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I have two new reviews of the Ruined Tower of Zenopus to share since the last update! Review & Adaptation by An Abominable Fancy (a six part series!): Reviews from R'lyeh on the Ruined Tower of Zenopus:

Reviews from R'lyeh on the Ruined Tower of Zenopus

A portrait of Holmes in an imagined study, drawn by fan David Crawford! Read more here: https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2020/04/holmes-portrait-by-david-crawford.html

Holmes Ref is my slowly-accreting series of reference sheets for Holmes Basic referees. Since Holmes is in essence just a variant of OD&D (incorporating some rules from the Greyhawk supplement into those from the LBBs), it also usable with OD&D. The sheets are also modular so you may find tables...

To clarify, Holmes did eventually publish a D&D novel, The Maze of Peril (1986), featuring Boinger and his boon companion Zereth the Elf; it just didn't include "Trollshead", the story featured in this issue. Holmes mentioned the title of the Maze of Peril in an interview for a newspaper article...

(updated image for the product page) News: The Ruined Tower of Zenopus goes Electrum on DMs Guild!

In Dragon #52, in an article about the new (Moldvay) Basic Set, Holmes writes: "I’m glad to see Moldvay included the dragons just as I did in the first edition. It seems almost silly to describe dragons in a book intended only for player characters up to the third level. On the other hand...

Thanks for the thread alert, Jeff! I voted: I'm playing it right now and so far, I like it. Yes, I do like it so far - since 1982. : ) While I'm not running a campaign currently, I have been running single-shot games at cons regularly the last few years, and I use Holmes Basic for these...

This was run for one of my local gaming groups 🧙‍♂️ though unfortunately I could not make it that night. :cry: We are putting on Scrum Con next weekend (Feb 29th, Silver Spring MD), and the GM who ran this will be running an AD&D 1E game.

This past Sunday was the 90th (!) anniversary of the birth of J. Eric Holmes, editor of and content contributor to the first Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, published by TSR in 1977. Many D&D players who started playing between 1977-1982 or so started with this Basic Set, including myself. Holmes...

In January I released a 5E D&D conversion of the original Zenopus Dungeon, from the 1977 "Holmes" Basic rulebook. 18-pages, $1.99. It was #6 under $5 at one point, and is a Silver best seller so far. Where do I send a copy to EnWorld for a review? The Ruined Tower of Zenopus (DMs Guild link)...

Another review: The Ruined Tower of Zenopus reviewed by Erik Jensen "Finally had the time to read The Ruined Tower of Zenopus: https://dmsguild.com/product/301308/The-Ruined-Tower-of-Zenopus… @ZenopusArchives has done an AMAZING job with this 5e update of the Holmes sample dungeon, and now...

There has never been any official followup either by TSR or Wizards, or even the writings of Holmes himself. In fact, as far as I know the first official recycling of the adventure material is the Tower of Zenopus site included in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, which includes some of the background and...

News & a Review: The Ruined Tower of Zenopus hits Silver on DMs Guild A review on the oldschoolfrp Tumblr: "I bought this and gave it a first read-through. It is an excellent conversion of one of my favorite classic low level adventures, updated for 5e. There are some new monster stat...

For a few months now they've had a Ghosts of Saltmarsh storyline as an option when submitting DMs Guild products, and since a portion of Greyhawk is the default setting for Ghosts, so you can essentially set products in Greyhawk if you make it part of that storyline. The area map in Ghosts of...

My 5E D&D conversion of the original Zenopus Dungeon, from the 1977 "Holmes" Basic rulebook, is now live on DMs Guild. 18-pages, $1.99. The Ruined Tower of Zenopus (DMs Guild link) Read more about it here on my blog, the Zenopus Archives. The original dungeon (which includes the dungeon map)...