Places to find me after G+ vaporizes

This combines two somewhat duplicative posts I made on G+:

3/31/19 public post, which had no comments

Some places to find me after G+ vaporizes:

The Blog will continue of course: http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/

Facebook Profile (as Arch Zenopus): https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009452211671 Facebook Holmes Basic Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/holmesbasic/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenopusArchives
Tumblr: http://zenopusarchives.tumblr.com/

MeWe Profile: https://mewe.com/profile/5bbbd5042ee15f0a6cffff75
MeWe Holmes Basic Group: https://mewe.com/group/5bbbd60c2ee15f0a6c696d7b

OD&D Discussion Forum: http://odd74.proboards.com/ (must join to see all subforums including Holmes Basic, but I am a mod & can approve you. Email me at zenopusarchives at gmail.com)

Knights & Knaves Alehouse forum
Dragonsfoot forum
Acaeum forum


3/21/19 post to the Holmes Basic G+ group, the comments below were made to this post:

G+ vaporizes on Apr 2. Thank you all for joining and participating in this community. When I started it in 2012, not long after they created Communities, I had no idea if there would be enough interest to keep it alive. Happily it turned out there was. I'm going to miss it. I will be archiving many of the posts as a second blogger blog, and I will of course keep blogging, but I tend to save posts there for more extensive writings, versus here where feel more comfortable posting quick links to news or pics or ideas or discussion topics.

Options to continue our conversations include:

The Holmes Basic MeWe group:
https://mewe.com/group/5bbbd60c2ee15f0a6c696d7b
I don't entirely like MeWe, but it's most like G+ in format. I will probably start using it more once this group is completely gone.

The Holmes Basic Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/holmesbasic/?ref=bookmarks
When I post there, I get some likes but not too much conversation. It was started by someone other than myself, and while I was added me as a moderator, I don't feel as comfortable as I do here posting stuff that is of more general nature (like my Conan comics earlier today).

Zenopus Archives twitter account:
https://twitter.com/ZenopusArchives
I've been using this a bit more lately, but obviously it's not a centralized location where anyone can leave comments.

I've signed up for Reddit and Discord but I find the formats too alien.

Gronan's Guide to Gaming

Gronan's Guide to Gaming, advice he sent out to the players of his OD&D game at Gary Con beforehand.

https://wmusswtwbf.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/gronans-guide-to-gaming/

GRONAN'S GUIDE TO GAMING

Hell, I've been running D&D since before it was published. I'm not "old school," I'm PRESCHOOL! Anyway. Yes, Virginia, there are really very substantial differences between Original Dungeons & Dragons (OD&D) and later editions. There are also differences in the way I run D&D, no matter what the edition.

Marvel Conan $1 reprints

How come no one told me that Marvel reprinted ten (!) Conan comics this past January as part of its $1 True Believers series?!? Just found them all at a musty used bookstore that also sells comics.

Humble Pi in a dungeon

Herman Klang wrote:

This is the room I put Zenopus Archives Humble Pie in.

https://dungeonsofklang.blogspot.com/2019/03/map-key-of-plague-year-4-humble-pie.html

Map Key of the Plague Year 4: Humble Pie

A Throne raised up on a small dais, stone, covered in dust. Also a banquet table in the middle of the room, also stone and covered in dust. On the table are three pristine well decorated cakes. They look delicious, but don't say that. Let the players ask.

Scale model of the 1st level of Quasqueton

8 x 10' scale model of the 1st level of Quasqueton! By Douglas Waltman, posted on FB in the Gary Con group. May be coming to Gary Con next year.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/58339157369?view=permalink&id=10157195812027370

Larry DiTillio has passed away.

Originally shared by Zenopus Archives

Larry DiTillio has passed away. He is best known in RPG circles for writing The Masks of Nyarlathotep, a multi-chapter world-spanning adventure for the Call of Cthulhu RPG. But he also co-created She-Ra while writing for He-Man. #callofcthulhu #shera
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/larry-ditillio-she-ra-he-man-obituary-j-michael-straczynski

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/larry-ditillio-she-ra-he-man-obituary-j-michael-straczynski

Gary Con XI report, Day One

Originally shared by Zenopus Archives

Gary Con XI report, Day One:

https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2019/03/return-to-gary-con-day-one.html

File under One-Hit Point Monsters: Humble Pi

File under One-Hit Point Monsters:

Humble Pi
DX 16, AC 7, HD 1 hp, AT 1 lash for 1 hp
The least of the mimic family, this small protean excels at impersonating irresistable desserts. Strikes quickly when about to be eaten, forcing the victim to admit that eating treats found in the dungeon is not such a great idea.

