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Dave Arneson (December 1 1955 - April 2009) was the co-author, with Gary Gygax, of the original 1970s role playing game Dungeons & Dragons and an important figure in the history of role playing games.
David Lance Arneson ( / ˈɑːrnɪsən /; October 1, 1947 – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's early work was fundamental to the role-playing game (RPG) genre, pioneering devices now considered ...
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Michael A Stackpole. Thu 23 Apr 2009 19.01 EDT. Dave Arneson, who has died aged 61, was the American co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and the father of role-playing games.
D&D 4th edition. 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 .
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Nov 25, 2020 · Advertisement. Dave Arneson helped make D&D what it is today. From DMs to campaign worlds, Arneson’s legacy is clear, despite a bitter feud between the founders. Dungeons & Dragons wouldn’t be half the game it is without Dave Arneson. Literally. Arneson is credited with inventing “dungeons” so without him, the game would just be “& Dragons.”
Mini Bio. Dave Arneson was born on October 1, 1947 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Untitled Dungeons & Dragons series, Dungeons & Dragons (1983) and Secrets of Blackmoor: The True History of Dungeons & Dragons (2019). He was previously married to Frankie Ann Morneau.
Nov 2, 2015 · Co-created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, in 1974, D. & D. had gone from a heavily leveraged first printing of a thousand hand-assembled copies—stored, at first in a colleague’s basement—to ...