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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 23, 2019 10:13:40 GMT -5
TPD requested this be set up for robertthebald and I am happy to do so. He is willing to answer some questions, so mind your manners and ask politely, these kind of chances don't come along often. Remember he and each of you are honored guests with all due pomp and circumstance!   Both yeah and nah, we're just gonna hang out and have some fun!  Ignore the date on this post, given some idiosyncrasies of the forum software I created a few blank posts that I could use to move as starter posts. So no unfortunately I am not able to see the future (or am I). |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 2, 2019 21:45:56 GMT -5
As regards the name Robert the Bald, that was given to my most iconic character by Arneson.
He put my character in something that he sent to TSR for publication.
He said he actually named me Robert the Bold, but this became Robert the Bald when it was published.
Since I never named my character, this was no big deal to me either way.
And just for the record, I still have a full head of hair, which has not turned gray either.
But I have this portrait of myself which keeps aging and shows me as old and decrepit, which I am starting to feel inside.
Feel free to ask me any and all questions that you want. I do not guarantee that I will be able to answer them, but I will do my best.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 3, 2019 0:52:51 GMT -5
As regards the name Robert the Bald, that was given to my most iconic character by Arneson. He put my character in something that he sent to TSR for publication. He said he actually named me Robert the Bold, but this became Robert the Bald when it was published. Since I never named my character, this was no big deal to me either way. And just for the record, I still have a full head of hair, which has not turned gray either. But I have this portrait of myself which keeps aging and shows me as old and decrepit, which I am starting to feel inside. Feel free to ask me any and all questions that you want. I do not guarantee that I will be able to answer them, but I will do my best. Bold instead of Bald and all this time I assumed you went bald at an early age as some do.  When did you (how old were you) when you and Arneson first met? Admin please create a Q&A thread for questions, that way it will not get tangled with all the Introductions. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 3, 2019 10:09:23 GMT -5
Please tell us about Robert The Bald, how did the character start and what did he do and where does he fit in things? Take your time please, because I would love to hear the long answer. |
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Post by mao on Apr 3, 2019 13:36:34 GMT -5
Hi and welcome
I have a question that I hope you can answer
What is the sourcebook or rules that give us the best snapshot of Blackmore,?, I am more interest in the setting and not the rules. I am tryiing to figure out which is the one to get.
Thanx ahead of time
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 3, 2019 20:24:03 GMT -5
As regards the name Robert the Bald, that was given to my most iconic character by Arneson. He put my character in something that he sent to TSR for publication. He said he actually named me Robert the Bold, but this became Robert the Bald when it was published. Since I never named my character, this was no big deal to me either way. And just for the record, I still have a full head of hair, which has not turned gray either. But I have this portrait of myself which keeps aging and shows me as old and decrepit, which I am starting to feel inside. Feel free to ask me any and all questions that you want. I do not guarantee that I will be able to answer them, but I will do my best. Bold instead of Bald and all this time I assumed you went bald at an early age as some do. When did you (how old were you) when you and Arneson first met? Admin please create a Q&A thread for questions, that way it will not get tangled with all the Introductions. I was born in 1950, and met Arneson sometime in the late 60's. There are a lot of people that joined together to game at that time in the Twin Cities. Beyond my brother, I met the first gamers in high school in 1965, and the rest of the gamers in the late 60's. |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 3, 2019 20:51:38 GMT -5
Please tell us about Robert The Bald, how did the character start and what did he do and where does he fit in things? Take your time please, because I would love to hear the long answer. I actually had several characters over the years, and they tend to run together in my mind now. Ironically, I prefer fighting men to any other class, and do not care for magic users or magic. It just happens that this character was more successful than my other characters over the years. When some of the main characters in Blackmoor where sent out to the frontier, I went along with. I have always preferred outdoor adventures to going into a dungeon.In the frontier area I thrived on adventure after adventure, and established myself in a tower there. When most of the others went back to Blackmoor, I stayed in my tower. I gathered many artifacts and magical items by adventuring, and spent the last years of this character studying these items. I had raised a personal army there (as a way to spend the fortune I had accumulated), but sent them off to help Blackmoor crush an invasion. They were patterned after the Riders of Rohan (the people I most admired from LOTR). I told the guys to keep them, as I had no real use for them. As it happens, when I reached the highest level David had in Blackmoor, he took my character away by telling me that "The Gods welcome you." |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 3, 2019 21:22:44 GMT -5
Hi and welcome I have a question that I hope you can answer What is the sourcebook or rules that give us the best snapshot of Blackmore,?, I am more interest in the setting and not the rules. I am tryiing to figure out which is the one to get. Thanx ahead of time Blackmoor is a different philosophy from any of the games with rulebooks. When David started the game, and for some years afterwards, David did not share the rules with us as we adventured in his new world. The idea was that rules are too restrictive, and he wanted us to play as if we were actually in his world. We just did whatever we wanted to do, and David would tell us the results of our actions. Rare was the time that he told us we could not do anything we tried; we learned what would work, and what was a very bad idea. What I am trying to tell you is that the rules are not as important as the gamemaster, and the way he runs games. I wish that there were tapes of Arneson running a game. I run Blackmoor games now, and the guys from those days say that the games I run are just like the way Arneson ran his games. You can see videos of a couple of the games I ran at Garycon this year. Kevin McCol made the videos and put them on his facebook page (CastleBlackmoor). As to the setting, David invented the entire thing, and it continued to evolve as we adventured there. You can see much of this in the booklet 'The First Fantasy Campaign'. The booklet is very confusing to anyone who was not there, so I might have to clarify parts of it for you. I have tried to condense an answer that could easily fill a page. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 4, 2019 9:49:53 GMT -5
Please tell us about Robert The Bald, how did the character start and what did he do and where does he fit in things? Take your time please, because I would love to hear the long answer. I actually had several characters over the years, and they tend to run together in my mind now. Ironically, I prefer fighting men to any other class, and do not care for magic users or magic. It just happens that this character was more successful than my other characters over the years. When some of the main characters in Blackmoor where sent out to the frontier, I went along with. I have always preferred outdoor adventures to going into a dungeon.In the frontier area I thrived on adventure after adventure, and established myself in a tower there. When most of the others went back to Blackmoor, I stayed in my tower. I gathered many artifacts and magical items by adventuring, and spent the last years of this character studying these items. I had raised a personal army there (as a way to spend the fortune I had accumulated), but sent them off to help Blackmoor crush an invasion. They were patterned after the Riders of Rohan (the people I most admired from LOTR). I told the guys to keep them, as I had no real use for them. As it happens, when I reached the highest level David had in Blackmoor, he took my character away by telling me that "The Gods welcome you." Yeah, the Riders of Rohan rock! I have always played fighting men and am only now branching out a little.
Any memorable artifacts or magical items? I like creating unique one of a kind things.
"The Gods welcome you." Priceless!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 4, 2019 10:04:19 GMT -5
Hi and welcome I have a question that I hope you can answer What is the sourcebook or rules that give us the best snapshot of Blackmore,?, I am more interest in the setting and not the rules. I am tryiing to figure out which is the one to get. Thanx ahead of time Blackmoor is a different philosophy from any of the games with rulebooks. When David started the game, and for some years afterwards, David did not share the rules with us as we adventured in his new world. The idea was that rules are too restrictive, and he wanted us to play as if we were actually in his world. We just did whatever we wanted to do, and David would tell us the results of our actions. Rare was the time that he told us we could not do anything we tried; we learned what would work, and what was a very bad idea. What I am trying to tell you is that the rules are not as important as the gamemaster, and the way he runs games. I wish that there were tapes of Arneson running a game. I run Blackmoor games now, and the guys from those days say that the games I run are just like the way Arneson ran his games. You can see videos of a couple of the games I ran at Garycon this year. Kevin McCol made the videos and put them on his facebook page (CastleBlackmoor). As to the setting, David invented the entire thing, and it continued to evolve as we adventured there. You can see much of this in the booklet 'The First Fantasy Campaign'. The booklet is very confusing to anyone who was not there, so I might have to clarify parts of it for you. I have tried to condense an answer that could easily fill a page. I prefer that players not know the rules, in college only the two of us that reffed ever had the rulebooks, and we didn't stop to look things up in game. The rest of the players liked it that way because none of them even asked to look at the books. The group that started played together for four years and we added players along the way.
