Last night I was checking the partially filled-out Gary Con XI schedule, trying to decide when to schedule my games...

Last night I was checking the partially filled-out Gary Con XI schedule, trying to decide when to schedule my games to run, when I did a double take. There is already a Return to the Tower of Zenopus game on the schedule! Now there were three different Zenopus events at NTX last year, so it's not completely surprising, although they all had slightly different titles. It turns out that this one is being run by Mike Mearls, the guy who is basically in charge of 5E D&D design...! #brazenheadofzenopus

https://tabletop.events/conventions/gary-con-xi/schedule/123
https://tabletop.events/conventions/gary-con-xi/schedule/123

The Living Dead for Holmes Basic

Tristan Tanner wrote:

They're coming to get you Barbara!

https://bogeymanscave.blogspot.com/2018/09/living-dead-for-holmes-basic.html

Skull-Gated Mountain Fortress of Telemark

Just spotted this skull-gated mountain fortress of the evil wizard Telemark in the strip Finieous Fingers in Dragon #12, Feb 1978. #skullmountain

Here is another example of a D&D Lizardman character from fiction.

Here is another example of a D&D Lizardman character from fiction. This is Gulth from Quag Keep by Andre Norton, from an illustration by David Sutherland on the cover of Dragon #12, Feb 1978. The issue contained an excerpt of the novel, and happens to be the same issue with Holmes' Lovecraftian Gods article. #quagkeep

"And this specimen of his race was formidable to look upon. He was fully as tall as Naile, and in addition to the wicked spear, the sword of bone, double-edged with teeth, which he carried, his natural armament of fang and claw were weapons even a hero might consider twice before facing."

https://www.cite-tapisserie.fr/en/contemporary-creation/aubusson-weaves-tolkien

https://www.cite-tapisserie.fr/en/contemporary-creation/aubusson-weaves-tolkien
https://www.cite-tapisserie.fr/en/contemporary-creation/aubusson-weaves-tolkien

The Battlegrip blog with a 1979 ad for Warlock's Tower, published by Balboa Game Company (the guy who ran the War...

The Battlegrip blog with a 1979 ad for Warlock's Tower, published by Balboa Game Company (the guy who ran the War House game store in Long Beach). This was part of the Complete Warlock trilogy. $9! #completewarlock
http://www.battlegrip.com/1979-ad-for-warlocks-tower-by-the-balboa-game-company/

Jeff with a chimeric megadungeon built of TSR maps including the Zenopus dungeon

Jeff with a chimeric megadungeon built of TSR maps including the Zenopus dungeon

Originally shared by Jeff Rients

how to make a megadungeon without really trying
So I've never found a commercially available megadungeon that really spoke to me, that made me say out loud "Yes! I want to spend the next fifty sessions running this bad boy again and again!"  There are lots of megadungeons out now with lots of good stuff ...
http://jrients.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-make-megadungeon-without-really.html