04-13-2015, 07:01 AM
Well, structurally, Blackmoor is King Arthur meets '60s treatments of Tolkien meets High Crusade.
Given that TSR could not use the Tolkien angle, and that Poul Anderson and Jack Vance cooked in their own cauldrons back in the 1980s,
it seems logical that published Blackmoor drew more from that part of popular mythology. - Which is quite funny, because I myself expected
BM to be much more Arthurian (based on the first two DA modules), than it actually seems to have been if we listen to first-hand gaming reports
from the 1970s, as well as when we look at the actual FFC. The LFC, in that respect, was really more a product of published BM than of all the discussions
we had around here, because I was so wrapped up with everything I had read.
Given that TSR could not use the Tolkien angle, and that Poul Anderson and Jack Vance cooked in their own cauldrons back in the 1980s,
it seems logical that published Blackmoor drew more from that part of popular mythology. - Which is quite funny, because I myself expected
BM to be much more Arthurian (based on the first two DA modules), than it actually seems to have been if we listen to first-hand gaming reports
from the 1970s, as well as when we look at the actual FFC. The LFC, in that respect, was really more a product of published BM than of all the discussions
we had around here, because I was so wrapped up with everything I had read.