An interesting challenge from Christopher Mennell: Make this drawing ofmine into a map.

An interesting challenge from Christopher Mennell: Make this drawing of mine into a map. He did an awesome job of coloring it.

Originally shared by Christopher Mennell

OKAY GOOGLE HIVEMIND:

Here is a drawing by Zach H that I asked if I could take it and turn it into a map. Zach agreed, and then I turned the image over to Christian Kessler to break up the picture into colored regions.

Now I'd like to fill each area in, like a hex crawl.

And then I thought, "Why not have people on Google do it?"

So Google: pick a numbered/colored region, pick one of the images, and describe what it represents.

Note: The castle at the center is underwater.

Have fun!

A new drawing built from monster faces.

A new drawing built from monster faces.
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2016/08/monster-face-montage.html

DM David with an interesting post on "lonely fun" and how its demise altered RPG publishing.

DM David with an interesting post on "lonely fun" and how its demise altered RPG publishing.
http://dmdavid.com/tag/how-the-end-of-lonely-fun-lead-to-todays-trickle-of-dd-books

A new drawing, made in pencil

A new drawing, made in pencil

Nonaris (No-Nose)

Nonaris (No-Nose)

Corsairs of Tallibar to be run at Tridentcon

I was planning on running the Zenopus dungeon at #tridentcon but since the theme is Tropical Terrors I thought I could do better. So I decided to adapt an obscure #judgesguild module called Corsairs of Tallibar. I wrote about it once: http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/09/talk-like-corsair.html?m=1
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/09/talk-like-corsair.html?m=1

The "lost" witch of Holmes Basic was mentioned on the Old School FRP tumblr today.

The "lost" witch of Holmes Basic was mentioned on the Old School FRP tumblr today.

Originally shared by Paul Vermeren

Evidence that a witch "subclass" was originally slated to appear in AD&D. It's interesting to think about what subsequent versions (and spinoffs) of AD&D would have been like with an additional class in the mix. Were any of the witch classes that appeared in Dragon written by Gygax?
http://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/149705739402/from-the-1977-blue-book-basic-dd-rules-which-j