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It is pretty well documented that Gygax was keen to make enough income from his hobby to support his family. Despite Chainmail (with the fantasy supplement) selling 100+ copies a month, Gygax was disappointed with the insufficient return he was receiving. Arneson, at that point, was only making...

I agree, there is a huge unknown in there, though, given their different experiences of game playing up to that point, I would imagine that it was a combination of both. As a crude (or, possibly, obtuse) analogy for the way the concept of Blackmoor was recreated in Lake Geneva, one could use...

I would interpret the situation a little differently. Arneson had been successfully running Blackmoor for two years; a large, multi-player, character-focussed fantasy campaign comprised of rulers, generals and ‘heroes’ – with some overlap across the characters and players. As all aspects of the...

It would have been interesting to see what might have been produced if Arneson had had access to a half decent 'ghost writer' who could have helped him collate and organise his thoughts into a meaningful treatise on creating and running games. Credit to Gygax for producing a product that could...

I’ve only just stumbled across this old thread but thought it worth adding my tuppence worth of understanding. DA was running Blackmoor as a distant adjunct to GG’s Chainmail fantasy campaign (though with the addition of the Strategos ‘active referee’). GG had heard interesting stories about...