These monsters by Arlin Ortiz are awesome.

These monsters by Arlin Ortiz are awesome. In the format of TSR's Monster Cards, they have great graphic design, including bright colors, art that reminds me of 1960s paperback sci-fi, and the Futura font ala original Monster Manual (and Holmes). I do wish they had actually stats rather than being system neutral but I'm sure this format has more crossover appeal.

Thanks to Aaron Kesher for the reminder.
http://monsterpamphlets.tumblr.com

If you missed it, there's now a free 389-page pdf of the 5E rules.

If you missed it, there's now a free 389-page pdf of the 5E rules. It's a SRD for use with the OGL. It includes basically everything you need to run a game: class info, spells, magic items, monsters. All of the classes are on separate sheets, which is nice because you could just print out the info for the class you are playing and keep it with your character sheet (or use it as your sheet).
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd

Somewhere in glam rock heaven, two stars are reunited...

Somewhere in glam rock heaven, two stars are reunited...

Holmes-era photo, Sep 1977, from Bowie's appearance on Bolan's last MARC show, one week before Bolan was killed in a car crash.

Inspired by playing Adventure, I dug out my old Infocom compilation, "Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces" CD-ROM,...

Inspired by playing Adventure, I dug out my old Infocom compilation, "Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces" CD-ROM, which I haven't tried out in years. I quickly discovered it doesn't run in OS X. But there is a program Zoom which will run the old Infocom files with just some minor tweaking to the file names.
http://www.logicalshift.co.uk/mac/zoom/manual/launch.html

Play Adventure (aka Colossal Cave) on the AMC website

Tonight I discovered you can play Adventure (aka Colossal Cave) - the original text adventure game - on the website for the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire (which I have watched the first 2 seasons of btw). The game play is on a "simulated PC screen circa 1983" with green text on a dark background, but with artwork accompanying certain rooms. No save but it seems to remember where you are if you leave the page.

http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/colossal-cave-adventure/landing

I may be going to the #ntrpgcon for the first time this year. Anybody else here going? http://ntrpgcon.com/

I may be going to the #ntrpgcon for the first time this year. Anybody else here going? http://ntrpgcon.com/
http://ntrpgcon.com

The A0-A4 reprint compilation is now available as a $9.99 pdf. Includes A0, an introductory adventure for levels 1-3:

The A0-A4 reprint compilation is now available as a $9.99 pdf. Includes A0, an introductory adventure for levels 1-3:
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-ad-basic-level-adventure-from-wotc.html

Originally shared by Ramanan S

The fancy new version of the Slavers series is now available for purchase from Wizard's as a PDF. So, we continue to circle closer and closer towards OD&D as proper PDFs.
http://www.dndclassics.com/product/169626/A0A4-Against-the-Slave-Lords-1e