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Dave Arneson Game Day Part 3 This is the final release for Dave Arneson Game Day and includes New Free Blackmoor Adventure from the Living World Series A greeting from Dave Wesely And more! Dave Arneson Game Day 2019 was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who voiced their support and posted...

Hello Darjr! :) Greg Svenson, who played the Great Svenny in Dave Arneson's original campaign once wrote a huge document detailing The Barony of Newgate. I have been working as an editor with Greg and we are releasing the material in a series of PDF Books for free. The original plan was that...

Dave Arneson Gameday Update Part II. The Noble House of Zvenzen is now available as a free download! -Havard

Thank you very much! :) Let's celebrate! :) That is totally fair. Celebrate at whatever platform you prefer. The most important thing is that we share our experiences! :) -Havard

Dave Arneson Game Day 2019 is today! This is what we have been working towards all week! We have some great things in store today. Make sure you sign up to our Facebook Event. Also, keep up to date with our discussion at The Comeback Inn with the Official Dave Arneson GameDay Thread. What is...

I think identifying what the most important development is will always be difficult because defining what is the core of RPGs will always be somewhat subjective, but I agree that this was a major one. Campaigns were common among Wargamers, but Dave lifted the campaign concept into RPGs. I also...

It a question of definitions. Braunstein was from what I understand, a roleplaying game in the sense that it included roleplaying, or in fact was centered almost exclusively around roleplaing. Blackmoor however, was a roleplaying game in the modern sense of the word. Braunstein was a hugely...

I started with the BECMI Red Box. When people talk about Bargle and Aleena, I still feel the beautiful pain of that wonderful intro adventure. Since then I have played every official edition of D&D, both older and more recent and all of them sit on my shelf among a number of other RPGs. But I...

I like 5E as a system, but I have mixed feelings about the type of books WotC publish for the system. I would love it if WotC published more of the following type of books: Setting books: We have a few that could qualify, but I would love to see more of these. Monster books: I enjoyed Volo's...

My friends and I have three websites dedicated to this, including a forum where several of Dave's old players talk about their memories: The forum: https://blackmoor.mystara.net/forums/index.php The website: https://blackmoor.mystara.net The blog: https://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/ Feel...

This sums up the situation very well IMO. add to 3) The Refree known from wargaming swtiched to something we would recognize as a DM/GM Also things like Dungeon Exploration, Wilderness Exploration, Roleplaying your character etc were in place in Arneson's gae. But yes, it was the...

Thanks for the plug lowkey13! :) I write about rules and also everything Blackmoor, Dave Arneson, D&D and a bit of Mystara :) -Havard

A lot of people hold this belief, but is there really any basis for this? In the early 70s, Dave wrote a series of articles submitted to Gary's fan magazine, the Domesday Book. Dave published the game Don't Give Up The Ship (co-written with Mike Carr and Gary Gygax) and later went on to publish...

I would LOVE to see this book released! :) -Havard

10 Years have passed on this day since Dave Arneson left us. I posted some of my thoughts here. The Co-Creator of D&D is not forgotten. Thank you Dave! :) -Havard

I'm looking forward to this one. (Nobody is shocked I'm sure :D ) -Havard

Excellent point. That has to be what they are referring to. My main worry was that GMG would be forced to edit out the Known World information from the Isle of Dread replicas. Hopefully this confirms that it will be included? -Havard

I would change that to: Because in spite of having a large an extremely loyal fan base, WotC have admitted that they don't understand what the setting is about and think that the AD&D 2nd Ed iteration of the setting was a good representation of that setting when the real appeal of that world...

This is what we are trying to fix. Not just out of a sense of "justice", but also because I believe Dave Arneson and the Minnesota Gamers had a lot of very cool gaming ideas, not all of which were written down in published rulesets. If people are interested in reading what other people have done...