These note sheets are for Ernie's infamous character "Erac's Cousin",Ī later Greyhawk character, from 1975 to 1976, who continued toĪdventure in the combined, expanded version of Castle Greyhawk with The notes for Erac's Cousin were up for for auction a while back the sales notes contain these comments, (among others): (poster Rhuvein, same thread as above) at 10:41pmĮrnie confirmed this whilst a bunch of us were hanging out gaming and drinking beer at his house last Thursday evening. I don’t know any details about his adventures there. Magic-User, but had to switch to Fighter because magic didn’t work on His name to avoid anyone having that power over him.) He was a (After the character Erac died, Ernie made a new character who was Erac’s Cousin and didn’t want to reveal The first D&D (as opposed to Erac’s Cousin adventured there. “Greyhawk” campaign started -the first D&D campaign!Ībout three weeks later, I had some 100 typewritten pages, and we began serious play-testing in Lake Geneva, while copies were sent to the Twin Cities and to several other groups for comment. A few weeks after his visit I received 18 or so handwritten pages of rules and notes pertaining to his campaign, and I immediately began work on a brand new manuscript. I asked Dave to please send me his rules additions, for I thought a whole new system should be developed. Gary Gygax briefly describes the play testing before the games books were first published in the article entitled: On Dungeons and Dragons (Origins of the Game) That a dispute between DA and GG later arose and was settled in court is not the topic of this answer. For those monsters to be published in Book 3 of OD&D (and for that matter in the Greyhawk supplement a few months later) they had to have been played by the original play testers in the Greyhawk campaign. The general answer is "yes" based on analysis of an article from Dragon Magazine, Issue number 7, page 7. Analysis from Creator Material/notes/comments (posted on those boards as gronanofsimmerya). Some odd bits of science fiction (more "Sword And Planet," actually) I never went to Barsoom, but Ernie did, and Rob wanted to. (He played in those early Lake Geneva games, and in Blackmoor). There is evidence that Erac's Cousin (an Ernie Gygax PC) adventured in Mars/Barsoom, when Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz were DMing the Greyhawk campaign. The Martian creatures had to have been played in Greyhawk in order to get into OD&D book 3.
Yes, in the Greyhawk campaign unknown for Blackmoor I was not particularly surprised to see it littered with John Carter references, but I was surprised that I'd not heard more made of it.
#Creatures of barsoom update
Note: In planning for an upcoming retro-themed dnd-3.5e campaign, I decided to go return to the original sources for inspiration, including attempting to update the Wilderness Wandering Monsters Tables. With that in mind, is there any straight-from-the-source or even apocryphal record of Arneson or Gygax actually incorporating the Edgar Rice Burroughs material into his Dungeons and Dragons campaign? What were the results? Further, the Optional Arid Pains table has encounters exclusively (and not parenthetically) with creatures from Barsoom. Adventuring parties in the desert have a one-third chance per day of an encounter, and of those desert encounters, one-third are with Men, and half of those encounters with Men may be (as they're listed parenthetically) with straight-up, actual, for-reals Martians, right out of the John Carter stories. (Emphasis mine.) And, indeed, Mars is a thing. This function is up to the referee, and what he wishes to do with it is necessarily limited by his other campaign work. Mars is given in these rules, but some other fantastic world or setting could be equally as possible. Some areas of land could be gates into other worlds, dimensions, times, or whatever. The third of the three Dungeons and Dragons booklets Underworld & Wilderness Adventures (1974) on Other Worlds says
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