Blackmoor at GenCon 2019

[Havard]

The Plot Points Podcast host -- who has been working on a book about the '97 buyout of TSR by WotC -- did a "history of D&D in five minutes" part to his "Why TSR failed" lecture, in which me mentions Arneson and his interpretation that the Blackmoor that Dave ran for Gary is the first game of D&D.

https://plotpoints.libsyn.com/why-tsr-f ... 019-ep-153

I thought to myself "But Havard isn't at GenCon, is he?" when I heard the shouted "AMEN!" at the lecturer's insistence that Arneson is due more mention. :lol:

That is an amazing podcast! I listened to the entire episode. I'm not sure I agree with every minutea of his version of what Dave did, but the podcaster gets credit for his adamant standing on Dave not getting enough credit. The rest of the podcast was also really good and this is where we get to what the guy specializes in. While I knew a good deal of this, there are many details and anecdotes that I was less familiar with and his whole composition/analysis of what went down is incredibly interesting.

-Havard