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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 725249" data-attributes="member: 1106">Bingo. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Never seemed to stop Greyhawk, though, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Well, apart from telling your players that they're playing in something approaching the first fantasy campaign setting, not much.  FFC Blackmoor feels like a wacky homebrew, not that there's anything wrong with that.  If you like nostalgia, or the idea that you're playing in a vintage setting, I guess that's where Blackmoor's appeal lies.  Mind you, the setting got a tune up, facelift and tummy tuck when it was added to Mystara, and most of the cheesy wackiness was shown the door.  It may well become better, faster, stronger this time around too.Again, the oldskool nostalgia factor seems to work for Greyhawk...but then again, Blackmoor wasn't really "around" as much as Greyhawk was, so despite being it's senior, there's less of the "I played this when I was thirteen" factor to tap.  It'll have to rely on the vintage D&D* thing instead...but in theory, nothing beats it in that department except maybe the Castles & Crusades Society map...At the end of the day, it's worth buying just to out-oldschool the Greyhawk enthusiasts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />*: Not that it really was a D&D setting to begin with, relying on Arneson's own rules during play from what I gather, which in turn helped "inspire" D&D...</blockquote>

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