two)
"Volo Breaks a Hot Tale" (Part Three)
"Volo Breaks a Hot Tale" (Part Four)
"Volo Breaks a Hot Tale" (Part Five)
"Volo Breaks a Hot Tale" (collected pdf)

2009:
"Night of the Dread Pudding"

2010:
"The Rise of Bardic Beauty"

2011:
"Jantharl’s Surprising Journey"

2012:
"The Night Thelva Clovenaxe Flew" (not linked individually; see Dragon 425)

2013:
"The Unforking Family Tree"


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Probably a good idea to add some adhesive to this scroll too, at least for the time being -- since it's likely our more Gen Con-inclined scribes may want to read the various past "Spin A Yarn" tales.

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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 :  19:00:39  Show Profile  Visit Rinonalyrna Fathomlin's Homepage Send Rinonalyrna Fathomlin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Great idea!

"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time)
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Links to the intro and first part of "Volo Breaks A Hot Tale", the 2008 Spin A Yarn, are now in the first post. Said post will be updated as more parts appear.

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Part Two now available; the link is in the first post.

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Posted - 07 Aug 2009 :  14:23:59  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Part Three of 2008 is now available; the link is in the first post.

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Posted - 08 Aug 2009 :  17:28:46  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Part four now linked above.

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 04 Sep 2009 :  15:31:19  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Someone finally remembered to give us the final bit of the 2008 Spin a Yarn. According to the Archives page, it's been up since August 10th -- but I've been keeping an eye out for it, checking daily, and it wasn't there yesterday or any time before then.

The link, of course, is in the original post.

I'll leave this thread stickied for a couple more weeks or so, and then desticky it until next year.

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 04 Sep 2009 :  15:46:11  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hey, while updating my own page of links, I noted that this year, they compiled the entire tale into a single pdf. That is also linked to above.

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The Red Walker
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Posted - 10 Sep 2009 :  20:43:04  Show Profile Send The Red Walker a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin

Great idea!



Rino, I noticed that your tailess tressym I submitted to Ed on your behalf last year was very near the start!

Ed must favor you a bit I think!

And I can't wait to get home and pull out my notes from 08 and see how much else made it in.

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"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -

John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 10 Jan 2010 :  14:54:02  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The Wizards web team has once more earned my ire... They moved all the stories, and didn't bother to put redirects in place. This is a maneuver that appears to be SOP, because it's not the first time they've done it...

Anyway, all of the links are updated and working, as of the time of this post.

Note: For the stories that have an intro page, don't rely on the links Wizards gives you. Those links are aimed at the old location. My links work -- again, I just tested them all.

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 10 Jan 2010 :  14:56:28  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Heh, and now I'm glad I set this thread up the way I did. It would have been tedious to wade thru and change all of my posts, if I'd put the links in them instead of just in the original post.

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Wooly Rupert
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Added link to 2009 Spin a Yarn. I tested all the other links, and they're all still good, save for the collected pdf of the 2008 tale. I'll have to search for that one, later, and update the link.

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Matt James
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2010 Spin a Yarn -> http://wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/drfic/20110802
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I always love these.

"The very best possible post-fourteenth-century Realms lets down those who love the specific, detailed social, political and magical situation, with its thousands of characters, developed over forty years, and want to learn more about it; and those who'd be open to a new one with equal depth, which there just isn't time to re-produce; and those repelled, some past the point of no return, by the bad-taste-and-plausibility gap of things done to the world when its guardianship was less careful."
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 02 Aug 2011 :  18:08:32  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Matt James

2010 Spin a Yarn -> http://wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/drfic/20110802



Thank you for that link, Matt. I'll get the original post updated.

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Wooly Rupert
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Edited the main post and re-stickied the thread. I kept fiddling with the links until I made one work, and then extrapolated from there. All of the links above should be good, though most of them may give you security warnings.

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The Red Walker
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2011 Spin a yarn link :

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.aspx?x=dnd/drfic/20120719

With options for PDF. eBook or Kindle book...very nice!

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quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

2011 Spin a yarn link :

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.aspx?x=dnd/drfic/20120719

With options for PDF. eBook or Kindle book...very nice!



And a possible Larloch sighting??

also of note..it seems only 2009, 2010 and 2010 are accessible...get your copies while you can!

A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka

"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -

John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963

Edited by - The Red Walker on 28 Aug 2012 14:57:21
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Wooly Rupert
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quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

2011 Spin a yarn link :

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.aspx?x=dnd/drfic/20120719

With options for PDF. eBook or Kindle book...very nice!



And a possible Larloch sighting??

also of note..it seems only 2009, 2010 and 2010 are accessible...get your copies while you can!



I'm sure the others are out there, somewhere, but they keep moving stuff around and not bothering to update the links. I've had to chase some of these down multiple times.

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First post updated, thanks for the link, Red.

If anyone manages to locate some of the other Spin A Yarns, please PM me the URL, so I can get everything updated.*


*Again .

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Falstaffsrevenge
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Has anyone see a posting of Ed's 2012 or 2013 spin a yarn tale. THO mentioned that Ed was going to incorperate my sign into he story and I have been dieing to see how that played out.

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 19 Jul 2013 :  21:51:50  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Falstaffsrevenge

Has anyone see a posting of Ed's 2012 or 2013 spin a yarn tale. THO mentioned that Ed was going to incorperate my sign into he story and I have been dieing to see how that played out.



Well, the 2013 tale hasn't been written yet... The previous year's tale is usually present at roughly the same time as GenCon.

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Thanks Wooly. I have been gone (from the realms and this community) for a while. Trying to easy back into, and boy do I have alot of back gossip to catch up with. I wasn't sure what time GenCon was. I looked it up after I wrote the reply. I will keep my eyes open. :-)

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Wooly Rupert
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We have the 2013 Spin a Yarn!

The Unforking Family Tree

I can't do a separate link for the one for 2012 -- it was in Dragon 425, and either they took down the individual article link, or it was never done as an individual article.

I've checked all the other links, and they are working. You may get security warnings, though, as many of them remain (inexplicably!) https links.

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George Krashos
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I wonder if we'll ever see a Spin a Yarn from the 2014 seminar. I suppose I should ask Ed ...

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Hmm I wonder as well. Two years between post, doesn't look good.

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Does anyone have updated links for these? Keen to have a read :)

Regional maps for Waterdeep, Triboar, Ardeep Forest, and Cormyr on DM's Guild, plus a campaign sized map for the North
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I found a link to the Spin A Yarns from 2001-2008 for those interested:
http://www.o-love.net/realms/sam_elm.html

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Wooly Rupert
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I really, really hate how Wizards keeps arbitrarily moving stuff around on their website and never updates links.

I'm beginning to think their web folks move stuff around just to say they're doing something.

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Well met

Excellent, thanks for locating this, KanzenAU.

I had put some of Ed's work starting with Never a Warpig Born over on the Bard's Rumours page in the Alaundo's Library section of the site, so will get it updated to including these too.

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