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David Wesely (born March 15, 1945) is a wargamer, board game designer, and video game developer. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar A wargame is a Game that simulates or represents a Military operation. A board game is a Game in which counters or pieces that are placed on removed from or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Dave Arneson credited him with coming up with the idea of the role-playing game. David L Arneson (born October 1, 1947 in Minnesota, United States) is an American Game designer. A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. [1]

Wesely earned a B. S. in physics at Hamline University in 1967 and an M. Hamline University is the first university in Minnesota It is a private coeducational institution founded in 1854 with a primary campus located in the Midway district of S. in high energy physics at the University of Kansas in 1969. The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City [2] During his college years Wesely was a member of the Midwest Military Simulation Association, a group of wargamers based in Minneapolis-St Paul. The Midwest Military Simulation Association (MMSA was a group of wargamers and military figurine collectors active during the late 1960s and 1970s when Wargaming was in its A wargame is a Game that simulates or represents a Military operation. Saint Paul ( abbreviated St Paul) is the capital and second most populous city in the U

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The Braunstein Game

In 1967[3] Wesely served as referee for a Napoleonic wargame set in the fictional German town of Braunstein. [4] As usual, two players acted as commanders of the opposing armies, but because he was interested in multi-player games,[2] Wesely assigned additional, non-military roles. For example, he had players acting as town mayor, banker, and university chancellor. When two players challenged each other to a duel, Wesely found it necessary to improvise rules for the encounter on the spot. Though Wesely thought the results were chaotic and the experiment a failure,[5] the other players enjoyed the role playing aspect and asked him to run another game.

Wesely thus contributed to the development of RPGs by introducing: (1) a one-to-one identification of player and character, and (2) open-ended rules allowing the players to perform any action, with the result of the action determined by the referee. A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. A player character or playable character (PC is a Fictional character in a Video game or Role playing game who is controlled or controllable

Wesely's Braunstein drew inspiration from Diplomacy, a game requiring players to negotiate in between turns. Diplomacy is a strategic Board game created by Allan B Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. The idea of a referee was derived from "Strategos: The American Game of War" (1880) by Charles Totten. Charles Adelle Lewis Totten ( February 3 1851 - April 12, 1908) was an American military officer a professor of military tactics a prolific [2] Wesely also read and cited as influential "Conflict and Defense: A General Theory" (1962) by Kenneth E. Boulding and "The Compleat Strategyst" (1954) by J. Kenneth Ewart Boulding ( January 18 1910 – March 18 1993) was an Economist, educator peace activist Poet, religious mystic D. Williams.

Wesely subsequently invented a new role playing scenario in which players attempt to stage or avert a coup in a small Latin American republic. Dave Arneson, another member of the MMSA, took over as referee for this scenario, which was also known as a 'Braunstein'. David L Arneson (born October 1, 1947 in Minnesota, United States) is an American Game designer. In 1971 Arneson developed a Braunstein set in a fantasy world called Blackmoor, a precursor of Dungeons & Dragons. Blackmoor is a Fantasy Role-playing game Campaign setting generally associated with the game Dungeons & Dragons. Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by

After college

Wesely joined the US Army Reserves in 1968. The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. He served on active duty in the Army from 1970 to 1973 and again in 1976-1977. He continued to serve in the reserves until 1990, rising to the rank of major.

TSR, Inc. published Valley Forge, a set of miniature wargaming rules by Wesely, in 1976. TSR Inc was an American game publishing company most famous for publishing the Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game. Wesely's board game Source of the Nile (1977,1979) was published by Discovery Games and later by Avalon Hill. For the literal source of the Nile River see Nile Source of the Nile is a Board game by Ross Maker and David Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in Wargames and strategic Board games.

In the early 1980s Wesely worked as a software developer for Coleco, porting the arcade games Zaxxon and Spy Hunter to the ColecoVision home console. Coleco was a company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as " Co nnecticut Le ather Co mpany " An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in businesses such as Restaurants Pubs Video arcades and Family Entertainment Zaxxon is a 1982 Arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released by Sega. Spy Hunter is a 1983 Arcade game developed and released by Bally Midway. The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries ' second generation home Video game console and was released in August.

Wesely has been a regular at GenCon and Origins since 1995, speaking at seminars. Gen Con is the one of the largest Despite a recent lawsuit from Lucasfilm and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 15, Origins Game Fair is one of North America 's most prominent annual gaming conventions second in size only to Gen Con.

Miniatures rules

Board games

Video games

References

  1. ^ Interview with Dave Arneson : Pegasus Magazine #1
  2. ^ a b c Acaeum.com Forum Posting by David Wesely
  3. ^ A forum reposting of The Secret History of Dungeons and Dragons by Don Whetsell. TSR Inc was an American game publishing company most famous for publishing the Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game. For the literal source of the Nile River see Nile Source of the Nile is a Board game by Ross Maker and David Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in Wargames and strategic Board games. Zaxxon is a 1982 Arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released by Sega. Coleco was a company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as " Co nnecticut Le ather Co mpany " Spy Hunter is a 1983 Arcade game developed and released by Bally Midway. SubRoc-3D is an arcade game released in 1983 by Sega, and the first such game to provide a three-dimensional image to the player using a display that delivers Whetsell says his information was gathered during the making of an unreleased documentary called Dragons in the Basement.
  4. ^ A Brief History of Role Playing Games : Midwest Area Gaming Enthusiasts
  5. ^ The Role Playing Game : Perfect Planet—this article quotes Heroic Worlds (1991) by Lawrence Schick
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