tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26760628611844097992024-03-04T20:59:11.948-08:00The Gray Wolf ProwlsA longtime lurker shares his observations about games and other assorted topics.Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-46633857737367100632023-01-01T03:30:00.001-08:002023-01-01T03:30:00.162-08:00I'm In!! The monthly posting challenge leadup to the 50th Anniversary of OD&D in 2024<p>I am inspired by this post found <a href="https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-few-planned-posts-for-2023.html" target="_blank">here</a>, to be part of the monthly posting during 2023 and 2024 to highlight the 50th Anniversary of OD&D.</p><p>We were challenged to post monthly about the 50th Anniversary of OD&D coming in 2024. I accept that challenge, even I can do one post a month. 💪 </p><p>It would be quite sad if the 50th Anniversary of OD&D and the start of the TTRPG hobby was not celebrated. Millions of people have had tons of fun and spent some great times with there friends because of this hobby. If WotC doesn't celebrate this in any meaningful way and they only focus on ultra monetization with virtual products with "one" D&D, then they will deserve to fail. They need to show they believe in all of the D&D fans not just those under 30.</p>Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-37352382614382844652019-09-24T20:11:00.000-07:002019-09-24T20:11:11.566-07:00Dave Arneson Blackmoor Week and Game Day 2019<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Blackmoor Week begins today Sept 24, 2019. What are you doing this week to celebrate Dave Arneson's Birthday and his foundational game setting Blackmoor aka The First Fantasy Campaign?</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are copies of this map posted on line many places, but if you go to the original Dave Arneson site called Castle Blackmoor found in the Internet Archive at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040124062134/http://www.castleblackmoor.com/" target="_blank">Castle Blackmoor</a> and in the left hand side menu click on Blackmoor Campaign you will be able to download the following items which Dave Arneson was personally making avalable to fans.</span></div>
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-14731305490913196202019-01-26T21:29:00.004-08:002019-01-26T21:29:53.947-08:00The 45th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am late to the party this month, having intended to post several times this month, but best laid plans as it were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">January is International Dungeons and Dragons month and January 26th is International Dungeons and Dragons Day. The guy over at Playing at the World, came up with that date as the probable publication date and some of us agreed with that date and are sticking with it. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you bop on over to the Wizards of the Coast website you will notice that they are so out of touch with Dungeons & Dragons that they don't even know it is the 45th Anniversary of the game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dungeons & Dragons is derived from Dave Arneson's Blackmoor game. Arneson created the game, played it for over a year, showed it to Gary Gygax who took Arneson's notes and concepts, then added many of his own mechanics while writing up the game for publication. After much collaboration and play testing it was published and the rest is history as they say. (yes I know that is a<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> cliché)</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Originally an open-ended game of exploration where the referee (later called a dungeon master) created a world in which characters created by players would explore and interact with that world and a free collaboration would take place between the players and referee to create something completely unique. No railroad, no training wheels, just a wild ride that could take you anywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These days most games are played with packaged adventure modules that lack the spontaneity and the creativity of the original game. If you have never played the original free wheeling open ended game, it is well worth your effort to find one and give it a whirl.</span><br />
<br />Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-15588027959943005332018-10-12T22:04:00.000-07:002019-03-25T10:44:07.036-07:00Old Shames or New Shames Which is it Really?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RPGNET where they have this habit of getting things completely wrong all the time, recently flubbed up again. The thread title is "<a href="https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?834423-The-Old-Shames-of-D-amp-D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Old Shames of D&D</a>", but a lot of the things they mention were not part of Old/Original D&D which started in 1974. Most of the things they mention were not part of the original three little brown books. So the title should have been "The New Shames of AD&D and later."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Drow, not part of OD&D so I never was exposed to that race, but what they said about them is this, "<i>only dark-skinned elves are insane and evil, with sexually provocative imagery on top</i>" which is so wrong. Our elves are usually neutral and somewhat detached from things due to being almost immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gully Dwarves, again not part of OD&D, these "<i>Gully dwarves are a one-note gag poking fun at the intellectually handicapped. That's literally all they are; they exist to be a race of morons you can point your finger at and laugh about because they're so stupid</i>." What idiot came up with that! Why would you put anything like that in your game. For anyone to be intellectually handicapped is not funny, it is sad, very, very sad and one of the greatest of human tragedies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vistani, again not part of OD&D, "<i>this is a race whose problematic elements are probably more obvious to European D&D fans than American ones, because the big issue of anti-Roma is more rooted there. In summary, Vistani are a race literally built around the Horror Movie Gypsy archetype; morally ambiguous "gypsies" who are portrayed as so inherently mystical that being half-vistani is treated as making you as inhuman as being half-elf or half-orc - indeed, the half-breed version is the only way one is even allowed to play a character remotely tied to them.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's pause here to state that roleplaying games owe a lot to archetypes, ever hear that word before. Archetypes/Stereotypes/Tropes are things that resonate with people because there is a lot of truth to them. Not the whole truth, but partly true. Writers make use of this all the time and good writers make skillful use of them. Same with roleplayers, good ones make skillful use of these things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">*Gypsies aka Roma aka Travelers and their stereotype exists because it is partially true, not the whole truth, but not completely untrue either. But many people when they roleplay, choose not to run things btb(i.e. use the stereotype as is) and instead turn the stereotype upside down. Obviously, this never occurs to many, but it takes things to a new level and makes the old, new again. I really wish that "Gypsy" was a not a bad word. Why? Because some words look beautiful in print and sound beautiful when spoken and I always hate it when we are robbed of beautiful words. A lot of bad words look and sound bad, but Gypsy is not one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">*No one ever takes the time to look at the reasons behind stereotypes and the historical forces that created them. For instance, if no one will sell to you or will only sell to you at twice the going price, you may have to steal to live. Etc, Etc, Etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">People who run these premade settings are captive to the btb mentallity. Where those who DIY are not, when you DIY you are freed from using tired old stereotypes. Vikings, Cowboys, Romans, and so on are all tired old stereotypes. DIY and be free of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But let's continue,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Aperusa, again not part of OD&D, "<i>An entire culture of faithless, shifty, flamboyant, lying, swindling, scavenging, cowardly rogues... in other words, an entire culture based on the worst anti-Roma stereotypes, but presented IN SPACE!