Hidden in Shadows

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Mapping The Oldest Dungeon Crawl Session Report, Part 1

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The Dungeons of Black Moore Castle  (reprinted on pages 63-67 of the Blackmoor Foundations book), is the oldest tabletop RPG fantasy game n...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

The Weird, The Wonderful, and The Garbage Pits of Despair

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  Arneson's works, like his life, is largely obscure to the D&D community. His best known writing credit is no doubt the TSR DA seri...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

How many editions of D&D, Part II

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 Back in July of 2022 I made a frivilous post on my thought regarding how many editions of D&D there really were. I came up with 8. Sinc...
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Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Stats of a Dave Arneson Player Character.

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 If you want to find the details for one of the characters that Gary Gygax made and played as a PC, perhaps to use as an NPC in your own gam...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Who Made Blackmoor? A History of Setting Development

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In a sense Blackmoor "grew like Topsy", that is to say wild and on its own. Perhaps the first iteration of anything we might call ...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

The Mystery of the First Blackmoor Map

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 In this  POST  from a few years ago, I was concerned with the issue of scale and distance in Blackmoor in the course of which I attempted t...
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Saturday, August 17, 2024

Join Me at Arnecon 2

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  ARNECON 2   - Tickets are now live! Arnecon is the game convention promoted by the Arneson Estate held in the Twin Cities, now going into ...
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Game Archaeologist/Anthropologist, Scholar, Historic Preservation Analyst, and a rural American father of three.
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