Let's put it this way -- when I create campaigns of my own, I often lean on previous ideas I've had instead of coming up with something 100% new. I can see where Dave may have done exactly this.

He knows that TSR has its claws into "Blackmoor" and all things connected to it, but he is still running his own campaign and clearly likes what he is doing with it. When he decides to write a new RPG, why not borrow from the game he's presently running?

Makes sense to me! 8)

Did that once, for an online game in Spanish. Overall, mixed results, for me.

AiF, in many aspects, plays and feels like an Alpha-version of "Dragon Warriors".
Since the later is the better, as in, more developed, game, there was definitely a period when I used DW as a resource for my games.

AiF was not enough for me to keep me lingering on it for more than just a couple of sessions.

- A shame, though. It's a good game, but not very deep, compared to today's standards.

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about using the system with Blackmoor. I mean raiding setting material from it to add to Blackmoor (for any system) :)

-Havard

I believe -_- I understood you right, there. :)

Personally, apart from shoehorning the locations into the setting, the game was a tad bit too barren to be a real addition.

Honest answer, here - I don't think ANYTHING I used for that game back then made it into my continuing personal canon.

That doesn't say the game is bad, but it's really like Dragon Warriors Version Zero. Out of my gut, I would even guess that there was a connection, was DW not so connected to WHFRP.

AiF, by all means, not a bad game, but, don't know how you feel about it, a bit barren to really serve as much of an inspiration, if you already have a (couple of) basic treatments of fantasy gaming.

That said, this is just, like, my opinion. :)

Not intending to bash the game, at all. To the contrary - I think it was well ahead of its time, and the success of games with similar concepts shows that the team behind it was very much at the pulse of the hobby at the time. - Not, what, some Quixotic endeavor, as some less kind fellows tend to talk it down.

This discussion is interesting and really makes me want to pick up First Fantasy Campaign to augment my understanding of those times.