Hello, Harvard!
Hmmm, my first exposure to Blackmoor was Spring of 1983 at my friend and dungeon master John Savoy's apartment on Railroad Avenue in Livermore, California.
Presently I am running our current group through kind of a post-apocalyptic dystopian Blackmoor using the same idea of some catastrophic event related to the City of the Gods, also knocking the planet off kilter, but sticking with the Wilderlands rather than Mystara. I am making my own hand-drawn map at 20 miles per hex that will include the areas of Judges Guild Blackmoor, Wilderlands Veridistan and Valley of the Ancients, and, west of Blackmoor, Rob Conley's "Wild North" from Fight On! #3 (2008).
The whole north is in an ice age and the party is sort of south from the old Duchy of Ten having encountered super xenophobic and cannibalistic Westryn elves. The Temple of the Frog God is still hanging out there in the now-frozen swamp (the delta rivers are all smooth, snow-filled valleys since the sea level dropped from larger ice caps). And of course Egg of Coot.
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