Hello. New to Blackmoor.

[Havard]

Really, what we need are timelines with footnotes. After all, at this point it's a scholarly activity and not just some guy doing a timeline for a homebrewed campaign.

Ross already made a timeline with footnotes. I was actually shocked when I first saw that, as very few fan works are so meticulous. Aldarron may criticize said timeline, but other than a few minor nitpicks, I see no reason to discard it as it stands.

I am not even sure something like that would solve anything, since the disagreements are more about which sources to include than its actual contents.

I'm not enough of a Blackmoor scholar to be able to pick up on some of the minutia errors and for me it would require a lot of reading just to get "up to speed" (even if my memory was strong enough for me to retain all of the data) so maybe that helps to explain why I lilke the older stuff better. Less to know!

To be honest, there is no need for anyone to know all this. A 3E DM would be equally happy to just pick up the 3E DAB CS and learn what's found within it. Why would be bother about whether Robert I was named after Rob Kuntz? These are academic discussions that can be interesting, but I am also worried that they could drive people away from participating on these boards.

-Havard