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Blueholme: A Simulacrum
And now, for something completely different! AEONS is bubbling away nicely, but it looks like it will take some more playtest and tweaking before it’s ready to be served. In the meantime, I have...
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Blueholme Prentice Cover
I was originally planning to follow the time-honoured old-school roleplaying practice of providing a free, no-art PDF of the BLUEHOLME™ Prentice Edition. However, the community was having none of it –...
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Blueholme Prentice Rules: Spells Preview
Time is certainly getting on – it’s all stops pulled out here in order to ensure that Blueholme Prentice Rules and the Maze of Nuromen hit the virtual shelves in time for Christmas. So, as a little...
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Blueholme: The Maze of Nuromen
The Maze of Nuromen will be available soon! As an introductory 1st to 2nd level maze suitable for beginning characters, this adventure is intended to introduce new players to the world of Blueholme....
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The Maze of Nuromen – Get Your Copy Now
The Maze of Nuromen, the free introductory adventure for the BLUEHOLME Prentice Rules is available now from DriveThru RPG and RPG Now. Suitable for 1st or 2nd level characters, this module takes the...
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BLUEHOLME Reviews
It’s deeply gratifying to see the positive reviews BLUEHOLME Prentice Rules and the Maze of Nuromen are getting around the web. This is why we do this stuff – not to get rich, not to become famous, not...
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BLUEHOLME™ Compleat: In Progress
Since the release of the BLUEHOLME™ Prentice Rules and the Maze of Nuromen I’ve been plugging away at the expanded, not to say compleat, version of the game: BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules. This is going to...
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Eric Holmes (16/2/1930 – 20/3/2010)
I’m a relative newcomer to Holmes, having been raised on Moldvay, Cook and Marsh B/X. I only discovered Holmes in mid-2012, and it wasn’t love at first sight – initially I couldn’t make heads or tails...
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BLUEHOLME™ Prentice Rules: Over 1,000 Downloads
As I am pounding my way through the expanded PART 3: SPELLS of the BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules, I note with considerable satisfaction that the BLUEHOLME™ Prentice Rules have gone well past the 1,000...
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BLUEHOLME™ Complete Rules
A quick status report: work on the BLUEHOLME™ Complete Rules manuscript is proceeding apace. The cover art is ready for layout (adding titles, logos and such), as can be seen from the teasers appearing...
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BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Cover
Here it is, in all its Technicolor® glory: The cover for the BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules! As you can see, some inspiration was provided by certain other old-school artworks … The artwork is by the...
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Spells! Done! Phew!
Well, the first draft, anyway, including 300-odd of the suckers. That’s 7 levels of 8 clerical spells each (plus a few reversed ones, of course), 9 levels of 20 magic-user spells each, and 7 levels of...
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BLUEHOLME™ on the Web
There are now several places where you can join in the discussion of BLUEHOLME™ on the intertubes (links are now available on the right). Whether you have anything to say, questions to ask, requests to...
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A question of serif … or not?
So, time to drop this question again before it’s too late – for a product that is PDF and print-on-demand, what type of font do you prefer – serif (i.e. Times New Roman) or sans-serif (i.e. Arial). In...
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BLUEHOLME™ Compleat: One chapter to go
Last night I finished the first draft of Part 7: Treasures. That means I am now on the last chapter, Part 8: Campaigns. This chapter will be about designing adventures in the Underworld, the...
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BLUEHOLME™ Sample Dungeon Preview
Time for another little BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules sneak peek – this time, an in-progress shot of the sample dungeon map. Of course, in the spirit of BLUEHOLME™, those of you with a long history in the...
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The Sample Campaign
As I write the final chapter of the BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules it is becoming clear that the sample Underworld, Wilderness and Realm sections are becoming a little too big for the book. Well, no matter,...
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Dungeon Sections
We all love a good dungeon section in our referee chapter, but sometimes one gets carried away …
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The Holmes Manuscript
For those Holmes fans living under a rock (hey, it’s cosy and dry down here!), Zenopus has been blogging his way through his copy of what appears to be Eric Holmes’s final manuscript of his Dungeons...
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A bit of this, and a bit of that
As you probably know by now, the Holmes manuscript revelations on the Zenopus Archives Blog have set up a mini-earthquake in the BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules. Now that things (including my Xmas dinner)...
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