Arthgar
Arthgar is the campaign world in which I played D&D from September 19, 1982 through to 1989 (or so), though more time was spent at the table in the first 18 months than all the subsequent years. The the group started playing together at the Creative Gaming Society, a gamer's club that used to exist at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The initial playing schedule was three times a week, Sunday afternoons from 3 till 6 or 7, and two nights a week, usually Tuesdays and Thursdays (I think). Fortunately, being 17 years old and in first year university didn't make any of us overly concerned about acedemic performance (and it showed). During the first session there were about 10 or 11 different players, which quickly fractured into two groups.
This web page is the collected comments by various group members on the campaign and its events, remembered some 15 years later - and then modified more over the following 25 years! I have edited some of the message text attributed to the others to avoid stringing together rambling e-mail threads of clarification. This page is definitely (and always will be) a work in progress.
The Players and Characters
- Kevin Brown: DM
- David Janes: Glimar, Cedar, Kalib Hastur, Elric
- John McDonald: Karish, Daemon
- Cyril Mullins: Musan, Ciecero, Strum, Ziltch
- Steve Hart: Sundry Moribunds
The Stories
- Campaign chronology
- Early adventures
- Later adventures
- How to browbeat a DM into submission
- The Black Council
- Random acts of evil
- Random acts of lunacy
- Maps
- Photos
Updates
- June 14, 2021 - put on GitHub
- June 15, 2021 - add story about Tower of Roc / Daemon's Hammer and Aracus's Tower recoved from emails on old drive;
- add clipping from Muse for first seson
- make text bigger
Postscript
The e-mails comprising this recollection were put together in the Winter and Spring of 1997. These HTML pages were made in late 1998. Today is the 12th of August, 2002 and I have revised some of the formatting on these documents and attempted to make some of the links work correctly.
As best I can figure, our first game together as a group -- that is, Kevin, John, Steve, and myself (David) -- was the 19th of September, 1982. Cyril joined the next week (or maybe the week after that) on the 25th of September. Steve went with the "other group", so it was just the four of us for the first few months of playing.
So ... there's a twentieth fortieth anniversary coming up soon.
Cyril; September 19, 2002
I suspect my joining would have been a few weeks later than that. It was early enough in the fall that the days were still warm (I recall carrying my jacket and not wearing it) and Kevin was on a work term somewhere near Freshwater Road. I met him at Capital Hobbies while he was on lunch.
I happened to be cruising hobby stores looking for gamers just after getting out of the military. It had been a few weeks since my last gaming session and I needed a dice rolling fix!
Steve; September 23, 2002
Here's some information : the people in my group were Craig Tucker, Craig Penney, Paul Roberts (blond, sunglasses, engineering student), Greg Dyke (Abdul) for a while, Richie Wells on a few occasions. I'll be in Nfld for Thanksgiving, so I'll try to get some pictures and scan them. I know I have a picture of Cyril in the TSC from 1982 and one of Craig Penney there climbing up a wall in the TSC gym or something.