I will have to take a look at those videos. I love my copy of 'The First Fantasy Campaign.' It is good inspiration, that's what other campaigns are for me, inspiration. I encourage everyone to create their own setting if they can, there is nothing like it IMO. Some are really into using an existing setting, nothing wrong with that. Gaming is not one size fits all. Beautiful!
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 4, 2019 20:12:41 GMT -5
I actually had several characters over the years, and they tend to run together in my mind now. Ironically, I prefer fighting men to any other class, and do not care for magic users or magic. It just happens that this character was more successful than my other characters over the years. When some of the main characters in Blackmoor where sent out to the frontier, I went along with. I have always preferred outdoor adventures to going into a dungeon.In the frontier area I thrived on adventure after adventure, and established myself in a tower there. When most of the others went back to Blackmoor, I stayed in my tower. I gathered many artifacts and magical items by adventuring, and spent the last years of this character studying these items. I had raised a personal army there (as a way to spend the fortune I had accumulated), but sent them off to help Blackmoor crush an invasion. They were patterned after the Riders of Rohan (the people I most admired from LOTR). I told the guys to keep them, as I had no real use for them. As it happens, when I reached the highest level David had in Blackmoor, he took my character away by telling me that "The Gods welcome you." Yeah, the Riders of Rohan rock! I have always played fighting men and am only now branching out a little. Any memorable artifacts or magical items? I like creating unique one of a kind things. "The Gods welcome you." Priceless! I do not remember any magical items or artifacts of note for any of my characters. I no longer remember the items I was studying at the end. They were probably scrolls, potions, and other items that were not immediately obvious; I was studying them more out of curiosity than for their value. |
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Post by ripx187 on Apr 4, 2019 21:25:15 GMT -5
What do you mean by "Studying Items"? Like you weren't playing, or what were you doing? Was Arneson running one on one games for you, or did you play as a group and he just took turns with everyone?
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 4, 2019 22:46:50 GMT -5
What do you mean by "Studying Items"? Like you weren't playing, or what were you doing? Was Arneson running one on one games for you, or did you play as a group and he just took turns with everyone? I was not very active with this character at that time. The studying was something that he did in between adventures, and was not actually gamed out. I just told the gamemaster what I had done and he told me if I discovered anything useful. This was not meant to be anything significant, just a way to explain my absence from doing anything active. |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Apr 6, 2019 21:02:49 GMT -5
Hi robertthebald, great to have you here! Thank you for doing this. When you run Blackmoor. am I right that you run your own Blackmoor that has deviated from Dave's? How much prep do you do vs go with the flow improv? |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 7, 2019 0:09:55 GMT -5
Hi robertthebald , great to have you here! Thank you for doing this. When you run Blackmoor. am I right that you run your own Blackmoor that has deviated from Dave's? How much prep do you do vs go with the flow improv? Hello Darci, I appreciate your welcome (and the welcome from all the other people also). You are correct that I am not running David's Blackmoor. I could not possibly recreate his Blackmoor campaign. I opted for a Blackmoor that existed many, many years before David's Blackmoor (or perhaps in an alternative reality). This allowed me to create my own rules, and use whatever parts of the original Blackmoor that I wanted to use. This recreated what we had when we started in David's world. This also kept a familiarity for the original gamers of Blackmoor. The first game I ran was a memorial game the month after David passed away, and was meant to honor David, and the world he created. The next year the guys called and asked me about running the game again. This has continued each year since. I prefer to "go with the flow". This allows me to react to the players actions. All I have to do is set up the situation, and the players take it from there. David prepared extensively for these adventures (he did create an entire world), but he ran his games the same way. I am mostly using the FFC for maps and diagrams. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 9, 2019 22:37:40 GMT -5
