07-02-2014, 11:13 AM
Havard Wrote:Arneson did express reservations towards the DA4 The Duchy of Ten, but made no such objections towards the previous three modules.Here is an old discussion we had of the City of the Gods, and Arneson chimed in with:
Quote:Well he didn't consult me a lot. Ae least it was beter than Duchy Of Tehn (See the Zeigisit one for a better treatment there.) We had passkeys, robots, ray gun, holographs and the ;ile. As far as the building go they were from the World's Fair in Seattle, I got a bunch, were futurist looking soo....Any idea what it means, “he [David J. Ritchie] didn't consult me a lot”? At best, Ritchie had an Arneson manuscript to work from, and just didn’t ask any questions and fleshed it out as he saw fit; at worst, he wrote it from whole cloth, knowing only the basic premise.
The whole idea of a spaceship craft was pretty well known in the Sci-Fantasy world so I really cannot point at one inspiration.
As an aside, did you notice the spelling Tehn — reminiscent of Greyhawk’s Tenh? And, was a Zeitgeist equivalent of DA4 indeed ever published?
