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'''Blackmoor''' is a [[campaign setting]] generally associated with the game ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. It originally evolved in the early 1970s as the personal setting of [[Dave Arneson]], the co-creator of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', first as a setting for Arneson's miniature [[Wikipedia:Wargaming|wargames]], then as an early testing ground for what would become ''D&D''. Blackmoor is the longest continuously played fantasy role-playing campaign in existence.
==Original publication==
The original Blackmoor product was published by [[TSR, Inc.|Tactical Studies Rules]] (TSR) in 1975, as the second supplement to ''D&D'' (the first being [[Greyhawk (supplement)|Greyhawk]]). The booklet was named for the original role-playing campaign world by Dave Arneson, who also wrote this booklet.<ref>Thumbnail Analysis - Blackmoor, [[Don Lowry]], ''[[Panzerfaust Magazine|Panzerfaust and Campaign]]'' #72 (Panzerfaust Publications, 1976)</ref> It added rules, monsters, treasure, and the first published role-playing game adventure, "Temple of the Frog".<ref>[http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12622.phtml Review of Dungeons & Dragons Supplement II: Blackmoor], Scott Casper (2006), retrieved March 2008</ref> Despite the name, however, it did not include any information on the setting itself.
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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 [[Blackmoor (Greyhawk)|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.
