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Bargle the chaotic magic-user casts magic missile at Aleena the lawful cleric (Larry Elmore, from Frank Mentzer's Basic D&D Players Manual, TSR, 1983) In the "Learning to Play" section Mentzer describes Bargle giving orders to monster minions and magically charming the PC, traits Aaron Allston emphasized when he included the same character in the 1987 Karameikos gazetteer.
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sitting in bed at five thirty in the am laughing as i type the word 'bargle'. you wish you were me
Yargle Bargle: Origin Story
Tumblrfolk, we got a new frog commander! It’s a ghost frog because it ate a powerful man turned maggot. If that story doesn’t grip you, then it’s probably because my description was terrible. Anyway, I had to scribble it, so here comes Yargle erupting from a bloated evil frog.
It doesn’t get much more classic than the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules. I’ve no way of knowing for sure, but I would bet that the red box was the high water mark for TSR’s penetration into the mainstream marketplace. If you had even the most passing interest in D&D in the 80s, you probably had a red box.
This is the third iteration of the basic rules, revised this time by Frank Mentzer, that hit shelves in 1983. It focuses on, well, the very basics of D&D – characters, dungeons, monsters, treasures. It is a lean system, easy for beginners but with depth that should satisfy veterans. It taught through easy-to-follow solo adventures, introducing us to the nefarious wizard Bargle and the doomed cleric Aleena (I suspect a vast majority of young nerd boys have complicated feelings about her). There’s also a rust monster, just so players get used to the idea of asshole DMs early on in their development.
Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley deliver iconic art here. If there is a platonic ideal for fantasy roleplaying art, it can be found in the illustrations of the D&D rules boxes of the mid-80s. Is there an image that more plainly sums up the D&D experience than the one of the fighter, lantern held high, approaching the dungeon entrance? Both artists had long, interesting careers working with TSR but I love their work here more the most.
What I love most of all about the Basic Rules is the inside cover of the DM’s book which contains a key for dungeon mapping. What an amazing thing! Three columns of symbols from which you can make worlds. Encountering that as a kid was a revelation. There’s nothing better than drawing maps for D&D…
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Lovely Aaron (with Adam and Paddy) 3 years ago today, 20th August 2014 pt 1
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Baron Ludwig von Hendriks, The Black Eagle, and Bargle the Infamous, Court Wizard of the Black Eagle Barony (Stephen Fabian, The Grand Duchy of Karameikos by Aaron Allston, TSR, 1987, Gazetteer 1 for BECMI D&D's Known World)
Bargle the magic-user originally appeared along with Aleena the cleric in Frank Mentzer's 1983 Basic D&D Players Manual, in the introductory narration of how to play the game. Allston's Karameikos gazetteer says "Every campaign needs a thoroughly evil magic-user villain, and Bargle fits the bill. On adventures he prefers to wear black robes," which is consistent with Mentzer's description; "at home in the Black Eagle Barony, he dresses in gaudy robes so as to clash with the Baron, who always dresses in black." The text describes Bargle's hair and beard as brown, and he appears to be age 30, details contradicted by Fabian's portrait.
