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Today, October 1st, is Dave Arneson's birthday. As always we celebrate Dave Arneson Day by sharing Blackmoor related material. This year I have something very special to share. The trailer for an upcoming documentary about Dave Arneson has just dropped! The producers became aware that their...

Interesting article. Not buying the percentages at all. Sales of PDFs or books during the 4E era are definitely poor indicators of what people out there are *playing*. Is the FR the most popular setting? Without a doubt. Are alot of people playing Homebrew? For sure. But only 10% divived between...

Did I hear Gazetteers? :cool::cool: BTW, wrote about why I am excited about this Kickstarter here: http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.no/2015/11/beyond-skies-bruce-heard-launching-new.html -Havard

This is going to be great! I was very happy with the first Kickstarter. A rich fantasy setting with magical flying ships at its core. It really evoces the atmosphere of the Voyage of the Princess Ark from Dragon Magazine. The maps are amazing. Expanding the gods and planes seem like the next...

Today is the birthday of D&D Co-Creator Dave Arneson. As with Gary Gygax, Dave deserves our gratitude for helping to create this hobby that we love. Today Dave Arneson Game Day is celebrated all over the web. You can participate by posting something about Dave or Blackmoor, here, in the...

I posted what I have been able to find out at The Piazza: http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=13841 To summarize, we may see a TORG 2nd Edition, designed by Shane Hensley (Savage Worlds), published by Ulysses Spiele in 2016. Note that these are all rumours. I hope they are true...

That is a great question, but the answer is pretty complicated. In one way, you could also ask, was D&D ever popular? Many of the concepts first introduced in the Blackmoor campaign have become so fundamental to D&D gaming that we hardly think of where they came from. In the 1970s and 80s...

Mark Rein-Hagen is looking to return Dave Arneson's Blackmoor to published form. Blackmoor was arguably the first D&D Setting. Mark Rein-Hage, creator of Vampire etc, says that his company, Make-Believe Games, are doing what they can to bring back the World of Blackmoor. More...

My bad. I think I see what you meant now :) I actually liked the movie quite a bit, but yeah they would work even better in a fantasy setting where such strange races could belong. :) -Havard

Yep. Easily recognisable tropes. At the same time, if you read the gazetteers, there is alot of depth behind these tropes. It seems the same was true for the original campaign, long before it became Mystara. :) -Havard

Why less fitting? :) The Ohio Campaign seems to share many traits with other 1970s campaigns where anything that sounds like its going to be fun is thrown in. As the campaign transitioned into the published form of Mystara, it adapted to 1980s game setting conventions, but retained a certain...

It is an awesome article. :) Mystara is one of my favorite settings. Kzinti are basically catfolk. There are plenty of catfolk in Mystara, although they are called Rakasta as Mathew L Martin points out. The Rakasta appeared in X1 Isle of Dread which marked the first published form of the Known...

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I agree, that one should have been on the list. :)

5 out of 5 rating for Calidar, In Stranger Skies Fans of the top quality D&D line from the 1980s and 1990s will recognize and Bruce Heard's style here. It is a great combination of narrative and world buillding with flying ships, magic and wonder. The artwork and illustrations are worth noting...

Well, as long as we know what we are talking about it doesnt really matter. The term "classic D&D" was actually used for one of the late intro sets (Compatible with the RC, BECMI etc). I generally use Classic for the whole range from OD&D and including BECMI the RC and the 1990s boxes. The...

Hi MerricB! Thanks for starting this thread. As you mentioned originally, it was the out of court settlements with Arneson that forced TSR to keep producing material for "Classic D&D" (A better term than "Basic" in my opinion). Although it sold surprisingly well, it was still obvious that TSR...

Wow, this is great! Some other good free downloads on that page as well. Very generous! :) -Havard

Cool, I will be at the online event :) -Havard

I generally take a look at existing monsters and base it off them. -Havard