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Monday, September 8, 2025

Free OSR - Holmes 77 (First Holmes Clone)


K, this is where I point out an inaccuracy. There is a claim that Mazes & Perils is the "first Holmes D&D clone".


Mazes & Perils is NOT the first Holmes D&D clone. That honor belongs to Holmes 77.

Holmes 77 was produced by R.C. Pinnell in 2011, making it the first Holmes-based retroclone available to the OSR community.

Mazes & Perils (2012) credits Pinnell as an "additional contributor," presumably because of their work on Holmes ’77.

That's the facts.



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