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oldschoolfrp · 5 months

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"Were-shark" by Eric Holmes and his son Chris, in Alarums & Excursions 13, July 15, 1976. Eric and Chris wrote up a number of stories from their D&D adventures for A&E, often illustrated by Chris. The following year saw the publication of the first Basic D&D set edited by Holmes, with his sample dungeon below Zenopus' tower and Portown also containing a sea cave with a beach, 2 boats, and a monster in the water.

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Alarums & Excursion #wereshark #Eric Holmes #Chris Holmes #J Eric Holmes #dnd #Basic D&D #Holmes D&D #lycanthrope #Dungeons and Dragons

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transformers-mosaic · 5 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #507 - "Overwatch"

Originally posted on June 18th, 2010

Story - Eric Holmes Art - Kris Smith Colours, Letters - Lo Baker Edits - Shaun Knowler

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wada sez: The strip after this one, easily the most notable Mosaic strip published, was explicitly released to celebrate the third anniversary of the Mosaic project—so I reckon it was intentional that this one was timed to coincide. Recognise the name Eric Holmes? That’s the writer of Megatron Origin! There’s no connection beyond that, however, with this being a straightforward standalone little character vignette inspired by Red Alert’s original Budiansky profile.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #original continuity #Eric Holmes #Kris Smith #Lo Baker #Shaun Knowler #official creator #Red Alert #Smokescreen #Trailbreaker #Mirage #Grapple #Bludgeon

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summercheyennerose · 10 months

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#Eric Holmes #Racist #Jokes #Big Stone Gap #Virginia

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starstrider · 8 months

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A collection of my FGO shitposts

#som.txt #fgo #kiyohime #shakespeare #voyager #ozymandias #sherlock holmes #medb #cu chulainn #jalter #jeanne d'arc #ashiya douman #miyamoto musashi #hans christian andersen #thomas edison #utsumi erice

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doyouknowthismusical · 5 months

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#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #twisted #twisted the untold story of a royal vizier #starkid #a j holmes #kaley mcmahon #matt lang #nick lang #eric kahn gale #language: english

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pleading-the5th · 8 months

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are house md fans sherlock fans? or is it only a few of us who know that house is a sherlock au???

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sarnie-for-varney · 7 months

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We see one of the very rare moments where Holmes is afraid, in the Granada Holmes episode The Final Problem. And it is in the presence of Professor Moriarty.

He shields himself with his robe and is clearly shaken, judging by his breathing. But there's also a look of anger and disgust when he clenches his teeth for just a moment.

Then he begins to speak. His voice falters at "You..." and there are odd pauses between "You... have... paid me", as though he's attempting to gather his courage again to say one last thing to Moriarty before he walks out the door.

Not to mention that Moriarty could kill him at any time, there being a deadly weapon concealed as a cane right there in Moriarty's hand which he had literally cocked and aimed directly at Holmes moments prior to this clip.

Holmes isn't afraid of death, but Moriarty has such a sense of menace about him that it's no surprise that Holmes is scared. In this episode, Mrs. Hudson even compares Moriarty to the 'devil himself'.

However, Holmes still has the suaveness to insult Moriarty by not even calling him by the correct title. Moriarty is a professor, but Holmes refers to him as simply "Mr. Moriarty". While we call our professors 'Mr.' nowadays, it was actually a sign of scholarly prestige in those times. So it's safe to say that Holmes doesn't stay stunned for very long.

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 19 days

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Dawsons Creek 4x20 | The Rookie 6x6

#dawsons creek #pacey x joey #tim x lucy #tim bradford #lucy chen #melissa o'neil #eric winter #pacey witter #joey potter #katie holmes #joshua jackson #love #4x20 #6x6 #it hurts #the rookie

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game-set-canet · 2 months

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Men Individual | Oslo Holmenkollen | 01.03.2024

#sturla holm laegreid #sturla holm lægreid #eric perrot #biathlon #my sturla gifs #my perrot gifs #my gifs

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girlbyherself · 2 years

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netflix getting rid of all of the movies except 4.5 is actually so sick and twisted !!

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vintagerpg · 10 months

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This is one of the oldest of the relatively small niche of books about RPGs: Fantasy Role Playing Games (1981), by J. Eric Holmes, the same Holmes who shepherded the original Basic Set Dungeons & Dragons into existence.

In the early 80s, a bunch of these types of books came out; they were sort of introductions to the idea of RPGs, mixed with brief how-tos and overviews of the market. This is probably my favorite of the ones I have read. The first third or so of the book is an overview of the key concepts of how to play, complete with transcripts of game sessions and a sort of read-along dungeon. Holmes shines, though, when he gets to the history of Dungeons & Dragons, in which he was a firsthand eye witness for a time. The immediacy of his account is engrossing, even if he is an unabashed Gygax cheerleader.

He follows this with a look at other games on the market (including big ones like RuneQuest and Traveller, as well as odd ones like Bunnies & Burrows and Superhero 44), miniatures and the magazines (both the semi-pro stuff like Dragon and the zines like Alarums & Excursions). The brief chapter on computer games is a hoot and rightly spends a chunk of time on Zork. I quite like the photographs that use miniatures and simple FX to great effect.

I also particularly like the penultimate chapter, which discusses the supposed perils of roleplaying. It makes a spirited defense of the hobby and also muses on the sorts of people who are attracted to it. It is one of the earliest acknowledgments I’ve seen of the hobby’s gender disparity and Holmes has some thoughtful ideas on why that is. It is his hope, back in 1981, that parity will be attained when RPGs are more popular and socially accepted. Nearly 40 years later, I like to think it is moving in that direction.

(Repost from April 27, 2020; lightly revised)

#rpg #d&d #dungeons & dragons #tabletop rpg #roleplaying game #ttrpg #Fantasy Role Playing Games #John Eric Holmes

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fleursfairies · 10 months

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