tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90006653411247719222024-03-13T14:22:40.285-04:00Crimhthan The Great's OD&D BlogOriginal Dungeons & Dragons is The One True Game! You will hear about my campaign that started back in April 1971 as a Chainmail Fantasy Campaign and then moved to an OD&D Campaign in February 1974.Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-30349690489326752422023-02-01T20:07:00.002-05:002023-02-01T20:09:22.549-05:00Original Dungeons & Dragons Has Its 50th Anniversary In January 2024 (Feb 2023)<p>The countdown to the 50th Anniversary of the Original Dungeons and Dragons in January 2024 continues. Give the drama with Wizards during January 2023, it remains to be seen if they can get their act together enough to have a proper celebration of the 50th Anniversary of OD&D.</p><p>To me it is a no-brainer. They desperately need to create some good will and this is low hanging fruit.</p><p>Will they grab it? That remains to be seen.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK0DFkrte5LRDR_HaahSdWi3gnLUG3AJRLYvzV5zjvJKORTy_C2vf-MmL1fjQfmE5yCcnLJsYOtb6iAf9Uwyjpe7vsjF3GLFBkPuomC-kfynCh8gVBp0mEFNh4XH1apB1DdCi3Lx3Dq3LdVjGd_weqKooKTHOMHi2cO_61lIij8Jq3tz29c2yje0xN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="424" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK0DFkrte5LRDR_HaahSdWi3gnLUG3AJRLYvzV5zjvJKORTy_C2vf-MmL1fjQfmE5yCcnLJsYOtb6iAf9Uwyjpe7vsjF3GLFBkPuomC-kfynCh8gVBp0mEFNh4XH1apB1DdCi3Lx3Dq3LdVjGd_weqKooKTHOMHi2cO_61lIij8Jq3tz29c2yje0xN=w265-h400" width="265" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-23560848718549159572023-01-01T00:01:00.018-05:002023-01-01T00:01:00.202-05:00Original Dungeons & Dragons Has Its 50th Anniversary In January 2024<p> OD&D will have its 50th Anniversary in January 2024 and in February 2024 I will celebrate 50 years as an OD&D Referee!</p><p>Too many of the original gaming group have passed away, I am 85 myself and not sure I will make it to that 50th anniversary. But whether I am around to see it or not, all of you should be celebrating that day and that year. I am betting that WotC does nothing fan friendly to celebrate OD&D 50th Anniversary nor will they pay any homage to Arneson and Gygax and other people who were important in the creation of OD&D.</p><p>So I am going to attempt to blog between now and then and call out some of the people who helped bring OD&D to life.</p><p>I hope to do a lot of gaming in 2024, I hope that you do too!</p>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-77057932659299538542019-09-24T21:58:00.000-04:002019-09-24T21:58:25.195-04:00Blackmoor Week Day I 2019<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Blackmoor Week</b> kicks off today and concludes on October 1st with <b>Dave Arneson Game Day</b>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/39481/thread" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Blackmoor Week and Dave Arneson Game Day</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thepiazza.org.uk/posts/2393217507462131" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Blackmoor Week</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span id="goog_634402978"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_634402979"></span><a href="https://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/2019/09/blackmoor-week-2019-7-days-till-dave.html?fbclid=IwAR23kde27ul-XU0K76fXqT5i7y-IAskSbzKy-lGL8aMhGLQJsIc226qPOKA" rel="" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week 2019: 7 Days till Dave Arneson Game Day</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we honor Dave Arneson the Creator of Blackmoor, the Creator of the underpinnings of Dungeons & Dragons and co-author of same. This is Blackmoor Week running from 9/24/19 through 10/1/19. Join me in honoring and remembering Dave Arneson and the debt of gratitude the entire gaming community owes to him.</span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-47367759189347266162019-01-27T01:38:00.000-05:002019-01-27T01:38:00.704-05:00International Original Dungeons & Dragons Day<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">International Original Dungeons & Dragons Day, the 45th Anniversary of Original Dungeons & Dragons is today January 26th as we continue our celebration of International Original Dungeons & Dragons Month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The original game is no longer for sale except for places like eBay and even there you have to be careful that you are getting the original version and not an adulterated, watered down version. In the real thing you will find references to balrogs, hobbits, ents and Tolkien himself. The watered down version has halflings and treants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over at RPGNOW you can find the adulterated version in pdf form </span><a href="https://www.rpgnow.com/product/28306/ODD-Dungeons--Dragons-Original-Edition-0e?term=original+&test_epoch=0&it=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OD&D Dungeons & Dragons Original Edition (0e).</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Someday, I or someone else may publish instructions on how to replace the missing text in the pdf so that you have the real thing.</span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-52304059984319518372019-01-01T14:43:00.001-05:002019-01-01T14:43:08.104-05:00Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I and others are celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the publication of Dungeons & Dragons (the Original) in January of 1974. Who's not celebrating? WotC for one, if you go to their D&D homepage this morning there is no acknowledgement of the 45th Anniversary of D&D. If I am still around five years from now I wonder if they will remember the 50th Anniversary?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Original Dungeons and Dragons is very intuitive and easy to learn. The players don't need to know the rules beyond a very few basics that the referee can quickly impart and character creation takes only a few minutes and you can be playing immediately. This is a game of exploration and discovery in a fantasy medieval environment and the main requirement for players is curiosity and imagination. Those who are decisive will excel and those who suffer from chronic indecisiveness and lack confidence will quickly replace those with a confident, decisive demeanor as they grow into the roles they choose.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the original game, the Three Little Brown Books, there are three classes: fighting-men (and women), magic-users and clerics. Many claim that is boring because the rules do not give them endless tweaks to customize their character. They could not be more wrong about that. You see in the original game, players were expected to customize their characters through play and a good to excellent referee is expected to play his part in facilitating that process by providing an interesting, fascinating living world for the character to live in. When character are cookie cutter mirror images of one another, that is not the fault of the game. The tools are there, but it takes imagination and thinking outside the box to use them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The secret is spelled out in the rules themselves, don't play by the book, the "rules" are mere guidelines and a jumping off point from which you can go anywhere. Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax never played by the book and you should not play by the book either. Contrary to what many fake old school "experts" and the forums they inhabit claim, there is no one true way to play. They try to bind people to playing only by the book and thus lead people astray and away from the chance to experience for themselves old school play.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you choose to limit yourself by playing by the book you are free to do that, just don't lie and claim to be old school when you do it.<b> Playing by the book is a valid option, it is just not an old school option</b>. Old school is defined solely by the way Arneson and Gygax played in their own campaigns and it is this, "Follow the spirit of the rules and not the letter." Old school is the way of freedom, not the way of shackles and limitations of massive rule sets and by the book play. If you choose to be shackled and limited with by the book play, be my guest and have fun that way, just don't pretend that is the old school way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's spend this month celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Original Dungeons & Dragons and </span><b><span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">International Original Dungeons & Dragons Month</span></b><span style="font-family: comic sans ms;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">together.