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I never got the chance to meet you or thank you for the great game that you helped influence and create. And as I mourned for the loss of your fellow creator know that while you never acclaimed his fame, I mourn for you no less, may a blessing go out to your family and may all your rolls be twenties.
Dave, you were one of those excellent hobbits, and that time was not enough for all of us to know you as much as you were liked or deserved.
Take our gratitude in peace.
Thanks Mr Dave Arneson.
Thanks for everything.
Also, it looks like both Dork Tower and OotS made tributes.
RIP Mister Arneson, and thank you.
Thanks for making the game more than swinging a sword or flinging a fireball.
Thanks and farewell to the man who put the dungeons in Dungeons & Dragons, it wouldn’t have been the same without you.
Thank you for the opportunity to interact and create new worlds with our imaginations. We all need a moment of silence to contemplate a world without games to fully understand what Mr Arneson, Gary Gygax, and all the other creators and imagine'rs really contributed to our lives. God Bless, our thoughts and prayers are with the family.
Blessings and peace upon you in all of your new adventures beyond this old world.
Thank you, Mr. Arneson. May you rest in peace.
CEO
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I have a great memory of Dave Arneson that I want to share. When I was with WotC and we bought TSR, I was one of the first people to head down to Lake Geneva, WI to help with the acquisition. One of the first things that we did was invite Dave to come to Lake Geneva. You see, Dave had had a little spat with TSR and was thus persona non grata at TSR headquarters. When he showed up, he was all smiles as we led him on a tour around the offices. We then went to lunch and talked for hours about the history of D&D. I can tell you that he was truly thrilled that we pulled him back into the fold and allowed him to be a part of what his ideas had created so many years ago.
Dave was always a true gentleman. A gamer at heart. He always had time to talk to everyone.
I'll end on another little story. My first year in the gaming industry was 1987. We had a little company out of Minnesota called Lion Rampant Games and our first product was called Whimsey Cards. We got the smallest booth you could at GenCon that year and we had a table stacked high with Whimsey Cards. People really seemed to like them and we were selling them pretty briskly when this distinguished looking gentleman came up to our booth. He politely listened to our enthusiastic sales pitch and bought a copy of the Whimsey Cards. As he bent over to put them in his bag, his badge flipped over and we saw that it was Dave Arneson. "We just sold a Whimsey Card to Dave Arneson," we gushed. "He helped to create D&D! OMG!" Needless to say, that made our convention. And three young gamers trying to make it in this industry (Lisa Stevens, Jonathan Tweet, and Mark Rein•Hagen) were given our first glimpse of gamer royalty.
God speed, Dave. You will be missed.
-Lisa
Great stories, Lisa. Thanks for sharing them with us.
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[crossposted from another thread]
I have a great memory of Dave Arneson that I want to share. When I was with WotC and we bought TSR, I was one of the first people to head down to Lake Geneva, WI to help with the acquisition. One of the first things that we did was invite Dave to come to Lake Geneva. You see, Dave had had a little spat with TSR and was thus persona non grata at TSR headquarters. When he showed up, he was all smiles as we led him on a tour around the offices. We then went to lunch and talked for hours about the history of D&D. I can tell you that he was truly thrilled that we pulled him back into the fold and allowed him to be a part of what his ideas had created so many years ago.
Dave was always a true gentleman. A gamer at heart. He always had time to talk to everyone.
I'll end on another little story. My first year in the gaming industry was 1987. We had a little company out of Minnesota called Lion Rampant Games and our first product was called Whimsey Cards. We got the smallest booth you could at GenCon that year and we had a table stacked high with Whimsey Cards. People really seemed to like them and we were selling them pretty briskly when this distinguished looking gentleman came up to our booth. He politely listened to our enthusiastic sales pitch and bought a copy of the Whimsey Cards. As he bent over to put them in his bag, his badge flipped over and we saw that it was Dave Arneson. "We just sold a Whimsey Card to Dave Arneson," we gushed. "He helped to create D&D! OMG!" Needless to say, that made our convention. And three young gamers trying to make it in this industry (Lisa Stevens, Jonathan Tweet, and Mark Rein•Hagen) were given our first glimpse of gamer royalty.
God speed, Dave. You will be missed.
-Lisa
yes thank you indeed, you know it's a little sad really, When Gary died, there was this huge outpouring and WotCs website front paged a memorial, I saw neither an outpouring nor any memorial at WotC and even this thread has had much fewer posters contributing than I thought, it's a shame how less known he was for his tremendous contribution. Hey you know when gary died wizards had some custom avatars in memorium, is there any chance the webmaster might be able to throw up some of the same here for Dave? I just think it's sad how quickly his passing has gone by and how there doesn't seem much to do to honor his memory.
I'd like to see some more significant honors paid to Dave Arneson as well.
yes thank you indeed, you know it's a little sad really, When Gary died, there was this huge outpouring and WotCs website front paged a memorial, I saw neither an outpouring nor any memorial at WotC and even this thread has had much...
Wizards has a memorial posting up now.