Over the past few weeks, the various social media accounts associated with TFotF, the company working under lisence of the Arneson Estate have been posting images teasing a new Blackmoor project the company is working on.
These great illustrations by artist Phil Stone will aparently be part of a new RPG Sourcebook the company is producing as official Blackmoor (TM) material. It has also recently been revealed that Dan Boggs is involved in writing the book. Boggs (Dragons at Dawn, Champions of Zed) should be well known to the readers of this blog and is a long time Blackmoor fan.
Some interesting terminology is also accompanying these images. Baldraug is apparently Dan Bogg's new name of Balrogs, known from the original Blackmoor campaign, but problematic when it comes to copyright. The Red Coven is known from older Arneson maps and has been expanded upon in different ways by different fan groups in the past, so it will be interesting to see what this new take will involve. Duraven Forbears is another term that I have not seen before, but the image shows dwarves, so could be linked to their origins which was explored to some extent in the D20 Dave Arneson Blackmoor line.
This new sourcebook seems to be a departure for TFotT whose previous RPG work has been strongly tied to the visions of Dave Arneson (Blackmoor Foundations) and that of his players (Tonnisborg), but this time it looks like they are allowing new creators to develop Blackmoor further.
So far no release date or book title has been released.
Personally, I think these illustrations look great. What do you think?
-Havard