</span></span></span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-52400875719517453042018-10-05T19:02:00.003-04:002021-09-11T04:22:52.768-04:00The Most Complete List (Dave Arneson Day & Blackmoor Week - 2018)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6GjWiTIWS3gjxEcNBO7w90Tj0olJP-VaaeE5ww35DJR4qeu_2RLKOYckVW6DE5g5gOeBBCx4nrvHCxB6MQOjb5BULG8us928hVtZsCTE_E1MA_0EZHBizOVY6BqDGCNdlJ4f1AkY730/s500/Arneson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6GjWiTIWS3gjxEcNBO7w90Tj0olJP-VaaeE5ww35DJR4qeu_2RLKOYckVW6DE5g5gOeBBCx4nrvHCxB6MQOjb5BULG8us928hVtZsCTE_E1MA_0EZHBizOVY6BqDGCNdlJ4f1AkY730/w640-h480/Arneson.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Reposted with Permission from <a href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/35159" style="color: #771100; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Ruins of Murkhill Forums</a></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px;">I found this list at <a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/10/reposted-with-permission-from-ruins-of.html" target="_blank">Xizallian's Place</a>.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Compiled Complete List (of everything we can locate)</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Pre-Announcement of Dave Arneson Game Day October 1, 2018 posted on 9/22/2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/2018/09/dave-arneson-game-day-2018-coming-up.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 Coming Up!</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">(Eight Days a Week)(Google if you don't get the reference </span><img alt=";)" class="smile" src="https://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> )</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;"></span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Blackmoor Week is September 24th through October 1st (yeah we know that is eight days) and October 1st is Dave Arneson Game Day. Several people who have blogs are posting in celebration of the Week and of The Day.</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day One Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 24, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-one.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day One)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-one-and-dave-arneson.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day One and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-one.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day ONE</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-one.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day One</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-i.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day I</a><a href="https://musingofamavericreferee.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/lets-celebrate-blackmoor-week-2018/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Let's Celebrate Blackmoor Week 2018</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day Two Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 25, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-two.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Two)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-two-and-dave-arneson.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Two and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-two.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day TWO</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-two.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Two</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-ii.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day II</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day Three Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 26, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-three.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Three)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-three-and-dave.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Three and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-three.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day THREE</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-three.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Three</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-iii.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day III</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day Four Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 27, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-four.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Four)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-four-and-dave.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Four and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-four.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day FOUR</a><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-four.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Four</a><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-iv.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day IV<br style="max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" />T</a><a href="http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mystery-of-dave-arnesons-engine.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">he Mystery of Dave Arneson's Engine</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day Five Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 28, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-five.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Five)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-five-and-dave.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Five and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-five.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day FIVE</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-five.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Five</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-v.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day V</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day Six Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 29, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-six.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Six)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-six-and-dave-arneson.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Six and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-six.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day SIX</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-six.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Six</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-vi.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day VI</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://grandparpg.blogspot.com/2018/09/when-dave-arneson-changed-world.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">When Dave Arneson Changed the World (Murkhill's </a><a href="https://tinyurl.com/DaveArnesonWeek" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/DaveArnesonWeek</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> )</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Day Seven Blackmoor Week Blog Posts for September 30, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/09/celebrating-blackmoor-week-day-seven.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Seven)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-seven-and-dave.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Seven and Dave Arneson Game Day</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://trueheartblackraven.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-seven.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day SEVEN</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-seven.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day Seven</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/09/blackmoor-week-day-vii.