07-12-2015, 10:03 PM
I was thrilled to hear about this!
Confused and disappointed at peoples reaction to it.
I would love to see Blackmoor published and on the tables once again.
While I also hold some slight reservations about another's take on Daves work, I also realize that without it and without even more building on that work, the setting eventually will be dead.
One day each of us will follow Dave to that big game table in the sky and unless we carry his work on and show new players the joy of Blackmoor, then one day Blackmoor Dungeon's doors will close to never open again. The Egg will stand unchallenged and the temple of the frog will be transplanted to the forgotten realms or some other setting.
The best way to do that is to keep Blackmoor in print and even expand on the original.
Blackmoor needs to be more than Daves Blackmoor to stay alive and grow, IMHO Dave didn't make Blackmoor to be complete and finished and like a bible that sits unaltered. He made it so we would love it just like he did and have fun with it and turn it into things he never dreamed of.
I once used Blackmoor as the setting for my Gamma World game (the last edition) and it was a blast. I wish someone had the talent to have released Gamma Blackmoor as a hardback setting! That would have rocked!
I'm just rambling now so I will cut out by saying, I love Blackmoor because it speaks to me in ways other settings do not. It's personal in strange ways. Kinda like the stories of King Arthur verse Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings while a great story is epic and huge and not very personal while King Arthur is often about a boy or man we can all identify with just trying to do the right thing in a world where doing the right thing often leads to a bad end.
Confused and disappointed at peoples reaction to it.
I would love to see Blackmoor published and on the tables once again.
While I also hold some slight reservations about another's take on Daves work, I also realize that without it and without even more building on that work, the setting eventually will be dead.
One day each of us will follow Dave to that big game table in the sky and unless we carry his work on and show new players the joy of Blackmoor, then one day Blackmoor Dungeon's doors will close to never open again. The Egg will stand unchallenged and the temple of the frog will be transplanted to the forgotten realms or some other setting.
The best way to do that is to keep Blackmoor in print and even expand on the original.
Blackmoor needs to be more than Daves Blackmoor to stay alive and grow, IMHO Dave didn't make Blackmoor to be complete and finished and like a bible that sits unaltered. He made it so we would love it just like he did and have fun with it and turn it into things he never dreamed of.
I once used Blackmoor as the setting for my Gamma World game (the last edition) and it was a blast. I wish someone had the talent to have released Gamma Blackmoor as a hardback setting! That would have rocked!
I'm just rambling now so I will cut out by saying, I love Blackmoor because it speaks to me in ways other settings do not. It's personal in strange ways. Kinda like the stories of King Arthur verse Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings while a great story is epic and huge and not very personal while King Arthur is often about a boy or man we can all identify with just trying to do the right thing in a world where doing the right thing often leads to a bad end.