Coloring our campaign map with colored pencils. BlueHolme game for meand my sons and some friends.

Coloring our campaign map with colored pencils. BlueHolme game for me and my sons and some friends.

https://sites.google.com/view/dragonsmarch/warholds-blueholme-adventures

How do you pronounce Zenopus? Zen-aw-puss? Zee-nope-us? ???

The kiddo’s One Page Dungeon Contest entry completed.

Michael Calleia wrote:

The kiddo’s One Page Dungeon Contest entry completed.

"Timmy (My Cat) Fell in the Well"
Ranee Dosnav, once the most famous warrior in town, now a little old man, needs your help rescuing his cat Timmy from the old well!

We also play tested this with a group using Hero Kids rues. If I ran it for adults, using Holmes. Basic, those slime monsters would be giant centipedes!

BTW, Ranee Dosnav is an anagram. I use TSR staff and early D&D pioneers’ names with a twist for NPC names in adventures for kids. So she wanted to do the same.

sneak preview to my late night meme making.

sneak preview to my late night meme making.

RPG ads in comic books from 1987

Pete Segreti wrote:

Pruning through some old comic books somebody donated to to my church, found these in a GI Joe comic from ‘87

Some of the encounters from yesterday’s continuation of “The SewerAsunder” adventure: a “JoJo” iron golem butler...

 

Paul Haupt III wrote:

Some of the encounters from yesterday’s continuation of “The Sewer Asunder” adventure: a “JoJo” iron golem butler from Chubby Buckles’ observatory in the Fiddle, Faddle & Fuddle, Inc. curiosity shoppe; a hobgoblin cultist assassin, his mask, silver dagger, and bronze demon-faced amulet.

Thinking about running an OD&D campaign set in Dave Arneson's Blackmoorusing Holmes Basic, the LBB, supplements,...

Andy Action wrote:

Thinking about running an OD&D campaign set in Dave Arneson's Blackmoor using Holmes Basic, the LBB, supplements, The Arduin Grimoire by David A. Hargrave, some Judges Guild materials and varied early (pre-1980) 3rd party publication rules variants.
There's no school like the old school!

Did you get chits with your basic set?

Did you get chits with your basic set?

Either way, you can celebrate 40 years of Holmes Basic with one of these t-shirts.

https://teespring.com/holmes-basic
Based on the five color dice in the Holmes sets that came with dice.

https://teespring.com/blue-book-basic-d-and-d
Including the characters from the example combat text.
https://teespring.com/holmes-basic

Cool blog post I stumbled upon whilst noodling about working on some sample dungeon stuff.

Cool blog post I stumbled upon whilst noodling about working on some sample dungeon stuff. Looks like it is still active too. Mad props!

I found this book at my local library book sale and couldn't help think of it as a possible early RPG supplement.

I found this book at my local library book sale and couldn't help think of it as a possible early RPG supplement. This book outlines historical castles using the fictional Aberwyvern. Possibly a good setup for adventure? I also noticed the release date was 1977 making this a possible addition to my discos & dragons games :D
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847018.Castle

#dagonite

#dagonite

Originally shared by Jeff Rients

My daughter's dentist has the worst plushie I have ever seen. #toothfrog

Mainly posting this here because of DCS reference.

Mainly posting this here because of DCS reference. I noticed last eve when looking thru Dungeon issue #1 that it lists DCS and also Jim Roslof in the art credits. It appears to be the only issue of Dungeon magazine that lists either of them. Most of the interior art isn't signed. At least the 1st half of the zine appears to be obviously illustrated by Jim Holloway. I can''t make out what may be by Roslof or DCS if any truly are.

If you are going to North Texas check out my funky holmes game.

Carl Heyl wrote:

If you are going to North Texas check out my funky holmes game.

https://tabletop.events/conventions/ntrpgcon-2018/schedule/319

How about a Weresharktopus?

How about a Weresharktopus? From Paizo's Skulls & Shackles line. The big one is called "The Whale". #wereshark

https://www.flickr.com/photos/74529773@N07/9665516183
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74529773@N07/9665516183

Creating a regional hand drawn map for our home campaign in theBlueKingdom.