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day VII</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://musingofamavericreferee.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/celebrating-blackmoor-week-2018/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Celebrating Blackmoor Week 2018</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/09/30/who-in-the-world-is-dave-arneson/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">“Who in the World is Dave Arneson?” A Dave Arneson Homage, Part 1 of 2 by James Maliszewski posted at Goodman Games</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 Blog Posts for October 1, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://dungeons-and-dragons-rpgs.blogspot.com/2018/10/dave-arneson-game-day-celebrated-today.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day celebrated today on his birthday October 1st 2018</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/10/dave-arneson-game-day-october-1st-2018.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day (October 1st 2018)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/10/october-first-2018-dave-arneson-game-day.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day today October 1st, 2018</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/10/october-first-2018-dave-arneson-game-day.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">October First 2018 "Dave Arneson Game Day"!</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2018/10/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">At Last It Is Here - Dave Arneson Game Day!</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://musingofamavericreferee.wordpress.com/2018/10/01/happy-birthday-dave-arneson/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Happy Birthday Dave Arneson</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/10/01/learning-from-dave-arnesons-published-works/" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Learning from Dave Arneson’s Published Works A Dave Arneson Homage, Part 2 of 2 by James Maliszewski</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://bruce-heard.blogspot.com/2018/10/happy-dave-arneson-day.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Happy Dave Arneson Day! by Bruce Heard</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://boddynock-te.blogspot.com/2018/10/spooky-blackmoor-horseman-of-north.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Spooky Blackmoor: The Horseman of the North</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://boggswood.blogspot.com/2018/10/meet-baron-of-blackmoor.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">David Fant, Baron of Blackmoor (Interview)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/blog/what-do-you-want-to-do-dave-arnesons-legacy" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">"WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?" -- DAVE ARNESON'S LEGACY (Today is Dave Arneson's birthday, also known as Dave Arneson Game Day.)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Other Posts on Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 October 1, 2018</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Other posts by </span><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); 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border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Happy birthday Dave Arneson! (2018)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=24&amp;t=20618" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">GS3 Castle Newgate Gazeteer by Greg Svenson (DA Day Release)</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> (For Members only)</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=24&amp;t=20537#p220380" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=20537" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 - Coming soon!</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=24&amp;t=20615" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Living World (DA Day 2018 Release)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;t=8872" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 - Official Discussion! </a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;t=8869" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Maliszewski on Dave Arneson Dave Arneson Game Day 2018</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;t=8873" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Living Blackmoor (DA Day 2018 Release)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;t=8863" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 - Preparation Thread</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;t=8871" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">GS3 Castle Newgate Gazeteer by Greg Svenson (DA Day Release)</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">A partial list of Dave Arneson Game Day Posts. </span><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/2018/10/dave-arneson-game-day-2018-highlights.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(246, 246, 246); border: 0px; color: #0c045e; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 Highlights!</a></div>
Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-43186409809404547742018-10-01T11:22:00.002-04:002021-09-11T04:18:57.184-04:00At Last It Is Here - Dave Arneson Game Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Now we are here on Dave Arneson Game Day, a day that unfortunately the world at large remains completely ignorant of. I went this morning a couple of hours ago to the WotC website [<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%C2%A0http://dnd.wizards.com" target="_blank">WotC</a>] and was not surprised to see that they are ignoring Dave Arneson's Birthday.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So if you are reading this or one of a tiny handful of other blogs then you will know that today is indeed Dave Arneson's birthday. The thing to ask yourself is why are there only a tiny handful of blogs and a only a couple of other places that celebrate Dave Arneson's Birthday? Especially considering that none of those blogs or forums would exist but for Dave Arneson.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As of 11AM EDT Dragonsfoot forums (nothing), Knights & Knaves Alehouse (nothing), and Original D& D (nothing). Now over on The Comeback Inn <a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=65120605121397125dc2fae8820fb2cb" target="_blank">The Comeback Inn</a> there are today several threads some with real goodies. And over on The Piazza there is a thread that shares some of the same links as The Comeback Inn.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Over on The Ruins of Murkhill Forum there is this thread <a href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/2572/blackmoor-week-dave-arneson-game" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week and Dave Arneson Game Day</a> where they have been celebrating both Blackmoor Week (the only ones this year) and Dave Arneson Game Day with as of last night 39 blog posts so far and more to be added today.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Goodman Games is AFAIK the only game company to post anything and they have posted a two part Dave Arneson Homage yesterday and today. <a href="http://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/09/30/who-in-the-world-is-dave-arneson/" target="_blank">“Who in the World is Dave Arneson?” A Dave Arneson Homage, Part 1 of 2 by James Maliszewski</a> and I'll link to the second part once it is up.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">EDIT: <a href="http://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/10/01/learning-from-dave-arnesons-published-works/" target="_blank">Learning from Dave Arneson’s Published Works A Dave Arneson Homage, Part 2 of 2 by James Maliszewski</a></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We are collecting the links so late tonight or tomorrow I will post all the links we have found.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So are you gaming today or did you game over the weekend. We did, as part of our circumnavigation of the world as they near the end of a multi-year trek, they are now over 40 years of game time into the journey and out of the original 12 characters only 3 have survived this far. They are closer to the end of the journey than they know. Yesterdays game was all on shipboard on the wide ocean and as they approached some islands they were beset by pirates. I hope to post about that in a few days.</span></div>
Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-47635016469206839222018-09-30T18:56:00.000-04:002018-09-30T18:56:02.793-04:00Blackmoor Week Day VII<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The First Fantasy Campaign has been looked at a little here and there over the years, but I want to call your attention to the best and most extensive review that I am aware of. To do that we have to call back to the year 2009 at one of the better blogs, in fact if I would going to rate blogs it would be in my top five and it is Rob Conley's <a href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bat in the Attic</a> blog. He wrote his review in four parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/into-first-fantasy-campaign-part-1.html" target="_blank">Into the First Fantasy Campaign Part 1</a> as an aside in the comments there is a link to a relevant blog post <a href="http://jamesmishler.blogspot.com/2009/10/original-blackmoor-maps.html" target="_blank">Original Blackmoor Maps</a>, but back to the review.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">History remembers Statesmen, Philosophers, Kings, and Conquerors. Dave Arneson was none of those. He merely figured out a cool way to have fun that wasn't seen before. Yet in the last quarter of the 20th century and continued into the 21st century his legacy has impacted millions and ignited fires of imagination that still burns today. And it started in a place that only existed in Dave's mind, a place called Blackmoor.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All so very true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we come across a hand sketch by Dave of countryside around Blackmoor. He also make a note that in redrawing this for the map in First Fantasy Campaign that he redrew it to line up with Wilderlands of High Fantasy. The southwest corner of Blackmoor lines up with the northern border of the Valley of the Ancients.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The whole book is full of these kinds of gems and nuggets of gold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/into-first-fantasy-campaign-part-2.html" target="_blank">Into the First Fantasy Campaign Part 2</a> </span><br />
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Also there two illustrations; one of the Comeback Inn, and the other of the Main Gate to Blackmoor Castle. The town maps is one of the better early maps I seen. The most unusual feature is that the town plan is drawn 45 degrees to the grid.</blockquote>
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Next we start reading about Blackmoor Castle, the Haunted Rooms, the Catacombs, the Tower, and then a more detailed list of the Haunted Rooms. The map shows the castle from the basement to the 5th floor. Again much of it drawn 45 degrees to the grid. This unusual mapping technique persists throughout many of the map shown in FFC.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/into-first-fantasy-campaign-part-3.html" target="_blank">Into the First Fantasy Campaign Part 3</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You remember how in OD&D Outdoor Survival is listed as one of the resources to run D&D with? Well here is where that came from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We first start off with a little tidbit that they started using the Outdoor Survival Board after the first year but it wasn't until the third year of play they moved into it. He is goes on to describe the change to the game that resulted because of increasing wandering outdoors.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next comes a section called "Magic" Protection Point. Now for a long time this section and the sparseness of the following entries didn't make much sense. It wasn't until I was reading the various old school blogs that I finally had a good guess at what happening.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, you will have to go to his blog to find out what he surmised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/into-first-fantasy-campaign-part-4.html" target="_blank">Into the First Fantasy Campaign Part 4</a> </span><br />
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The next section after the dungeons is Magic Swords & Matrix. Here Dave Arneson give a pair of tables to generate magic swords. The first 'Magic Swords Personality Matrix "Blackmoor" is a bit confusing. At the beginning there is are a list of entries.</blockquote>
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Then we get to the Matrix which generates Magic Swords through a series of tables using percentile dice. Interesting that we have Holy Swords, Fighter's Swords, AND Magician's Sword. I guess we know how Dave dealt with the issue of Gandalf wielding a sword.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, that is correct, it really is old school for a Magic-User to use a magic sword.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That turned into three weeks later and then he posted this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/05/reflections-on-first-fantasy-campaign.html" target="_blank">Reflections on the First Fantasy Campaign (and First Dungeons)</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My appreciation of the First Fantasy Campaign (my review in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) didn't really strike until a decade after I bought it. While I like the "window" it opened on the early days, as practical product it left a lot to be desired. But then after a few years of GMing I found myself with same collection of jumbled notes for the Majestic Wilderlands. They meander through different topics, most incomplete and sadly holes from lost fragments. After that realization I appreciated the First Fantasy Campaign a lot more.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next paragraph is gold, you really do want to read it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to highlight this series of blog posts and encourage Rob Conley to compile it into a pdf and distribute it. This review needs to be out in peoples hands.</span></blockquote>
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-81483908557966956772018-09-29T18:31:00.000-04:002018-09-29T23:42:16.164-04:00Blackmoor Week Day VI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, just finished a fun game and getting ready for dinner and when that is over, we'll watch OSU hopefully destroy Penn State. Hope that you got some gaming in today and I also hope you are a football fan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So hopefully tomorrow I will find the energy to tell you about our game today. So I'm out of here, time for food and football.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh and if you did not get to game this today, then make plans to do so soon. Raise a glass to the memory of Dave Arneson and Blackmoor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Update: Ohio State escapes Penn State with a win 27-26 when Penn State on 4th and 5 makes a bad call and doesn't put the ball in the hands of their quarterback who gained 175 yards rushing. That mistake gave OSU the win. I never would have thought OSU could play that bad and walk away with a win. </span></div>
Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-10975664780447304262018-09-28T02:00:00.000-04:002018-09-28T02:00:00.354-04:00Blackmoor Week Day V<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's that time of year and Blackmoor Week is here! What are you doing this year to celebrate Blackmoor week and Dave Arneson's Birthday?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As for me, I'm getting with some friends and plan to spend Saturday gaming. We're doing it like Dave Arneson, a fully home brewed world and the game never slows down it just keeps moving fast and free. A pure sandbox, with thousands of hooks, a living world, no tracks, no scripts, real D&D. The players decisions move the game in any direction they want to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I admit, I am spoiled, I have no decision challenged players. If your players are decision challenged? If they dither and debate? If hours pass and they are still trying to make a decision, it is your fault as the referee. Wandering monsters and TPK's are a beautiful thing. Your players will learn that when you make decisions in seconds in real time, when the game moves at a breakneck pace, when both players and the ref are pushed to your limits, then you can find the magic that takes immersion deeper and deeper and makes the game come alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Your players have to learn to follow their instincts, learn not to over think things, learn not to react, but to take the initiative and act. In sports the aggressor has an advantage, when playing D&D the aggressor has an advantage. I am not talking about killing everything in sight, none of that murderhobo garbage, no I am talking about being proactive instead of waiting for things to happen. He who hesitates, loses. Don't be a loser, be proactive and decisive and survive and thrive.</span><br />
