The NWFP Connection

[Havard]

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.

I thought I had seen that somewhere. The changes made Arneson refers to can only be the removal of Ran as the leader of the Duchy and the Afridhi taking over that realm. As we know the Afridhi were not Ritchie's creation, so that is the only change I can think of that Dave would have had an opinion of. Dustin stated somewhere else that even though Arneson disliked this change, he decided to use that in the D20 version as well since this would have been established by the fans at this point.

-Havard