Holmes Sample Adventure

[Falconer]

I started running Holmes's sample adventure for a quickie game last night. Great feel, fun and interesting and dangerous. We didn't get very far because it was really late and we just wanted an hour or two's diversion, but I'm really excited to play the rest.

I really enjoy first level adventuring, and although I always use OAD&D, for an on-the-fly game like this I use a lot of the Holmes book as a guidelines to simplification. Character creation took about 15 minutes for 3 characters, including equipment bought. I like. Regards.

[Scott]

I've toyed with the Holmes dungeon as well, but so far haven't done any serious work, or tried running a party through it.
Scott

[ghul]

I ran it about 5 times when I was a teenager in the 80's, each time stocking it differently; same goes for the one in the DMG. Both are excellent.

[GRWelsh]

I've always been fascinated by those 'sample dungeons' too, because you always wonder "what would the rest of this look like, if the author had finished it...?" As a bit of trivia, it looks like the layout of the Holmes sample dungeon was used for the game included in the AD&D Coloring Album, although stocked with different monsters (definitely, a higher level dungeon in the latter case).

[grodog]

If you're interested in more detail on Holmes' sample dungeon, check out his Boinger & Zereth novel "Maze of Peril" which culminates in what is possibly the water cavern in the sample dungeon....