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Rafe's Blackmoor Campaign Overview
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Thank you for your kindness, Yaz. Smile I don't think it's going to happen, though. The LFC's main purpose as a game was to be a "community-builder", to bring many of the creative minds together that were doing (and are still doing) their own Blackmoor- and OSR-related projects.
I'm honored that the LFC came to have an influence on the way we're looking at Blackmoor today. (Or, at the CBI's version of BM, at least.) I never intended it to be a "setting-builder", though, and I think the participants back in the day made their contributions to the game(s) in such confidence that noone would ever try to "milk" it. It would feel like betrayal to me if I now went back and started I-don't-even-know-what.

Now, with the games that came after the LFC, that's a different matter: Not sure how many people who visit the CBI are aware of this, but our gaming group fundamentally stayed together after the conclusion of our adventures in Blackmoor. Discounting the occasional breaks here and there, we've been playing together ever since, for seventeen or eighteen years now. Those games, after 2012, were a fresh start for us, as we didn't continue with the LFC, and they have mainly been taking place in two gaming worlds of my own design, the very Moorcockian "Meleon", and the more Brooksian and Gemmellian "World of the Wind Isles". So, as I write this in late 2022, I've now been a DM in those two settings for quite some time longer than I was been a Blackmoor DM. If I were to write something RPG-related, which I don't presently plan to do, then it would probably be more related to those campaigns and settings than it would be to the older games.

It doesn't quite "help" either that, as a fan, I find my "Classic Blackmoor" needs quite well provided for: Havard's annual or bi-annual collections and gazetteers have been a lot of fun, for starters. And from "official" sources, there have been Bruce Heard's "Calidar", Rob Conley's "Majestic Realms", and lately of course Greg's and Dan's "Tonisborg". If I was to make a return to Blackmoor, then I think I'd rather like to be a player in one of their games than to create my own stuff again.  Smile

Yay, haven't posted at the CBI in ages! Good to be home!  Smile ...And happy holidays, Yaz, and everyone! Smile
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