[Tekumel] Tekumel Foundation's plans for 2016

[finarvyn]

As a side note, I find Blackmoor very intimidating, these days, and I would not even consider running any Blackmoor games for the very same reason that you mentioned. I played for a while with Dave, and the Blackmoor I played in was a very different place with a lot of details then the Blackmoor that you folks discuss here and on other fora. The Blackmoor I played in was closest to what was in FFC; the d20 book had, to my eye, so little 'Dave' and so much 'd20' that I simply put it back on the shelf; it's not the Blackmoor I knew and loved.

I missed this the first time around, but spotted it when Havard quoted you on this.

I feel much the same way about Blackmoor as you do. The FFC is one of my all-time favorite RPG resources and I have always felt that the FFC Blackmoor was the Blackmoor when I want to run the setting. The d20 product line sits on my shelf and they seem to be fine products, but they don't have the same "feel" for me as the FFC does. I'm glad to get your confirmation that the FFC Blackmoor matches what you experineced with Dave.

I understand that many folks here love the minutia and love the details of what makes Blackmoor tick. I'm a KISS guy, I guess, and just like to keep it simple. Blackmoor, to me, is a harkening back to my early days of D&D where the referee could improvise on demand, players couldn't "work" the rulebook, and we played for days just because it was fun. Reading the FFC gives me that same thrill that I just can't get out of a rules-heavy rulebook.

Just my two coppers.