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-11787302902357085612018-09-27T03:00:00.000-04:002018-09-27T14:45:25.143-04:00Blackmoor Week Day IV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another place that has some Blackmoor/First Fantasy Campaign/Dave Arneson discussion is at this <a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/board/94/blackmoor-first-fantasy-campaign" target="_blank">link</a>. This area of the forum is young, but we are interested in fleshing it out with some good discussion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/2540/rules-game-dungeon-1974" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Rules to the Game of Dungeon (1974)</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/2293/blackmoor-edition" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor what edition?</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1165/arneson-initiative" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Arneson initiative</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1444/new-timeline-downplay-arnesons-contributions" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Does the new timeline downplay Arneson's contributions?</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/726/theory-location-real-blackmoor-greyhawk" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Theory Location the real Blackmoor in Greyhawk</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1705/lost-tonisborg" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Lost Tonisborg</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1531/arnesoniana" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Arnesoniana</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/863/overview-first-fantasy-campaign" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">An Overview of the First Fantasy Campaign</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1326/family-rules" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Family rules?</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1440/call-historians-account-distorting-arneson" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Should we call historians to account for distorting Arneson?</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/1445/gygax-prefer-arnesons-spell-system" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Did Gygax actually prefer Arneson's Spell Point system?</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/644/used-ffc" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Have you used the FFC?</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/593/first-fantasy-campaign" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">First Fantasy Campaign</a><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/51/who-blackmoor-fan" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Who is a Blackmoor Fan?</a><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-47144442653452267252018-09-26T04:30:00.000-04:002018-09-26T04:30:10.681-04:00Blackmoor Week Day III<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you get ready to game this week to celebrate Blackmoor Week and Dave Arneson Day, take a look at <a href="http://jovianclouds.com/blackmoor/Archive_OLD/index.html" target="_blank">Dave Arneson's Website </a>which is still mostly up. (when you go to the site it will download a sound file which you can accept or refuse - your choice)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More importantly at this <a href="http://jovianclouds.com/blackmoor/Archive_OLD/bmc.html" target="_blank">page</a> you can download</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The original Campaign World!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Blackmoor</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Click of the map to the side for a downloadable map for printing on a 8x11 sheet at 300 dpi.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Original Campaign Books by once published by TSR, Copywrite by Dave Arneson, all rights reserved. Download is for personal use only and no rights given.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Originally it was the campaign Dave created and had for all his role-playing games that evolved into what we know as D&D. This world then was ready to publish and was to help launch the new era. But the new president of TSR just finished creating his own world and in fashion the company published his works first. You can see the dates inside the cover point out Blackmoor was first even in the Copyrights. Greyhawk was produced later despite the label Supplement 1, and Blackmoor with its earlier date points out that it really is Supplement 1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More information coming on examples and proofs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Click on Blackmoor campaign book image to download the PDF version of the original books.</span></blockquote>
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-275587778492607452018-09-25T04:00:00.000-04:002018-09-25T10:54:42.685-04:00Blackmoor Week Day II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.no/" target="_blank">The Official Blog</a></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: grey; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.no/" target="_blank"></a></b><a href="http://blackmoor.mystara.us/forums/" target="_blank">One of several forums with Blackmoor Discussion</a><b style="background-color: grey; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="http://blackmoor.mystara.us/forums/" target="_blank"><img border="3" src="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/CBI_Button.gif" /></a></b></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: grey; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="http://blackmoor.mystara.us/forums/" target="_blank"></a></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackmoorfans/" target="_blank">Visit the Facebook Group</a></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: grey; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackmoorfans/" target="_blank"><img border="3" src="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/BlackmoorFansButton.gif" /></a></b> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: grey; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackmoorfans/" target="_blank"></a></b>Celebrate Dave Arneson Game Day on October 1st (many sites)</span></blockquote>
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-51352508994251854472018-09-24T22:45:00.001-04:002018-09-24T22:45:05.309-04:00Blackmoor Week Day I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is that time of year again and Blackmoor Week and celebrating Dave Arneson's Birthday is upon us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To get in the mood go <a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/index.html" target="_blank">here to see a Blackmoor Tribute painting by Kevin Mayle</a></span></div>
Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-52492765666385985582018-09-03T15:38:00.001-04:002018-10-25T18:25:30.866-04:00Update on Misattribution in a Signature over on the Troll Lords forums<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I posted back in 2015 about the <a href="http://the-one-true-game-odnd.blogspot.com/2015/04/misattribution-in-signature-over-on.html" target="_blank">Misattribution in a Signature over on the Troll Lords forums</a> of one of my quotes and since I don't go to the Troll Lords forums, I assumed that it would be fixed, since it is such a minor thing and <b>sieg</b> posts under the name <b>sieg</b> lots of places in current use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To recap, <b>sieg, </b>claims in his signature that Tim Kask said this</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Always remember, as a first principle of all D&D: playing BtB is not now, never was and never will be old school.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But that is not true, it is a quote of mine that I had in my signature for a long time preceding the linked posting with Tim Kask in the linked thread at Dragonsfoot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">So I checked the other day and to my surprise this was never corrected.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">So I went to Troll Lords forums and created an account, which I didn't really want to do since they don't produce any products that I have any interest in, since none of them are what I would consider old school or even to have old school roots.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">So I posted in this <a href="https://www.trolllord.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17302" target="_blank">thread</a> and requested that it be fixed. I laid my case out and I closed with this statement</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seeing as how @sieg has not logged in here in about 8 years, I don't suppose there is anyway to get his signature corrected, but it would be nice if it could be.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Thank you for your time, Crimhthan The Great</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was a model of civility in my post, so the response I got was to be mocked by several posters, including <b>sieg</b> who now goes by <b>DMMike</b>. The last response in the thread I saw was dated Monday August 27, 2018 at 9:15PM. If anyone responded after that I am now unable to see the thread or the forum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sieg</b> was also posting in that DF thread, but I am not sure why he misattributed the quote, but if anyone is currently a member of DF and/or Troll Lords and knows <b>Sieg</b> please bring it to his attention. Please note that I do not think it was deliberate. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Given my treatment in the thread, I no longer believe that it was not deliberate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">So I will state that I object to the theft of my IP and I will post about this from time to time to set the record straight and remind people that that IP is mine and not Tim Kask's. I am curious about how Tim Kask feels having my IP attributed to him, but I will probably never know since I do not share any forum memberships with him anymore. He of course is not responsible for any of this.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">On top of that, Troll Lords took the step of banning me without any warning or contact at all. You can imagine what my opinion of Troll Lords is at this point.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I emailed their Admin, but he did not reply to my email. Somehow I am not surprised.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Update 9/23/18: Still no reply and still no correction. Shame on them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Update 10/25/18: sieg aka dmmike claims that </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Partially true, though I'd wanted to move beyond the sieg persona for a while. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uh-huh, he wants to move beyond the sieg persona so much that he still posts over at http://odd74.proboards.com and at https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/ under the sieg persona having not bothered to create a second account under the dmmike name at either forum. They have still not corrected the misinformation, so at this point I must assume that all of it is deliberate and that there is no legitimate reason why he can not login to that account and change the signature.</span></div>
Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-85444460471753593272018-08-25T12:20:00.000-04:002018-08-25T12:21:18.300-04:00Secrets of Blackmoor The True History of Dungeons & Dragons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Have you been to this site yet <a href="http://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/" target="_blank">Secrets of Blackmoor</a>?<br />
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<b>Secrets of Blackmoor is a Feature-Length Documentary about the birth of the “Mother of all Games”: Dungeons & Dragons.</b></blockquote>
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The hours and hours of travel and interviews has been completed, a rough edit of the first film has been made and now they need to hire professionals to turn the video into a professional quality product. Here is what they say in a <a href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/32092/thread" target="_blank">forum post</a>.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">Now we have a 2 hour draft that still needs a lot of work. It needs that eyes, hands, and ears of many specialists to go over things and smooth them out so the film looks like a real film and not someone's home video.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">A quick list of people is as follows:</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">-An extra editor to speed up the final edit</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">-A motion graphics person to do all the moving pictures and titles</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">-A 3D artist to make more of the animations of castles and other things</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">-A composer to do all the music. WE have one, but we haven't paid his entire fee yet. He worked on Fantastic beasts, so he is top notch. </span></b><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e 06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-Lastly, we want to hire a real voice over artist to do all the narration. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Then we will be needing the next stage where the film is broken apart:and gets refined:</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-A colorist to go through and make the images all match up and adjust exposures</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-A sound designer to mix all the dialogue and music</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Once this is done it's on to Mastering:</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-The audio needs to be mastered for both a stereo mix and a surround sound mix. It also needs to be mastered for both a DVD and Theatrical setting. 4 sets of audio all together.</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-When all of that is all put together a final movie file is created, the DCP file.</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Film making is a complicated art with many hidden steps that viewers never hear about. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Some of things things we can do ourselves, yet if we are doing one thing, we can't do another; thus our production pipeline gets slowed down a lot. We want to get this done in a timely manner so people can see it.</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">We thought we could sell T-shirts to make this happen, along with the movie draft sample.</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">We are relying on grass roots support to make this project happen - so tell a friend and share our posts online. </span><img alt=":)" class="smile" src="http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></blockquote>
<b><a href="https://store.secretsofblackmoor.com/" target="_blank">So buy a T-Shirt and help fund the final phase of this project. </a> </b>They have shirts in eight different colors. I have linked to the Black shirts.<br />
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-15485479709847113382018-07-27T01:30:00.000-04:002018-07-27T01:30:22.998-04:00Happy Birthday "Gary Gygax Day"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Birthday to Gary Gygax July 27, 2018. Sorry you are not here to celebrate it with us. You died way to young. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you passed away all the current deals to publish your work were canceled. All sale of your IP ended and here just over 10 years later your fans wait in vain for your IP to be used and put back on the market. We have no idea who the winner is when your IP is consigned indefinitely to a locked vault.</span><br />
