Let's improve the Blackmoor Wikipedia article!

[Havard]

I've been busy for ages now, and have noticed your inability to catch me up at The Piazza!

All part of the grand plan my friend... :twisted:

Maybe that could be a multi-part thing.

That's a pretty good way of handling it.

There have been several "waves" of Blackmoor. The first was obviously Dave Arneson's private campaign (which Svenny could tell you some stuff about).

Then you have the first products, where people only really see a hint of what Dave Arneson did. The obvious question there is, how much Blackmoor is in that stuff...and how much is omitted.

Then you have the Blackmoor references in Mystara stuff...and Greyhawk stuff. The question there is how true is that atuff to Dave Arneson's original game?

Later you have the 3e stuff. The question there is: is it Blackmoor? Or is it maybe Mystara's version of Blackmoor? Or is it something new?

Then you have the MMORPG. What is that? It is based on the 3e stuff, but what direction does it take the game in? Is it more Arneson-esk or less so?

4e. Is it any different to 3e (rules aside)?

Age of the Wolf. If this had been 3e, would it have been finished in time?

I think there are a lot of interesting questions that could be asked about every edition of Blackmoor.

I agree to that. I am less interested personally in which products are most true to Arneson's ideas etc. There has been alot of discussion on this on various foras, but I find that it only serves to draw up borders between fans.

There have been attempts at the same with Mystara, drawing lines between the very early Known World material, the Gazetteers, and the later Mystara material. I strongly dislike this kind of divisions.

Havard