Blackmoor dungeon history

[Havard]

While Dave Arneson said he was not happy that Dave Richie did DA4 on his own and that he would have made things flow a bit differently had he been involved, he accepted it as Blackmoor canon after it was published.

Ah, that explains things. Thanks!

I think that dealing with the results of DA4 was actually a big part of the ZGG era material for the Blackmoor setting. A number of modules in the MMRPG were centered around facing the Afridhi, for example. You have the whole Brotherhood of the Greenwood thing, too. That all came from DA4.

That makes sense. Comparing it with the FFC, Ritchie advanced the timeline while at the same time making the Afridhi the main threat while the Duchy of Ten were basically taken out of the picture. I can see things having developed differently, but if Dave accepted it, it doesn't make sense that we don't.

Interesting side note: I noticed in one of the old threads at the ZGG forum, Dustin saying that the lisence with WotC did not include the Duchy of Ten. Is that because Arneson didnt have his name on that module, you think?

Havard