Hello. New to Blackmoor.

[aldarron]

TLDR :wink:

Welcome to true nerddom, n00bie!


In short, my suggestions for you:

Check out Dave Ross' Blackmoor Gazetteer, and my own "Maiden Timeline":

http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/20 ... kmoor.html

http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/20 ... k-inn.html


Both should provide readable and easy-to-overview in-edpth information on the setting,
and, more importantly, and written on the background of actual games - so you see where the setting gets tweaked to fit
the meeds of everyday DMs better.

Rare that I disagree with Rafe... But Ross's timeline, while very interesting, suffers from numerous errors, (as I think I've conclusively demonstrated in my timeline threads, but it requires a massive amount of reading and cross referencing so not surprising nobody's checked.) Its also completely outdated, having none of the d20 material, much of which refines or details bits that were previously vague.


The Timeline on pg 148-149 of the 4e sourcebook, is really pretty good. It reworks a substantial portion of Ross' timeline (unfortunetly continuing two of his errors, but them's tha breaks) and incorporates much of the new material.

The Maiden timeline - well that is cool. Only thing you should know there is that it is specific to The Maidens Blackmoor campaign and so contains a lot of information not found in other visions of Blackmoor, but it's so well integrated you could well use it to flesh out any blackmoor style campaign.