tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post8565538539856114129..comments2024-03-27T20:09:00.283-04:00Comments on Tenkar's Tavern: Rise of the Dungeon Master - Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D - Graphic Novel releases May 9th, 2017Tenkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05159289652051155824noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-55837336990268974532017-05-12T23:34:24.429-04:002017-05-12T23:34:24.429-04:00I find myself reading about this topic more and mo...I find myself reading about this topic more and more. Hey, Venger I have been having a great time with those books I bought at Garycon. I was hoping for more CoC items, As I am an adherent of the left hand path. When I stopped you to sign books I was hoping for more than just roleplaying.DungeonMapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00307611110850843589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-86791487901539311632017-05-09T00:06:58.231-04:002017-05-09T00:06:58.231-04:00I agree, Dave Arneson deserves (a whole lot) more ...I agree, Dave Arneson deserves (a whole lot) more credit than he gets in this blurb and most every other article or book on Dungeons & Dragons. I don't think there would be a game like this at all without the original players in Dave's Blackmoor campaign, the inspiration for Gary's Greyhawk campaign. I would rather see a graphic novel about a player called Mike Mornard (he played in both campaigns and Phil Barker's too). I also don't think there would be any "half-consistent rules" as you call them, without great editors like Kask, Kuntz and Holmes. As for the business side of things, Kaye and Blume deserve some credit too, even though the later ended up booting Gary out of TSR in the end. I love your Jobs and Wozniak analogy. I think giving Dave Arneson his proper due 'almost' happens quite often now, after both have passed away. Dave and Gary were good friends before they famously fell out. I would like to think they are playing a game of Don't Give Up the Ship together somewhere right now.Darcy Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385198563203931754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-22694883434222959862017-05-07T08:50:38.522-04:002017-05-07T08:50:38.522-04:00Awesome piece of history to focus on, but does the...Awesome piece of history to focus on, but does the subject matter lend itself to comic book illustration? Will there be a panel of Gary sitting alone at his desk thinking about Armor Class?Venger Satanishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04447932700800930510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-14872687205946019132017-05-07T05:17:51.338-04:002017-05-07T05:17:51.338-04:00Errr... Dave Arneson was the first Dungeon Master....Errr... Dave Arneson was the first Dungeon Master. Why is his memory constantly swiped under the rug? (I mean, Gary is on the title and Dave get a half line on the blurb.) Currently reading "Hawk & Moor" and I think without Dave we would have fantasy wargames, but no _roleplaying games_. <br /><br />Yes, Gary was the business man, the first to draw up half-consistent rules, and an engaging author when it comes to RPG material, but Arneson came up with playing in dungeons, levels of experience and advancing, the idea of having a GM that runs the whole opposition instead of just a referee. He turned Gary's Chainmail inside out and was a crazy innovator.<br /><br />It might be too black and white in terms of thinking, but sometimes Gary feels like the Steve Jobs (who was the business man) to Arneson's Steve Wozniak (who designed the actual first Apple computers). If we are prone to hero worship then let's at least remember more than one of them.<br /><br />"Gygax was a purist, in the sense that he was adamant that players use their imaginations and that the rules of the game remain flexible." And yet many sources agree that he was the driving force behind trying to keep others from contributing to D&D rules while writing AD&D. Which shows that people can be highly inconsistent, and that Gary's views on this might have evolved.<br /><br />Sigh. Rant over.DerKastellanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17108771318010984386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-47544461408394667242017-05-07T03:43:12.147-04:002017-05-07T03:43:12.147-04:00Then you had the puns.Then you had the puns.mythusmagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10458869083534878283noreply@blogger.com