There are two people with their names on the first ever version of Dungeons and Dragons. Just over one year ago, Gary Gygax died. Now Dave Arneson has joined him.
This one won’t earn obituaries in newspapers all over the world. Arneson never had a high profile, but he was the guy who put it together first, who assembled the technology that would become the role-playing game.
The RPG world has lost a swathe of its early creative powerhouses in the last eighteen months. Like them, Arneson will be remembered in the most appropriate way – through play.
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Man, that sucks. True enough that Gygax cast a longer shadow, but Arneson arguably ‘created’ the dungeon crawl concept.
Who does that leave now of the D&D old guard? Dave Cook and Tom Moldvay?
Moldvay passed away a year before Gygax. Zeb, at least, is still kicking about.
Dave Arneson made the Dom Post’s obituaries today – a good full column long.
Luke – yeah, saw that. Nice.