Which Era of Blackmoor do you find most interesting?

[chirine ba kal]

Hi Chirine, I think that should correspond to the first category (or around there).

I think that pretty much all of us here at the Comeback Inn love hearing stories about the early years of Arneson's campaign. I love the detail about the elven bang sticks. I wonder where they got those from?

-Havard

From the guys in the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Dave's American Civil War re-enactment group, I would assume. (Blackmoor is prone to outbreaks of Nexus Points.) I got two .44 Colts for the wife - she's a very handy shot, and being a telepath very rarely misses - and a dozen three-band Enfields for the lads in my household guards. (They said that the things make lousy spears; the snap-on blades are pretty poor quality.) Plenty of the little lead slinger pellets and the 'foof stuff' you pour down the tube, too.

Lots of fun for the kids, though; heaps of noise and smoke. Phil was perturbed; he hated the things and said they got his world-setting smudged.

I don't know if this was in the 'early days' of Blackmoor as a campaign; Dave gamed with us out at Phil's starting in the very early 1980s, and I had the very distinct feeling that we were in a very original conception of his of what he wanted his campaign to be like - at least, what we were in was his 'home campaign', and not in one of the various 'Official' published settings. There were a few differences between what he was running and the material in First Fantasy Campaign, for example; I'd gotten the latter to find out what we might be in for, and while it was a good 'starter's guide' to Dave's personal Blackmoor, it didn't have everything that we ran into.

- chirine