</i>" Free yourself from this pre-canned stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Historical Fantasy Cultures</i>", again not part of OD&D except in very generic fantasy medieval way, "<i>but even I can't help but notice that the more direct an attempt at "historical fantasy" D&D tended to do, the worse it tended to be</i>." Again free yourself from pre-canned settings, DIY and take references and do something new with them, do something that speaks to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next thing cites evil cultures and evil races as racist. Again not part of OD&D, which was Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic. Lawful was not Good and Chaotic was not Evil. Those things came later. In OD&D "sentient monsters" were not all evil all the time btb and to be killed on sight no matter what. In OD&D, they could be talked to and dealt with and the object was not killing things. All of that was not hardwired into OD&D. The whole murderhobo thing was not the original mode of play for adults, that came later. Whether or not it is racist, to have evil races and cultures is not germane if you don't do that in your campaign. <b>If they have free-will, then they are not universally evil. If they don't have free will what is the point.</b> What fun is it if every encounter is combat and nothing else. Sounds very boring to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh let me interject this, "paladins and baby orcs" if you go there that is on you, the game itself does not take you there, that is a DM/players problem not a game problem. My players, including the paladins, would not kill baby orcs if I put them in the game, you know why? Because my players don't have a goal of exterminating races. Nothing in OD&D tells you to slit the throats of sleeping orcs. If your players do that, that is on them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A point is made about "<i>giant fantasy world-atlases</i>" not having non-demihumans nations, just lawless zones where monsters run wild. Again free yourself from pre-canned settings and DIY and have monster nations, and trade with them. Have monster bandits, just like there are human bandits. Do something original with your dungeon. Maybe you free those poor monsters enslaved by the lich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That just gets me through page one of 63 pages at RPGNET. I can see your chin drop to find out this stuff goes on for 63 pages (as of today).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next up is Pathfinder, which I know nothing about, is said to have "<i>sand and jungle orcs,</i>" again not part of OD&D, really that is the best you could come up with for Pathfinder? I haven't seen it so I can only take their word that the Pathfinder rules actually say that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Racial maximums for stats and class levels in and gender-based maximums for strength." Again not part of OD&D. Not part of Old D&D, these things came later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then they get into what they call "<i>rape monsters</i>" things like nixies and dryads. I will grant you that both of those are in OD&D, but I don't know anyone that ever put them in the game or ever used them as an encounter. I also don't know anyone who ever had rape occur in the game. I suppose there are people that do that, but in my experience we are there to have fun, <b>nothing about rape is fun so it is not part of the game for us</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slavery, while not explicitly part of OD&D, it is part of human history and occurred in virtually every group throughout history and is part of many cultures in the world even today. So yes, many of us have slavery in the game. Our players will typically try to free any slaves they encounter by one means or another and slavers are always the bad guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I could go on for a few thousand more words, but fortunately for you I will not. The bottom line for me is this. One is that almost none of this was part of OD&D, so it is not OLD SHAMES it is really mostly NEW SHAMES. Two, the whole 63 page thread was because people are enslaved to btb. If book says it, then for them it is canon. Free yourself from that, <b>at your table you decide what is canon</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My solution, free yourself from the btb fanaticism and put down the pre-built settings and DIY. If you go through the whole thread some of it is just silly SJW nonsense the things they complain about, but other things are legit. So DIY and then anything that you personally think is problematic you can jettison. <b>Are all of your bad guys dark skinned? That's not on the game, that's on you.</b> What's in the rulebook doesn't really matter, because you can change it. So step up and make the game your own and DIY.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-35126374013149461692018-10-05T15:13:00.000-07:002018-10-05T15:13:01.581-07:00Here it is, The Complete Dave Arneson Game Day & Blackmoor Week 2018 Posting List<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 Forum</a> and copied from <a href="https://xizallian-s-dungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2018/10/reposted-with-permission-from-ruins-of.html" target="_blank">the new blog Xizillian's Place</a>.</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;">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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Blackmoor Week Day IV<br style="max-height: 1e+06px; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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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; 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; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, arial; 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font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018!</a><br style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 13.86px; font-weight: 700;" /><a href="https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&amp;t=80817" 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dave Arneson Game Day 2018 Highlights!</a></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-50300118583181718642018-10-01T11:44:00.003-07:002018-10-01T11:44:49.933-07:00Dave Arneson Game Day celebrated today on his birthday October 1st 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So are you one of the few people celebrating today? One of the few that are in the know as to who Dave Arneson is and what he did in creating a new kind of game, in creating Dungeons & Dragons and in creating an entire hobby which has spawned countless imitators?