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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-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, as an early testing ground for what would become D&D.
- Dave Arneson
- Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), Zeitgeist Games
Jul 19, 2021 · Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax created D&D to play Blackmoor. The setting is the first campaign world we had for a traditional tabletop RPG, and back in 2007, a revised and updated edition was made available as an official download.
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Oct 1, 2020 · According to Dave Arneson and Greg Svenson, the very first blackmoor game is a dungeon adventure. In a nutshell, the game ran like so, an evil wizard and his companion balrog snuck into the castle and stole something precious from the baron.
We’ll delve into its origins, impact, and lasting legacy, inviting you to explore the depths of this storied campaign in your own Dungeons and Dragons adventures. Origins and Development of the Blackmoor Campaign: The Blackmoor campaign was the brainchild of visionary game designer Dave Arneson.
While meeting at Gygax's house, Dave Arneson ran the Lake Geneva gamers through their first session of Blackmoor. Rob Kuntz describes Dave Arneson as the referee, and the Lake Geneva players as being Gary Gygax, Ernie Gygax, Terry Kuntz, and himself.
- Game designer
- April 7, 2009 (aged 61), Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
- David Lance Arneson, October 1, 1947, Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S.
- American
Blackmoor is a supplementary rulebook (product designation TSR 2004) of the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game written by Dave Arneson (with a foreword by Gary Gygax).
Blackmoor is the name of a fictional world created by David Arneson in 1971. It is also the prototype for Dungeons & Dragons, the first published role playing game. Unlike other fantasy worlds, such as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, Blackmoor is a living world that is being explored to this day.
