Dave Arneson's Origins 1977 Tournament

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Some great Dave Arneson info over at the Playing at the World blog.

Dave Arneson's Origins 1977 Tournament

Jon Peterson starts off by saying:

The Dungeons & Dragons tournaments run at the 1970s Origins conventions are the stuff of legends: there was the Tomb of Horrors (1975), the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks (1976), and then the famous Against the Giants trilogy (1978). So... what happened in 1977? TSR boycotted Origins that year, and the D&D tournament was thus administered by a recently-departed employee: Dave Arneson. Today, we will look at that tournament through contemporary reports of players and a few surviving play artifacts -- like this list of the twelve pre-generated characters who made up the tournament party.

So go read this if it interests you and then come on back and we will discus it.

[El Borak]

I will give this a read and try to get back to you on it.