Has anyone taken the time to layout the Dungeon from Maze of Peril forplay.

Herman Klang wrote:

Has anyone taken the time to layout the Dungeon from Maze of Peril for play. Like is there a conversion of the sample dungeon to the dungeon beneath/near Caladan?

Cool photo of part of Ian Livingstone's collection of early GW materials, posted by Jon Peterson over on the Acaeum:

Cool photo of part of Ian Livingstone's collection of early GW materials, posted by Jon Peterson over on the Acaeum:

https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=287688&c=1#p287688
https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=287688&c=1#p287688

The latest episode of the podcast Save for Half is dedicated to Holmes Basic!

The latest episode of the podcast Save for Half is dedicated to Holmes Basic!
You might recognize two of the hosts DMs Liz (Elizabeth Stewart) and Mike as former hosts of Save or Die.

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/03/save-for-half-episode-10-holmes-basic-d.html
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/03/save-for-half-episode-10-holmes-basic-d.html

Your next must have book:

Your next must have book:

Originally shared by Jon Peterson

I'm excited to share a first look at our new Dungeons & Dragons visual history ART & ARCANA, which will be on sale October 23! It's an illustrated guide to the history and evolution of D&D that we've been working on with Wizards of the Coast and the good people at Ten Speed Press (part of Penguin Random House). Check it out!

You can pre-order on Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Art-Arcana-History/dp/0399580948
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562708/dungeons-and-dragons-art-and-arcana-by-michael-witwer-kyle-newman-jon-peterson-and-sam-witwer/9780399580949/

There's a new Save for Half podcast reviewing the Holmes Basic rulebook.

There's a new Save for Half podcast reviewing the Holmes Basic rulebook.
http://saveforhalf.com/2018/03/25/episode-10-holmes-basic-dungeons-dragons/

hmmm.

hmmm.... a hobgoblin on a dwarven throne? Zenopus is certainly different after 40 years. Been playing around with Clip Studio Paint Ex. I think Photoshop may be retired...

My review for "Into the Borderlands" just posted on Dragonsfoot, for those who are interested.

My review for "Into the Borderlands" just posted on Dragonsfoot, for those who are interested. I think they did a pretty good job with it!
https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=79608&p=1924910#p1924910

I switched my #ntrpgcon game - which had no sign-ups yet - to Saturday evening at 7 PM so I could play in Chris...

I switched my #ntrpgcon game - which had no sign-ups yet - to Saturday evening at 7 PM so I could play in Chris Holmes' just scheduled D&D in Pellucidar game in the afternoon.

The link to my game is the same: https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/393 (I now have one two sign-up(s), so two one pre-purchase, 3 general admission tix left)

Chris' game is here : https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/401 (2 sign-ups inc myself; 2 pre-purchase tix left, 4 general admission).

(NT allows early registration for half of the seats in each game, for $5 each. The remaining seats are available in general registration on April 15th - actually April 14th right at midnight CST).

Ponyo is returning to theatres this Sun & Wed (dubbed) & Mon (subtitled) for its 10th-iversary!

Ponyo is returning to theatres this Sun & Wed (dubbed) & Mon (subtitled) for its 10th-iversary! https://www.fathomevents.com/events/studio-ghibli-fest-2018-ponyo
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/studio-ghibli-fest-2018-ponyo

Picture from Dragon #20

This picture is from Dragon #20. This is the low quality image I grabbed from the pdf from the internetz (annarchive.com), original scan is probably from the Dragon Magazine Archive. Is there anyone with hard copy of the original issue who can make a better scan of this?

Update: Better scan is now at the J. Eric Holmes Gallery.

Added three more pictures to the Holmes picture gallery.

Added three more pictures to the Holmes picture gallery. New pics are the one from the back flap of Tales of Peril; one from a 1993 ERB convention where he was guest of honor; and his gravestone at a veterans memorial cemetery in Honolulu (which is available on-line; thanks to Olde House Rules for the suggestion to add this)

https://sites.google.com/site/zenopusarchives/home/holmes/j-eric-holmes-photo-gallery
https://sites.google.com/site/zenopusarchives/home/holmes/j-eric-holmes-photo-gallery

I started making a J.

I started making a J. Eric Holmes photo gallery on my Sites page. Only three photos up now, more to come. Thanks to Tony Rowe for two of the scans.

https://sites.google.com/site/zenopusarchives/home/holmes/j-eric-holmes-photo-gallery
https://sites.google.com/site/zenopusarchives/home/holmes/j-eric-holmes-photo-gallery

Holmes (right) from 1979.

