07-04-2012, 02:32 PM
Havard Wrote:Fair enough. Although I'm not saying Ross' version is perfect, I think you are giving the 4E team too much credit in that their deviations from Ross may have been such thought through decisions. Anyway the sources of the contradiction here is that you are moving Garbage Pits to a later date. The original date works within Ross' framework, but if you move that ahead you also need to move the other dates that cause the problems.
-Havard
Likely, some parts of the 4e timeline were given more thought than others. I don't know, but its published by DA's company and is the last word on the matter we'll ever have, so it's the standard I go by, contradicting it only where there is a solid textual reason to - for example placing the founding of Uberstars mines at 460 instead of 500 to make sense of the statement in the book regarding "nearly 600 years of mining,").
Realisticly, it's not me who "moved" the date of GPoD. Blackmoor events unfold year by year from the beginning of play in 1970. GPoD was published in the late winter/early spring of 1986. The adventure takes place during a warm season so summer or fall 1985 (1009) is the date by default. To change that year would require some textual basis that simply isn't there. Ross changed the date without any valid justification that I can see, to suit his personal preference. Fine for him, of course, but since "official" timelines are silent on the matter, I prefer the actual date, over Ross' whimsical one.
BTW the d20 line takes place 30 years after the FFC. The FFC campaign ended in 1975. The d20 line was first published in 2004 - 29 years later
