mwittig
Explorer
Lets try to get the thread back on topic. On page 2, I presented a second analysis that the March, 1971 publication date is likely incorrect, because it would require the following:
1) Arneson got Chainmail within days of it being published (in 1971, when it was published in Indiana and Arneson lived in Minnesota)
2) Arneson created Blackmoor using the Fantasy Supplement and came up the "Troll Bridge" scenario within days as well
3) Arneson typed up the announcement of the "Troll Bridge" game in his newsletter before March ended, which must then have been his first Blackmoor game (even though he gave no indication that it was)
4) The multiple players that assert that they played a game during the Christmas break of 1970-71 are all wrong
To me, this seems unrealistic, which was the point of my second analysis, which (I had hoped) would have led folks that have rejected the first analysis to reconsider it. Does anyone else see a problem with the above series of events, which must have happened according to the commonly accepted history of Dungeons & Dragons?
1) Arneson got Chainmail within days of it being published (in 1971, when it was published in Indiana and Arneson lived in Minnesota)
2) Arneson created Blackmoor using the Fantasy Supplement and came up the "Troll Bridge" scenario within days as well
3) Arneson typed up the announcement of the "Troll Bridge" game in his newsletter before March ended, which must then have been his first Blackmoor game (even though he gave no indication that it was)
4) The multiple players that assert that they played a game during the Christmas break of 1970-71 are all wrong
To me, this seems unrealistic, which was the point of my second analysis, which (I had hoped) would have led folks that have rejected the first analysis to reconsider it. Does anyone else see a problem with the above series of events, which must have happened according to the commonly accepted history of Dungeons & Dragons?