01-18-2011, 05:19 PM
Havard Wrote:Not at all mate! If you hadnt questioned the conventional wisdom, would we have made these discoveries?
Hehe, I am glad that we're opening a few new dimensions there, then.
Lankhmar will be definitely interesting to explore, and a lot of the other magazine culture fantasy as well...
Quote:I am not too interested in that actually. IMO Blackmoor was always a shared creation, with contributions from players, publishers, editors etc. But its always nice to examine Arneson's interests, since he is the true creator and at the settings core.
The reason I mentioned this is basically because I'd like to find out what are filler names and what are not;
for example, that "Tower of Glass" thing - did Arneson develop this, or was it added by TSR without any greater background or meaning?
Quote:Not really fair to call them unoriginal when you compare them to works that were published later though, is it? But I see what you mean. I thinking about picking up the comic book version since they apparently are illustrated by Mike Mignola.
Sure, but... Read at least a few of the stories, and you will know what I mean; in the end, very conventional, somewhat Conanesque fantasy stories, IMO neither the best nor the worst of what was published at the time.
Quote:Sweet. We could have both the Frogmen and the Sahuagin right there. Interestingly Froglin and Sahuagin were connected in Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor.
I found that I had the book in German all along, and I think I'll take a look later tonight, so we clear this up...
But again, I think the very first frogmen are from Edgar Rice Burrough's works - but I am not sure from which one....