The AD&D N Module Series and Blackmoor (Split from:What was

[Havard]

In any case, it would make sense that after a year of being in charge, Williams decided to make the move on the DA line. Remember how Dave Arneson was not consulted for DA4 by Ritchie and how DA5 was subsequently cancelled. This does suggest a change of policy from the top level.

Quite frankly, outside of our bubble, this seems to be a pretty well-known fact. Williams actively pursued to minimize stafff employees at TSR; this was not some nefarious scheme, however: TSR was simply bankrupt at the time. So, production schedules were cleaned (mind you, 1987 would also have been the year for Frank Mentzer's Aquaria), and cheaper writers came in for the better-paid regulars.

Yes, I tend to take a critical stance towards "well known facts" which is why I phrased it this way.

Can't remember, really. Ask Chirine, he knows best.

Good idea

Interesting Could you give some more specific examples?

HAHAHA. No, thanks. I have a dayjob, you know. :o

However, pretty much every name sounds SUSPICIOUSLY familiar; to a degree when I stop believing in coincidences. You might simply want to make a table - the results are surprising.

Okay, I understand. I am also quite busy so I will have to put it on the things to do list which is already pretty long, but at least it is now on the list.

Nothing written, lamentably, and only vague info I picked up here and there. Basically, the it encompasses all the games Mr Arneson ran with a new group after his friends from the FFC left the Twin Cities area; here's where the strong ties to Tekumel were explored, and where the emphasis of the shared stories switched towards Marfeldt, Ungulian, and, I think, the halflings from Boggy Bottom. It ended when Arneson himself moved away from the area, in 1982, and contact to many of the players of that generation broke off, for all the reasons that contact to friendly acquaintances tends to break off when you move 3,000 miles away. That's why many of those storylines were not really finished, or, for that matter, polished for publication. - Like that of Ungulian himself.

Yes that fits quite well with some of the timelines I have posted here on this forum. I assumed Marfeldt was earlier since his character description is from the Coot Invasions scenario part of the FFC, but the Tekumel stuff fits quite well.

Another possibility for the character Ungulian is actually that he was based off Duane Jenkins' earlier character but projected forward in time, though incursions into the lands of the Egg could certainly have occurred with this group.

Sure; if you can contact him, please do so! Now, I hope he is not offended by my speculation, As I said, very dififcult to escape that special sort of chivalric fantasy, back in 1986.

I dont see any reason to be offended by any of what you wrote. But then I am a fan of that type of fantasy.

-Havard