#blackmoor

[fontseeker]

Silly question, but do you recognise the typeface used in the Produce (1987) logo or if it's hand drawn? I'm looking for older video game fonts for a project, and I love how this one looks! You do incredible work!

It's very similar to Blackmoor (1983) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont], but doesn't exactly match. Probably it was hand-drawn using Blackmoor as a reference.

[puzzlenation]

Farewell, Tim. Farewell, Steve.

Sadly, the start of 2026 has been a rough one for the games industry, as we lost two influential voices in the span of a few days. Please join me as I take a few moments to honor the lives and contributions of Tim Kask and Steve Dee. On December 30th, we said goodbye to Tim Kask. When you think of the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, there are names like Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson that many…

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[zerohitpoints]

THE EGG OF COOT

In Greyhawk lore, the Egg of Coot is not an object but a sinister, semi-legendary villainous entity—one of the oldest and most dangerous powers in the Flanaess. The Egg of Coot is the drifting, bloated, godlike remnant of a once-mighty wizard, now reduced to a vast, pulsating, egg-shaped mass. It rules the Land of Black Ice, a frozen and desolate region far to the North. Though physically…

THE EGG OF COOT

[storyteller4hire]

THE EGG OF COOT

In Greyhawk lore, the Egg of Coot is not an object but a sinister, semi-legendary villainous entity—one of the oldest and most dangerous powers in the Flanaess. The Egg of Coot is the drifting, bloated, godlike remnant of a once-mighty wizard, now reduced to a vast, pulsating, egg-shaped mass. It rules the Land of Black Ice, a frozen and desolate region far to the North. Though physically…

THE EGG OF COOT

[pulpsandcomics2]

Blackmoor 1985

[murderhobo-official]

Proto-D&D

I have asked online about rules of original Blackmoor campaign, and got directed to the game called "Dragons at Dawn". Review incoming.

Firstly, elephant in the room - how authentic is it? I don't know for sure! If you use "First Fantasy Campaign" and "Adventures in Fantasy" as sources it's highly authentic, but we also have character sheets from the original campaign, and they show characters having 30 or so skills instead of normal characteristics and then skills (like in DaD or AiF). Truth is, Arneson changed the rules a lot during the game.

Anyway, "Dragons at Dawn" is way better than ODND and makes me think about what could have been. Not all of what I am going to list is an advantage though, some if it is an archaism.

1. It uses almost exclusively d6, save for some class skills requiring d100, which let's be real is very close to ODND.

2. From the beginning it used ability-based saves instead of old-school dnd way, and also had a skill system.

3. Classes were very loose, almost non-existent, and multiclassing was the norm. This is highly authentic because Arneson himself said this.

4. Most classes were non-combatants, especially "exotic" classes like Merchant and Sage.

5. Combat system was simultaneously simple yet complicated because it involved only one die roll but also a lot of math, I am still not sure how does it work.

6. Interesting magic systems. One is elfin, which is based on songs, but basically it's just usual magic with mana. Another one is human, based on creating magic items.

In conclusion, OD&D could have ruled much more, but today I won't play "Dragons at Dawn". Today we have NSR and PbtA games - much better

[allyalbonart]

Little bit obsessed right now with how lovely ballpoint pen is to use. Meditative. Maybe it's just because it's a black moor.

[bonnieeldritch]

Like Flowers Do

photo source: discovercotswolds.co.uk

Yep, it's done. Kapitel 12 von Blackmoor Manor ist so eben fertig geworden und wird die Tage online gehen. 😌✨ Ich hoffe, ihr werdet Spaß damit haben, das Schreiben war jedenfalls sehr entspannt. Vor dem Upload wird es noch eine weitere Check-Up Runde von mir geben, aka ich überfliege alles noch mal und hoffe, was zu finden, lol, und ich muss eine Passage ändern, bei der ich keine Ahnung habe, was ich mir beim Schreiben dabei gedacht habe??? Like, nicht nur ergeben die Sätze keinen Sinn grammatikalisch gesehen, es passt auch inhaltlich nicht? What did I do 😭 Anyway, das sollte beides in den nächsten Stunden klappen und dann schick ich das Kapitel an @avmoos für eine letzte Überprüfung, bevor ich es dann endlich hochlade. Kapitel 12 kommt also die nächsten Tage auf euch zu. 🫶🏻