Talk:Arduin

message: is anyone watching or reading this talk page and if so can you answer some questions i have? i would thank you very much! Gandolyn 22:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of this talk page

message: If anyone can figure a way to better distinuish Paul from the "other" Mosher, please do so. What was just added is nothing more than a patch, frankly, but it's still long overdue. White Out and Typos 20:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Paul Mosher

message: Why are there several notes that such and stuch reprints are "available through Emperor's Choice Games and Miniatures." throughout the article? This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not another advertisement to drum up business. Oglahai 01:46, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertising?

message: I am in the process of formatting and cleaning this article. I cannot do everything at once, however. On my list is bringing the formatting of names and references into line and clarifying various areas. I also want to expand some areas like the infamous legal snafu with TSR, and also the legal battles between Dragon Tree and Emperor's Choice. Another very important issue I want to clarify for readers who are not familiar with Arduin is putting to rest the idea that Arduin began as a standalone game when it was in fact intended to be a Judges Guild-style supplement to Dungeons and Dragons. The "correction tape" legal issue changed all this, I know, and certainly Hargrave intended for Arduin to be standalone later on, but I want to see that early direction clearly explained. I am just posting this to let who ever is looking in that I am aware this article needs further work. Thanks! - Dicecollector29 (talk) 09:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: * Should we merge this into Grimoire Games?  Might help both articles out a little. Web Warlock (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably the reverse - Grimoire Games existed purely to propagate the Arduin system, and there's almost nothing in the GG article which isn't also in the Arduin article, while the converse is not true. Argyriou (talk) 17:47, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: All these years later it's quite clear that the Arduin article needs housekeeping, especially in the area of references. There are numerous great refs available now (2019) and the article needs them. It also needs some reduction and formatting. I'll do my part, as able. - Sanfranview (talk) 21:32, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a variety of what I consider errors and mischaracterizations in this article, and, for the most part, I'm not in a position to effectively contradict them because of an absence of source material at this late date. The one thing I can certcertainly ainly contest is the use of the title "the Complete Arduin" throughout this article, and in fact this was never the name of the two-volume set. The correct title is "The Compleat Arduin" as in the "Compleat Angler," to convey some sense of the archaic, and also to reflect that the rules were a manual on how to play Arduin as a stand-alone system, much as the Compleat Angler was intended to be a manual for the craft of fishing in its time. The two volumes were copyrighted under this name, and I know this because I filed the copyright notices with the Library of Congress. This is also how they were assigned ISBN numbers, and all of the original print run certainly used this title, as well as at least some of the reprints by Emperor's Choice. What EC did after that, I don't know. The usage here should reflect the historical name of the product, irrespective of what subsequent rights holders might prefer. 99.21.64.17 (talk) 07:03, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The previous comment is from Mark Schynert, Editor for the Compleat Arduin 22mass22 (talk) 07:45, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

text:  I am at a loss to understand the post from the IP editor above. The expression "Complete Arduin" does not occurr anywhere in the article,  let alone  "throughout this article", whereas "Compleat Arduin" occurs five times.JBW (talk) 08:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Emperors Choice never wrote the wiki pages. Emperors Choice did one update in 2022-2023 timeframe to update to update the timeline. So EC never changed the name of “Compleat” to Complete at any time. Due to “Compleat Arduin” being far from complete and to step away from the embarrassing name “Arduin II” for the next version was adopted with changes implemented to include the cover art, combining the two books into one so as not to continue to confuse the consumer because the “Compleat” version has the exact same cover. by all means change “Complete” to “Compleat” as it was called. EC never called it “Complete” and only retained “Compleat” until stocks ran out and the few reprints that were done ran out as well. It was then turned into a combined book. I would agree the original name should be cited. I suspect the original poster/creator of the wiki page has passed away and had no affiliation with EC in its creation. 2603:7081:7501:F41C:61D7:F15:A3C0:3273 (talk) 03:22, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Housekeeping