The Ruins of Murkhill™ - OEOEFASRPG™

Hail Fellow and Well Met! This is my Original Dungeons & Dragons blog named for my main campaign The Ruins of Murkhill™. I have been playing and refereeing OD&D since Sept. of 1975. I am apt to talk about almost anything game related here. Open Ended Original Edition Old School Fantasy Adventure Sandbox Role Playing Games™ (OEOEFASRPG™) The Open-Ended Sandbox Exploration of Dungeons, Wilderness and Cities. World Building is one of the great pleasures of life.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

More news about the new book on Dave Arneson by Robert J Kuntz

Over on Kuntz' blog titled Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign and subtitled "When Imagination Was The Only Rule," he posted Dave Arneson's True Genius: First Major Treatise on Dave Arneson.

This portends a great leap forward in our understanding of Arneson and the design of the original Dungeons & Dragons:

The work is not the usual history tour so much as it is a tour of Arneson's mind, design philosophies and ultimate systems organization, the latter which busted wide open 2,000 years of game history with his unprecedented systems architecture.

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The tentative date for its release is set for 2 months from now; final editing of the ms is now being overseen by Nathalie Hachet-Kuntz (TLS) and Allan Grohe (BBP).

Waiting for this is like waiting for Christmas when you were 6 years old!