{"id":2245,"date":"2009-04-13T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2009-04-13T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:21:16","slug":"dave-arneson-dds-other-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/dave-arneson-dds-other-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Arneson D&D’s Other Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"arnesen\"Dave Arneson is “The Father of Role-Playing” – it says so on his business card (which I still have). He’s famous but kind of got a raw deal. He was part of the original group who created Dungeons & Dragons. He created the first supplement (Blackmoor – I have an original copy) and the combat board game, Chainmail. Unfortunately he got squeezed out (that’s Gygax’s term), Arneson said “forced otut” to me and there was a decade or two of rivalry and bitterness. I first met Dave Arneson at Gen Con in 2002,\u00a0 . .<\/p>\n

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. . . . just a few months before he had a non-fatal stroke.<\/p>\n

That explains why a man then in his late 50’s could look so fragile. Honestly, at the time I thought the man was pushing 70. Like a wizard from his games he was wise and still enthusiastic about gaming. He was working a Full Sail College and had plans in software and movies (a bit part, cut from the film, in the Dungeons & Dragons movie). I took his picture which appeared in the original GameSpy article.<\/p>\n

I saw him again at the next couple Gen Cons and we remaind friendly.\u00a0 He said I was the only game journalist who followed him around. Silly me, I just thought he was interesting as hell. So important, mostly forgotten, but plugging along anyway. He died a couple days ago at the age of 61. Old before his time but wise too. You might say he took a critical hit and failed his saving throw. Rest in peace Dave. A man who’s heaven just might be a group of guys, a handful of dice and a couple pizzas.<\/p>\n

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Dave Arneson is “The Father of Role-Playing” – it says so on his business card (which I still have). He’s famous but kind of got a raw deal. He was part of the original group who created Dungeons & Dragons. He created the first supplement (Blackmoor – I have an original copy) and the combat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamerdad-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}