#j. eric holmes

[crash-likes-cookies]

So for anyone interested in the differences of earliest DnD, I found this thread and made it visually easy to access.

(all credit for this goes to Adam Dray, check the link for the entire post)

[manyworldspress]

Game night! David C. Sutherland III, cover illustration for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977). Acrylic on board, 24 5/8 x 22 inches. Showcased in the exhibition Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., summer–fall 2021.

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[zenopusarchives]

This is a 5E conversion of the original Zenopus dungeon that I wrote and is now up on DMsGuild. Read more on the blog: 

https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-ruined-tower-of-zenopus-5e-on.html

[zenopusarchives]

On the Zenopus Archives blog: "The Sea-Changed", a write-up of a new monster for your ODnD or Holmes Basic campaign set in Portown, Saltmarsh or other coastal setting. See my profile for the link.

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A new "Rolling Up An Adventurer" reference sheet for Holmes Ref:

https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2020/04/holmes-ref-rolling-up-adventurer.html

Holmes Ref: Rolling up an Adventurer

Another Holmes Ref sheet - actually a two-parter this time! ROLLING UP AN ADVENTURER REFERENCE SHEET The first page is shown above

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The earliest ad for the Holmes Basic D&D Set? From the Gen Con X Souvenir Program, August 1977. Read more here --- https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/12/1977-gen-con-x-souvenir-program.html

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Maze of Peril Ch 1, Scene 7: "The Grisly Business of Swallowing the Corpses"

This post is part of the Tales of Peril Book Club, indexed here . The party wins their first combat, and Zereth directs them in standar...

The Tales of Perils book club finally returns, and with a glimpse of one of Holmes’ original D&D dungeon maps he used for the story!

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Detail from the title page of the manuscript for the first Basic D&D rulebook, "Dungeons And Dragons For Beginners". Read more here.