10-09-2010, 01:41 PM
gsvenson Wrote:Dave Arneson worked with Dave Richie on DA1-3. His contract with TSR gave him the right to review all Blackmoor material before it was published, but DA4 was published before he was able to review. So, that was most of his problem with that module. I am also sure that he objected to the fact that the Ran of An Foo, the leader of one one of Blackmoor's major enemies, was not even mentioned in the module. All the rest of this discussion on Dave's plans for the Afridhi is just speculation. I have no idea what his future plans for the Afridhi were.
Was just re reading this Ciro Allessandro Sacco interview with Dave http://www.thekyngdoms.com/forums/viewt ... ?f=23&t=35
He says the DA series was "heavily edited" and "For the first four modules he (Ritchie) was the editor. The work that he did was never passed back to me for my approval. Not to criticize David, but there were changes made that I did not like."
That still leaves a lot of questions regarding what Dave intended or what his ideas were for the series. For me, in some ways it doesn't matter because I'd prefer the FFC approach to Blackmoor regardless of who was behind the approach taken in later material.