Imagine if the game that Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax were playing together never reached our hands? During that time, People were publishing work using typewriters. Dave Arneson did not know how to type on a typewriter, let alone create a decent layout for the material. Without having Gygax as a primary contributor, this game might have never left the cutting room floor. Without Gygax, we might have had to wait for Griff Morgan to bring the game to us 50 years later.
@SGrey-fk3zf
I don't see this as a big controversy. Arneson is largely responsible for the genre, Gygax made it happen.
@mplundr
21 күн бұрын
I had my Gygax phase, even played a game in his old Center St house at Garycon years back, but after watching the Blackmoor doc, it's clear that Dave is criminally under appreciated. Kudos to those addressing that injustice!
@btrenninger1
The first Wizard was played by a fellow named Gaylord? Some things can only happen one way. It's fated.
@bobiojimbo
We already have isakai in English: fish out of water.
@cpmf2112
Dave Arneson is definitely not "the" guy who invented RPG's. It seems clear from the various histories that RPG's existed in various forms before Dave or Gary started playing.
@toddcarlson5324
I'll probably get slammed for asking but why can't the game be both a Wargame and an RPG regardless of its origin? As you have shown, it can be used to work a 4x campaign (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) with elements of role-play and it can also be used for a straight-up RPG (i.e. A DM running a group through a single or multi-adventure campaign). Calling out different groups because they enjoy a different way of playing the game seems as divisive (well, not as divisive) as those who try to shoe-horn the game into the specific (and problematic) narratives that plague the game world today. Thanks for the review! Looks like a great book.
@LordCandyDish
Mr. Wargaming, great video as always. Off topic question, I remember you recommending a channel that was using the Solo Wargaming Guide to play an ancients campaign, but can't remember what channel that is, do you? I've tried checking the video descriptions from your solo campaigns to no avail. Thanks and keep up the great work!
@RHampton
Thank you so much for the flip thru. I don't mind you going backwards and forwards. I am now going to put this on my wishlist.
@horacioaugustofilho6487
I wish someone made a video about the Egg of Coot. It sounds intriguing.
@TheBreadPirate
9 сағат бұрын
WOW! I'm really tempted to buy this. So much cool history!
@TheRyujinLP
I'm a simple man, I see a Blackmoor video and I click (no joke, I didn't catch this was a Joy of Wargaming video to a split second I clicked on it). As much shit as I give D&D (at lest modern D&D, OD&D played with the way it was meant as a expansion to Chainmail is a very different, and better, beast), Blackmoor has always been more my style. It's actually a very different game then D&D, your HP pool didn't go up but you would reroll your HP before battles (representing the fact that some days we're not at our peak while other days we're just unstoppable), armor class was an armor save, your ability to dodge and avoid damage went up with levels not HP, it was 2d6 roll under and had skills and so on. And it was more science fantasy (one of the characters found a suit of power armor and a cyborg horse and there were laser and particle beam L shaped "staffs" that if you read their descriptions were clearly rifles... so for me, it's a yes please!) mike with some Hammer Horror vibs, so much more up my ally (I'm a Vampire Hunter D fan and that's the vib I get from the setting). So yeah, I do not mind if you dive more into this topic.
@dartmart9263
I remember the cool Blackmoor video!
@charleslatora5750
Very nice. Always. Very informative your videos. I spent the morning kit bashing some old figures that had missing weapons from their hands...fun. 1st time
@jasonjacobson1157
Cool!
@rwustudios
Thanks for doing the Review brother. The EGG of Coot theory should now be circulated.
@jasonjacobson1157
"EGG of Coot" was a shot at Greg Scott. Has nothing to do with Gygax. This is well documented. Scott had mocked fantasy gamers in some 'zines.
@steveyoungwork
just ordered it, $30 uk postage well worth it!
@eatcomics
Nice, I was gonna buy this when it was released
@griffithmorgan4966
I think my favorite part is where you discuss how people can explore RPGs on their own terms.
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