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==Expansion modules=={|border=0 align="right" cellpadding="10"|-|{stub| border=1 class="wikitable"|+ DA Expansion Modules!Code!! Title|-|DA1|| Adventures in Blackmoor|-|DA2|| Temple of the Frog|-|DA3|| City of the Gods|-|DA4|| Duchy of Ten|}|}Though Arneson left TSR in the early 1980s, Blackmoor remained a part of ''D&D'' lore and was referred to in many later supplements. In a subsequent re-release of the world of [[Greyhawk]] for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)'' game, an Arctic region of mysterious black ice in the northwestern area of the map was called [http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blackmoor Blackmoor]. However, Arneson's Blackmoor would become integral to a different setting and rules-system, those of the ''Basic Dungeons & Dragons'' game. For various reasons, TSR published two different versions of their flagship game line. Over the course of several supplements, the ''Basic Dungeons & Dragons'' developed its own campaign setting, referred to at first simply as the Known World and later as [[Mystara]]. When the history of Mystara was codified, it was established that Arneson's Blackmoor had existed in the world's distant past, achieved a technologically advanced civilization and then destroyed itself in a global catastrophe which shifted the planet's axis. Though its influence was now central to at least one of TSR's published worlds, the actual setting of Blackmoor as Arneson described it had yet to be presented. This was finally remedied in the mid-1980s through the DA series of [[List of Dungeons & Dragons modules|expansion modules]], which carried a party of adventurers into Mystara's past to visit Blackmoor. The first of these, DA1 "Adventures in Blackmoor", described in general the geography and politics of Blackmoor and the means by which the characters travel there. DA2 "Temple of the Frog" expanded the scenario that had appeared in the original Blackmoor supplement. DA3 "City of the Gods" explored the starship crashed near the Kingdom of Blackmoor, from which the setting's intentional anachronisms derived. DA4 "The Duchy of Ten" dealt with a horde of invading barbarians, but was the only work not derived from Dave Arneson's original campaign notes. A fifth installment, DA5 "City of Blackmoor", was announced but was never written or published. Though there were no further direct explorations of Blackmoor, later [[Mystara]] products continued to make reference to it. For instance, "The Wrath of the Immortals", an epic adventure which described a massive war involving both heaven and earth, climaxes with the discovery of the preserved control room from the starship which had crashed near Blackmoor millennia ago. ==d20 System==After the ''Basic D&D'' game and its Mystara setting were discontinued, [[Zeitgeist Games]], where Arneson now works, produced an updated [[d20 System]] version of Blackmoor, ''Dave Arneson's Blackmoor Campaign Setting'', published by [[Goodman Games]], [http://www.goodman-games.com www. goodman-games.com], in 2004. Goodman and Zeitgeist also produced a Blackmoor d20 adventure module, ''Dave Arneson's Blackmoor: The Redwood Scar'' (2004) and sourcebook, ''Dave Arneson's Blackmoor: The Wizards Cabal'' (2005). In 2006 Zeigteist Games started publishing new books on their own. The 2006 release calendar includes a softcover reprint (with added content) of ''Dave Arneson's Blackmoor Campaign Setting'', a hardcover version of the ''Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor'', ''Player's Guide to Blackmoor'', and the new adventure ''Temple of the Frog'' (which will have a sneak preview event at [[Gen Con]]). There is also an ongoing [[MMRPG|Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game (MMRPG)]] campaign, [http://mmrpg.zeitgeistgames.com mmrpg.zeitgeistgames.com], organized by Zeitgeist games, which is similar in form to the [[Living Campaigns]] organized by the [[RPGA]]. A List of their released adventures can be found [http://mmrpg.zeitgeistgames.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=3 here]. The episodes for the MMRPG are available for play at home and at [[Gaming convention]]s such as [[Gen Con]] and [[Megacon]]. [[Megacon]] is Blackmoor's home convention, where the new season is kicked off each year. ==References=={{reflist}} ==External links==*[http://www.blackmoorcastle.com/ Dave Arneson's homepage]*[http://www.zeitgeistgames.com Zeitgeist Games]*[http://www.dablackmoor.com Dave Arneson's Blackmoor: The MMRPG]*[http://www.goodman-games.com Goodman Games] {{Wikipedia|Blackmoor}}
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