Making a Video Talking about the setting of Blackmoor.

[aldarron]

From what I have gathered, the Mystara-connected Blackmoor from DA1-4 is very much the same world as the Blackmoor from "First Fantasy Campaign" published by Judges Guild and the Zeitgeist/Goodman/Code Monkey Blackmoor (including the MMRPG) Blackmoor publications. The map is the same, the countries and characters are the same.

The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer's Blackmoor is definitely a different world (i.e., Gary Gygax's world of Greyhawk) with some similarities (Castle Blackmoor, Egg of Coot, City of the Gods).

I think I'll probably leave out Greyhawk's Blackmoor. As i dont think Dave Arneson had anything to do with it. I could very well be wrong.

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I get the sense you guys aren't aware of my book so I guess first I would suggest you check it out: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/previe...9219189527

Next I would say that if you are chasing only a Blackmoor that  " Dave Arneson had anything to do with it." that's a tough standard to parse.  Arneson had varying degrees of involvement in the ZG product, for example.  The DA series is loaded with Arneson originated material, but he had zero control over how it got used and there's lots of stuff, including an entire adventure that was entirely the creation of folks at TSR.  Arneson had nothing to do with the placing of his Blackmoor into the Mystara setting for example, and it is very much NOT the same world as the DA 1-4 series.  The original campaign used a different map and was set in the same world as Greyhawk.

Basically what I'm saying is that you are setting a standard for yourself that will be hard to follow with any certainty, even for those of us researching the topic for years.

I think the only really 100% Arneson Blackmoor products are The Garbage Pits of Despair adventure and the newly released Blackmoor Foundations book.

For a home campaign, you certainly can draw on any and all the available source to craft Blackmoor to you likening (Book linked above does that) but an accurate discussion of Blackmoor has to acknowledge the setting has varied a lot across publications, and that could be an interesting way for you to go.