As suggested by Big Mac, here's an official thread for one product I'm guessing many of us own.
What are everyone's thoughts on this book? What are your favorite features, what would you have liked to see differently?

Havard

Okay, I've speed read through the pdf, concentrating more carefully on the setting material, which from a Blackmoor newb's point of view was remarkably helpful.

So I suppose my favourite part was the background detail given for the settlements, and the history of interactions between each major power-bloc.

I have two main comments on what could have been done differently, the first of which is:

"Where was the proof reading?"
As someone only passingly familiar with the setting I picked up loads of errors - are these specific to the pdf, or does the printed book have them as well?

I mean, they even spelt the Duchy of Ten as the "Dutchy" - on the map! :shock:

The second comment is perhaps more constructive:

"What about the rest of the world?"
Perhaps I've been spoiled by the wealth of Mystara material, but there wasn't even an outline map of the continent, and there was precious little on the Thonian empire. You only learn the name of the capital, Mohacs, in the write-up on Uther.

I understand the campaign setting is "Blackmoor", but surely in 30 years groups have travelled off the edges of the map? Just a map outline with maybe some national borders drawn on it would have helped to see how "The North" fitted in with the rest of the world.

Okay, I know there is more than one "Blackmoor", and that might have made it difficult, but it's something I would have liked. Simply to have seen the extent of Thonia would have been interesting.

ZGG's proofreader, I hope Dustin and Jeff can laugh about this:



Yeah, it has to be said, some of the publications by ZGG had the worst proofreading I ever saw on an RPG product; however, this changed with the later books.

As to where BM is located, that I guess was left out to keep the setting flexible; if you need some inspiration, try the JG approach,




Or check the "Maiden's Blackmoor" booklet we released.