05-07-2012, 08:00 PM
Havard Wrote:Much appreciated Chirine! Thanks for stopping by.
Eagerly awaiting more info if you can find it
-Havard
I will do my best; we have something like 11,000 pages of material in 146 boxes amounting to over 525 cubic feet of material to work our way through in the Professor's archive. We did a major sort just the papers into categories back in November, and that material alone weighed over 1,800 pounds worth of documents going back to the late 1940's.
Professor Barker refers quite a bit to Dave and his work on D & D in the 1970s; from what we're uncovering, they met very early on and collaborated to a much higher degree then we'd known about. Phil also kept detailed 'log sheets' of his games, for play-testing purposes, and we can now follow the creation of EPT from the original manuscript notes through the 'mimeo' green-cover play-test edition through the notes for the TSR edition and finally to the TSR edition itself.
All of this material has a direct bearing on the BTPBD manuscript; that style and level of publication quality was, from what we've seen in the Professor's archives, a hallmark of both Dave and Phil's style of rules publications current at that time. Phil's own 'house rules', as seen in the 'mimeo' edition, display this and so do the other Arneson items of that time in the archive.
I had the great fortune of knowing the both of them; they were incredible guys.
yours, Chirine