{"id":1415,"date":"2009-04-10T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/10\/the-last-dungeon-master-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:06:43","slug":"the-last-dungeon-master-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/10\/the-last-dungeon-master-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The last Dungeon Master passes on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the original Dungeon Masters, Dave Arneson, passed away today just thirteen months after Gary Gygax (March 2008).<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous guys my age that were very much influenced by the original box set of Dungeons & Dragons, the \u201cred\u201d and \u201cblue\u201d Basic and Expert sets, and of course Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.  I still remember when I finally realized that the two sets of rules (D&D vs. AD&D) were in fact different, and no, you do not go from Basic to Expert, to Advanced.  LOL<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the original Dungeon Masters, Dave Arneson, passed away today just thirteen months after Gary Gygax (March 2008). There are numerous guys my age that were very much influenced by the original box set of Dungeons &#038; Dragons, the \u201cred\u201d and \u201cblue\u201d Basic and Expert sets, and of course Advanced Dungeons &#038; Dragons. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/10\/the-last-dungeon-master-passes-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The last Dungeon Master passes on &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}