Timeline for Origin of "You all meet in a tavern..." cliche in fantasy roleplaying games?
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| Feb 19, 2023 at 21:12 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | @ThomasMarkov this question and all the answers are (slightly) over 8 years old now - less people today may be aware of who Dave Arneson was, but this answer is a product of its time. | |
| Feb 19, 2023 at 13:41 | comment | added | Thomas Markov | This answer could be improved by providing some more context about Dave Arneson and the campaign. You don’t tell me who he is or why this campaign is important to the answer, so I don’t really know why this answer is correct without having to do further research myself. | |
| Feb 19, 2023 at 13:36 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Cite the quote
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| Feb 19, 2023 at 3:02 | history | edited | Erik Schmidt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2023 at 3:02 | comment | added | Erik Schmidt | I've updated the link. It now points to a difficult but similar source. | |
| Feb 18, 2023 at 4:41 | comment | added | Valley Lad | Hyperlink to "The Comeback Inn" is broken -- anybody got a replacement? | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 19:34 | vote | accept | RobertF | ||
| Jan 21, 2015 at 19:31 | comment | added | RobertF | In the intro to the Blackmoor setting book (Zeitgeist Games, 2004), Arneson described his thoughts behind the creation of the Comeback Inn in 1974: "Where did the players meet? Inns were popular in a lot of books and it was logical that the guys would meet in a public establishment. And there had been this neat medieval restaurant in Chicago called The Comeback Inn." Since Blackmoor was a popular D&D campaign setting in the 1970s (not to mention the first D&D campaign setting) it's fair to say the Comeback Inn was the tavern that set the standard for the cliche so common in fantasy games. | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 17:59 | history | answered | Erik Schmidt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |