TheMystic Wrote:Sorry for the slow reply!

Dave did run games for some of the folk who participated in the ZGG work. Alot of them were remote. The games we did play with Dave (before and after his stroke) were quite fun. His daughter Malia and her husband Luke were often in attendance. We were additionally supported by Arthur (a fellow instructor from Full Sail) and a number of guest players and friends who were in town at the time.

Dave was very free wheeling and taught me quite a lot in those sessions. He had a good idea of the encounters we would face and he did not spend a ton of time looking up rules or referencing materials. I felt like he had it all there in his mind, just waiting for us to discover.

We did have some players who helped find arcane rules, but the greatest lesson here was to never let getting bogged down on "rules" detract from the play session.

My character in that game was named "Biggen Gurble" - He was a 3rd Edition halfling barbarian. Dave didn't like this character concept, but he allowed it. To him, halflings were Hobbits, so this particular guy was distinct in Blackmoor for that reason. When we went to press, we wanted to preserve that original conceptualization and as such, the Docrae became a branch of the halfling line, but really a distinct race unto themselves.

We played weekly for months in that game. When Dave had his stroke, he was taken out of commission for a while, but eventually resumed. He had a partial slur just after the incident and found that running the game helped him regain some of that control that was lost.

All in all, great fun! I really miss that guy.

TheMystic Wrote:It was a wide range of stuff. He really loved the Rules Cyclopedia! That was his favorite reference during games.

We played through a number of published modules, but everything was up for improvisation from Dave. From what I recall, we played through Temple of the Frog, Adventures in Blackmoor and a portion of Temple of Elemental Evil. These with a number of side quests, and of course, numerous visits to The Comeback Inn!