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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8702000" data-attributes="member: 58172">From my thread, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/5e-oerth-%E2%88%92-the-planet-of-blackmoor-and-greyhawk.685422/" target="_blank">5e Oerth − the planet of Blackmoor and Greyhawk</a>.Here is my map of the entire planet of the Greyhawk setting, namely the planet "Oerth". My map identifies the reallife nations and regions that inspire its fantasy regional settings.<img src="https://www.enworld.org/attachments/yaarel-2022-oerth-earth-png.150907/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Here is a closeup of the continent of Flanaess itself, and its reallife inspirations.<img src="https://www.enworld.org/attachments/oerth-flanaess-north-america-1980-darlene-png.150445/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Greyhawk is a specific city, in the continent of Flanaess, on the planet of Oerth. Greyhawk is the city by Gygax. Blackmoor is the city by Arneson. These two are the inventors of D&D. Notably, Blackmoor is also in Flanaess, on Oerth. The Flanaess map mentions the "Ruins" in the peninsula in the wider region of Blackmoor to the far north. Actually, these ruins correspond geographically to an elven city called Ringo Hall, that the Blackmoor setting by Arneson mentions. In other words, these are famous ruins that are in the region of Blackmoor. The City of Blackmoor itself is elsewhere, to the west of these ruins, on the coast of the peninsula.The City of Greyhawk corresponds to a medievalesque version of reallife Chicago. The City of Blackmoor corresponds to a medievalesque version of reallife Churchill, a town in Canada on the Hudson Bay. Churchill is remote, there are no roads leading to it, and it can only be reached by plane, train, or boat. But Churchill has a huge hospital that rescues and cares for all of the remote inhabitants in the vast wildernesses around it. This regional hospital theme might work for the City of Blackmoor too.The 5e setting of Oerth is awesome for the 50th Anniversary edition of D&D. This setting needs to emphasize both the City of Greyhawk and the City of Blackmoor as living cities, to dignify the founders of D&D.</blockquote>

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