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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7807400" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>David Megarry is the first Thief, one of the players in Arnesons game. He creates the character concept that is a Thief. He decides what a Thief needs to do, performs the first heist in Blackmoor, and Arneson figured out how to adjudicate it.</p><p></p><p>Pete Gaylord is the first Wizard.</p><p></p><p>Other players are the first Elf, the first Gnome, and so on.</p><p></p><p>The Arneson group invent these as they riff off of each other, and Arneson adjudicates their decisions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>SecretsOfBlackmoor.com</p><p>"Dave Arneson showed up in court with complete manuscripts. Multiple − like every version of D&D from Step One. And maybe even an unpublished manuscript. All of that. He gave all of that to his lawyers. And that’s what he showed up in court. And so, when it came down to it, the judge was like, Well, it is clear that both you guys are doing this. You can’t separate this out. AD&D is all Gary. But when it comes to D&D, it was both of them."</p><p></p><p>Here the opinion is that both Arneson and Gygax are bouncing ideas off each other.</p><p></p><p>But keep in mind, that these ‘transcripts’ are the game that Arneson’s group are playing, with or without Gygax. Arneson and his group are the ones who are deciding what D&D looks like.</p><p></p><p>Gygax himself says that the rules of Dungeons & Dragons (0e) are the result of the game that the Arneson campaign is playing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7807400, member: 58172"] David Megarry is the first Thief, one of the players in Arnesons game. He creates the character concept that is a Thief. He decides what a Thief needs to do, performs the first heist in Blackmoor, and Arneson figured out how to adjudicate it. Pete Gaylord is the first Wizard. Other players are the first Elf, the first Gnome, and so on. The Arneson group invent these as they riff off of each other, and Arneson adjudicates their decisions. SecretsOfBlackmoor.com "Dave Arneson showed up in court with complete manuscripts. Multiple − like every version of D&D from Step One. And maybe even an unpublished manuscript. All of that. He gave all of that to his lawyers. And that’s what he showed up in court. And so, when it came down to it, the judge was like, Well, it is clear that both you guys are doing this. You can’t separate this out. AD&D is all Gary. But when it comes to D&D, it was both of them." Here the opinion is that both Arneson and Gygax are bouncing ideas off each other. But keep in mind, that these ‘transcripts’ are the game that Arneson’s group are playing, with or without Gygax. Arneson and his group are the ones who are deciding what D&D looks like. Gygax himself says that the rules of Dungeons & Dragons (0e) are the result of the game that the Arneson campaign is playing. [/QUOTE]
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