Welcome to Jakalla - EPT intro game at Gary Con

My last scheduled game of Gary Con XI: Welcome to Jakalla - an introduction to the Empire of the Petal Throne (Tekumel) run by Victor Raymond. We have chosen to enter the famous Jakallan Underworld (he is using Barker's own version).

Discos and Dragons at Gary Con

Fighting a Hill Giant in Carl Heyl 's all day drop-in Disco & Dragons Holmes Basic game at Gary Con. All game materials are from the '70s. The area map in the background is the Outdoor Survival board. Chits used for initiative!

The Key to Akbeth's Tower at Gary Con

Knife fight in the Bazaar! Looking for The Key to Akbeth's Tower in a Gary Con XI OD&D game run by Demos Sachlas. Part of a tournament scenario originally run at Gen Con in 1977, and later published by Judges Guild.

I made some monsters with dexterity...

Herman Klang wrote:

I made some monsters with dexterity scores.

https://dungeonsofklang.blogspot.com/2019/03/bestiary-of-plague-year-parasitic-brain.html

Day 3 of Gary Con begins!

Day 3 of Gary Con begins!

Intro for Discovery of the Unknown at Gary Con

Intro for Discovery of the Unknown tournament at #garycon XI. Sequel to In Search of the Unknown by Mike Carr and Paul Stormberg. Our team's DM is Steve Winter, formerly of TSR.

Zenopus sequel at Gary Con

Ran my Zenopus sequel this morning at Gary Con. The party successfully recovered the Brazen Head of Zenopus!

Jasmine Card Game at Gary Con

From yesterday:

Originally shared by Zenopus Archives

At Gary Con! Playing Jasmine card game with its creator, Darlene. I'm playing Jasmine faction, but only a few rounds in and I've already lost my leader Jasmine to the Dark Faeries of Devastation!

PC tokens for my Zenopus games at GaryCon

One of two sets of "minis" for my Zenopus games later this week at Gary Con. I plan to use these for marching order & bigger battles, and will give them to the players at the end. The discs are real wood, 1" diameter (so fit standard battle mats/dungeon tiles) & 1/16" thick, bought online from a woodcraft company. In the center are Boinger & Zereth. Clockwise from the left of Boinger are Lady Hortensa, Sir Geoffrey (with Prince Valiant hairdo), Brother Ambrose, Murray the Mage, Olaf & Haldor, Maximillian the Centaur (who I gave a weird human-horse hybrid face), Bardan the Dwarf and Sunna. I started off putting a letter on each but dropped that part way through since I decided it wasn't really needed. Each back has the PC name + "Gary Con XI".

Drop-in Discos & Dragons to be run at Gary Con

Carl Heyl informs me that he will be running a drop-in Holmes Basic game all day on Saturday at Gary Con! Carl is a great DM, I played in his "Disco & Dragons" game last year at North Texas RPG Con.

Holmesiana from this year's Gary Con program:

Holmesiana from this year's Gary Con program:
*Holmes is listed on page 5 among the "Pioneers Who Have Passed"
*Page 7 has a quote from Gary's Preface to Holmes Basic, along with a thumbnail of the Basic Rulebook cover, Lizard Logo
*Pat Kilbane ("Bizarro Kramer" on Seinfeld"), one of the guests of honor, started with Holmes Basic in 1979.
*Page 44 notes that this year is the 40th anniversary of B1 In Search of the Unknown, and the Legends Tournament on Friday night is a sequel to this by Mike Carr and Paul Stormberg (I'm signed up for this!)

Originally shared by Zenopus Archives

Luke Gygax has made the Gary Con XI program available in PDF in advance of the con. Download link below. 124 pages...!

https://garycon.com/gc-xi-event-guide/
https://garycon.com/gc-xi-event-guide/