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Saturday, November 26, 2022

The Abilities (preliminary thoughts)

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If you were going to change from the standard OD&D 6 ability stats (of STR, INT, WIS, CON, DEX and CHA), what would you do and how would...
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Friday, April 29, 2022

John Arneson - David's Father passed on April 18, 2022 at 98

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John Arneson - The Greatest Person Who Ever L ived at Secrets of Blackmoor Blog John Robert "Bob" Arneson Obituary Picture linke...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp. is back (Part Three)

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The new website is mostly operational and is supposed to be fully operational on November 7th, 2021. Quoting Website, Storefront, Orders, an...
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Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp. is back (Part Two)

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The new website is mostly operational and is supposed to be fully operational on November 7th, 2021  Quoting  It has begun! Hello Fans, Empe...

Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp. is back (Part One)

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 Quoting An awakening is under way at Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp…. Hello Fans, Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp....
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

A Review of "Dave Arneson's True Genius" from the Internet Archive

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I wanted to share this review with you and I am doing so with the permission of the author, Nick Monitto. It is found at this link on the In...
Friday, October 1, 2021

October 1st - Dave Arneson Game Day - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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Celebrating Dave Arneson Game Day - October 1st - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor. David "Dave" Lance Arneson - October 1, 1947 – Ap...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Celebrating Day Seven of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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Today September 30th is the seventh day of Blackmoor Week 2021. Over at the The Ruins forum one of our European members now has the book Dav...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Celebrating Day Six of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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Today September 29th is the sixth day of Blackmoor Week 2021. Today we will link to series of posts from all the way back in 2009. A real bl...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Celebrating Day Five of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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Today September 28th is the fifth day of Blackmoor Week 2021. One of the things that Dave Arneson and Blackmoor contributed to OD&D was ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Celebrating Day Four of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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 Today September 27th is the fourth day of Blackmoor Week 2021. Today we will link to another series of posts from last year for Blackmoor W...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Celebrating Day Three of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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Today September 26th is the third day of Blackmoor Week 2021. Yesterday I linked back to when I wrote about The First Fantasy Campaign earl...
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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Celebrating Day Two of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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 Today September 25th is the second day of Blackmoor Week 2021. Last year I wrote about The First Fantasy Campaign aka Blackmoor and there a...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

Celebrating Day One of Blackmoor Week - 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor

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Today September 24th is the first day of Blackmoor Week! Remember Christmas break in December is the 51st Anniversary of Blackmoor as it beg...
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Saturday, September 11, 2021

Crimson Escalation

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  Crimson Escalation What if you could speed-up DnD combat while making battles more exciting, realistic, and fun? All that with a minimum o...
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Thursday, September 2, 2021

The Perilous Dreamers First Dungeon (a look back to winter 75-76)

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 Over at The Ruins of Murkhill forum I have started a thread about the first dungeon I ever created.  I based the nine areas on nine quotes ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Fast Approaching Blackmoor Week and Dave Arneson Game Day

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Blackmoor Week, which is celebrated every year September 24th to September 30th followed immediately by Dave Arneson Game Day celebrated on ...

The Night Companion Kickstarter

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  The Night Companion  Follow the link! The author says: This game demystifies old-school style play and lets you run any kind of modern sup...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Pig Faced Ork Old School Roleplaying Game Convention

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Saturday, July 31, 2021

The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg Has Arrived!!!

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The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg  book has arrived! This was part of the Secrets of Blackmoor Kickstarter that launched back on November 24, 2...
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Sunday, May 30, 2021

A Post from the blog "A Land Beyond Beyond"

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Over on the blog  A Land Beyond Beyond  subtitled: A blog mainly about the early role playing games, those from the 1970s and 1980s. Origina...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Dave Hargrave Day - 2021

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Today we celebrate Dave Hargrave Day, the birthday of David Allen Hargrave  (May 25, 1946 – August 29, 1988) who was known as T he Dream Wea...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Arduin Week Day Seven 2021

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This was posted in the Arduin Grimoire community on the defunct Google+ platform by Matrox Lusch a number of years ago. From the old group, ...
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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Arduin Week Day Six 2021

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Today I want to take a look at a blog by the name of  UbiquitousRat.net , he has written several essays about Dave Hargrave and about Arduin...
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Saturday, May 22, 2021

Arduin Week Day Five 2021

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Today I want to highlight a post by DM David (blog) titled  Once subversive, the Arduin Grimoire’s influence reaches today’s games . He says...
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Friday, May 21, 2021

Arduin Week Day Four 2021

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  I found this image over at  Lizard's Gaming Blog . He has 51 Arduin posts that are well worth reading.  He also posted this  Dave Harg...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Arduin Week Day Three 2021

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 Arduin fans are familiar with the term Arduin, Bloody Arduin. I ran across this essay by Sarah Newton back in 2017. The really unique thing...
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