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The answer to that is pretty easy and the answer is IMO Tim Kask. What is IMO the deep, unabated, bitter hatred that Tim Kask has for Dave Arneson is well documented all over the Internet, much of it in Tim Kask's own words. The real reason that Tim Kask hates Dave Arneson is IMO pretty darn obvious and doesn't need to be spelled out here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the Dragonsfoot forums Tim Kask has a Q&A thread and it is mostly very entertaining. When you look at the forum as a visitor (i.e. not logged in) the relevant passage for what happened to the Blackmoor Supplement is on page 8 towards the bottom of the page Tim Kask posted on Fri May 25, 2007 at 4:33 am. I am not going to quote the whole thing you can read that for yourselves. Here is the IMO perfect storm that derailed the potential of the Blackmoor Supplement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Upon going into work that fateful morning I was greeted by the grinning visages of Brian and Gary, looking like siblings from the same litter of Cheshire cats. Sensing that something was up, and that it undoubtedly involved me, and that furthermore, I might not be thrilled about it, I got ready to fill that day’s orders. At that point, I was handed one of the aforementioned baskets, filled with what I mistook to be orders. Seldom have I been so wrong. Over the sound of Brian nearly chortling to death, Gary informed me that they were now going to find out just how well I could edit. The basket contained what was destined to become Supplement II of D&D: Blackmoor </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So here we are, the two don't like each other (and won't work together) and so Blume and Gygax IMO decided to mess with Kask and Arneson at the same time.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So here I am, next week, and I sit down to go through the file. Uh oh, something seems to be amiss. I tried sorting the stuff; I re-sorted the stuff. I cataloged, alphabetized, prioritized and sanitized,all to no avail. This was a file folder full of repetitions, contradictions, duplications and complications. But not a supplement. I found three different versions of one idea, and two different approaches to another that are at odds with each other, as well as previously published guidelines. After two evenings of trying to make heads or tales of anything at all, I went to Gary and told him something to the effect that I couldn’t make heads or tails of the whole mess. And he replied something to the effect that it just needed some editing. About this time, I realized I was in deep dung.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I made an effort to get clarifications and explanations, I got none, or worse, what I got in response to my questions were responses that intimated that I must be mentally deficient if I couldn’t understand them. <b>Finally I said to hell with that and threw most of the crap away, determined to start over and do it my way.</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IMO all the previous strife between these two now came together to rob the world of what could have been a wonderful supplement. <b>He threw it away, really, he threw it away.</b> In that one sentence any chance of my ever having any respect for Tim Kask was extinguished. I already had zero respect for the Blumes due to IMO the disaster of having them anywhere near D&D and TSR and the respect for Gygax was greatly reduced by this chain of events. Granted Dave should have sucked it up and explained things to Kask and made the attempt to get his supplement out the door with more of his stuff in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But here is what we missed out on, a real supplement, an idea supplement, I don't care if there were 30 different versions of an idea, it would have been awesome to have seen all the different ways that you could look at an idea, maybe in ways that most of us would never have seen. We had a chance to peer into the mind of a genius and we lost it. It is a shame that all of this stuff did not end up published in some form, but I am betting that those were unique originals that were thrown away. The same way the originals that Dave originally gave to Gary were lost or thrown away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was a file folder full of repetitions, contradictions, duplications and complications. <strike>But not a supplement.</strike> I found three different versions of one idea, and two different approaches to another that are at odds with each other, as well as previously published guidelines.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yeah, I wanted to see all of that, all of that, all of that!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is where TSR (and later WotC many times) missed the opportunity to provide the kind of supplement that old school players wanted, raw ideas, who cares if one thing contradicts another, ideas a valuable. Especially the ideas that a Gygax or a Kask would discard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many of us have talked and one guy says that Dave Hargrave is the only published guy that really understood Arneson and did stuff a lot like Arneson. Both understood the grab bag of ideas good and "bad" and that any idea triggers other ideas. Most people look at a supplement and think they have ot use all of it, only a few realized that all rules are optional guidelines, especially from supplements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dave here is a toast to what might have been in a more perfect world.!</span></div>
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-46511637157406096032018-09-30T10:43:00.001-07:002018-09-30T10:43:46.455-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Seven)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you have a copy of The First Fantasy Campaign? Or have you have ever read any of it or seen it? It was first published in 1977 and you can find some information over the <a href="https://www.acaeum.com/" target="_blank">The Acaeum</a> <a href="https://www.acaeum.com/jg/Item0037.html" target="_blank">First Fantasy Campaign</a>. Although the Acaeum is usually a good source of information, they are in error about the First printing as the first printing is all Black and White including the cover. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The links to the correct information <a href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/25030" target="_blank">https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/25030</a> and <a href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/2670">https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/post/2670</a>2 are two primary links(you can find all the links in the thread) and below I will post the images. This information was posted at <a href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/" target="_blank">The Ruins of Murkhill</a> by the former Admin The Perilous Dreamer. I believe these are scanned images of his personal copy. The images are posted full size at the forum.</span></div>
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-11623676523770151982018-09-29T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-29T01:00:08.607-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Six)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another question that comes up is should we hold so-called "historians" to account for distorting the record concerning Blackmoor and Dave Arneson's creation of Blackmoor and of Dungeons & Dragons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is a fact that Arneson is the creator of these. Gygax was shown Blackmoor about a year and a half to two years after it began and he immediately saw the publication potential. For that we can give Gygax credit, he was the impetus behind the publication, whereas Arneson was content to share it face to face. What did Gygax do, he wrote it down and changed a lot of Arneson's mechanics (but not the underlying game engine which was solely Arneson's creation), added back in a lot of Chainmail that Arneson had discarded, replaced Arneson's mechanics with the d20 roles. Then playtesting began and both the Twin Cities Arneson group and the Lake Geneva group added things to the written rules as playtesting proceeded. Things that Arneson liked were in a number of cases dropped from the written down game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the game engine itself, the concepts, a lot of the monsters, the dungeon crawl, the so-called "end game"/"domain game" (which in Blackmoor was present at all levels, not just high level) and many other things were the creation of Arneson. Gygax wrote it down and swapped out a lot of mechanics for his own and went to great lengths to promote Chainmail and the fiction that Blackmoor/D&D was derived from Chainmail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Which brings us down to the present day where some so-called "historians" distort the record and will share selected and sometimes partial/censored images of documents to promote the Gygax narrative that developed that falsely claims that Gygax was the prime creative person in the picture when it was really Arneson that is the prime creative person in the creation of D&D.