Where to start? And where to go from there?

[Havard]

Well, I've started looking through the Zeitgeist book, looks interesting so far. Still, I suspect "my" mental vision of Blackmoor will draw on the factual details from these sources but the feel will probably still be based on FFC. There's something about the carefree spirit of those early days that clicks with me.

The feel of the FFC is defintely awesome. Does that mean you also want to set your campaign at the time of the FFC (years 995-1000) or in the ZGG era of the setting?

The biggest difference is probably that in the FFC Blackmoor is still a province of the Great Kingdom, whereas in the DA modules and D20 line, Blackmoor is an independent kingdom.

-Havard