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We keep adding updates. Here Chris talks about why we call it "the End of the Story," his fascination with hidden secrets, and his movie making past and winning a Student Academy Award...

More updates on the Kickstarter. And we have also released the GaryCon Draft so anyone can watch it and see for themselves. https://youtu.be/lC4qH-Psvpc

YAY! :)

We added a new video in our updates section. We have so much interview footage, that a lot of it will not appear in our film, despite expanding the movie to being a 2 hour length. In this new video Bob Meyer, BLackmoor's Last Dungeon Master, talks about being unknown, seeing the invention of...

Hi there, We want to announce the KickStarter for the Documentary Film about Dave Arneson and his Blackmoor Bunch: Secrets of Blackmoor For over 5 years now we've been working on this extensive research documentary. We were very self aware about Hubris and how the Best Laid Plans can back...

To the OP, The influence is actually the reverse of what you would assume. Wesely's: Braunstein was a Napoleonic era game that had guns and swords and it began around xmas of 1968. It is the first RPG ever. not to be confused with Korns: Modern Warfare in miniature which is a war game with RPG...

I am just offering suggestions. I wasn't trying to jump down your throat. I say that about DM'ing being competitive, because so many people seem to think it is a contest, so I was speaking just in general terms. Every session is different based on who plays. Yet my core idea is still to just...

Interesting ideas. It really points to the fallacy of the hobbes-ian everyone against everyone ideas American society seems to believe in. If you look at what primatologists are finding in the behavior of our close relatives, you see a much more flexible system that implies a polarity between...

Personally, I would run a game like you suggest. But I wouldn't look to game rules as my sources, I would look at movies and use ideas from there. Any surrealist is a good source for setting and mood. And of course any dream sequence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7jVTut3-g...

I had heard the wording differently. But this was the same quote I was going to post. As I heard it, it was something like" "If people ever figure out they don't need rules to play this game, we're ruined." It goes nicely with Arneson's statement on the night he showed off Blackmoor to the crew...

Everyone who has a set of rules should try to DM at least once. My experience is that it is easy to over think it. You have a world? Well, maybe all you need is a one level dungeon. Your players bailed out after 3 days of working on characters? Maybe you need to start beginners faster...

Along with foreknowledge, there is: Playing the System, and not the situation. i.e. Min Maxing, and other rules inspired winning techniques. When players reduce the game to rules and mechanics, so that it becomes like a game of Zelda.

What about using the original D&D rules and then modifying as you go. Simply take notes and see how your players create your system for you. If you want to add Skills into things you can use the OD&D combat chart and modify the die rolls base on attributes, or have a skill experience system of...

It seems like Morale is critical to playing RPG's, yet the mention that not all have them is interesting. Good thinking OP! I use Reaction rolls for my critters and NPC's. Morale is just another Reaction roll. I also really like very simple game mechanics that I can play on the fly. I do it...

Daniel Boggs just published on the Richard Snider Variation. His article link and some photos of Richard on our blog. http://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/blog/an-astounding-discovery-by-daniel-boggs-the-snider-variation

Find a new group. It's what I have done in similar situations.

From the other side of the coin. I always end up D.M.'ing. It's been that way for decades. And with Hasbro claiming 11 million D&D players in the world, that's just D&D, there must still be a lot of D.M.'s out there. ;)

eh, it's all elf games, I want lots of action and fun. :P

Our composer made some truly awesome tracks for the film. I got inspired and made another promo video. This is really Alex Kharlamov's genius at work, I just added s little bit of icing to his cake this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8GHeFVHyA

... and c) Kill lots of characters! ;) ...and d) keep the players in a state of pants wetting fear of the unknown. :P