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We have today whole forums, blogs and so-called "historians" who are dedicated to promoting the false narrative about who created what. Should they be held accountable for fabricating a false distorted picture of Blackmoor, Arneson and the creation of Dungeons & Dragons?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It has become a custom to censor and ban anyone who disputes the false narrative and someone should ask the question, what do all these people have to gain from silencing the truth about the real creator of Dungeons & Dragons, namely Dave Arneson? Maybe they think that "Saint Gygax" is going to grant them a boon for their support of distortions that he himself started? I don't blame Gygax for any of that, he was after all human and a self promotor, he was acting in his own self interest. I can forgive that. But all these people who are furthering the falsehoods and the misinformation campaign, should we not call them to account when they are not even acting in their own self-interest, but are acting to the detriment of the hobby and to the detriment of the man who created the hobby, Dave Arneson?</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-67570628188925897242018-09-28T01:30:00.000-07:002018-09-28T01:30:00.139-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Five)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As you look into Blackmoor and Dungeons & Dragons you may wonder where somethings came from or how early some ideas were around. Again the blog <a href="http://boggswood.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Hidden in Shadows</a> is a great resource for those things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Consider the topic of HD and Level for instance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">From my previous post, it is apparent that as Arneson developed early Blackmoor, flunky, hero, superhero did not really function as “levels” as we would think of them today, but more like level titles or social ranks – the sort of things we sometimes call tiers – that were nevertheless very important divisions as far as rule differences were concerned. Characters also had “levels” of ability within these rankings as either “warrior” levels or “magic” levels, and sometimes in both. It is the meaning of “level” in early Blackmoor and the interplay of level and title that I want to explore here. </span></span></blockquote>
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-24573114165093825342018-09-27T01:30:00.000-07:002018-09-27T01:30:12.179-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Four)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As part of celebrating Blackmoor Week and Dave Arneson Game Day I would like to direct to a great source of information the blog known as <a href="http://boggswood.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Hidden in Shadows</a> written by D. H. Boggs also known as aldarron on many forums. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He is in my opinion the foremost Dungeons & Dragons historian of our time. I say foremost because he is <span style="background-color: #fefdfa; text-align: justify;">an honest historian who does research and then talks about possible conclusions. </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; text-align: justify;">Rather than the ways of most so called "historians" who start with conclusions and then appear to censor their research when they publish so that their original conclusions are always supported.</span></span><br />
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-11963492170533823402018-09-26T01:30:00.000-07:002018-09-26T01:30:07.897-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Three)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/greg01.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The First Dungeon Adventure By Greg Svenson </span></a></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-88352208954498730822018-09-25T02:30:00.000-07:002018-09-25T02:30:05.332-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day Two)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What are you doing to celebrate Blackmoor Week? Are you going to game this week? Work on that new continent of your setting that you have been meaning to get started on? Create some new creatures for your campaign or finish some random generation tables you've been meaning to get to?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whatever you do this week, do something original in honor of Dave Arneson and his creation Blackmoor. Remind yourself that your campaign world is your creation and unique in all the world and that's the way it should be. Celebrate your right to create things from scratch and create things in accordance with your own vision of how things should be in your world and you don't have to worry or care if everyone like it as long as you like it and as long as you had fun creating it. Don't let the naysayers that want to pour cold water on your ideas get you down, just go have some fun.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-71692804179385135892018-09-24T01:00:00.000-07:002018-09-24T01:00:00.589-07:00Celebrating Blackmoor Week (Day One)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Over at The Ruins of Murkhill we are celebrating Blackmoor Week and we starting our celebration today September the 24th and running it through Dave Arneson's birthday on October 1st. This is a great time for gaming all because on October 1st 1947 Dave Arneson the creator of Blackmoor and ultimately the creator and co-author of Dungeons & Dragons was born. (yes we know that the 24th through the 1st is eight days)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If you are lucky enough to have a copy of the First Fantasy Campaign you know what an awesome world Dave Arneson created. He and his friends in the Twin Cities in Minnesota were ground zero for the birth of tabletop roleplaying. Yes, David Wesely was involved too with the Braunsteins, but you can't have credit for creating something IMO if you didn't recognize that it was a good thing and thought that seminal moment was a failure. Even more, the fact that the Braunstein event was roleplaying is, according to the tales that are told, solely because Dave Arneson recognized the opportunity and went off the rails of the planned script for the evening and turned it from a "story" into a "roleplaying game." So while David Wesely may have created the conditions for a roleplaying game to occur, it occurred because of Dave Arneson and his "shenanigans" at that event. Dave Arneson started wheeling and dealing with the other players and hijacked the "story" (the script) and something special and unique occurred instead. I say all of this without any disrespect for David Wesely, he was there and he played an important part in things. There was a synergy between David and Dave and magic happened. (Dave Hargrave took Dave Arneson's concepts and more magic happened.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So that is why we celebrate Blackmoor Week. If you play roleplaying games, thank Dave Arneson!</span><br />