Hello Darci, I appreciate your welcome (and the welcome from all the other people also). You are correct that I am not running David's Blackmoor. I could not possibly recreate his Blackmoor campaign. I opted for a Blackmoor that existed many, many years before David's Blackmoor (or perhaps in an alternative reality). This allowed me to create my own rules, and use whatever parts of the original Blackmoor that I wanted to use. This recreated what we had when we started in David's world. This also kept a familiarity for the original gamers of Blackmoor. The first game I ran was a memorial game the month after David passed away, and was meant to honor David, and the world he created. The next year the guys called and asked me about running the game again. This has continued each year since. That is really awesome, a lot of people talk about running Blackmoor or Greyhawk and I always have the feeling that most of them are trying to recreate the original. If I were ever to do it, I would do it the way you do. I honor them by running my own game and my own world(s). Did you ever referee for David?I prefer to "go with the flow". This allows me to react to the players actions. All I have to do is set up the situation, and the players take it from there. David prepared extensively for these adventures (he did create an entire world), but he ran his games the same way. I am mostly using the FFC for maps and diagrams. This "go with the flow" and "react to the players actions" is the only way I have ever run my games. I always assumed that I was doing it the way David did, way before I ever learned anything about how he reffed. For me it just always felt "right" to do it that way, even though hardly anyone else did it that way. The guy that brought the game to college and introduced me to it, did a lot of prep. |
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Post by simrion on Apr 11, 2019 4:52:28 GMT -5
Any chance of a link to the FB videos of your Garycon sessions? Not having any success finding them.
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 11, 2019 18:38:36 GMT -5
Hello TPD
I run these games now because I enjoy them as much as the players, but also because I want to show people that the way we played in the old days is much freer and more enjoyable than the games where you are always thinking of (and restricted by) the rules.
Of course this is my opinion, but so far everyone who has watched or participated in my games has agreed with my opinion.
I never had Arneson in one of my games (if this is the David you are referring to, we have a few in the group).
Games run smoothly if properly set up by the gamemaster.
David had a tremendous amount of work that he did to set up the world of Blackmoor, and for each of the adventures he ran.
I am taking advantage of that body of work by using the First Fantasy Campaign booklet.
I also have the advantage of having been in that world for so many decades.
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 11, 2019 18:51:52 GMT -5
Any chance of a link to the FB videos of your Garycon sessions? Not having any success finding them. I am afraid that you are asking for something which is way above my ability. The URL of Kevin's facebook page is: www.facebook.com/BlackmoorCastle/The posts of our trip are March 5th through March 11th. He recorded parts of two of my three games that I ran. These are on March 7 and March 9. There is a wealth of other posts on the convention as well. You will notice in a recent post that the Red Carpet premiere of Secrets of Blackmoor will be on May 8 in the Twin Cities. There is a link with information for buying tickets. I will be there, along with most of the people in the movie. I am planning on running the annual Blackmoor game on May 26 this year. I do not know how many people will be showing up (it could be anywhere between six and thirty six), so I have set up an adventure that can accommodate whoever is there. I normally run adventures of about a dozen people. |
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Post by simrion on Apr 12, 2019 5:25:33 GMT -5
Perfect! Now to find time to watch 😀
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 12, 2019 19:49:50 GMT -5
I never had Arneson in one of my games (if this is the David you are referring to, we have a few in the group). Yes, Arneson. Were any of the other guys in the Blackmoor campaign running their own campaigns back in say the beginning up through 75-76? IIRC there were some games being run of other genres. |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 13, 2019 15:25:07 GMT -5
I never had Arneson in one of my games (if this is the David you are referring to, we have a few in the group). Yes, Arneson. Were any of the other guys in the Blackmoor campaign running their own campaigns back in say the beginning up through 75-76? IIRC there were some games being run of other genres. We had several campaigns of many types, most of which ran concurrently. Off the top of my head: Blackmoor, Empire of the Petal Throne, John's space campaign, napoleonic campaign (two or three of these), civil war campaign (western theater, Lake Geneva people ran the eastern theater), WW 2 campaign, Brownstone,(I do not count Braunstein, as each game was separate and did not affect the following games), WW 1 naval campaign, Revolutionary war campaign, a separate revolutionary war naval campaign, and some others I can not remember off hand. These are from the mid 60's through the 70's (and in some cases beyond). Fred Funk had his own fantasy game that he ran (I do not know the time frame on this), as did Richard Snider. These two were variations on fantasy. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 13, 2019 20:58:39 GMT -5
