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Thork N Hammer
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:01 pm 
 

I am working on a special project--the 3rd anniversary of my Lulu store will be coming up next year. I would like to put together a box set of a new "Expert" Adventure (currently in progress) along with my newly revised Holmes77 (with new cover art). This would be a special order.

Anyway, I can't find the boxes I want...ANYWHERE!
Can anyway point me in the right direction?


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:50 pm 
 

You should PM John Adams or post the question on his forum:

http://bravehalfling.forumotion.net/

The X-Plorers box sets he put together are pretty sturdy.  I can only assume the larger empty box with the Erol Otus art that he is selling is from the same manufacturer.


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:07 pm 
 

Thanks for the tip


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Post Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:14 am 
 

IIRC, John Adams makes his boxes by hand.


Zenopus Archives website & blog: Exploring the Underworld of Holmes Basic D&D. Holmes Ref: Reference Sheets for Holmes Basic Referees, also compatible with OD&D plus the Greyhawk supplement
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Post Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:28 pm 
 

Zenopus wrote:IIRC, John Adams makes his boxes by hand.


I think he initially did, but for the Otus boxes he outsourced to somewhere via his thread here --> viewtopic.php?t=12008
  

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Post Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:26 pm 
 

TBH, the boxes that LotFP came out in were the best digest sized boxes I've seen in a long while. When you get up to A4, the best quality box I have is the box RAR was released in. Even with the weight of the books, it keeps its shape and corners, and it doesn't tend to ding easily or bow/slump in the lid. If something comes in a crap box I tend not to stock it because I wouldn't want product arriving at my door already damaged, and I wouldn't want to ship product inclined to damage to my buyers (I made an exception with CZ:UW).

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Post Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:30 pm 
 

Ah, thanks for the clarification, GreyM.

Thork: is your new revised Holmes77 changed beyond the cover? The last version I saw (which was a free download) had an lot of text cut and pasted from the original Holmes rulebook. For example, the entire first two paragraphs of the introduction were identical to the original rulebook. Just a caution. There's already been one for-sale "Holmes retroclone" that was widely panned by OSR crowd for having numerous copyright violations. IIRC, it was up briefly on RPGnow and then pulled down.


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