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-30428073063730032722018-09-20T05:00:00.000-07:002018-09-21T14:11:34.874-07:00Old School Star Trek Role-playing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Next up is <a href="http://oldschooltrek.proboards.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Old School Star Trek Role-playing</a> a fun little place, that is just plodding along instead of soaring. This forum was started in December 2009 and currently has 166 members, 372 threads and 5,152 posts. The color scheme is not the greatest for readability or for looking inviting. Only three members account for 45% of the posts. This is another unknown little forum, that just sits there in its own little backwater, not advertising itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So it is just on life support and it kind of makes me a little mad. There is no reason for this forum to be so mired in the doldrums. Who doesn't like Star Trek? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Game Systems section is about playing Star Trek using various systems. Obviously fixing the color scheme and getting the word out would help, but something else is needed that I can't really put my finger on it. Part of it would boil down to this, are these people canon purists or are they willing to strike out on their own and carve out an old school setting in a different time frame so none of the canon characters would be living so that people could reasonably play all the juicy fun roles. Maybe that and picking a game system and then fan supporting the heck out of it. Good luck guys, this is too good to just sit here like this, give each other a swift kick and crank it back up a few notches.</span><br />
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-80409618374038008252018-09-19T13:01:00.002-07:002018-09-19T13:04:49.786-07:00Ye Olde Gaming Companye Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This next forum <a href="http://yeoldegamingcompanye.com/forum/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ye Olde Gaming Companye aka YOGC Community Forum</a> is another odd duck. What I mean by that is that they are another one of the mixed message forums. A basic theme for forums is to recruit new members, but a lot of forum are antagonistic to new members in one or more ways. Some forums are very anti-lurker, they think if you join you must also be an active poster, when most people join a forum just to read the posts and make sure they have access to everything and a few might make a post once in a blue moon (mostly what I do most places) and then a very few are high volume posters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So this forum has a Hello Thread (<span style="background-color: #3d3d3d; color: #cc6600;">IMPORTANT</span><span style="background-color: #3d3d3d; color: whitesmoke;">: After you register, post a quick 'Hello' here. Otherwise, it is likely you will be deleted as spam.</span> Definitely the kind of thing that sets your teeth on edge right off the bat. You delete account that are spam or trolls, you don't delete accounts for lurking. That just sends the wrong message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This forum was founded in January of 2008 and they have 179 members, 585 threads and 6216 posts. In the past 48 days they have added 1 member, 1 thread and 16 posts. The site is dark and uninviting in appearance and is in need of a facelift. This site was created to support a game called the Wayfarer RPG, it is available at <a href="https://www.rpgnow.com/browse/pub/2556/Ye-Olde-Gaming-Companye" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ye-Olde-Gaming-Companye at RPGNow</a>. Change the name to The Wayfarer instead of Wayfarer and you go from a good name to a great name. The game says it is a mix of old and new school elements with an old school feel. Their licensing terms and derivative works terms appear very reasonable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So as bad as it looks this is not IMO a lost cause, a facelift for the website, more friendliness towards lurkers, make the pdfs free and the POD copies full price and then focus on a mix of free and for sale support products, would be a good start. Then get active blogging about the game spend some time creating new threads and with a core of people to do a little pushing this could be revived IMO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This all assumes that the game is a good one, you'll have to decide that for yourself. I had not heard of the game or the forum until I started doing this little project. I hope they do a reboot of their whole thing and breath new life into their forum and their game.</span></div>
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-24531749697166927852018-09-18T11:23:00.000-07:002018-09-18T11:23:50.831-07:00The Wayfarer's Inn Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now we come to the 2nd level forums the Light Flyweights of the RPG forum world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">First up is the defunct <a href="https://blackmoor.mystara.net/wfi/index.php?sid=7374c78c90996452e5a59263620072f5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Wayfarer's Inn Forum</a> which ran from about March of 2007 through December of 2011. There were a handful of posts from December of 2011 through the end of 2015 as three players continued a moribund pbp game. This forum had 122 members that accumulated 565 threads and 8973 posts during it's nearly five year run. After it came to an end it was subsumed into The Comeback Inn another forum that will be covered later in this series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is not much to say about this long defunct forum other than the fact that I was shocked as to how little useful and/or interesting stuff was present. Few of the threads had much in the way of discussion and most of that was inconsequential. It is not surprising that it died, because quite frankly it was a boring place IMO. The forum owner's attitude toward members, I am sure did not help. He says, "Fear me, I am Admin!" Some would be joking if they said that, but it does not appear that this guy was joking, that is IMO the way he felt about his power.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-31488724839441023172018-09-17T09:06:00.003-07:002018-09-18T05:51:50.529-07:00Frog God Games Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now for the last of the 1st level Gnatweight forums</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.froggodgames.com/library/?q=forum" target="_blank">Frog God Games Forum</a> was founded around Oct 2013 or so it appears. They currently have 687 threads, 4374 posts and the number of members is unknown. Posting is infrequent and it does not have the look or feel of support from its host. For me this is another head scratcher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I would make some comments but forum members covered that base back in 2013 saying in the thread <a href="https://www.froggodgames.com/library/?q=comment/45" target="_blank">Whoo hoo! We have forums!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">... but these forums are jarringly non-standard. Such low information density. They don't resize horizontally; my wide browser window dwarfs the width of the tables. The links on the left look like they might apply to the forum, but they don't. No search capability that I can see. And as I see the preview of this post, I see none of the returns/spacing I put in. :(<br />My heart weeps at the wasted potential. Compare to the old Necromancer forums, the old Swords & Wizardry forums, Dragonsfoot, ENWorld, rpg.net, therpgsite, TLG, K&KA, odd74, Acaeum, etc. There are good reasons those other fora use a more tried-and-true formula/layout/engine.<br />I cross my fingers that you can make these better! I _really_ want to post on a vital, energetic S&W forum again!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">While I really like finally having a Frog God forum, I agree with what ________ said.<br />I also, don't like the layout of the "All Products" page. I realize that it's an alphabetical listing of all products, but I think you should have categories for products like they do on Paizo.<br />I can see a lot of potential in this site, but right now it feels very disorganized.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is still non-standard with low information density and a forum that only occupies about a third of my monitor width. I have to agree wasted potential. And I would add that the forum has a washed out unexciting look. Frog God Games, you can do much better than this and IMO you should do much better than this.