Hello. New to Blackmoor.

[Havard]

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 Its also completely outdated, having none of the d20 material, much of which refines or details bits that were previously vague.

It should be noted that Ross' gazetteer is much more than the timeline. I believe most of the "errors" you refer to come from the fact that Ross had two main sources that he was working from: The FFC and the DA modules. We now have more information about the original campaign, but taking those things into account was beyond the scope of Ross' project.

Fortunately, we now have additional information to supplement this work, available on the site, such as your very interesting timeline posts.

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.

What I do find interesting is that ZGG chose to include what seems to have been a copy & paste version of Ross' timeline, including references which only make sense on a meta level.

-Havard