Thread 'The first character to die in D&D was named Bob! Bob the Hero!'
D&D General - The first character to die in D&D was named Bob! Bob the Hero!
The April 17 invitation still called it a “BRAUNSTEIN”. So it’s possible he is referring to when it was actually called the Blackmoor campaign.
Odd.
That person is claiming they were the player of the first character to die in a Blackmoor game. While Svenny is saying half-a-dozen PCs died in the first dungeon adventure in Blackmoor 3-4 months prior.
The relevant section of text from Dungeons of Blackmoor is:
"I had the unique experience of being the sole survivor of
the first dungeon adventure in the history of “Dungeons & Dragons”, indeed in the history of role-playing in general.
It was during our Christmas break in winter of 1970-71. Our gaming group was meeting in Dave Arneson’s basement in St. Paul, Minnesota. We had been playing a big Napoleonics campaign on Saturday afternoons, which was getting bogged down in long drawn out miniature battles. So, as a diversion for the group, Dave set up the
town of Blackmoor instead of a Napoleonics battle on his ping-pong table. I had never played or even heard of any games like it before, although I had read “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”..."
"[T]here were six players, myself, Bill Heaton, Mel Johnson, Kurt Krey, Steve Rocheford and one more whom I can’t remember. All of us were first level fighters in modern terms, although at the time you were a flunky, a hero or a superhero. Dave treated us as teams (the good and bad guys) and alternated between which group he was working with as he got to points were he needed information from the other team..."
"By 4 AM
when that first adventure was finally finished I was hooked on the game.
We started playing Blackmoor almost every week after that and we started coming over to Dave’s basement on Sunday afternoons to have additional adventures, too. It was a wonderful opportunity to let our imaginations run wild with our adventures."
So according to Svenny, they were playing Blackmoor months prior to this other person's claim. Odd.