Showing posts with label Dave Arneson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dave Arneson. Show all posts
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Happy Birthday, Dave!

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In case you did not know it, today is the birthday of the guy who invented many of the concepts we might consider central to our hobby. I me...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - D@D

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The second of the old D&D editions and clones is Dragons At Dawn. I find gaming archaeology to be a fascinating subject, and the very d...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Thinking back on 7th Sea

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I ran a short arc of a revenge story in AEG's 7th Sea a few years back. The idea of swashbuckling is seldom far from my gaming thoughts...
Monday, May 14, 2012

T&T sure is popular

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Dave Arneson's personal copy of 2nd ed T&T just sold on eBay for $347.00 and I guess that is a sign of a popular game. Yes, I did bi...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

New Loot - pictorial evidence!

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Here it is! My holy grail for a time have been to get hold of a copy of the 1974 edition of D&D for a decent price. In addition to that...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Loot!

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I am finally the proud owner of a copy of The First Fantasy Campaign! From the personal collection of Ken St Andre it came, in marvellous co...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Happy Birthday Dave!

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Today would have been Dave Arneson's birthday and I guess the guy is well remembered on the blogs today. Let's remember the man who ...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

More musings on AD&D saving categories

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Since Daniel Boggs mentioned that the Saving Throw categories are actually in one of the manuscripts Dave sent to Gary, and the fact that it...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Dragons at Dawn read through collected

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A while ago I started a series of post about Dragons at Dawn, an attempt to recreate the rules used by Dave Arneson in the first years of th...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Reading Dragons at Dawn Part V

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In this installment we will look at magic and some general ideas on campaign building in Dragons at Dawn. Magic The first thing you notic...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Reading Dragons at Dawn Part IV

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It's time to dive into the depth of, the Arnesonian combat system. Prepare for acceptance of new ideas! Morale So, it's time to c...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Reading Dragons at Dawn Part III

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So, time for another part in my series of post on Dragons at Dawn, the game that tries to salvage the rules used by Dave Arneson and friends...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Reading Dragons at Dawn Part II

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This time I'm going to talk about some of the basic building blocks of characters, and how they differ from your regular D&D game. ...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Reading Dragons at Dawn Part I

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After a few weeks which have been far too hectic I'm going to steal some spare time and start to put down some thoughts and impressions ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dragons at Dawn - some impressions

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I just recently ordered the biggest pile of games from Lulu yet. This time it was no less than three issues of the excellent periodical Figh...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Mooks and swashbuckling

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I just found this very cool rule for how to handle mooks in D&D. It could probably be used just as well for, say, T&T. Combine th...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

The birth of roleplaying

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I guess everyone have listened to Clyde talking to  David Wesely by now?If you haven't you should. Dave was the guy who together with D...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A Year with The Eye

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Roughly one year ago, I had been reading Grognardia and been thinking of blogging. Tunnels & Trolls had become one of my favourite game...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Horray for Dave-day!

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This day marks the one day anniversary of the death of Dave Arneson. Let's make it "Horray for Dave"-Day by celebrating all fe...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Best and worst of 2009

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At the end of 2009, I have taken a few moments out of the family holidays to summarize the year. Tomorrow I will post my vision for the new ...