Holmes (right) from 1979. He was devastatingly cool and even had a bit of swagger, something not normally associated with gamers of the time. But then, he walked the world of geekdom and the realm of medicine and neuroscience. A fascinating character...

Hi everyone, I'm doing a series of video posts at my Adept Play site called "Finding D&D." So far I've put up three...

Hi everyone, I'm doing a series of video posts at my Adept Play site called "Finding D&D." So far I've put up three out of five.

Holmes plays a role in my basic claim, as I see it and the line which follows as being less of an Icon Of Gaming and more of an actual played-game with enjoyable play-properties. Therefore it serves as the only practical linchpin for my first video, as a sort of house-heretic for the second, and unsurprisingly as the most fruitful or valuable source-material for the third.

Anyway, the series starts with The Standalone Complex, which I've linked here, and goes on to Communion and The Fundamentals which you can find in the same section of my site. I'll be doing the last two over the next couple weeks.
http://adeptplay.com/seminar-hearts-minds/discuss-stand-alone-complex

Oh yeah - these are just drafts, actually - not all that slick in production, plenty of minor fumbles in presentation and in the occasional factual error. Feedback is appreciated but please help me fix stuff rather than reviewing as if they were a final product.
http://adeptplay.com/seminar-hearts-minds/discuss-stand-alone-complex

I'm going to be slowly pruning the members list here of accounts that have never posted or commented and have no...

I'm going to be slowly pruning the members list here of accounts that have never posted or commented and have no activity on G+. If you are a regular reader but who has never posted or commented here please leave a comment below and let me know that you want to stay in the group. Anybody removed can always ask to join again later.

Snother art idea for level 2 of Zenopus...

Steven Muchow wrote:

another art idea for level 2 of Zenopus...
and updated with a sneak peek of some module text...
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OA8_4CIlgGk/Wq3U__7p81I/AAAAAAAALmw/GHc43QYIKDsKSQjT3IsVLnv4bDUV5Ny1wCLcBGAs/w530-h371-n-rw/DeepOneAcolyte.png

Tales of Peril book club finally returns, with our heroes finally entering the Underworld and finding...

Tales of Peril book club finally returns, with our heroes finally entering the Underworld and finding something...opalescent.


http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/03/maze-of-peril-ch-1-scene-5-ancients.html
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/03/maze-of-peril-ch-1-scene-5-ancients.html

Finally got around to illustrating the map of our last session withHerman Klang from 2wks ago.

Finally got around to illustrating the map of our last session with Herman Klang from 2wks ago. Tomorrow we pick back up and explore even deeper into the tomb of the dwarf lord Norvin! What lays ahead?

B4 Campaign Sourcebook

At last - I'm ready to circulate the 48-page "B4 campaign sourcebook", a collection of mostly new material celebrating Tom Moldvay's "The Lost City" including:

Retrospective: The Lost City
Memories of Tom Moldvay
About the Artist, from “The Art of Jim Holloway”
Printing History, with notes from the Acaeum
Origins of the Lost City
Worship of the Ancient Gods
The Cynidicean Mosaics
Holmes and the Lost City
Notes on the Underground City
Expanding the Adventure
New Monsters
The Emirates of Ylaruam
The DM’s Guide to Cynidicea
Review: “Mystara: Return to the Lost City”
Review: “Masque of Dreams” (including some previously unpublished artwork by Michael Kaluta!)
Review: “Elder Evils”
2013 Gen Con Championship

There was also a 24-page section detailing the Underground City which I will be releasing as a separate pdf, as I'm working on significantly improving my original, 30+ year old notes.

Module B4 was published for use with B/X, but lends itself magnificently to a Holmes Basic campaign (there are even instructions in the module for running it entirely using the Blue Book - see Zach's article for more info).

Here's the link:
https://sites.google.com/site/bxgrimoire/B4%20campaign%20sourcebook.pdf

http://oubliettemagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/fossil-bx-character-generation-booklet.html

http://oubliettemagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/fossil-bx-character-generation-booklet.html

Dose anyone know the pattern of how to ink a retro 20 sided?

Dose anyone know the pattern of how to ink a retro 20 sided?

I got these in the mail today..

