Le Noir Faineant Wrote:I guess we'll overlap anyway, as I cannot produce this kind of stuff endlessly.
The Great Bay will likely be completed this week, or the next, but after that, I guess I'll take a longer break.
- Also, because "Home of the Ancients" will need a few more writeups.

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Quote:Beyond that, I will be basing the Province of the Western Marshes on various tidbits from the FFC and the DA modules. There is a lot to go on if you only find a way to connect the many pieces of the puzzle. Of course, this also means there could be many interpretations and mine will only be one of them.

Speaking about that, what about Rhun? Province, or separate country?

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Quote:Certainly. It is derived from the description of the Gin of Salik from the FFC. Both the title Gin (Djinn?) and the fact that he travels on a Flying Carpet made me think of an Arabian Adventures style realm. I have recently come across some more hints to where this Gin character may have originated from, but I will need to investigate that further before I can make any more specific claims.

I am going full Thieves World on that one; the Gin is the shadow chancellor of the city he resides in, an ageless wizard who is trapped on this material plane for some unknown reason.

Quote:Yeah, I think the basic premise is to make Blackmoor playable. Whatever happens in the other provinces is just a backdrop,
at least for now. - I mean, Ruins so far is a mini-game, really. If we ever see Palmyra in-game, it will be around... 2025?

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Quote:Atmosphere-wise the region may also be a bit different, but that would be due to the different time periods we are dealing with. I will be describing the Thonian Empire during the reign of Iyx I, a period where Thonia is basically controlled by evil rulers, even if many of its inhabitants are good people.

I look forward to your description; my own description of the Empire during Uther's age, I always set as needed,
and that was a blessing for the campaign. In the future, I'd like to have that more codified, though, because of the things that
are meant to come... :twisted:

Havard Wrote:Would you be pissed off if I produce an actual PDF of Thonia? I actually have more material completed than I realized... :oops:

Don't want to step on your toes though...

Le Noir Faineant Wrote:Oh lordy. Are we competing? Is there something to gain in this? Fame? Money (that would be nice, actually)? SHOULD I be pissed, for some reason?

Quote:Actually, I am pretty happy that you are giving people material to expand the sandbox.
I mean, by now it's pretty apparent that the LFC is set within its own universe. Where could we possibly conflict?!

Quote:I mean, do you, like, plan to run another game on Christmas, called, say, the "Ultimate Fantasy Campaign", and invite all my regular players? :twisted:

Because, that, yeah, THAT might be a problem.

Quote:Also, be thankful that I am all Napoleonic in my day job, lately:

Bolgerie is a quarter in Florence where the Bulgarian mercenaries during the time of the Napoleonic Wars lived.
The Sniders, in general, seem have to liked Italy, quite a lot.
For you as the designed BM historian, this might connect some dots as to a certain Taha Markovic. IMC, I am not sure if I will keep with this Eastern European theme.

Havard Wrote:I am just making sure that I am not stepping on your toes. Perhaps I am overly careful, but I figured that would not hurt.

Quote:Yep, I think this was an important step towards where we are progressing. Ideas can be borrowed between the continuities, but we are developing two separate (or three even) continuities allowing other DMs to borrow and use whatever ideas they want for their own home campaigns.

Quote:I too, do not know how East European I will make this whole thing, but "Habsburg" could be one way to involve both East European and old imperial multicultural flavours.

Quote:BTW, where did the name Palmyra first appear?

Le Noir Faineant Wrote:Nah, thanks, man. I appreciate your kindness with this, also because the approach to the setting was always a source of argument between me and you. - But no worries, the important thing is that we keep the dice rolling.

My only goal with the new game is to always have a continuing Blackmoor game going, and one that needs less management,
and is more open than a PBP. I think the LFC can accomplish that, because of the approach that we - together - took earlier.
But that approach was for a distinct purpose that is now sort of achieved. So, yay, renovation!

Quote:Game sessions, I might do more often, though - always provided that people are interested. - Already rolled out your character, hmmmm?

Quote:The "Byzantine Empire" appears to be remotely canonical; I think I will largely ignore that side, as well, simply because the linguistic union of the setting is more important:
We have proto-Persians, and proto-Saxons/-vikings in the same setting already; let's not overload it.

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Quote:BTW, where did the name Palmyra first appear?

Palmyra is a term I used when I did the Irilian campaign and was not sure how the handling of the BM license would go:
Had somebody piqued up the license, then, instead of returning with an "official" sequel to the LFC, we would have gone there, on an independent server.
- Not because of you, or whatever, but because I am not willing to work for free on something that helps others to sell their books. At least not like we did.

(FTR, me reactivating the LFC has to do a lot with the Blackmoor license not being anywhere near of being revived.)

The term itself is biblical, IIRC. Palmyra is a city in the biblical land of Zenobia. So, just a tongue-in-cheek, really.

Quote:Sorry, no way I can make it during the holliday season, but if you end up making more games I am definitely interested

Quote:Not sure where you get "Byzantine" from?

Quote:Okay cool thanks! For some reason I thought I had seen it in the FFC, but then when I couldnt find it in my notes I realized it must have been something else. That is your thing then. Looking forward to seeing what you will be doing with it.

• Western Marshes renamed Eastern Marshes to reflect actual position.
  
• Eastern Marshes Map draft completed.

Havard Wrote:Progress update:

• Western Marshes renamed Eastern Marshes to reflect actual position.
  
• Eastern Marshes Map draft completed.

Le Noir Faineant Wrote:Note, though, that I am basing my geographical approach on the Gygaxian C&C map:

Meaning that the Great Bay is South-EAST of Blackmoor.




I have not really set things in stone, but supposedly Thonia, Geneva, and the core of the old empire are to the south of the Great Bay,
as in, Greyhawk's Great Kingdom.

That might be third entry, with a treatment of the more exotic lands (Imperial Tangoro!) being the fourth.

I have also a piece on the lands up north, but that will likely not be released with the campaign's start.

For the campaign itself, I am really just looking at this second piece on the Great Bay.
Whatever follows afterwards, I guess the players will dictate...