Bill Owen on the First Fantasy Campaign

[Havard]

Mr Owen and the legendary Bob Bledsaw had formed the Judges Guild in 1967.

Um ... was this 1976?

1976, yes! Typo, thanks for catching it!

I agree that FFC is somewhat unorganized. Perhaps that's part of its charm, since all of us feel like we could have typed up our own campaign notes and published essentially the same thing.

Perhaps that's something I enjoy best about OD&D, FFC, RQ 1e, and other games of the era -- the fact that notning was really slick and polished and you kind of felt like the guy who wrote it might be at your gaming table some day. Personally, I can't imagine looking at the slick paper, colored map, wacky font, hardback books out there and saying "see, this is our stuff."

Dave was a visionary. Perhaps not an organized one, but a guy who created magic where it hadn't been created before and that's a lot of what I liked about him and his FFC.

Just my two coppers.

I totally agree with this. That is sort of what I was trying to convey in my article as well. I think an editor complaining that what the author submits to him is disorganised doesnt really know what an editor's job is. Not criticizing mr Owen though. He was intimidated by being put in charge of publishing what was already at this time a legend. And he did a damn good job. The FFC proves how clueless those TSR guys were when they were complaining about what Arneson sent them.

-Havard