Friday, June 6, 2025

Ruined Tower of Zenopus Goes Mithral!

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Find it  here I haven't had much free time lately, hence the dearth of posts, but here's a quick update on  the Ruined Tower of Zeno...
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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Gary Con 2025: Day 0

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Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton In March, I attended  Gary Con  in Lake Geneva for the sixth time, and for a con report I'm go...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Holmes Day 2025

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J. Eric Holmes at his chalkboard game table, contemplating miniatures and notes. Taken by Tony Bernard for the 1979 L.A. Times article, ...
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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Gary Con 2025 Games Scheduled!

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Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton In March I'm returning to GARY CON , now in its 17th year, and as has been typical for me the ...
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Saturday, December 21, 2024

The Mirkwood Tales RPG: the link between the original D&D rules and text-based computer games

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Cover of Mirkwood Tales, 1977, by Eric S. Roberts In May 1977, the all-text computer game  Adventure , also known as Advent or Colossal Cave...
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Sunday, December 1, 2024

Tower of Xenopus: Mazes & Minotaurs RPG adaptation by Tony Stroppa

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I n the comments to " Zenopus Built a Tower ",  Part 46 of the Holmes Manuscript series  on this blog,  reader Tony Stroppa wrote ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Tower Card

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"The Tower" card from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck The recent miniseries Agatha All Along features the famous Rider-Waite-Smi...
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