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03:25 pm
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David L. Arneson dies (D&D RPG) (1947-2009)
David L. Arneson, the "father of role-playing games" died on Tuesday evening. He is legally credited as co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragon role-playing game.
He was in college in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the late 1960s, He was a gamer geek, playing historical miniatures games with friends. He and some of his friends enhanced their wargames by adding in alternate history and historical re-creator style (theatrical) role-playing of generals. (And soon adding other key people in a wartime scenario). In 1970 Dave realized that his friends would probably enjoy a break in their historical games -- a non-historical medieval setting that used sf reasons to become a fantasy setting. They did like it. Very much. Obsessively much.
Dave applied all he had learned from the role-playing scenarios, and fine-tuned the methods of interaction. The players became individuals, seeking treasure to finance their political & military ambitions in this new fantasy world they had found. Dave became the locals that they encountered, and the source of the setting they wandered through. Dave was the first Gamesmaster.
Within a few weeks, the original handful of players became dozens sitting in at a gaming club at the University of Minnesota. Several groups split off to have their own small parties of players with separate dungeon-masters creating their own settings. Rules were modified and improvised from the loose & improv-style rules devised by Dave. Within a couple of months in the Twin Cities, there were easily 200 people role-playing in over 20 'dungeon' settings. Fantasy, sf, serious, whimsical. All with their own improvisation rules.
By 1971, Dave Arneson had started sharing this idea of fantasy role-playing to gamers in other cities, including Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, home of a game publisher he knew.
Tags: arneson rpg role-playing d&d
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08:00 pm
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Free Will Eisner events at Minneapolis College of Art & Design Sunday 1 March
MCAD will have free events for "Will Eisner Week" starting 1pm Sunday 1 March 2009 in room Aud 150.
Sunday afternoon, there will be 2 illustrated talks (including one by guest Christopher Couch), and a screening of the documentary "Will Eisner - Portrait of a Sequential Artist".
MCAD is in the south side of the arts complex that includes the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Children's Theater of Minneapolis. 2501 Stevens Ave South, Minneapolis 55404.
For additional information: willeisner.com/will_eisner_week/
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04:41 pm
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Recommended webcomic (meta-universe fantasy)
Thanks to Mitch Marmel at Belfry Webcomics Index:
Cheshire Crossing
A witty meta-universe combination of several familiar young ladies at an Institue in England.
Ken Fletcher
Current Mood:  refreshed
Tags: webcomics
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02:24 pm
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"It was the Beast of times, it was the Wurst of times...."
"To be or not to be -- that is the gezornenblatz...?"
After very strange fall and winter weather, Minnesota is back to typical late January weather. How cold is it? Last night, the Foletta-cat led me to the fireplace and requested _restart this, please_.
It's clear and in the single digits, just in time for the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. In years past there might be a foot or more of ice on the lakes by now, but the temperature was up to 40 degrees F not longer ago than Thursday. There's ice, but it might not be thick enough to be same to walk on.
Current Mood:  listless
Tags: minnesota weather
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