Bonus Material - Books and Tours by Stephen Wendell

The Giant Kingdom: Another Holmes Uniquity

Stephen Wendell • November 2, 2023

From the map of the “land” of the “Great Kingdom” and environs — the territory of the C & C […]

Imagining a cover for Old-School ’77 Dungeon Stocking Tables, I hit upon the idea to draw a dungeon map with stocking

To stock the dungeon, I’m using the Old-School ’77 Dungeon Stocking Tables for general room contents. Look for results here

The wizard Periphron seeks a powerful artifact called “the Seventh.” His research, which includes use of a crystal ball and

While preparing to stock Dyson Logos’s Deep Halls1 of Amon-Gorloth a couple years ago, we needed a simple way to

Stephen Wendell • November 1, 2022

Because the 1981 Basic and Expert were the first D&D rulebooks I read and understood thoroughly, I see earlier editions

Stephen Wendell • October 13, 2022

Memory fades like a ship on a foggy horizon when there is nothing to anchor it. So, the remainder of

I hesitate to put into words what I mean by “the Holmes spirit.” Certain qualities of the brief rules booklet

Stephen Wendell • February 15, 2022

In “Holmes on a Coin’s Weight,” we take the Editor’s proposed weight of a standard coin—twice that of a quarter—and

Stephen Wendell • February 8, 2022

…for 300 gold pieces are assumed to weigh about 30 pounds (Holmes, 9). Melqart raised the torch over his head.

Stephen Wendell • January 28, 2022

Once the party is engaged in melee, arrows cannot be fired into the fight because of the probability of hitting

polyhedron noun: a solid formed by plane faces —Webster’s According to Webster’s, the plural of polyhedron is polyhedrons or polyhedra.