[Blog] Happy 40th birthday D&D!

[Havard]

Nothing really spectacular. My sister ran an elven ranger, my friend Paul was a human thief, another friend Alan was a human cleric, and Alan's two sons were dwarven fighers. Mostly a smash-and-grab kind of session without any real goal in mind other than to get far into the dungeon, get as much loot as possible, then get out. They went in once and cleaned out several rooms, then retreated to the surface to heal up and bury their loot near the front gates. Then they went back in for another load and that trip was what did them in. Too greedy, I guess. :lol:

Always interesting hearing about Blackmoor games. TPKs are not inappropriate in the Blackmoor Dungeon I think! What system did you use?

I'm not sure they were RPGs any more than my "Boot Hill" games were RPGs, but sounds like a lot of fun. I knew that they had some Napolionic Braunsteins, but was unaware of any Western ones.

What makes for a Roleplaying Game is a matter of definitions. If roleplaying itself is enough, then Diplomacy and many Wargames could be referred to as roleplaying games as well. You are of course also right that many groups run RPGs without really having much roleplaying in them

The first Braunstein was Napoleonic. Braunstein 4: Banana Republic was set in a Central American Republic. This is one of those games where Dave Arneson really got to show off his skills as a player, winning the game in a way that impressed Wesely.

I posted some more thoughts on Arneson's Medieval Braunstein in today's blog entry.

Good to see you back here again Fin!

Always nice to be here. Too many boards to visit and somehow I don't get to all of them as often as I would like. We're having sub-zero weather in Chicago and most of the schools in the area are out today, so I had some extra time to surf the web. [/quote]

At least something good came out of that then! Incidentally we are having the mildest winter in ages over here. Weather is going crazy. Who pissed off the druids?

-Havard