Ben Robbins
First Post
I've put together an article about Braunstein from talking to David Wesely at GenCon 2005 and 2007. He's the guy that ran it 40 years ago.
What's Braunstein? It was the game Dave Arneson played in before he ran Blackmoor. It was basically the first roleplaying game, the direct ancestor of D&D and all the games we play now.
Read the rest -- Braunstein: the Roots of Roleplaying Games
Yes, Dave Arneson was a bad-ass player long before he was a bad-ass GM.
What's Braunstein? It was the game Dave Arneson played in before he ran Blackmoor. It was basically the first roleplaying game, the direct ancestor of D&D and all the games we play now.
Most gamers have never heard of Braunstein. Sad but true. In the hierarchy of self-awareness you’ll find the circle of gamers who know what D&D is (a very, very large circle), then inside of that is the circle of gamers who know what Greyhawk is (large but smaller), and inside that the circle who knows what Blackmoor is (smaller still). And then in the very center, vanishingly small, are the people who’ve heard of Braunstein. Which is a pity, because Braunstein is the granddaddy of them all.
Read the rest -- Braunstein: the Roots of Roleplaying Games
Yes, Dave Arneson was a bad-ass player long before he was a bad-ass GM.