Roll History: Juiblex, Part 1 – Roll History
Roll History is back with an unflinching look at a nine-foot-tall cone of slime, jelly, and assorted grey-and-yellow bits. We’re holding a magnifying glass to a sort of green splotch on the side. Smearing some on a finger and tasting it, and saying “yes, that’s definitely Juiblex” before immediately dying. Usual podcast stuff.
Plus: Dr. Pluffie Smedger, Centaur Overpopulation Control, an Unearthed Lost Blur Song, and Working at the (Slime) Carwash!
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Additional Show Notes:
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- Show logo by Alex and a brand new feature for season 2 (as we’re insisting on calling it), episode art by none other than Sami herself!
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- Our Sources for this one:
- Gary Gygax. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual 1st Edition. TSR, 1977
- Frank Mentzer. “Ay PronunseeAYshun Gyd,” Dragon Magazine #93. TSR, 1985
- Douglas Niles & Michael Dobson. Throne of Bloodstone. TSR, 1988.
- Carl Sargent. Monster Mythology. TSR, 1992.
- Monte Cook with William Connors. The Inner Planes. TSR, 1998. (The last major sourcebook for the Planescape line!)
Additional Annotations
- ‘It was a backdoor pilot like that one episode of Supernatural’—Alex is referring to season nine episode 20, “Bloodlines“. It was bad even for an episode of Supernatural.
- Sami’s character Quveli:
- Demons and Devils are not the same! Look!
- On terrines and filo pastry.
- ‘The Legend of Korra: she went into the city, and they had cars there!’ ‘She’s bisexual!’ This is the voice we’re doing. Sorry.
- Juiblex’s new friend from that one Dragon magazine might be Turaglas the Ebon Maw? Or maybe not. We found mention of him in an article by Ari Marmell in Dragon 312 (Sep. 2003), and then the same article again but with minor tweaks for 4th edition in Dragon 376 (Jun. 2009)! Juiblex was not in attendance!
- Noisome adjective (literary): having an extremely offensive smell.
- Bowling for Soup’s 1985 sure was on Kerrang a lot. We learned while writing these notes it was originally by SR-71, a band neither of us have ever heard of? Both original and cover were released in 2004; what a quick turnaround!
- Alex’s review of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on Letterboxd
- ‘You know, Coldplay?’
- Whenever black pudding is mentioned and Alex says ‘Black pudding’s very black today mum’, this is what they’re referencing. They cannot help it.
- ‘It fugs, does it?’ says Alex. You should read Going Postal.
- The mugato (alternatively pronounced mogatu, mugatu, mugutu, or even gumato) was a large, horned, ape-like carnivore, native to Star Trek, that had the “strength of ten men” and a bite that was poisonous to most humanoids.
- Manes are indeed a type of demon or monster. They’re like the demonic equivalent of cows, just milling about all day not doing much.
- Once again we spiral into Northern Boys lyrics. We cannot help it.
- A diatribe about Pipes of the Sewers, and whether or not they are actually useful in a modern setting. Vote now on your phones.
- Actually Gucci was a person, named… Guccio Gucci? Seriously?
- Who is Soulja Boy? And what in the heck is that dance?
- Aboleths: ‘Those big nasty dolphins that are older than time itself’. They really do care a lot about being sufficiently moist, which—same?
- Ordure noun (literary): stinky poo-poo.
- Sami’s Gary Gygax impression is just like bart! (according to her)
- Whenever we bring up the molecular theory of light that’s a reference from alllll the way back in our Displacer Beast episode. Simpler times.
- Alex quoted Gilbert Gottfried’s reading of 50 Shades of Grey, for some godforsaken reason
- Why does Alex keep saying ‘Characters Welcome’?
- ‘Tell me the name of god, you fungal piece of shit’
- We were confused by the term ‘Tanar’ri Basher’—apparently ‘basher’ is a term specific to Planescape, and refers to just… anyone. “Basher: A neutral reference to someone. Usually but not always implying a thug or fighter.”
- Sure would be nice to have a picture of Bwimb II, but nope!
- As it happens, Archomentals, also known as Elemental Princes or collectively Princes of Elemental Good and Evil, were powerful beings of the Elemental Planes and rulers over the elementals. Apparently.
Thanks for listening!
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