[YouTube] Jon Peterson Interview: Gary Gygax vs Dave Arneson

[Havard]

I think it's just the way it sounds. A "one-off" would probably be a product designed to be used once only, so a single scenario or adventure (probably a short module) which would be used and then moved on from. Compared to a campaign setting, I mean, where a sequence of adventures would all link together.

I think that the Braunstein concept was originally supposed to be a one-off and then players asked for a sequel. (Town in peril, banana republic, and so on. A bunch of individual games, unlike Blackmoor which was a campaign.)

At least, that's how I read it.

That makes a lot of sense, especially given the Twin City gaming tradition. I wonder if 1970s TSR would also have seen Temple of the Frog as a "one off"?.

I suspect they wanted new character classes, new spells, new magic items, new monsters etc, but when Arneson provided something else they might have been unhappy about that.

OTOH, if Dave wanted to pitch things like sci fi D&D or Spy D&D, that would have been pretty interesting to find out about too :o

-Havard