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-51462831305781170512018-06-11T22:27:00.003-04:002018-06-11T22:28:08.381-04:00The Braunstein Essays<div class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over at <a href="http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">chirine's workbench</a> <span itemprop="name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><a class="user-link js-user-link user-36 group-0" href="http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/user/36" itemprop="url" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" title="@chirinebakal">chirine ba kal</a> aka Jeff Berry hangs out and writes wonderful essays. This series from back in 2014 concerns The Braunsteins. The Braunsteins were run by David Wesely and when he went overseas in the military Dave Arneson took them over and continued to run them. They were one of the inspirations for his game Blackmoor which became Dungeons & Dragons after Dave Arneson showed his game to Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz and group. Gygax wrote it down and did the heavy lifting to get it published.</span></span></div>
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- July 21st, 2014</a><br style="background-color: white; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=http%3A//chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2014/07/essay-on-braunstein-part-fourth-july.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Essay On The Braunstein - Part The Fourth - July 28th, 2014 (Game Aids - 1)</a><br style="background-color: white; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=http%3A//chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-braunstein-pause-for-questions.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">On The Braunstein - A Pause For Questions...</a><br style="background-color: white; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=http%3A//chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-braunstein-more-of-your-questions.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">The Braunstein - More Of Your Questions!</a><br style="background-color: white; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=http%3A//chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-braunstein-question-from-ed.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">The Braunstein - A Question From Ed</a><br style="background-color: white; max-height: 1e+06px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=http%3A//chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-braunstein-interlude-maps-and.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">A Braunstein Interlude - Maps And Campaigns</a></span></blockquote>
Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-80222278215774863592018-05-27T21:43:00.002-04:002018-05-27T21:55:13.953-04:00More Dave Hargrave and Arduin Links<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you are a Dave Hargrave and Arduin Fan then I reccomend that you take a look at this post.</span><br />
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<a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/05/dave-hargrave-days-and-posts-with-extras.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More Stuff from the Recent Dave Hargrave Day and Links to Arduin Extra's</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are about a dozen links in the linked blog post.</span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-13742207606761946202018-05-25T05:00:00.000-04:002018-05-25T05:00:15.516-04:00The Passing of Paul Mosher<div class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No other information is available at this time. Paul was a veteran and military funerals can take a while to arrange. Paul Mosher, we salute your years of service and for being a great friend and family man.</span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-57783376425374152822018-05-25T04:30:00.000-04:002018-05-25T04:30:09.011-04:00Celebrating Dave "The Dream Weaver" Hargrave Day<div class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is May 25th and time to celebrate Dave Hargrave Day his birthday, he would have been 72 today and still a young man. Unfortunately, he died an untimely death from complications of diabetes in 1988. Dave Hargrave also known as The Dream Weaver, was the designer of the Arduin campaign and the author of the Arduin Grimoire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arduin also known as Arduin, Bloody Arduin is one of the greatest campaign world's ever committed to paper and it easily surpasses everything created by WotC. Dave Hargrave in his grimoire published hundreds of ideas and these days these ideas are put in print in new products and the authors and publishers pretend these are new ideas instead of stolen ideas. Why they don't want to give the idea creators credit is anyone's guess, but it is so, so wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a whole lot more!<br />BY: David A. Hargrave<br />These are the volumes that started it all. These books inspired tons of RPG's, authors and fans alike. Let your imagination set wild and come back to the old Arduin Grimoire series to re-inspire you from old or create inspiration of new! There will certainly be something of value in these Grimoires for all. New rules, monsters, items, spells, character classes, races and more… all from the World of Arduin, for use in any and ALL role playing game systems - past present and future!<br />This was Emperors Choice first attempt to organize the large amount of material presented in the original Arduin game system. While reorganized and placed with a new typeset, imagery and tables it maintains its original presentation.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Emperors Choice is now seemingly dead and the Arduin IP languishes in purgatory. Only a few books are available at RPGNow but right now you can get the bundle of all the books and items that are available over at RPGNow for $51.95 instead of the full price of $102.84. <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/118571/Entire-Arduin-Digital-Collection-BUNDLE?manufacturers_id=4661" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Entire Arduin Digital Collection [BUNDLE]</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my opinion either the Trilogy or the Bundle are a good deal and you should try to get one or the other while you still can. The IP holder has not responded to email and stopping shipping hard copies multiple years ago and could pull the plug on everything. Dave Hargrave's Arduin is Classic and has a lot to teach and illuminate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Birthday to Dave Hargrave and here is hoping that your IP can be brought out of moth balls and made fully available once again.</span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-58242563945376609242018-05-13T21:06:00.002-04:002018-05-13T21:06:20.162-04:00Chirine ba Kal's blog post and "Pre-School Gaming"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">See <a href="https://apis.google.com/u/0/wm/1/115921671744763259208" target="_blank">Chrine ba Kal</a> and his Truth Bomb blog post titled <a href="http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/05/pre-school-gaming-before-old-school-and.html" target="_blank">Pre-School Gaming - Before 'Old School' and 'New School"</a> meaning of course game play as originally done by Dave Arneson, Phil Barker aka M.A.R. Barker and Gary Gygax back pre-publication. All three of which continued to play the same way all their lives. What about Gygax you may say, well Gygax played the same way his whole life; however a short time after D&D was published he started preaching a different way for others to play, although he never followed his own very bad Standard Play advice, which required the use a purchased module from TSR instead of doing it yourself the original way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Pre-School Gaming" and I have also seen it called "Original School Gaming" and this new term is really needed ever since the <b>Murder Hobo Module Slaves </b>stole the term "Old School" and corrupted its meaning. Old School used to mean how Dave, Phil and Gary played, but not anymore. Old School has been corrupted to mean those that pretend to be Old School while playing with purchased modules, railroaded game play and the juvenile and immature murderhobo trope. DISCLAIMERL: I am<b> not saying</b> that the murderhobo trope is Bad Wrong Fun. The murderhobo trope is fun for many people, but fun or not it is still juvenile and immature and always a big hit with 10-12 years olds. If you are 25 or 35 or 45 or 55 or whatever and you enjoy the murderhobo trope that is perfectly fine, but don't pretend it is not juvenile and immature, don't pretend (and prevaricate) that it is the original play style, <b>because it is not the original play style.</b></span><br />
