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| [[File:1977 Blackmoor full size.png|200px|thumb|right|Recreation of the map of Blackmoor. Some details added by the artist.]]
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| Before [[Greyhawk]], there was Blackmoor.
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| Blackmoor was created by [[Dave Arneson]] in 1970 as a setting for [[Chainmail]] campaigns amongst his local wargaming club (which happened to include a fellow by the name of [[Gary Gygax]]). The setting was nothing special, being little more than an empty map with a handful of points of interest to go fight at. What really makes it noteworthy is that Arneson used the Blackmoor campaign as a testbed for his new dungeon-crawling mechanics, which turned Chainmail into something resembling a crude, highly lethal prototype of D&D. The first pre-made published adventure was set in the context of Blackmoor: "Temple of the Frog." This turned out to be an immediate hit, so Arneson began to flesh out Blackmoor for use in D&D while Gygax started building a new setting (Greyhawk) from the ground up. Unfortunately, Blackmoor and Greyhawk were too far behind schedule to make the D&D launch, so they were published later as "supplements" to the Dungeons & Dragons white box.
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| Years later when BECMI D&D was being published, Blackmoor popped up again to be integrated into the default setting "Mystara" as an antediluvian or [[Precursors|precursor]] civilization to [[Mystara]]. Three modules were writen by David J. Ritchie and Dave Arneson:
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| * DA1 Adventures in Blackmoor
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| * DA2 Temple of the Frog
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| * DA3 City of the Gods
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| * DA4 The Duchy of Ten
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| Then [[Lorraine Williams|Lorraine]], in her infinite wisdom, decided to axe Blackmoor and Mystara despite Blackmoor being a big moneymaker. Fortunately, Arneson himself still held the rights to Blackmoor, so in 2004 he formed Zeitgeist Games and started publishing a bunch of Blackmoor books for 3.5e and 4e. Zeitgeist is now continuing to publish Blackmoor books in Arneson's absence.
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| For information on the setting itself, it's suggested that you go to [http://blackmoor.mystara.us/ the Mystara fansite's section on Blackmoor].
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