03-16-2011, 01:20 PM
Rafael Wrote:Dunno, Aldy, have you even cared to look into the LFC timeline?
The thing is, you will eventually end up with something like the one I did two years ago already,
just that it seems you need to rethink every single step I already did by then. :wink:
Of course, I made some game-related changes, but they were small compared to the overall work I put into pillaging all BM canon.
(LFC Events > LFC member ideas > DA Series > FFC > Havard's investigations outside of the LFC > Forum stuff > BM d20 series.)
">" meaning "more important than", in this case.
Yep, that's a massive thing of beauty Rafe. Trouble is I dunno what's what. Is there a version where you list sources? I'd love to know where stuff comes from.
The other thing is I'm taking the "other" approach to Blackmoor. Basically as we've discussed Blackmoor is either a Mystara setting, in which case the DA series is the definitive and the rest needs to conform to it, or its a Dave Arneson setting, in which FFC/Arneson/Original Players are the definitive source. The overlap between the two is huge but not complete. In particular DA 4 is way off the mark of what Arneson envisioned and I steer as clear of that awful thing to the extent I can. No harm in picking non contradictory names and such from it, though.
Basically - FFC > Gabage Pits > Original Player recollections > Supplement II > BM d20 series > DA1 > Havard's investigations > my crazy idears
Even so, most of the timelines - say from 800 to about 1010 - should pretty much match, aside from some DA4 and DA3 stuff. I think.