In further awesome news, I'm happy to report that BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules will feature the race of Holmes's "most successful character" - with permission of John McEwan, creator of Starguard and proprietor of fine miniatures at Reviresco:
http://www.tin-soldier.com/starguard/dreenoi.html
Sorry for being ignorant but what does Dreenoi have to do with Holmes? Was he a character he played? any more info on this?
ReplyDeleteThere is an article in Dragon #52 wherein Holmes compares his Basic Set to the new Moldvay version. In the article he says:
ReplyDelete"“Character classes: Player characters are restricted to being a Fighter, Cleric, Thief, Magic-User, Elf, Halfling or Dwarf. This probably covers the roles most beginning players want to try, but I am personally sorry to see the range of possibilities so restricted. The original rules (the three little brown books) specifically stated that a player could be a dragon if he wanted to be, and if he started at first level. For several years there was a dragon player character in my own game. At first level he could puff a little fire and do one die of damage. He could, of course, fly, even at first level. He was one of the most unpopular characters in the game, but this was because of the way he was played, not because he was a dragon. I enjoyed having dragons, centaurs, samurai and witch doctors in the game. My own most successful player character was a Dreenoi, an insectoid creature borrowed from McEwan’s Starguard. He reached fourth level (as high as any of my personal characters ever got), made an unfortunate decision, and was turned into a pool of green slime.”
Blueholme takes that Holmes concept all the way, in lifting any restrictions on PC race. There will be a section in the monster chapter on how to adapt the various creatures as character races.
That is way cool!
ReplyDeleteHaving some guidelines in the spirit of the Holmes rules would be wonderful. I'm really looking forward to seeing Blueholme Compleat.
ReplyDeleteDreamscape Design you just totally sold me on Blueholme Compleat! thanks very much! By the way I'm loving the Prentice rules
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how happy I am that people are enjoying Blueholme. Even if it makes me feel guilty about every minute not spent on working on Compleat Rules!
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