ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

The moathouse model for the Battle for the Moathouse  Finding myself with a some rare free time, I dove back into my unfinished blog posts, ...

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 ...

In memory of Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008), here is a glimpse of Castle Greyhawk using his words & some relevant pictures...

By D. Daniel Wagner A new monster for the original Dungeons & Dragons game Transcribed from the Manual of Aurania (1977) with permis...

Werebear by Dave Trampier from the original Monster Manual (1977) An update to a post I wrote last fall , not long after I started the bl...

"Balrog" by Greg Bell from pg 13 of Dungeons & Dragons, Vol 2, Monsters & Treasure This picture of a Balrog is from the LB...

And so we come to the end of this year's Tolkien week. Here's a summary of Tolkien references in the Blue Book. Tolkien referenc...

Werebear by Dave Trampier from the original Monster Manual (1977) Tolkien Week continues... In yesterday's Balrog post , I quoted a ...

Mock-up of a OD&D Balrog PC character sheet Yesterday I discussed the sources for the two references to Balrogs in the Blue Book. Fo...

Today is the first day Tolkien Week, which is the week containing Hobbit Day (Sep 22, the birthday shared by Bilbo and Frodo). To kick it o...