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One of the most contentious issues surrounding old school gaming is the notion of campaign settings where the creator/publisher “advances the timeline”. This happened with the most popular TSR/WotC era campaign settings such as Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance. Read More
I’ve been going through various campaign worlds, and especially the cartography thereof, and noticed something rather striking. Strictly in terms of cartography, most of the most successful fantasy gaming worlds have what I would call “interesting” cartography. Specifically, large inland Read More
“These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.” – Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot One of the Read More
One of the standard tropes of both swords-and-sorcery literature and Dungeons & Dragons type game settings is the lost ancient civilization which was possessed of high technology, fell through some cataclysm, and is now known only through legends and a Read More
One of the most profound developments in European history was the Migration Period, which lasted from roughly 400 to 800 CE and which saw the Germanic tribes come out of southern Scandinavia and Germany and into what is now western Read More
So I was driving home today and was struck by an idea for a setting book. It’s something that would definitely hit a few buttons, among OSR types in particular. The idea would be a “grand campaign” book, akin to Read More
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