06-06-2023, 03:45 PM
Having listened to the whole thing, I think Jon Peterson manages to give a lot of credit to Dave Arneson in this interview without necessarily taking away from Gary Gygax.
I also find it interesting that he suggests something that I have believed all along in that Dave Arneson may have done a lot more work when he was at TSR than he has been given credit for, it is just that much of this work may have been rejected as useless by Gary Gygax because they had such incompatible ideas for where they wanted to take D&D after it had been published.
Peterson talks about some of Dave Arneson's ideas as "one-offs". I am not sure what he means by that, but I could see it as things like the City of the Gods adventure and even Temple of the Frog, especially at a time when TSR didn't think adventures would be profitable (before companies like the Judges Guild and Wee Warriors proved them wrong).
-Havard
I also find it interesting that he suggests something that I have believed all along in that Dave Arneson may have done a lot more work when he was at TSR than he has been given credit for, it is just that much of this work may have been rejected as useless by Gary Gygax because they had such incompatible ideas for where they wanted to take D&D after it had been published.
Peterson talks about some of Dave Arneson's ideas as "one-offs". I am not sure what he means by that, but I could see it as things like the City of the Gods adventure and even Temple of the Frog, especially at a time when TSR didn't think adventures would be profitable (before companies like the Judges Guild and Wee Warriors proved them wrong).
-Havard
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