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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 374842" data-attributes="member: 1106">To be fair, Arneson was (and odds are, still is) younger than Gygax and not long out of college at the time, from what I gather.I was reading a borrowed copy of The First Fantasy Campaign by Arneson recently, and it's the most inscrutable and quirky book I've ever tried to read.&nbsp; It's both enthusiastic, derivative and juvenile in places, and muddled and incoherent in others.&nbsp; It is, however, very fertile imaginative soil, if you will, and apart from the wargame stuff it reminds me of the sort of material that teenage AD&amp;D players tend to write - complete with scrawlings of canonfire and dragon fights much like you'd see in a bored student's textbook.It will be interesting to see what d20 Blackmoor ends up like, and whether Arneson has found his feet with regards to writing style by now.&nbsp; I'm looking forward to the updated Blackmoor - quirks and all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 374842, member: 1106"] To be fair, Arneson was (and odds are, still is) younger than Gygax and not long out of college at the time, from what I gather. I was reading a borrowed copy of [i]The First Fantasy Campaign[/i] by Arneson recently, and it's the most inscrutable and quirky book I've ever tried to read. It's both enthusiastic, derivative and juvenile in places, and muddled and incoherent in others. It is, however, very fertile imaginative soil, if you will, and apart from the wargame stuff it reminds me of the sort of material that teenage AD&D players tend to write - complete with scrawlings of canonfire and dragon fights much like you'd see in a bored student's textbook. It will be interesting to see what d20 Blackmoor ends up like, and whether Arneson has found his feet with regards to writing style by now. I'm looking forward to the updated Blackmoor - quirks and all. [/QUOTE]

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