Saturday, February 16, 2019

Epic Game of Dungeon




Played an epic game of Dungeon with the kids tonight to celebrate J. Eric Holmes' 89th birthday anniversary.

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2012/02/holmes-basic-testimonials.html?m=1

Tegel Manor at DunDraCon

Thom Hall wrote:

I had a great time running Tegel Manor yesterday at DunDraCon. Thanks to Jon Wilson, Keith Johnson, and the other participants for making the game memorable.

Friday, February 15, 2019

Finally submitted my game for NTRPG

Chris Holmes wrote:

Finally submitted my game for NTRPG
It's Saturday afternoon, look for 80's if you want to buy a ticket. I couldn't find Zach's game. I hope there isn't a conflict.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Who here goes to Gary Con? I'm thinking there may need to be some discos & dragons there this year.

Fold-up "table tents" for my Zenopus con game, so I and the otherplayers can quickly tell who everybody is.




Fold-up "table tents" for my Zenopus con game, so I and the other players can quickly tell who everybody is. At North Texas I wrote these out beforehand, but since I'm running this repeatedly I decided to make a printable sheet. Eventually I will re-design these to include portraits by Chris Holmes which will also be on the character sheets. The font is a faux medieval font I found call Blackwood Castle, more readable than actual Olde English fonts. Futura is of course even more readable but has less flavor. #brazenheadofzenopus

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Play Report - Karel Hynek Macha

Follow-up to previous post by Karel Hynek Macha. Actual Play report of his Holmes game.

http://zrzavy.blogspot.com/2019/02/play-report-holmes-basic-intro-to_6.html

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Beta preview of what the "Holmes Basic G+ Community Archive" will look like.

Beta preview of what the "Holmes Basic G+ Community Archive" will look like. This is a post from 2015 when Ernie Gygax was briefly active here:

https://holmesbasicgpluscommunity.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-oldest-tsr-shirt-that-i-seen.html (updated 2/9)

There are still two issues keeping this from going live:
1) Original posts are missing the poster's name, so it makes it look like I wrote everything. Comments have the name, but not the posts. The G+ Exporter developers have stated this will be addressed in a future release.
2) Some posts are missing hyperlinks. I am discussing this with the developers currently.

Thanks to Larry Hamilton for helping get the exported XML files for this, although I am planning to get the license myself since the developers are so responsive