Bill Owen on the First Fantasy Campaign

[Havard]

Bill Owen dropped by and left a comment on my blog:

I don't know if I made the point in the podcast but I had judged very little of our campaign from 1974-1976. Bob did 90% of that with Marc Summerlott, Craig Fogle, Mark Holmer and I dividing the tiny remainder (to give Bob a break). My point is that Bob was already a hard act to follow... then I am to make sense of Dave's stuff?! I am glad that my minimalist approach worked well for you. My memory now (sorry there's no more) of FFC was the failed cover art. It's a rookie mistake (to use the same value colors together for the red heading and the brown background art) that could have been caught if we would paid for a proof. But by a combination of desire for speed (I was 22 years old and "at a slant") and parsimoniousness (we wanted to provide a variety of play aids inexpensively), I charged ahead.

-Havard