10-29-2017, 06:12 PM
Hi Rafe! Of course I remember you. It is good to talk to you again, and thank you for your words of encouragement.
Actually, my previous post was not really directed at klintron; but was a reaction to something that happened elsewhere, not on this forum.
I felt a need to offer an apology and explanation, and thought it was a good time to remind people not to believe everything I say, as I could be wrong. It appeared harsher than I meant it to be (my apologies klintron, that was a good question).
The things that people say here are not what I worry about, it is the things that I say here that I worry about.
A glance at the list of original gamers in our group shows something like sixty of them, and that list does not include everyone gaming with us back then. Blackmoor did not come out of nowhere, it was a culmination of the things we had been doing up till then, and it continued to evolve from there. Not everyone was involved with everything that happened back then. Arneson is the only person who could give a full picture, but he is gone now.
The problem is that you do not have access to everyone from back then. As a matter of fact, there are only half a dozen to a dozen of us that you can ask questions of in forums or at conventions. This means you are trying to solve a puzzle that is very much incomplete. That gives a tremendous importance to everything that I say.
As an aside, the people making the documentary have talked to most of us, and even with that amount of information, they will have to reconcile our stories (which probably do not agree in many of the details).
You say that people understand that this was a long time ago, but I still worry about misleading anyone with whatever I say.
I have seriously considered staying away from the forums because of this, but that would not address anything else that would come up (such as the video).
This all weighs heavily on me, because this is more than the evolving of a game, and a game genre. We are talking about a group of friends that grew up together. A group of friends that are passing away now. Soon, all of this information will pass away with us.
Actually, my previous post was not really directed at klintron; but was a reaction to something that happened elsewhere, not on this forum.
I felt a need to offer an apology and explanation, and thought it was a good time to remind people not to believe everything I say, as I could be wrong. It appeared harsher than I meant it to be (my apologies klintron, that was a good question).
The things that people say here are not what I worry about, it is the things that I say here that I worry about.
A glance at the list of original gamers in our group shows something like sixty of them, and that list does not include everyone gaming with us back then. Blackmoor did not come out of nowhere, it was a culmination of the things we had been doing up till then, and it continued to evolve from there. Not everyone was involved with everything that happened back then. Arneson is the only person who could give a full picture, but he is gone now.
The problem is that you do not have access to everyone from back then. As a matter of fact, there are only half a dozen to a dozen of us that you can ask questions of in forums or at conventions. This means you are trying to solve a puzzle that is very much incomplete. That gives a tremendous importance to everything that I say.
As an aside, the people making the documentary have talked to most of us, and even with that amount of information, they will have to reconcile our stories (which probably do not agree in many of the details).
You say that people understand that this was a long time ago, but I still worry about misleading anyone with whatever I say.
I have seriously considered staying away from the forums because of this, but that would not address anything else that would come up (such as the video).
This all weighs heavily on me, because this is more than the evolving of a game, and a game genre. We are talking about a group of friends that grew up together. A group of friends that are passing away now. Soon, all of this information will pass away with us.