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<blockquote data-quote="The Soloist" data-source="post: 9243903" data-attributes="member: 7043470">I was misremembering. Here is what T. Foster had to say on Dragonsfoot:'Gary was worried that some of the people who had been exposed to D&amp;D in its pre-publication form would rip it off and publish something derived from it before he could. And that fear was likely warranted when you consider the case of “the Dalluhn Manuscript,” where one of Arneson’s players in the Twin Cities (a guy named Mark Bufkin) took the pre-publication D&amp;D manuscript (a few copies of which were floating around the Twin Cities from the summer of 1973), made some modest changes and additions and organizational edits, added some illustrations, and distributed it as his own work. That was privately distributed and apparently only a few copies were ever made (one of which ended up in the hands of MAR Barker and eventually to a collector named Keith Dalluhn), but that doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t have done the save thing on a wider and more ambitious scale.'ME: So, no one was working on a similar idea, without prior (or any) knowledge of OD&amp;D?It’s likely that some people were (the Hyboria wargame campaign that Tony Bath ran in the UK in the 60s is very similar to an rpg in a lot of ways, for one example) but what Gary was more worried about was “closer to home,” because while the idea of D&amp;D was revolutionary, once you’re exposed to it, it’s pretty easy to duplicate - and by late 1973 a fair number of people in the upper Midwest had been exposed so Gary felt like the clock was ticking and he needed to move fast to prevent someone else (like Mark Bufkin) from doing so first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Soloist, post: 9243903, member: 7043470"] I was misremembering. Here is what T. Foster had to say on Dragonsfoot: [I]'Gary was worried that some of the people who had been exposed to D&D in its pre-publication form would rip it off and publish something derived from it before he could. And that fear was likely warranted when you consider the case of “the Dalluhn Manuscript,” where one of Arneson’s players in the Twin Cities (a guy named Mark Bufkin) took the pre-publication D&D manuscript (a few copies of which were floating around the Twin Cities from the summer of 1973), made some modest changes and additions and organizational edits, added some illustrations, and distributed it as his own work. That was privately distributed and apparently only a few copies were ever made (one of which ended up in the hands of MAR Barker and eventually to a collector named Keith Dalluhn), but that doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t have done the save thing on a wider and more ambitious scale.'[/I] ME: So, no one was working on a similar idea, without prior (or any) knowledge of OD&D? [I]It’s likely that some people were (the Hyboria wargame campaign that Tony Bath ran in the UK in the 60s is very similar to an rpg in a lot of ways, for one example) but what Gary was more worried about was “closer to home,” because while the idea of D&D was revolutionary, once you’re exposed to it, it’s pretty easy to duplicate - and by late 1973 a fair number of people in the upper Midwest had been exposed so Gary felt like the clock was ticking and he needed to move fast to prevent someone else (like Mark Bufkin) from doing so first.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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