We had several campaigns of many types, most of which ran concurrently. Off the top of my head: Blackmoor, Empire of the Petal Throne, John's space campaign, napoleonic campaign (two or three of these), civil war campaign (western theater, Lake Geneva people ran the eastern theater), WW 2 campaign, Brownstein,(I do not count Braunstein, as each game was separate and did not affect the following games), WW 1 naval campaign, Revolutionary war campaign, a separate revolutionary war naval campaign, and some others I can not remember off hand. These are from the mid 60's through the 70's (and in some cases beyond). Fred Funk had his own fantasy game that he ran (I do not know the time frame on this), as did Richard Snider. These two were variations on fantasy. Wow, that was a lot going on. Which campaigns did you play in? John's space campaign, that is John Snider, Richard's brother, is that correct? For all the readers over at the Piazza Forum at [Blackmoorverse] Fred Funk's World (Free Download) is a thread about Fred Funk's world and a free download of a write up by Fred that was put into a pdf. There are links in the first and second post. Also this post at havard's Blackmoor Blog The King of Orcs Has Passed Away from back in early 2011. |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 13, 2019 23:53:01 GMT -5
We had several campaigns of many types, most of which ran concurrently. Off the top of my head: Blackmoor, Empire of the Petal Throne, John's space campaign, napoleonic campaign (two or three of these), civil war campaign (western theater, Lake Geneva people ran the eastern theater), WW 2 campaign, Brownstein,(I do not count Braunstein, as each game was separate and did not affect the following games), WW 1 naval campaign, Revolutionary war campaign, a separate revolutionary war naval campaign, and some others I can not remember off hand. These are from the mid 60's through the 70's (and in some cases beyond). Fred Funk had his own fantasy game that he ran (I do not know the time frame on this), as did Richard Snider. These two were variations on fantasy. Wow, that was a lot going on. Which campaigns did you play in? John's space campaign, that is John Snider, Richard's brother, is that correct? For all the readers over at the Piazza Forum at [Blackmoorverse] Fred Funk's World (Free Download) is a thread about Fred Funk's world and a free download of a write up by Fred that was put into a pdf. There are links in the first and second post. Also this post at havard 's Blackmoor Blog The King of Orcs Has Passed Away from back in early 2011. Yes, the space campaign was invented and run by John Snider, Richard's brother, and was partially published by TSR. There is information on Richard's game in the forums also. I never played in Richard's or Fred's games.I tried EPT and Brownstone a couple times, but they did not appeal to me. I played in all of the other campaigns, except for the first napoleonic campaign (that was before I joined the St. Paul group). We also regularly played many other miniature games, and board games. The board games included monster games (like Drang Nach Osten and Terrible Swift Sword) that we set up on Peter Gaylord's table (in his basement) and played over the course of several weeks. There were other campaigns, after this period of time, that I played with some other guys. This included MechWarrior, Silent Death, and a caribbean napoleonic naval game. |
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Post by bravewolf on Apr 14, 2019 0:28:58 GMT -5
Wow, that was a lot going on. Which campaigns did you play in? John's space campaign, that is John Snider, Richard's brother, is that correct? For all the readers over at the Piazza Forum at [Blackmoorverse] Fred Funk's World (Free Download) is a thread about Fred Funk's world and a free download of a write up by Fred that was put into a pdf. There are links in the first and second post. Also this post at havard 's Blackmoor Blog The King of Orcs Has Passed Away from back in early 2011. Yes, the space campaign was invented and run by John Snider, Richard's brother, and was partially published by TSR. There is information on Richard's game in the forums also. I never played in Richard's or Fred's games.I tried EPT and Brownstone a couple times, but they did not appeal to me. I played in all of the other campaigns, except for the first napoleonic campaign (that was before I joined the St. Paul group). We also regularly played many other miniature games, and board games. The board games included monster games (like Drang Nach Osten and Terrible Swift Sword) that we set up on Peter Gaylord's table (in his basement) and played over the course of several weeks. There were other campaigns, after this period of time, that I played with some other guys. This included MechWarrior, Silent Death, and a caribbean napoleonic naval game. This is Bravewolf (apologies, the formatting got messed up here). The diversity of games is absolutely staggering here, robertthebald! I wish my playing group & I had the time to run such a variety of games! |
