01-26-2011, 08:11 AM
Havard Wrote:Dan, this is scary. Just a few days ago, I realized that there were many posts Arneson had made on Fin's forum that I had never read, especially those made outside the Blackmoor forum, and here you are posting tidbits!
Those posts Dave made are really terrific, and taken together paint a very informative picture. I referred to them a lot when I was writing D@D. I had only been on Fins forum a couple months when Dave passed and was completely unaware that he was so ill or I would have been a bit bolder asking him questions. At the time I was reading AiF and was going to ask him if I could send it to him to have it signed....
For whatever reason, Dave had two accounts there "Blackmoor" and "Darneson"
Havard Wrote:I think I would change this considerably if I were to use it in a game today though. For instance, I might change them from WWII Japanese to some of St Stephen's agents in some submercile vessel.
-Havard
Myself, I'd leave it as Japanese but not give much in the way of clues to players. These guys would be speaking a completely foreign language and not have anything that the characters would recognize or know about.