Dave Arneson David Lance "Dave" Arneson October 1, 19472– 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 1970s3 Arnesons early work was fundamental to the development of the genre, developing the concept of the RPG using devices now considered to be archetypical, such as adventuring in "dungeons", using a neutral judge, who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all other characters to develop the storyline4 Arneson discovered wargaming as a teenager in the 1960s, and began combining these games with the concept of role-playing He was a University of Minnesota student when he met Gygax at the Gen Con gaming convention in the late 1960s In 1970 Arneson created the game and fictional world that became Blackmoor, writing his own rules and basing the setting on medieval fantasy elements Arneson showed the game to Gygax the following year, and the pair co-developed a set of rules that became Dungeons & Dragons D&D; Gygax subsequently founded TSR, Inc to publish the gamedave arneson, dave arneson dungeons and dragons, dave arneson biography, dave arneson keller williams, dave arneson net worth, dave arneson at game developer conference Dave Arneson

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