ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

This is an installment of a new dungeon adventure set in the Portown milieu, which I'm writing for Holmes Basic D&D. You can find...

A random encounter table for the   The Forgotten Smugglers' Cave , which starts  here . Illustration of a Large Rock Crab by Lore Suto ...

As part of a continuing  Subterrane Surveys  series,  Delta's D&D Hotspot has two posts up that look in detail at the monsters ...

Detail from a  Clarkson Stanfield illustration "...but then neighbors and the night watchmen complained that ghostly blue lights appea...

"At the end of each three turns the Dungeon Master can roll a die to see if a wandering monster has come down the corridor. A roll o...

Part 7 of a comparison of Holmes' manuscript with the published Basic Set rulebook. Turn to page 10 of your 'Blue Book' and fol...

Above is a graphic I jimmied up comparing the Monster Tables for Dungeon Levels 1-3 from OD&D Vol III (Jan '74), the Greyhawk Su...

Click for larger view Above is a scan of the Wandering Monster Table from the 1st print of the Holmes Basic rulebook, July 1977. This p...

     Today James mentioned the decline in rival adventuring parties as foes in D&D. The earliest random tables (OD&D, Greyhawk, M...

by Dave Trampier, AD&D Players Handbook (1978) For Leap Day I'll discuss the Giant Toads in the Holmes Basic Set. "What?",...