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[quote]“One day, a few years back, I discovered that I was bored.“
- It's with similar words that Dave Arneson, co-creator of world's most popular roleplaying
game, used to describe why he began to put a work together that would, over the years, turn
global gaming culture upside down.
One could say, more or less, that it was the same gentle boredom that drove me, when I, over
twenty-five years after the publication of Mr Arneson's first texts on pen-and-paper
roleplaying, began to familiarize myself with his pet work, his setup for his own gaming
adventures, the fantastic realm of Blackmoor.
What follows, might be considered part of D&D's and Backmoor's collective history:
Born out of a rather spontaneous idea, The Grim Winter became one of the most widely
known play-by-post forum RPGs, even receiving the same hushed praise that only “The Great
Old Onesâ€
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