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    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...
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  • at D&D's parent company, TSR Inc. Some of them involved game creators Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax. There was also a dispute between Gygax and business partner...
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  • 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...
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  • Arneson (also spelled Arnesson) is a surname of Norwegian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Dave Arneson (1947–2009), American game designer...
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  • developed as a collaboration between Dave Arneson, Gary Gygax, and Mike Carr. It was the first collaboration between Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, the co-authors...
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    pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded...
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  • Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated D&D) boxed set by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson was published by Tactical Studies Rules in 1974. It included the original...
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  • "Brownstone" setting and by Dave Arneson in his Blackmoor setting and later in the Dungeons & Dragons game to which Arneson was a contributing author....
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    Gary, and Dave Arneson. Dungeons & Dragons (3-Volume Set) (TSR, 1974) Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson [1974], edited...
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  • for fantasy role-playing games written by Dave Arneson and published by Judges Guild in 1977. Dave Arneson created a new type of game in 1970, something...
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    role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)...
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    Fictioneer Books. pp. 20–35. Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson. Dungeons & Dragons (3-Volume Set) (TSR, 1974) Arneson, Dave. Blackmoor (TSR, 1975) Gygax, Gary. Monster...
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    had been unable to find a publisher for D&D, a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so he founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish...
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  • first edition was written by J. Eric Holmes based on Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson's original work. Later editions were edited by Tom Moldvay, Frank Mentzer...
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  • Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year—the world of Greyhawk...
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    and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by J. Eric Holmes. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by Dave Cook...
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  • and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by J. Eric Holmes. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by Dave Cook...
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    and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by J. Eric Holmes. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by Dave Cook...
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  • Game mechanics Magic Magic item Miniatures Psionics Creators Gary Gygax Dave Arneson Keith Baker Richard Baker David Cook Monte Cook Ed Greenwood Jeff Grubb...
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  • 1979, designed by Dave Arneson and Richard Snider. The game is a fantasy system, similar to early Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), which Arneson co-created. It...
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  • Readings in D&D: Poul Anderson". Tor.com. Retrieved 2017-02-19. Gary Gygax; Dave Arneson (1974). Dungeons & Dragons, Volume 1: Men and Magic. Tactical Studies...
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  • Andrew Blau and Marta Urbanová as elves Jirí Machácek as Loyalist General Dave Arneson, the co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, makes a...
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  • edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game written by Dave Arneson (with a foreword by Gary Gygax). Blackmoor, the second supplement to...
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    Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by J. Eric Holmes. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (TSR, 1977) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson [1974], edited by...
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    (3rd ed.). Macmillan. p. 77. ISBN 978-1466866454. by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson (1986). Dungeons & dragons : fantasy role playing game : basic rules...
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  • (TSR, 1975) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson. Dungeons & Dragons (3-Volume Set) (TSR, 1974) Gygax, Gary, and Dave Arneson. Dungeons & Dragons (3-Volume Set)...
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    role-playing games. In a 1981 interview published in Pegasus magazine, Dave Arneson described Wesely's Braunstein as a game in which each player had a "role"...
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    by Dave Arneson who was a participant to Wesely's sessions, to focus his ideas regarding a fantasy realm known as Blackmoor, and by 1971, Arneson would...
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  • computer's lack of intelligence. In a 1988 Computer Gaming World article Dave Arneson called fog of war "one of the biggest 'plus' factors in computer simulations"...
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    disappear. The term "hit points" was coined by Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson. While developing the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with...
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