This Tomb of Ramesses is amazing in it's own right. So much surviving hieroglyphics and decoration. It gave me waves of nostalgia and anxiety from going down the Tomb of Horrors great hallway.
Poor mummy, murder hobos broke into his tomb and hacked up his sarcaphogus, and looted his grave goods. Looks like he made them fight for it; "showed severe damage to his body, the head and torso being broken into several pieces by an axe used by the tomb robbers", cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_VI
Been couple times. A broader game con still with plenty of RPG. A friend and I are both running "con dungeons" all weekend long. Similar to Mythrus Tower at NTRPG. A single persistent dungeon across all sessions (and other cons). https://tabletop.events/conventions/chupacabracon-vii
Man! Wish I had a copy of this. But like the Centurion says "it's extremely rare".
This is video review done by Centurion's Review Youtube Channel. Who often reviews old wargames esp micro games. But occasionally has an RPG item like this.
Got back to Owl Con this year. A great con at Rice Univ in Houston Texas. I ran a B/X session of Caves of Chaos. I had a blast, the full table of eight players had a blast. My friend ran Tegal Manor using OD&D and my other friend (I do have more than two) had an exhibitor booth hawking Scribes of Sparn wares. Mostly Planet Eris Gazetteer, map and modules. Being the shared campaign world several Austin OSR games run in.
He also did a much better job at taking photos and blogging about con than I ever will. So, I'll just direct you to his coverage on The Contemptible Cube of Quazar starting with this post OwlCon Live Blog Day One. Half dozen or more posts after than one. Be sure to look for "Professor" Norm and the serendipitous behind the screen photo of the DM's map!
Sadly I got sick and went home late Sat night. Looking fwd to Chupacabracon in May.
Been lot of OSR / Nostalgia posts here recently. Just to show I'm also hip to new fangled things too.
Virtual Reality isn't as smooth and effortless as other digital tools / aides. But my neither was my IBM 286 clone nor was my high school's Apple ][ I used to program a robot arm.
Friday, February 7, 2020
[Guest Post by my friend and game buddy, Steven Clark]
I've spent the past two weeks exploring an old PLATO mainframe that is publicly run, called "cyber1". Not sure if any of you are familiar with these, but these system were created in 1960, and widespread through Universities throughout the 70's. They finally went away sometime in the late 80's.
Why you might be interested in getting a log-in and trying out this system is that some of the earliest D&D games were written for them starting in 1974, up until about 1984. The graphical simplicity hides some pretty complex and deep simulations going on as well; and the way these games approach their subjects is novel in many of the same ways as OD&D is novel compared modern RPG's; the most successful elements have been rehashed and reimagined to death in modern games, but there is some true creativity in this old stuff.
The mainframe functions much as a BBS would; the "notes" lesson (program) is used as a bulletin board. It can be access through the internet via a PLATO terminal emulator.
This right here, opening a door and seeing this is why I D&D.
I'm missing several covers. Annoyingly issues #1 and #100. I could maybe fix. But I don't have the nostalgia for Dungeon like I do for Dragon. And pretty quickly the covers devolve into being splattered with "huge shocking text" and other attention whoring graphic design. Making it look like those trash celeb rags in the checkout line. Which saps my motivation. But here's most of Dungeon Magazine Covers Issues #2 to #150.
I remember this circus, bunch of assassins or something.
