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I don't know exactly where to put this and I don't think that it deserves a fresh thread/ discussion either. If anyone thinks that it should go elsewhere then let me know. Mythmere have released a new supplement for Swords & Wizardry, and it's called "City Encounters". So far I've taken a look at th...

I am going to be posting some reports here on my ongoing Blackmoor campaign. This will be nothing too intensive or long winded, but just enough to give people some kind of idea of what a campaign in Blackmoor is like. I am using Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised, and I am filling out any rules gaps...

Thanks for posting these, Blackmoor is really interesting but seldom talked about. Did you have an original source for the sage and merchant classes, or did you pull from more modern sources? Were they detailed in the FFC? I have a PDF of that somewhere...need to find it. To answer your question di...

I pulled from more modern sources and came up with some stuff myself from out of a vacuum. There has been a Merchant NPC class detailed in Dragon Magazine in the past, plus a Sage NPC too, and there's the Sage NPC class in Supplement 2: Blackmoor, all of which I used for inspiration plus, as already...

Here is a secondary skills list that is suitable for a Blackmoor campaign. Note that it differs from the other secondary skills list that I posted on a previous thread by not being as generic, i.e. it is doesn't include secondary skills that conflict with the Merchant and Sage character class specia...

Attached to this post are three PDFs that are currently being playtested in a new Blackmoor campaign, which began on Saturday the 20th of January whilst D&D's 50th anniversary loomed near. As many will know Blackmoor was the testing ground for very early D&D rules, and its actual conception predates...

It's worth playing as much "as-is" as you can, although obviously there is a lot that has to be fleshed out with house rulings in play. Which I guess is the draw, for me anyway. I've read that Arneson's Blackmoor games had even less of a formal framework. I'd love to hear about your campaign if you...

I've read the PDFs of the LBBs and the supplements and it's a fascinating read. It's a shame that they aren't available as print on demand booklets but never mind. It can all be a bit of a jumble with the organisation, but I suppose that's because it was being created as they wrote it, which is obvi...

Yes I agree. Beyond the monster sections in rule books, or the Monster Manual in the case of AD&D, monster books are usually less inspiring. I have the AD&D MM2 but it's not as good as the MM (though the cover is more to my personal taste). I've never bothered with the Fiend Folio as in my opinion t...

I've heard from Matt Finch about the upcoming Kickstarters for the rules supplement and monsters book. There will also be a couple of modules, but I don't have any details about them yet. Also, the launch will be somewhere between February and April, with late March being the most likely time. There...