Greetings from a LONGtime lover of Blackmoor!

[Havard]

Wow! What a nice welcome! I admit to having been a lurker for a while, looking at all the juicy articles and interviews; I can lurk no longer!

Excellent!

Some of the posts here are quite scholarly, and there is just so much canon I am unfamiliar with! Among gamers in this neck of the woods, I was THE Greyhawk Man...but wow! There's so much I DON'T know! I'm almost intimidated at my lack of knowledge.

Guilty as charged there. I sometimes worry that I get too geeky about my discussions here, trying to tie in every little tidbit from various obscure sources. OTOH, that is the sort of thing I enjoy to do. But if we can find a balance where I get to talk about the obscure stuff I like to talk about, while at the same time don't scare away other posters that would be the ideal

As for Blackmoor, there's only been the old D&D products, some old online resources (which I can't find online anymore) and Mr. Arneson's base campaign setting book I got a few years ago that were my references. I was never a fan of the Cyclopedia or Basic D&D when it was new, so I guess I missed a lot of info.

If you are looking for downloadable material, make sure you have checked out the Downloads Page in the Blackmoor Archives.

But over the years Blackmoor was that seat of ancient mystery in my campaigns. I held it out to my players as the "end of the rainbow". It was a dangerous, unOerthly place of ruins and buried and lost knowledge with the hint of portlas, gatesdaemons, devils and gods somewhere in its wilds. A place best approached by the powerful and experienced adventurer...Which backfired on me, ultimately.

I like this idea of Blackmoor as this mysterious place. Coming from the Mystara side of things, Blackmoor was equally mysterious because it was also lost in time.

It only rarely occured that my players finally would have the wealth, experience and time to make an expedition to Blackmoor. When that did happen, however, the results were some legendary gaming sessions! But that's for another time.

Would love to hear more about this. Please share!

-Havard