Creating a regional hand drawn map for our home campaign in the BlueKingdom. When I'm all done drawing this up I will color it with colored pencils and hang it up on the wall in our D&D Lair.

https://sites.google.com/view/dragonsmarch/warholds-blueholme-adventures

Pre painted wereshark alternative

Carl Heyl wrote:

This is a cheap pre painted wereshark alternative.

https://www.trollandtoad.com/p171620.html

Reaper # 03493: Rumscratch, Dwarf Wereshark ($7.99 unpainted)

Reaper # 03493: Rumscratch, Dwarf Wereshark ($7.99 unpainted)
Sculpt by Guy England, Painted by Michael Proctor
#wereshark

Hi Guys.

Hi Guys. Here is my second installment of my weekly OD&D Vlog. Here I talk more about what I have going on in my Dragonsmarch / BlueKINGDOM campaign. Specifically my homebrew rules for making alchemical brews using gathered plants, herbs and mushrooms. You can pick up a pdf of my OD&D alchemy rules on my campaign website. Link provided below the video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8KVqosyhQ8

I got my hands on The Chapel of Silence and The Creature of Rhyl. Looking forward to reading them.

Reaper minis Wereshark

Reaper minis Wereshark. I think it came in one of the kickstarter packages.

Title

https://sites.google.com/view/dragonsmarch/warholds-blueholme-adventures

This dungeon level for my BlueHolme campaign is pretty much complete.

This dungeon level for my BlueHolme campaign is pretty much complete. This is a draft mind you but ready for someone to look over and throw characters at it. I should have the last couple of locations R and T and the hall transitions to the lower levels finished by the middle of this week.

If you go to the link and scroll down to the map the document / key where all the locations are written up is provided in an easy to open link. It is left in a format that you can edit or change or add to yourself.

Allan Grohe posted his scans of the TSR advertisement for the World of Greyhawk mini line from Minifigs.

Originally shared by Zenopus Archives

Allan Grohe posted his scans of the TSR advertisement for the World of Greyhawk mini line from Minifigs. Lots of cool troop details not found elsewhere. http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?p=243156#p243156
http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?p=243156#p243156

Here is the first in a series of VLOGs about OD&D campaigning and specifically my BlueKINGDOM campaign for the...

Here is the first in a series of VLOGs about OD&D campaigning and specifically my BlueKINGDOM campaign for the Blueholmes rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFtjEIWeb2Y&t=179s

Early TSR adverstisement

Early TSR adverstisement featuring cave monster artwork by Sutherland - also found in the Blackmoor Supplement. #dcsIII

Originally shared by Scott Mob

Another cool old ad.

Let's go back to the Borderlands with Goodman Games!

Let's go back to the Borderlands with Goodman Games!
http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2018/04/into-borderlands.html

I recently came upon a small volume by one J.

Originally shared by Robert Weaver

I recently came upon a small volume by one J. Eric Holmes, who is famous for his work with a different classic RPG. But in it he mentions Traveller quite a bit, and even shares his thoughts on the sci-fi literature that inspired it.
What authors do you credit with the most influence on your Traveller game? I would have to say H. Beam Piper's been my biggest influence.

It's David Sutherland Day!!! (three exclamations points for DCSIII) #dcsIII

It's David Sutherland Day!!! (three exclamations points for DCSIII) #dcsIII

He would have been 69 today.

https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/04/david-sutherland-day.html
https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/04/david-sutherland-day.html

Hi!

Edward Kann wrote:

Hi! This must be where all the cool kids hang out. I still own a copy of the Holmes Basic box set that I started out with in 1978...when I was 13. My kids and I are getting ready to enjoy adventures using BlueHolmes as a basic so things have come full circle as they are now 13 years old here in 2018.

Some illustrations from yesterday's #dnd session “The Sewers Asunder”(with Herman Klang) including glowing glyphs,...

Paul Haupt III wrote:

Some illustrations from yesterday's #dnd session “The Sewers Asunder” (with Herman Klang) including glowing glyphs, curious crystals, vile savage frogmen, and Chubby Buckles, the dwarven curiosity shopkeeper!