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-22462404862377464922018-09-17T08:06:00.001-07:002018-09-17T08:06:26.557-07:00 Gringle's Pawnshop Forums<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That brings us to the <a href="http://gringlespawnshop.proboards.com/" target="_blank">Gringle's Pawnshop Forums</a> which is a RuneQuest Forum. It was founded in May of 2010 and currently has 270 members, 385 threads and 4983 posts. Only 18 more posts and this forum will level up from 1st to 2nd, from Gnatweight to Light Flyweight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It covers Chaosium RuneQuest 1 and 2, Other RuneQuest Editions and Other D100 Games. It has, however, only 3 total post during 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This forum has three Admininstrators and the only advice I have for them is to jump back in and post. If the staff doesn't post and show that the founder is interested, then other people tend not to post either.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-43430007591101185982018-09-17T07:23:00.001-07:002018-09-17T07:23:52.777-07:00Citadel of Chaos Forums<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111126110154/http://citadelofchaos.net/forum/" target="_blank">Citadel of Chaos Forums</a> is a now defunct forum brought to us by the Internet Archive. It's last post was in November of 2011 with 2,887 posts, 456 threads and 160 members. It was founded around March of 2009 when they moved thread from an old proboards site (sorry I don't have a link for that).</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It covered a wide range of games and it could have been good. It looks like the move might be what did it in. With it being in the archive there is not much to learn.</span></div>
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-16924895394498493382018-09-17T06:58:00.002-07:002018-09-17T06:59:19.011-07:00Amber Diceless Role Playing Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Next up is the <a href="http://adrp.proboards.com/" target="_blank">Amber Diceless Role Playing Forum</a> which has been around since about Jul 27, 2007 and yet has only 599 posts with 140 threads and 84 members. Four of those members account for 471 of the 599 posts and 342 are by the Admin alone who has been a player of the game since 1993.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Roger Zelazny the author of the Amber books died in 1995 at the young age of 58 and Erick Wujcik the Father of Amber Diceless was a <b>member of the forum</b> until he died in 2008 at the young age of 57. Two rounds of really bad luck on both counts. Amber Diceless was mostly written in the 1980's but it wasn't until Erick Wujcik formed his own company that Amber Diceless was published in 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Were it not for these unfortunate occurrences this might be active and vibrant. The forum itself has an excellent layout and has every appearance of a forum that should be active and growing. So what happened? IMO the sudden illness of Erick Wujcik 6 months after the forum started and then his death 6 months after that, just sapped the energy out of everyone at the forum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A year after Erick Wujcik died the forum Admin had this idea <a href="http://adrp.proboards.com/thread/53/voice-erick" target="_blank">The Voice of Erick</a> in the thread the Admin says </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Pardon me if this seems creepy, but this is the Voice of Erick Wujcik. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Erick joined this group a while back and posted occasionally, and I wish he would have been able to post more because of the unique insights he has offered to the gaming industry over the years.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Over the years I have had conversations with Erick through snail mail, e-mail, and on message boards. Sometimes I was in direct contact, other times he was responding to thoughts or questions that others had posed.</b> As time passed I began to compile a Word doc that had all of the Q&A stuff I could find, and I was careful to copy-paste his exact answers from those boards and other sources.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My plan is to make use of some of these quotes, but not to post them as the Admin but instead as if Erick himself was responding. I thought about taking over his account, but just couldn't bring myself to mislead anyone that Erick was still posting when clearly he was no longer able. That's where my idea came about for The Voice of Erick. Kind of like a narrator in a play, I will speak with Erick's voice on these boards but in a manner to make it clear that these are his ideas and not mine.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I hope this is a plan which others will find to be acceptable and in good taste. I hope that The Voice of Erick will be able to keep his spirit alive and with us.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I do not find this a bit creepy, but it is brilliant and is IMO an excellent memorial to Erick Wujcik. For reasons unknown the me, this never came to pass. The 27+ pages of materials would have been 500, 1000, maybe even 1500 posts of material not counting all of the discussion it would have generated. Had this project been brought to life this forum might have 20,000 or more posts and at least a few hundred members by now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Therefore my recommendation for this forum is that this project be revived and that all of those posts (question in one post and answer in the next post) be made. I would suggest a thread for each topic addressed and not one long Q&A thread, that will make it more user friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In addition, the thread for The Amber Dictionary Project should be split to give a separate thread for each letter of the alphabet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Since the product is out of print and unsupported, maybe a clone could be written so that compatible material could be produced similar to what is done for D&D. The Admin, appears to be qualified to write such a clone and IMO should.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-71599953338794267612018-09-17T06:07:00.001-07:002018-09-17T06:07:41.023-07:00Infinite Timelines Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Infinite Timelines Forum is brand new having started on August 13th, 2018. It is barely underway with two members, two threads and three posts.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the promise is there, but will the Admin step up to the plate and create thread and activity that would encourage someone to join? Only time will tell. </span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-8870593767564839662018-09-16T21:06:00.002-07:002018-09-16T21:08:46.628-07:00Beggar's Canyon Forums<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://beggarscanyon.proboards.com/" target="_blank">Beggar's Canyon Forums</a> is an old school forum that concerns itself with 1990's Star Wars (I think it is 1998 and before). It started off fairly quickly, but at this point seems to be stalling out. Since opening to the public on July 3, 2018 it has 24 members, 69 threads and 508 posts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For a forum to grow the Admin (who is not identified by title on the forum) needs to invest in the forum along with a few founding members, but there is no real sign that this is being done. At least three people should step up to at least 2-3 posts per day and a couple of more people step to average 1 a day posting. But it also needs some interesting threads started and then get the word out about it. IMO the forum could use a little reorganization and be updated to show more focus and to made more inviting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now I will admit that I am not a Star Wars fan and I find it to be so so to begin with and that is talking about the original trilogy which is by far the best of the lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So I may be, being too critical and we'll see what it does over the next year or two. I hope it succeeds and I wish them the best of luck.</span><br />
