Friday, February 13, 2026

Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1

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 Earlier (Here)  we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in Blackmoor Foundations . Turning now to...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Hello 2026

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 I didn't post a lot last year and looking through my lists, I have a lot of unfinished and barely started posts to work on. The seeming...
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

The First Dungeon Crawl in History - Mapping a Lost Session Report, Part II

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  Today detailed reports from game sessions are common. Until recently, some of the oldest I knew of were to be found in Alarums & Excur...
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Sunday, June 29, 2025

The First Dungeon Crawl in History - Mapping a Lost Session Report, Part 1

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Blackmoor Foundations contains two reports of dungeon crawls into Blackmoor dungeons. Both of these appear to have been typed by Arneson him...
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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 thoughts regarding how many editions of D&D there really were. I came up with 8. Sin...
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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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