Dave Arneson Ludography by a Real Historian

[Vladimir, The Dark Prince]

Over on another forum a member posted a link to his new blog. 

He said

For Dave Arneson Day, I created my first post on a new blog, a list of the games Dave worked on. I quickly realized this deserved to be more than simply a list of titles, roles and dates.

It is still a work in progress to add more details. In the meantime, here is a link to the live work in progress: Dave Arneson Ludography

I fixed the link to the blog post.

Once this is complete, he will have done something that up to now no "historian" has even attempted. Good for him! Looks like we have a new player on the RPG historian page and it looks like this one is serious about it.

It is hilarious that this is just now being attempted here in 2021. In a logical world, all of this information would already be on Wikipedia.





Disclaimer I did not include the link to the other forum since that would be a breach of etiquette.

[The Semi-Retired Gamer]

That's an impressive start! I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.

[hengest]

Yeah, very cool. I had no idea there were so many.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Oct 8, 2021 13:09:28 GMT -5 hengest said:

Yeah, very cool. I had no idea there were so many.

That is because of the long running and widely (and loudly) promoted trope that Arneson didn't do anything. The trope that the dominant narrative on the vast majority of forums and by the vast majority of those who claim to be old school. There are whole forums dedicated to Arneson hate.

[The Semi-Retired Gamer]

Oct 8, 2021 13:09:28 GMT -5 hengest said:

Yeah, very cool. I had no idea there were so many.

Me either.  

I knew about Don't Give Up the Ship, D&D, Blackmoor, Shadowrun modules, and some computer gaming stuff.  Not even close to all of it. 

[The Semi-Retired Gamer]

Oct 8, 2021 15:48:55 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

Oct 8, 2021 13:09:28 GMT -5 hengest said:

Yeah, very cool. I had no idea there were so many.

That is because of the long running and widely (and loudly) promoted trope that Arneson didn't do anything. The trope that the dominant narrative on the vast majority of forums and by the vast majority of those who claim to be old school. There are whole forums dedicated to Arneson hate.

That is true.  It's easy to find the Arneson bashing out there on the web.  There's a certain editor that showed up AFTER all the game design had been completed but likes to edit history itself by downplaying Arneson's contribution and overplaying his own contributions.  This person could make some true contributions to any discussion of old school D&D but he is a Negative Nancy.  Too bad.