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Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-37820489584486838982018-09-15T07:38:00.000-07:002018-09-15T08:07:24.966-07:00Taking a Look at the new WotC Survey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The survey is located at this link below and this is what was posted with it at their Twitter account.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4495590/ddsurvey?src=twitter" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;" target="_blank">Dungeons & Dragons @Wizards_DnD Sep 12 More What are the things that make you play D&D? The open world, opportunities to optimize your character, to tell a shared story with friends, iconic art, or maybe all of the above! Take our survey and help shape the future of what we're working on at Wizards!</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The first question asks what your favorite D&D setting is and immediately they get off on the wrong foot by not listing Blackmoor as one of the choices, so I selected other and entered (Blackmoor and my homebrew, why was Blackmoor not listed?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Next they asked about your favorite character classes and they make two mistakes, one is that they don't let you rank your three answers in order of preference and two is they failed their inclusiveness check and didn't list the iconic Magic-User as one of the choices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I'm not going to hit all of them, as that would be a very long post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">They ask if you have ever played D&D? If you are not answering yes to that question, you shouldn't be completing the questionnaire IMO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then they have a whole slew of questions designed to split the poll takers into categories. They ask</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Are you a min-maxer? I/E are you only there for the character build and to exploit the character build process?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Are you a power-gamer? I.E are you only there to be superman and kill things?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Are you a munchkin? I.E. are you only there to be the center of attention, be superman, win every time, get all the cool stuff and do it at the expense of everyone else at the table?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If you are one of the above, the odds are high that you are all three. The odds are also high that everyone else at the table hates you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Are you a normal role-player? I.E. are you there to have fun with your friends and explore a really cool world?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then they ask questions designed to find out if you want to buy things like <span style="background-color: white;">miniatures and they ask questions to find out if you like railroads where your decisions don't really matter, in other words are you going to buy their modules and pre-built settings and all of the other non-DIY things they sell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is telling that they don't ask any questions to find out if you would buy items that support DIY and it is telling that they have not asked you to tell them what you would like to buy. It is a very tone deaf survey designed to only tell them what they want to hear and not to find out any truly useful information.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2c3e50; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">They ask all together 80 questions in this vein.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2c3e50; font-family: "lato";">They ask a number of questions that boil down to this, do you do weird unpredictable things, random nonsense things, things that are designed to mess with everyone else at the table and disrupt the game? In other words, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">they are asking are you the jerk at the table? One of these questions is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">That doesn't make things more interesting, that only messes things up for everyone else at the table. Good DM's kick these people out of the game quickly to establish that we are here to have fun and not to just mess with other people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">In many of the questions there is this assumption that people are not role-playing, </span>there<span style="background-color: white;"> is an assumption that </span>there<span style="background-color: white;"> is a story that must be followed and that you are not in a game that grows organically, which is true if you are using their setting and their modules. They assume that you are only playing in a game that consists of one railroad after another. Only a very few of their questions consider that you could be playing in a game where player choices matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then there are many questions about when and how you got introduced to D&D.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Virtually all of their questions should have had a place for comments. For instance instead of just checking the box that it has been over a year since I bought a D&D product I could have told them, I haven't purchased anything since 1982, but if they would make something that would support DIY gaming I would again consider buying from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You don't have any products that I am aware of that support DIY homebrew gaming, and there are dozens, if not hundreds of products you could sell by pdf and POD that would support DIY gaming.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A lot of the remaining questions had only to do with marketing, how much do you already spend with us and do you own this or that and will you buy this or that. But one question I found really strange,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Rather oddly, they never asked the more important questions "In a typical week, how many hours do you spend playing D&D, working on D&D stuff and discussing D&D?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But then modern D&D is not about playing the game is it? They leave that to the old school crowd.</span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-17558657039565989182018-09-14T22:23:00.002-07:002018-09-15T07:46:22.682-07:00Swords & Wizardry Forums (both the old and the new)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The next forum up is the <a href="https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/" target="_blank">Swords & Wizardry Forum</a> and it's size is a shocker. For a couple of reasons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One is that there are multiple Swords & Wizardry RPG's written and published. Two there are IIRC over 20 other retro clones that use one of the Swords & Wizardry as the basis of their rules and three there are numerous products written for the Swords & Wizardry RPG. There are currently 101 products for S&W on RPGNow from Frog God Games alone, and that does not even consider all the other clones and products based on it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So you would expect that the Swords & Wizardry Forum would be huge. But it's not! Why is that?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well over on the forum the admin explains it in this post <a href="https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3" target="_blank">About this Forum</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems the official S&W forums were locked down and allowed to die and most of the traffic moved over to a Swords & Wizardry Google+ group.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This current site was founded on January 30, 2016. And this one dedicated fan of the game that got him back into gaming has a forum with 4676 posts, 203 threads and 124 members.