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-30703486577078489342018-05-12T13:24:00.000-04:002018-05-12T13:25:09.375-04:00Fast Approaching is May 25th Dave Hargrave's Birthday<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May 25th is Dave Hargrave of Arduin fame and some of us will be posting tributes on that date to Dave Hargrave and to Arduin. Please check back for that post and later in the day I will post links to other similar pu</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">rpose posts.</span>Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-28845637896387739432018-05-05T02:00:00.000-04:002018-05-05T10:18:04.906-04:00A Tibbit about Mega-Dungeons (Original Edition RPG Appreciation Day / OERAD)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the original Dungeons & Dragons published in 1974 the focus of the game was (and is) exploration. Whether you are in the Wilderness or in a Dungeon the focus is exploration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you were running a campaign that was more dungeon focused, it often evolved into a Mega-Dungeon. A basic dungeon is described as </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Mega-Dungeon is when this basic dungeon reaches maturity and the size and number of levels continues to grow as it is developed. A true Mega-Dungeon is impossible to fully explore. If the players ever finish a dungeon, then it was not a Mega-Dungeon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mega-Dungeon</b> is a massive dungeon that goes way beyond a basic dozen levels with twenty or more being typical. They also typical have over 200 room or spaces per level - not counting sublevels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Campaign Dungeon</b> is a meaningless term, since if play is restricted to just a dungeon you do not have a campaign, you have a limited sample game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Campaign</b> is a full fleged OD&D game where all parts of a campaign are present being Dungeons, Towns/Cities, Wilderness, Sea-Going and mulitple planes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Choke Point</b> is when options become very limited and things become linear aka railroads. This is not a feature of old school campaigns. The opposite of Choke Point is normal design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dungeon levels</b> have full footprints as you go deeper into the dungeon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dungeon sub-levels</b> have partial footprints and are usually have fewer access points than is normal for a level. To avoid the spector of the railroad, it is suggested that at least three access point be provided, although some can be through secret doors or other types of access. It is also suggested that they have at least three ways out. It is acceptable for the way in to be different from the way out or for them to be difficult to find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Unique areas</b> can be present that are isolated (but not railroaded) from other areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rooms and chambers</b> differ in that chambers are large rooms that have or had a specific purpose rather than a general purpose, such as, an audience chamber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Chutes</b> are ways to rapidly get from upper levels to lower levels although sometimes they operate the opposite way. They are often found behind secret doors or combined with a pit trap or trapdoors. Chutes are completely enclosed throughout their length.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Slides</b> are also between levels but differ in that they are not completely enclosed so that one could roll or jump off of one along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Portal</b> is a door between different worlds or planes with usually minor clues to tell players the type of choice they are about to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Underworld aka Underdark</b> is the entire complexity of underground campaign areas of which dungeons and mega-dungeon are just one small part.</span><br />
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Daithi MacLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164875676148219662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000665341124771922.post-3595683652798823812018-01-06T01:51:00.001-05:002018-01-07T01:03:21.573-05:00The RPGPundit and an Anonymous SJW attack at OBS<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As most of you likely know by now, some SJW(s) at OBS aka RPGnow, have been messing with <b>The RPGPundit</b>, by playing around with the url for his really sweet new product <i><b>Lion & Dragon. </b></i>They keep changing and/or deleting the url so that they can keep his product out of the top ten in sales. The SJW(s) can't stand <b>The RPGPundit</b> because he is pro-freedom and stands against censorship. I agree with him on some things and abhor his stance on other things, but I do support his right to hold those positions and advocate for them. The SJW(s) desire a one-note echo chamber and believe that only their views should be protected by free speech and that all opposing views should be permanently silenced.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Support freedom, by supporting <b>The RPGPundit, </b>because love him or hate him, he is one of the few voices of freedom in the RPG world.</span></span><br />
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In short, if someone was responsible for trying to sabotage <a href="https://www.rpgnow.com/product/226022/">Lion & Dragon </a>on RPGnow, they're probably kicking themselves right now.</span></span>
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If you have no idea what I'm talking about, over the last 4 days either
through massive incompetence or intentional malice by some disgruntled
employee, Lion & Dragon had been <a href="http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2018/01/rpgnow-sabotaged-lion-dragon-what-you.html">effectively rendered unreachable </a>not once <a href="http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2018/01/rpgnow-has-screwed-me-over-yet-again.html">but TWICE</a>, just as it was celebrating a month on the top-10 list, which it of course lost as no one could find the book anymore.</span></span>
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First, all the good news; and basically, this is all about YOU. Against
ALL odds, and in spite of essentially losing all its viable links TWICE
in the last 4 days, Lion & Dragon has made it back into the top 15!
As of this writing, thanks to all the people who came forward and
purchased the game, it went from being way down at #30 and dropping, all
the way up to currently #13 and rising on the bestseller list for
RPGnow.</span></span>
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I want to thank all the people who have stepped up and helped spread the
word. The ones who bought the game obviously, but also the ones who
made the effort to<a href="https://www.rpgnow.com/product/226022/"> share the links to the new L&D URL</a> and telling other people about what had happened.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the best selling list he is back up to number 13 right now, who know what it would be if OBS hadn't taken a leave of absence from ethics. <b>EDIT: </b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">now up t</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>o number 11.</b></span></span><br />
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