Tell me about the Iron Duke

[gsvenson]

Hoegfelt however was, um, a difficult person at times and got thrown out bodily from the group, before any of the Blackmoor games really began in the summer/fall of '71. So Marfeldt the Barbarian also got a "bad guy" write up. Hoegfeldt never actually played the character with the other players. Maybe there were a couple of early games of some sort in the spring of '71, possibly wargames that took place without anyone elses knowledge and provided some of the basis or his FFC description, but more likely it was all just made up.

Yeah, I know the stories. That said, it was my understanding that this happened in the early 1980s, close to Arneson's move away from St Paul - not in the 1970s.

Marshal's and Dave Arneson's clash was in the 1970-71 timeframe. Until the clash happened and he was expelled from the group, I had been driving Marshal to Dave Arneson's house for the gaming sessions. The incident with Marshal in the early 1980's happened at a gaming convention and got him thrown out of the convention. I don't really know any of the actual details of either incident, but I heard stories about both at the time they happened...