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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 5386153" data-attributes="member: 55271">That secondary option, from what I understand, is closer to what Arneson was running by the time D&D was published. Chainmail was put front-and-center because that was a system Gygax had created and was reluctant to move on from.Do a Google search on "Blackmoor". Blackmoor may have been Supplement II, but it was the original D&D campaign. And it was in Blackmoor that the fundamental principles of D&D gaming took form and root.Wouldn't shock me. Gygax spent at least a decade waging a publicity war and a legal war to minimize and degrade Arneson's contributions to the game. I suspect that Gygax legitimately felt he played a larger and more significant role than Arneson did, but that doesn't make it true.</blockquote>