ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Holmes Basic is known for having "shifting" turns. Normal turns (moving, exploring) are ten minutes long, but during combat the tu...

Master of the Game is a 1989 book of advice for Dungeon Masters by Gary Gygax.  The last section of the book, Appendix C: The Master's...

  Automated H.N.R courtesy Flight Commander The Holmesian Random Names are now automated on the web in two different formats: (1)...

...on the internet. How about twenty monsters, each with but a single hit point , to go up against one or two first level characters?  Or...

Meet & Greet at the Green Dragon Inn? Illustration by DCSIII from B1 Often I have trouble thinking of interesting character nam...

I've been re-thinking the equipment packs from my previous post . First, here's a generic pack that can be bought by any character...

An expedition begins, illustration by  DCSIII  from B1 In Search of the Unknown In my early D&D days, buying equipment during character...