Eric Lawson wrote:

I got these in the mail today..

At North Texas RPG Con I will be running my Discos & Dragons convention game. 1970s basic D&D with 1970s material.

At North Texas RPG Con I will be running my Discos & Dragons convention game. 1970s basic D&D with 1970s material.

So there are three different Zenopus games scheduled for #ntrpgcon now!

So there are three different Zenopus games scheduled for #ntrpgcon now!

As announced previously, Steven Muchow is running his "Ruined Tower of Zenopus - 40 years later" on Friday evening, using the Black Hack system:
https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/393

Bill Barsh of Pacesetter games is running three sessions of a "What Depths Zenopus" tournament for AD&D 1E, on Wed evening, Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. It sounds like this is a fleshed out version of the original dungeon. https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/375
(Wed listing, click on game title to find other listings)

Since all of the above are Wed-Fri, and the con is short on games for Sat, I submitted my "Return to the Tower of Zenopus" Holmes+OD&D scenario for Saturday afternoon, and it's now listed:
https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/393
#brazenheadofzenopus

Plus we have Carl Heyl (member here) running a "Discos and Dragons: Holmes Basic using 70s resources" session on Friday afternoon:
https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/319

A good showing for the 40th anniversary year of Holmes Basic!

Judges Guild module #80 review

Andy C wrote:

Ran across this review of the Judges Guild module "Of Skulls and Scrap***** Green" on Dragonsfoot; the adventure was originally run at Gen Con X.

Reading the review, it sounds like this would be a pretty good one to add to the arsenal of Holmes-friendly modules - even has a wilderness adventure you could probably use as a Holmesian sandbox : )

https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=70763

So now I'm signed up for #ntrpgcon in June.

So now I'm signed up for #ntrpgcon in June. Airfare purchased, room reserved. I'll be there Thur afternoon until Sunday noon or so. I know Chris Holmes Allan Grohe Jon Hershberger Steven Muchow and Nathan Jennings are signed up. Anyone else?

Gen Con X souvenir program

I got a chance to flip through a copy of the Gen Con X souvenir program at Gary Con, which was part of a display for The Collector's Trove in the Legends of Wargaming room.

The Holmes Basic Set is advertised on page 19, obtainable at booth #s 26, 27, and 28. There's also a map of Lake Geneva which I think might have been drawn by DCSIII (there's one of his little dragons in the lake!)

FANTASTIC! EXCITING! IMAGINATIVE! Volume One is now available IN PRINT via my web site.

FANTASTIC! EXCITING! IMAGINATIVE! Volume One is now available IN PRINT via my web site.

https://www.bygrinstow.com/products/fei.html
https://www.bygrinstow.com/products/fei.html

Photo of the Black Blade booth at Gary Con, courtesy Guy Fullerton.

Photo of the Black Blade booth at Gary Con, courtesy Guy Fullerton. On the front table are Tales of Peril, the two issues of Fantastic Exciting Imaginative, and the newly released Into the Borderlands. Large Tales of Peril poster is in the center back.

Originally shared by Guy Fullerton

Will post more Gary Con X photos tonight, but here's a handful now. #GaryCon

...and there's a discount, if you buy both...

...and there's a discount, if you buy both...

Originally shared by Jon Wilson (bygrinstow)

When you're wandering GaryCon, look for my zine FANTASTIC! EXCITING! IMAGINATIVE! — which has two volumes available — at the Black Blade booth!

It's inspired by Holmes D&D, and full of grab-and-use features and ideas...

https://www.bygrinstow.com/products/fei.html
https://www.bygrinstow.com/products/fei.html

The lovely Lady Lemunda - 40 years later, but still looking so young!

Steven Muchow wrote:

The lovely Lady Lemunda - 40 years later, but still looking so young! I wonder how? You may find a clue at Dean Spencer art... http://www.rpgnow.com/browse/pub/8135/Dean-Spencer-Art
I have nothing but praise for Dean and his super-reasonable pricing for art!

Zenopus' Dungeon has a jackalope problem... my work in progress on someart for my module at NTRPGCon 2018.

Steven Muchow wrote:

Zenopus' Dungeon has a jackalope problem... my work in progress on some art for my module at NTRPGCon 2018.

Another article about the brain by Dr. Holmes, from Analog magazineAugust 1974.

Tony Rowe wrote:

Another article about the brain by Dr. Holmes, from Analog magazine August 1974.