09-21-2010, 08:35 PM
Yep, plenty of room for disagreement, but nevertheless, well said Havard (might make a good blog post) Regarding "ages" I can only echo Mathews reply on Grognardia.
Your view of the DA series could be right of course but for me its seems too radicaly different in tone and substance from the Blackmoor of FCC to see it as being what Arneson had in mind. Anyway, I would merely point out that Dave Arneson was a remarkably good natured and collegial fellow who considered gaming to be a group project. He posted on ODD74 that basically everything published should be considered canon whether he had much input to it or not, so its no surprise the zgg line builds on that.
Your view of the DA series could be right of course but for me its seems too radicaly different in tone and substance from the Blackmoor of FCC to see it as being what Arneson had in mind. Anyway, I would merely point out that Dave Arneson was a remarkably good natured and collegial fellow who considered gaming to be a group project. He posted on ODD74 that basically everything published should be considered canon whether he had much input to it or not, so its no surprise the zgg line builds on that.