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All in all, it is a nice little forum and it is set up well to discuss and support S&W. But without the support of the S&W principals it is not, IMO, going to grow much and there is not much the Admin can do about it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Google+ Swords & Wizardry Community does have a link to this forum, but that appears to be the limit of their support. The Google+ group has 1,762 members. It seems to have about 2 posts per day average with each post receiving an average of 4-5 comments. Were all of those members to be on a forum, it would, I expect, be a happening place with a much, much higher level of posting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Google+ also has a The Swords & Wizardry Hangout with 420 members. Its newest post is 3 weeks old.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frog God Games does have a forum with a S&W Section, but I will cover that in a separate post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is a copy of the original Swords & Wizardry forums on the Internet Archive and from that it appears there was an initial version that may have been accidentally deleted and then restarted on or about August 30 2008. It seems to have been shutdown as best I can tell sometime in 2013. With a max size of 28,625 posts, 5,209 threads and 1,111 members. That seems like a pretty good showing and I won't speculate on why someone would close a successful forum and move to Google+.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever the situation is with the Internet presence, the product itself is very successful. And maybe the posting here will pick up and the forum will grow. That would be a good thing.</span></span></div>
Harry Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11232135316479075548noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676062861184409799.post-11476632311873157572018-09-13T19:12:00.000-07:002018-09-15T07:46:08.098-07:00Chirinebakal Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Chirine ba kal started a new forum <a href="http://chirinebakal.proboards.com/" rel="norewrite" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #004fa0; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Chirinebakal</a> and it is focused solely on Tékumel and The World of the Petal Throne. Chirine ba kal is the most knowledgeable living expert on Tékumel. This new forum was founded on August 8, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">See these posts over at Chirine ba kal's blog (<a href="http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">chirine's workbench</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/08/and-so-it-begins-my-tekumel-campaign.html" rel="nofollow" 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; color: #004fa0; 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">And So It Begins - My Tekumel Campaign, Restarted - Saturday, August 11th, 2018 - The Weekly Update</a>I'm also spinning up the meta-campaign, getting all of Phil's NPCs and PCs sorted using my copy of his 1,500+ index cards; it's a lot easier to be running Tony Bath's campaign rules like Phil did on the computer, where one can simply push the 'GO!' button every month and watch the mayhem occur. I got the meta-campaign back up to speed manually in June, for 'Free RPG Day', and the thing runs itself like it always did - adding Dave Arneson's merchant shipping sub-routine was a snap, and I'll look forward to seeing what adventures that generates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To help with the communications with the players and spectators, as well as relieve some issues with server congestion, I've established a new forum:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I find that I really like the 'question and answer' format, and this blog does not seem to be a very good platform for that kind of thing. The 'Questioning Chirine ba Kal' threads seemed to be pretty popular, as these things go, but at 911 pages, 9,098 posts, and over 911,967 views the thing was actually slowing down the RPGsite server. So, if you have any questions about what I do, or what we did out at Phil's from 1976 to 1988, please feel free to drop by and join in.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-thing-has-legs-friday-august-24th.html" rel="nofollow" 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; color: #004fa0; 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"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Thing Has Legs! - Friday, August 24th, 2018 - The (Delayed) Weekly Update</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The new forum, <a href="http://chirinebakal.proboards.com/" rel="nofollow" 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; color: #004fa0; 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">chirinebakal.proboards.com/</a> , has really taken off and really helped reduce my workload. I'm using the forum to run the day-to-day questions and answers that I get; this blog will continue, and serve as the platform for more in-depth and philosophical musings. As my work week is pretty fixed and stable, it looks like my Saturdays will normally be my 'domestic chores' day and Sundays will be my 'gaming day' - with a lot of writing thrown in. The new game group will be meeting on the Fourth Sunday of each month, in the evening, and that means I'll be back to a regular schedule of working like a fiend between game sessions on miniatures and doing a lot more writing. I used to do this with the old campaign, but on a two-week turnaround cycle, and those were some of the most productive years of my life.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/09/dear-phil-you-are-not-going-to-believe.html" rel="nofollow" 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; color: #004fa0; 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"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dear Phil: You Are Not Going to Believe This! - The Weekly Update - Monday, September 3rd, 2018</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I'll be continuing this blog, as a way of talking about the more complex and recondite subjects - I still have to get our version of Gary's 'Appendix N' up, as an example, but I think you'll be both happy and amazed that people looking in at this little confection about the games we played have tripled; I came back from Alabama to find that we'd had over 650 hits on that Sunday, and we're still over 200 a day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The threads on the RPGsite forum, I should mention, collected over 910,000 views in the two years we were on there, and went to something like 900 pages of posts and replies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The new Proboards.com forum, <a href="http://chirinebakal.proboards.com/" rel="nofollow" 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; color: #004fa0; 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">chirinebakal.proboards.com/</a> , has really taken off; in the month that it's been up, we've been getting an average of over 500 'views' a day, and almost forty people have become members on the forum. I'm amazed by that, as it's all been by word-of-mouth, and I think it shows that your creation still has the power to amaze and fascinate people. I am, I think, pretty sure it isn't my doing, as I think that the excellence of your work speaks for itself and is what is carrying us along.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This new forum is off to a running start and I expect it to be very successful. In 36 days this forum has 663 posts, 57 threads and 41 members with no advertising outside chirine's blog. I expect that this forum will level up from a 1st level forum to a 2nd level forum by the end of March 2019. I may do more of a review at that time, but right now it is looking very good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So I don't have any suggestions for this forum other than this, if anyone is disruptive, don't hesitate, just ban them.</span></span></div>
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