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Post by bravewolf on Apr 14, 2019 0:30:31 GMT -5
We had several campaigns of many types, most of which ran concurrently. Off the top of my head: Blackmoor, Empire of the Petal Throne, John's space campaign, napoleonic campaign (two or three of these), civil war campaign (western theater, Lake Geneva people ran the eastern theater), WW 2 campaign, Brownstein,(I do not count Braunstein, as each game was separate and did not affect the following games), WW 1 naval campaign, Revolutionary war campaign, a separate revolutionary war naval campaign, and some others I can not remember off hand. These are from the mid 60's through the 70's (and in some cases beyond). Fred Funk had his own fantasy game that he ran (I do not know the time frame on this), as did Richard Snider. These two were variations on fantasy. Wow, that was a lot going on. Which campaigns did you play in? John's space campaign, that is John Snider, Richard's brother, is that correct? For all the readers over at the Piazza Forum at [Blackmoorverse] Fred Funk's World (Free Download) is a thread about Fred Funk's world and a free download of a write up by Fred that was put into a pdf. There are links in the first and second post. Also this post at havard 's Blackmoor Blog The King of Orcs Has Passed Away from back in early 2011. Good share, mate. I reckon Fred's World will be the next campaign I run when our Arduin campaigns run their respective courses. |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 14, 2019 14:22:34 GMT -5
Bravewolf
Most of us were still in school and not married.
I often say that we were just a bunch of kids having fun.
There were a lot of us (some forty or fifty in a core group and as many more we knew).
Several of the guys invented games and rules that we used, so there was a lot of creativity that gave us enthusiasm for playing.
All of this happened over a period of several years (decades actually).
This was a golden time for gaming.
We have real lives now (thank goodness); married with families, and either jobs or retired now.
With the passage of time, we are now experiencing the passing away of family and friends.
It has been a good life.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Apr 23, 2019 14:25:32 GMT -5
Bravewolf Most of us were still in school and not married. I often say that we were just a bunch of kids having fun. There were a lot of us (some forty or fifty in a core group and as many more we knew). Several of the guys invented games and rules that we used, so there was a lot of creativity that gave us enthusiasm for playing. All of this happened over a period of several years (decades actually). This was a golden time for gaming. We have real lives now (thank goodness); married with families, and either jobs or retired now. With the passage of time, we are now experiencing the passing away of family and friends. It has been a good life. "This was a golden time for gaming." I think we all wish we could have been there. Will you tell us some stories about yourself and David Arneson? |
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Post by El Borak on Apr 24, 2019 20:30:58 GMT -5
"This was a golden time for gaming." I think we all wish we could have been there. Will you tell us some stories about yourself and David Arneson? I will second the motion on all of that. Yes, robertthebald please tell us some stories of days gone by. |
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Post by robertthebald on Apr 25, 2019 21:16:45 GMT -5
Are you asking for stories about Blackmoor? About any of the gaming we did, in other campaigns and games? Just involving David?
I could easily fill pages with stories about those days.
I was interviewed for the movie (Secrets of Blackmoor), for an entire day, and I am just one of many interviewed.
I believe that Griff has at least a couple hundred hours of film to use.
David was one of the smartest and friendliest people I ever knew. He could handle any situation (in real life and in a game), and I do not remember him ever being mad.
He was also very patient.
My first experience with Blackmoor was a playtest game, where he determined the rules would not work after my Hero was killed in one blow by a Troll.
After that, I refused to play in the campaign for a while; as a result, when I finally participated in adventures, my characters were not good enough to survive.
When I told David that I was giving up, he sat down with me for several hours ,teaching me and building up my characters until I could survive in the future.
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