JPQuinn Wrote:Where would I put those two modules? Hmmm... Interludes would go well near Jackport (Interludes: Brief Expeditions to Jackport?). Idylls could be set pretty much any where, but the Iron Hills would be a good spot or somewhere along the east border of the Dutchy of Tehn.

Quote:As for the Mage Wars, that was mostly all Dustin Clingman's idea. It was a good way to explain the edition change and the schism in magic and class systems. Many of the little core ideas were there to help explain gaps in the original world design, edition changes, design team preferences, and Dave's whim.

Quote:Dave's master idea was to have fun. Our "design meetings" took place in a number of emails and online chats where he'd tell us stories. The stories had very little to do with the topic at hand, if at all. But a month down the road you'd suddenly realize that the stories he was telling were helping to shape your perception of the world Blackmoor belonged to.

Quote:I swear he was psychic. He knew what you needed before you knew it yourself. He even knew about my third child 2 months before her conception with this line that he wrote on the inside cover of my Blackmoor book, "may all your treasures be tripled."

Quote:"Dave's Ideas" - there is really no way of knowing what else he had in store for Blackmoor. The 3e design teams were given a pretty free hand after the main campaign book. Other than some hand written campaign notes (some over 30 years old), our major references were the modules and setting material that wass already printed.

I hope this answers some questions for ya.

JPQuinn Wrote:Havard found me over on the WotC Blackmoor group and invited me to join over here.

JPQuinn Wrote:It's nice to see that the Blackmoor community is alive and kicking.

JPQuinn Wrote:I know, you want a hint... OK. One of the HUGE projects has a little tagline for it, "Grognards unite! Your Destiny has arrived."

JPQuinn Wrote:"Dave's Ideas" - there is really no way of knowing what else he had in store for Blackmoor. The 3e design teams were given a pretty free hand after the main campaign book. Other than some hand written campaign notes (some over 30 years old), our major references were the modules and setting material that wass already printed.

Rafael Wrote:The Coot's Seat:

• We are conscient that doing an interview by mail might be somewhat dry. So, as an introduction, please tell us that one joke you know!
  
  
  
• So, on to more serious stuff: What was your first ever roleplaying experience?
  
  
  
• What was the FIRST character you played?
  
  
  
• What was the LAST character you played?
  
  
  
• Did you ever play the role of the DM? - If so, how was your experience?
  
  
  
• What was your introduction to Blackmoor?
  
  
  
• What is that one thing you will always remember about your roleplaying/Balckmoor campaigns?
  
  
  
• You probably knew this one was coming: What's your favorite edition of D&D, and why?
  
  
  
• If you had to recommend a book to a fan of the Blackmoor setting, in order to give him or her some inspiration for a campaign, that would be...
  
  
  
• If you had the opportunity to redo the D&D movie again, your dream cast would be... (Please name a director, a male and a female lead!)
  
  
  
• And finally: A shoutout! What did you always want to tell the D&D fans out there?!

JPQuinn Wrote:Where would I put those two modules? Hmmm... Interludes would go well near Jackport (Interludes: Brief Expeditions to Jackport?). Idylls could be set pretty much any where, but the Iron Hills would be a good spot or somewhere along the east border of the Dutchy of Tehn.

As for the Mage Wars, that was mostly all Dustin Clingman's idea. It was a good way to explain the edition change and the schism in magic and class systems. Many of the little core ideas were there to help explain gaps in the original world design, edition changes, design team preferences, and Dave's whim.

Dave's master idea was to have fun. Our "design meetings" took place in a number of emails and online chats where he'd tell us stories. The stories had very little to do with the topic at hand, if at all. But a month down the road you'd suddenly realize that the stories he was telling were helping to shape your perception of the world Blackmoor belonged to. I swear he was psychic. He knew what you needed before you knew it yourself. He even knew about my third child 2 months before her conception with this line that he wrote on the inside cover of my Blackmoor book, "may all your treasures be tripled."

"Dave's Ideas" - there is really no way of knowing what else he had in store for Blackmoor. The 3e design teams were given a pretty free hand after the main campaign book. Other than some hand written campaign notes (some over 30 years old), our major references were the modules and setting material that wass already printed.

I hope this answers some questions for ya.

JPQuinn Wrote:"Grognards unite! Your Destiny has arrived."

Big Mac Wrote:Hmm. I'm a 3e man personally. Would that include my kind of grognard?

Big Mac Wrote:How much of what Dave Arneson showed you has gone into printed products? (Or to put it another way, if I buy all the books, how much Blackmoor ideas are missing?) Can I get away with just buying the 3e products, or are there any pre-3e things that got missed out from the 3e line?

Rafael Wrote:BTW, we have this complex of questions on the page we call the "Coot's Seat."

JPQuinn Wrote:Maybe not "your type" (though I wouldn't consider 3e old enough to be grog-worthy yet). But if you like Blackmoor, Wilderlands, the 3e Dungeon Crawl Classics series, and anything from 3e that was "retro-styled," then you'll love Destiny.

JPQuinn Wrote:C) like The Final Fantasy Campaign (aka - Blackmoor 4e) and even Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition as a whole, Destiny is also a progressive and visionary masterpiece of game mechanics which would have most assuredly piqued Dave's interest

JPQuinn Wrote:and D) I would like some of the talented few from this board to test the system and be recognized.

JPQuinn Wrote:I would say Dave had ideas and enough written information for a least another 500 to 1000 pages. And the development teams scrambled to keep up with him. So, I don't think there would have ever been an "end" to the information that he had. I'm sure Greg and Robert (both on this board and played in his first campaign) can attest to that.

JPQuinn Wrote:And as for the 3e books. A great deal of info is in there, but there is a bunch missing that we weren't allowed to touch (due to licensing agreements).

JPQuinn Wrote:("First character," really? That was 30 years ago!) hock:

Big Mac Wrote:

JPQuinn Wrote:Havard found me over on the WotC Blackmoor group and invited me to join over here.

He did that to me once. :lol:

Quote:Can I get away with just buying the 3e products, or are there any pre-3e things that got missed out from the 3e line?

JPQuinn Wrote:

JPQuinn Wrote:"Grognards unite! Your Destiny has arrived."

Teasers!!!!!

Quote:And as for the 3e books. A great deal of info is in there, but there is a bunch missing that we weren't allowed to touch (due to licensing agreements).

Quote: this site, Havard's dark and dusty mind, etc.).

JPQuinn Wrote:It was some time ago, but things like Thonia (btw, use Karameikos... same idea, geography, culture, religion, etc), jarls, the Iron Duke, Dutchy of Ten, hobbits, etc.

Quote:Btw, the "hobbits" of old became the halflings of Blackmoor. While the docrae were the 3e halfling race we reinvented to compensate the edition difference between the races.

Quote:As to the D6 question.... :twisted: