10-27-2017, 12:53 PM
I just posted the following reply in another thread in this forum, and consider important enough to also post it here. Thank you for your patience.
What you are seeing in the video was meant as an explanation to people who were strangers to me, and to the origins of Fantasy Gaming. I was trying to set the stage and recreate what it was like at the beginning. I did not deliberately lie or try to mislead anyone, but this is my impressions and remembrance of facts as I remember them.
If you were to ask half a dozen of us the same question of what happened back then, you would probably hear half a dozen stories that would be similar, but disagree on some of the facts. I appreciate Aldarron jumping to my defense (thank you sir) by saying that I misspoke, but the fact of the matter is that I was probably just plain wrong. These are the memories and impressions by an old man about events that happened half a century ago, and if you accept every detail as fact, then this would probably be more misleading than helpful. In my defense, I have stated that my only real memory of the Troll game was the actual fight with the troll, and the opinion of the rules.
I understand that people are trying to piece everything together from back then to give perspective and understand what you have ended up with. Unfortunately, an awful lot of time has passed by (and too many of us have passed away), and no one person could possibly give a comprehensive account of what really happened (except of course for Arneson, who is now gone).
I do not object to the questions you ask; I ask you to put this history together piece by piece from different sources to give you the picture that you seek.
What you are seeing in the video was meant as an explanation to people who were strangers to me, and to the origins of Fantasy Gaming. I was trying to set the stage and recreate what it was like at the beginning. I did not deliberately lie or try to mislead anyone, but this is my impressions and remembrance of facts as I remember them.
If you were to ask half a dozen of us the same question of what happened back then, you would probably hear half a dozen stories that would be similar, but disagree on some of the facts. I appreciate Aldarron jumping to my defense (thank you sir) by saying that I misspoke, but the fact of the matter is that I was probably just plain wrong. These are the memories and impressions by an old man about events that happened half a century ago, and if you accept every detail as fact, then this would probably be more misleading than helpful. In my defense, I have stated that my only real memory of the Troll game was the actual fight with the troll, and the opinion of the rules.
I understand that people are trying to piece everything together from back then to give perspective and understand what you have ended up with. Unfortunately, an awful lot of time has passed by (and too many of us have passed away), and no one person could possibly give a comprehensive account of what really happened (except of course for Arneson, who is now gone).
I do not object to the questions you ask; I ask you to put this history together piece by piece from different sources to give you the picture that you seek.