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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melan" data-source="post: 1749005" data-attributes="member: 1713">To add to the chorus, I understand Nisarg's points. It seems to me that Goodman Games decided to play safe and presented Blackmoor as a "setting just like other D&D settings, except this was created in 1972". It is also understandable - it seems that the majority of the fans today do not care to mix science fiction and fantasy like people did in the old days (remember, practically all OD&D settings had high tech - BM had it, Tékumel had it, the Wilderlands had it and Greyhawk had it). From this viewpoint, the decision is almost rational. But.But given the glut of "it is like D&D except elves are blue and there are flying octopus people" settings, the crowdedness of the d20 market, could it have been more successful - not to mention more fun - to put out Blackmoor as a setting which embraced the weird and offbeat elements and differentiated itself from the others in a big way? That way, the potential audience might have been smaller but a lot more enthusiastic. Had I been doing this, I would have plastered it all over the wall. "In our world, there are LASERS!!! And you can kill GIANT FROGS with them!!!! In fallen spaceships! Your main enemy is The Egg of Coot, a superintelligent blob who rules over a quasi-technological empire!"Take my example: those who know me also know that I love... no, worship both laser rifles and GIANT FROGS in the context of fantasy gaming. Hell, my Wilderlands campaign even has vast, irradiated nucular wastelands surrounding it from both the east and the west! I would have loved to add BM to the world - okay, I already have, I was just waiting for more juicy details. Now, with these lukewarm reviews, I am taking a wait and see approach... I am not really interested in d20 stats (as I neither play nor DM it anymore), I can do without new prestige classes - I wanted more on what makes Blackmoor different instead of why it is like another fantasy millieu. I still want to buy this (curious what Dave was up to in the last, oh, 20 years), it just went from "Must. Buy. Now." to "Well, I will order that cheap copy of Dark Tower and a Basic D&D set that has all the dice plus the crayon and those... and then it is on to Blackmoor, unless something else distracts me."More's the pity. I am still open to supplements that are purely about lasers and such things. Modules would be even better. And the less crunch, the better.</blockquote>

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