Thanks biopunk and mr spock. More additions are planned for future releases!

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Chris Holmes is on the 3rd season of the short podcast Tell Me About Your Character, talking about his third favorite D&D character (after Boinger and Zereth) in the games he played with his father in the '70s:

ZENOPUS ARCHIVES: Chris Holmes on Tell Me About Your Character

Zenopus wrote in Zenopus Archives: Holmes Basic website & blog - updates:One of the new additions to Holmes Ref 2.0 is a random table of twenty Lesser Magic Items. The material in this table originally appeared with illustrations in Dungeon Crawl #3, a 2013 zine (still available - see link in blog post). I've now made the Holmes Ref version available as a separate sheet, and made a blog post of the table for readability:

Lesser Magic Items

Thanks Zenopus, love it - especially the 1 hp monsters and Lesser magic items

Harpy axe! Thanks, brute.

Upcoming projects include

-a blog series read-through of Tales of Peril, hopefully starting next week
-a "Return to the Tower of Zenopus" adventure set 40 years after the original. For running at conventions.
-another new short Holmes Basic adventure I've been working on. I've designed the map/encounters and run the game once so far, and am working on writing it up.

Delving into the actual book, here I cover the 'Front Matter' - title page, table of contents, credits, acknowledgements, introduction by grodog, etc:

Tales of Peril - Front Matter

For the holidays, I'm giving away a copy of Holmes' 1980 authorized Buck Rogers sequel, MORDRED

If you don't have a copy and are interested in entering, leave a comment on the blog post

Holmes for the Holidays 2017

Z, the ancient builder story sounds great. Love that idea. Look forward to reading more about it!

If you should start coming up with candid shots from his childhood, I'm going to start worrying about you.  

SimperingToad wrote in Zenopus Archives: Holmes Basic website & blog - updates:If you should start coming up with candid shots from his childhood, I'm going to start worrying about you.

What we mostly need now are accounts of miracles & virtuous deeds. This will establish a path for beautification & eventual sainthood. I think that "making sense out of the mess that was OD&D" should fulfill the miracle part, & this forum has been a great help in tracking down relics. The photos you mentioned will come in handy down the line when we start selling good-luck charms with the blessed likeness.

red_bus wrote in Zenopus Archives: Holmes Basic website & blog - updates:

sauromatian wrote in Zenopus Archives: Holmes Basic website & blog - updates:... will establish a path for beautification & eventual sainthood.

Ahhh that errant 'U' creeping in makes it more of a make-over than a path to virtue. Of course I always hoped D&D would make me prettier...

"Beatification" is the correct one?!! I thought that had something to do with becoming more like the Beatles.