Dave Arneson Game Day 2021
Today is Dave Arneson Game Day! As usual we celebrate this day on Dave's birthday, October 1st as a celebration of Dave's legacy as the D&D co-creator. This year, Dave would have turned 74 years old. This also marks 50 years since the official announcement of Blackmoor! Its been great seeing people joining in for Blackmoor Week. Every year it has been an amazing celebration of gaming, like it has been every year since we started doing this. I hope that Dave is sitting on a cloud somewhere and that this makes him smile. I met Dave only once and exchanged a few messages with him later on. But my impression from those interactions and from what others who knew him better have told me, is that what was most important to him was that we all had fun with the game he helped create. For a long time, Dave Arneson was just a name to me that I saw on the credits of various D&D products I had collected. When I began talking to people online, especially in old school circles I f...