Dave Arneson
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David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's fundamental ear
Arneson in 2008
Arneson playing Blackmoor at ConQuesT 2006
Blackmoor (campaign setting)
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Blackmoor is a fantasy role-playing game campaign setting generally associated with the game Dungeons & Dragons. It originated in the early 1970s as the personal setting of Dave Arneson, the co-creato
Dave Arneson
…Minnesota student when he met Gygax at the Gen Con gaming convention in the late 1960s. In 1971, Arneson created the game and fictional world that became Blackmoor, writing his own rules and basing the setting on medieval fantasy elements. Arneson took the game to Gygax as the representative for game publisher…
The original Blackmoor supplement (TSR, Inc., 1975)
First Fantasy Campaign (Judges Guild), 1977