Founders of Roleplaying: Dave Arneson

One of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, Dave Arneson was born in Minnesota and lived from 1947-2009. He along with Gary Gygax birthed a genre of Role Playing that has been alive and well since 1974, Dungeons and Dragons.

Before D&D back in 1970, he created a campaign world known as Blackmoor. This campaign setting would lay the foundation of the world of Mystara which was known as the official World of Dungeons and Dragons. However, he left the company in 1976, and managed to keep the rights of his original material. For a time he did work with TSR and contributed to much of the developing campaign world.

With the advent of 3E Dave Arneson once again emerged, and brought Blackmoor back to the world of gaming. Much more detail to his original world was finally published and was well received by the Fans.