[Blog] The "Blackmoor is Just a Chainmail Variant" Fallacy

[finarvyn]

But you also touch upon something else that I am planning to explore in a later blog entry. That is the fact that Blackmoor was in a state of constant change. As you say, player demands meant Dave had to expand and revise rules constantly. This dynamic nature of Blackmoor is a pretty interesting aspect of the game when it comes to talking about what Blackmoor was and what it wasn't.

And this certainly makes the whole "evolution" issue tricky. Dave was constantly tweaking rules and didn't encourage his players to be rules lawyers because he wanted the game to be more fluid and freeform than he wanted rigidity and conformity. So saying "Dave did this" may be true for certain blocks of time, yet may be totally untrue for other blocks of time.