Tales from the Old Land transcript

[Rafael]

Well.... I tried 

Anyway, nobody forces you to use D&D to write and share your adventures 

Heh.  Now, as I said, "no plans to make plans". Don't get me wrong, I'm honored that people, that you occasionally still ask me about Blackmoor, but the simple truth is, I have moved on. (Not just recently, but about ten years ago, already, after the end of "The Promised Land".) It's not a matter of "convincing me", or of "finding the offer that works for me", it's really a bit like asking someone to go back to college, and to move back in with their parents. -- Would it be fun? Yeah, maybe. ...But you've been there already.

Back in the 2000s, our main incentive as fans to create content was that there was none. Nowadays, that's completely different. There's some truly fantastic stuff for classic Blackmoor out there. For immediate purchase, no less. The original DA series as PODs (which wasn't the case during "my" time), the ten-something books by ZGG, Greg's recent book, and a whole number of most excellent texts by Rob Conley and by Dan Boggs. There's the amazing gift that were the 80++ FREE adventures for the MMRPG, and there's, of course, the public Blackmoor Archives our good friend Havard has quietly built here over the last decade-and-a-half.

-- I'm not trying to be "smarmy", here. I'm saying, in the most general terms, I think I'd like to see more done with this existing abundance of content. A couple of fun campaigns that bring people together, like your games are doing. Maybe some streaming project, like Tad Kilgore did a few years ago. You know, that kind of stuff.
It's always cool to see new ideas, and new spins on some of the classic stories - but especially in gaming, what I really want to see is cool games being played, and people having a good time playing them. This zeitgeist (no pun intended) of how every DM also needs to be a bustling micro-publisher - I don't feel at home with that idea, at all.