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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5011913" data-attributes="member: 3448">I always assumed that the "Blackmoor" in Greyhawk was intended to be the same as the published Blackmoor.  My assumption was always that this was a combination of EGG having initially put in the connection with Greyhawk and then them later putting Blackmoor in the OD&D family (presumably because of the various squabbles between Arneson and TSR back in the day).  I also assumed that the old settings had more of a "sure, things can be located in multiple possible worlds-- do whatever's good for your campaign."  So if you were running Greyhawk and wanted Blackmoor in Greyhawk, go ahead and run Temple of the Frog.  But if you were running Mystara, and wanted Blackmoor to be part of the prehistory, that's cool, too.  And if you wanted Greyhawk to be the subsequent history of your Gamma World campaign, rock on.(I view the duplication of the Blackmoor in multiple campaigns as akin to the use of gods like Moradin in many different campaigns.  Sure, that could also be explained by the whole "multiple primes in the same multiverse" model, but outside of the in-game explanation, I think the whole "grab whatever you like" sort of model explains a lot of traditional design.  Kinda like how there are Keeps on the Borderlands in any number of different campaign worlds, as different DMs just slotted it in to their campaigns.)</blockquote>