Blackmoor Fiction

[Havard]

No fiction for the Wilderlands that I'm aware of offhand. I may try to wade back through my Dungeoneer/Judges Guild Journal/Dungeoneer Journal/Pegasus/whatever magazines to see if there is any short fiction set in the Wilderlands there. I think that would be our best bet.

Cool, let us know if you find anything.

And I just don't know enough about Mystara to really know which eras were BM eras or not. I have copies of the gazeteers but never really read them much. I bought them because they were cool, and keep them because they are cool, but I don't really play that edition of D&D much so I don't often think to dust them off and read them.

The Gazetteers is the heart of the Mystara setting. They are indeed very cool. Mystara incorporated Blackmoor as part of its history. It assumes that King Uther's Blackmoor existed thousands of years before the Gazetteer period.

What this really means is that they are basically two different worlds, but that they can be connected by time travel adventures rather than plane shifting. Also ruins and artifacts found on Mystara are some times believed to be from Blackmoor.

Personally I think this is pretty cool. It is sort of an analogy for how Arneson's spirit lives on in the later rulesets, so does parts of Blackmoor remain in the setting that was the default for the B/X & BECMI rules. 8)

-Havard