Hello. New to Blackmoor.

[aldarron]

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 Its also completely outdated, having none of the d20 material, much of which refines or details bits that were previously vague.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

Thanks Havard. The timeline I did continues to be refined.

Well in Ross, the errors I meant really are errors, such as the funky math dating Ra-all or the mispelling of Bakura - things that when you look up the references he sites don't jive. There's lots of other stuff that, beacuse of harmonizing two main sources as you say, and a few secondary ones, are kind of arbitrary decision that sometimes seem more inline with one source or other. Usually makes sense but sometimes just seem to be at odds with the intent of the sources, such as setting the reaign of robert the Ist a whopping thousand years in the past. (possibly patterened on King David I wonder?).