03-10-2010, 09:20 AM
Aldarron Wrote:Great! That just cleared up a lot of fog. So its safe to say that Arneson and the Blackmoor players would have had some influence on how Mr. Barker saw the game and he would have had ample opportunity to quize them on how things were done if he had any question. EPT no doubt reflects that influence to some degree.
Yes, it is, and it does. Phil had had a lot of exposure to Dave and the Blackmoor players, and he'd also had exposure to the 'Gygaxian style' of playing D&D; one of the people at the club was an immigrant from Lake Geneva, and was very much a player and GM in Gary's more formalistic / rules-oriented approach to RPGs. It was after observing one of the D&D sessions run in this style that EPT was written; Phil had raised an objection to something he observed in the game, and was told that if he didn't like it he should go write his own rules. So, he did...
yours, Chirine