# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-arneson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:18:28.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-arneson"
name: "Dave Arneson"
slug: "dave-arneson"
description: "David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's fundamental early role-playing game (RPG) genre work pioneered now-archetypical devices, such as: cooperative play to develop a storyline instead of individual competitive play to \"win\"; and adventuring in dungeon, town, and wilderness settings as presented by a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all characters aside from the player characters."
tagline: "American game designer (1947-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Arneson.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1947-10-01"
deathDate: "2009-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     1.64
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://blackmoorcastle.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump