XL1 Quest for the Heartstone illustration

SkinnyOrc on Dragonsfoot wrote: "This picture always made me laugh. I swear the wizard and dwarf are looking across at Warduke going "I can't put my finger on it but I'm not sure we can trust that guy. Maybe it's the horned skull shield, bat wing helm and glowing red eyes? Hmm." "
https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1952098#p1952098
Pic is from the module XL1 Quest for the Heartstone

DCC designer and Marvin the Mage cartoonist Jim Wampler recently postedthis homage to the Blue Box cover.

DCC designer and Marvin the Mage cartoonist Jim Wampler recently posted this homage to the Blue Box cover. “So sometimes I see something in my head and can't rest until I get it out. This one started with a trip to Michael's with my brother to get some art supplies, where I saw a rubber dragon that looked a lot like Dave Sutherland's art on the Holmes Basic D&D set. Add some Grenadier minis and Fat Dragon Games' 3D prints, and BOOM.”

Holmesian bits spotted on the internet.

Holmesian bits spotted on the internet.. good to see a couple of names from Mike Carr's module B1, which came with some of the Holmes sets, appear on the Hill Cantons blog - Kracki the Hooded One and Mohag the Wanderer, still going strong after all these years : )

http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hill-cantons-wilderness-crawl.html

(see http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/07/characters-of-b1.html for handy scans of those sample character names from B1)


http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hill-cantons-wilderness-crawl.html

A new blog post from yesterday for 'Gygax Day' (which was Friday).

A new blog post from yesterday for 'Gygax Day' (which was Friday). A compilation of actual play reports from Gygax himself, and it is an old school dungeon crawl.

Originally shared by Zenopus Archives

For Gygax's 80th birthday anniversary, I've collected his 2002 play-test reports for the "Dungeon Delving" portion of the module the Hall of Many Panes, originally posted to his gygax-games mailing. These are still publicly available in a yahoo groups archive, but are hard to find and cumbersome to read in that format.

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/07/gygax-dungeon-delving-playtest.html
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/07/gygax-dungeon-delving-playtest.html

J. Eric Holmes wrotes to Weird Tales Vol. 47 No. 4 (1974 Summer):

Michael Calleia wrote:

J. Eric Holmes wrote to Weird Tales Vol. 47 No. 4 (1974 Summer):

https://archive.org/stream/Weird_Tales_v47n04_1974-Summer#page/n99/search/%22Eric+Holmes%22
https://archive.org/stream/Weird_Tales_v47n04_1974-Summer#page/n99/search/%22Eric+Holmes%22

For Gygax's 80th birthday anniversary, I've collected his 2002 play-test reports for the "Dungeon Delving" portion...

For Gygax's 80th birthday anniversary, I've collected his 2002 play-test reports for the "Dungeon Delving" portion of the module the Hall of Many Panes, originally posted to his gygax-games mailing. These are still publicly available in a yahoo groups archive, but are hard to find and cumbersome to read in that format.

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/07/gygax-dungeon-delving-playtest.html
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/07/gygax-dungeon-delving-playtest.html

Simon Bull on Holmes and the Combat Turn.

Simon Bull on Holmes and the Combat Turn.
http://www.immersiveink.com/?p=267