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[Rafael]

Have any of you incorporated some of the original characters and monsters from the original Blackmoor campaign?

More on this below, but, yeah, two steady companions of the party in my Blackmoor games have been different versions of the Blue Rider, and a "Brother Richard", who I think is a fusion of several characters as I played him - a medieval, "Brother Tuck"-like monk with a jetpack and a lasergun, who mostly serves as some sort of comic relief. There's also an evil jester who has accompanied the party on several occasions, but I think that is a character from the works of Rob Kuntz. I think I named that one Cicero, at some point, after the Skyrim character, but that obviously wasn't his original name.

Is King Uther the reigning King of Blackmoor, ruling from Blackmoor Castle, and is there an orc King Funk?

No orc king for me, but Uther has a residence in town, and rules from there. In the online game, he isn't king any more towards the end, but in my tabletop games, when we played in the DA series era, Uther was generally a pretty run-of-the-mill "Lord British", and, of course, baron or king of Blackmoor.

Or is Blackmoor Castle an abandoned fortification, waiting for the PCs to explore the dungeon below?

I've mostly portrayed castle BM as a ruin, or as a threshold occupied by the enemy. - Especially younger players, they seem to appreciate a high degree of realism/internal logic with their games. So, the idea of selling them that the castle - as depicted in the FFC - is inhabited, that has never quite worked.

Now, most of my takes on BM dungeon have been games that focused on the immediate environment of the outbreak around 995 NC. Blackmoor's Baleborn Orcs are a new thing to the Northerners, and nobody knows what the Egg of Coot is yet. I've occasionally borrowed from Robert J. Kuntz' "Maze of Zayenne" series to fill some of the gaps. Also, in order to give the players a scenario they could win without having to get too deep into the dungeon, Fang the vampire was often the primary antagonist. Did two big, and a few smaller games in that environment; seemed to work, in principle, and the players were cool with the adventures.

Is The Great Svenny in your campaign?

Apart from a few cameos, I've intentionally never included Greg's most famous character anywhere in the online games - seemed silly, to force him to treat his own character as an NPC. However, Svenny has made a few cameos in the Blackmoor Dungeon games, which all take place when he is still a very young man. In the first of the two bigger games, the party - who was in on the context - met him when they exited the dungeon, and in the second bigger adventure, he was one of the captains of BM Town's city guard, making his way up through the ranks. 

There was this idea of making "Young Svenny" and a younger version of the Blue Rider the guardians to "Kid Uther", who in my version of Blackmoor is still a child when the Egg of Coot first attacks the town. (In 995 NC.) - Something probably a bit inspired by The Last Legion. I don't think this idea ever went anywhere, since we chose to play other scenarios instead. Like, I think one or two players moved too far out of town, or something, and the next game we tried with those guys was with a different system - "DragonMech", I believe.