Blackmoor Cleric 'blog post

[Havard]

I think Mornard has been saying that William Crolley was the first Cleric player.

Here's what Mornard said about Crolley:

I ran into Mike Carr at Gary Con in March 2013 and attempted to verify the "Origin of the Cleric" story. He said he wasn't around for the creation of the class. I actually heard the story from William Crolley, another of Dave's original players. Mike Carr did say that the origin story sounded entirely plausible, however.

Source: http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.no/201 ... leric.html

I always understood this to mean that Crolley told Mornard that Carr was the first Cleric, but that Carr later denied this.

Now, Crolley is someone I have no information about other than this comment from Mornard. I would love to know more about his involvement in the campaign.

What the sources do seem to agree on was that Arneson based the Cleric class on Peter Cushing's Vampire Hunter characters and that the whole thing was a result of Sir Fang's rampage in Blackmoor. The D&D weapons restrictions of Clerics using blunt weapons only seems to have been a later addition by Gygax.

-Havard