Just finished playing the 2nd level of my Castle Blacksteel in our Reclamation of the Autumn Lands game we have been playing since the start of the new year. An ode to Castle Blackmoor & Tonisborg. The included pic provides a taste of what the Castle looks like.

*Just noticed the typo in the post title. Been a very long day, please excuse the mistake. I don't know how to fix it*

Hey yall. I started a little chronicle of how I am building and running my own version of Blackmoor. It's more of an evolving documentation of my process and sources used along the way.

Other than adding Palace of the Vampire Queen as a dungeon that can be played, I will for the most part remain as true to this version of the map as possible.

I welcome any feedback or insights. I am no scholar, just a recent armchair Blackmoor enthusiast wanting to run some Blackmoor. Oh yeah and I'm running it for my boy and his buddies, and a few family members. Kitchen Table Blackmoor! You can find it here:

A big shout out to Griff Morgan for making the Secrets of Blackmoor and other works. These have set me on the road to Blackmoor.

The boys are once angain about to enter the Palace of the Vampire Queen which I have situated near the village of Blackmoor and have made some changes to. First entry into the Palace resulted in a TPK.

I have also placed a haunted manor on the way to Castle Blackmoor while placing the Castle a bit further from the village.

I've fallen down the OD&D rabbit hole, and now its the pre-OD&D rabbit hole. And it has changed my games completely. All for the best. I share here a few takeaways from my initial quick skim of Dragons Beyond. Next will be Tonisborg.

Going to be venturing into Castle Blackmoor via (FFC) to dispose of an ancient relic. Reading Tonisborg has me pumped to run it.

Out of 1d6 Adventure Seeds we rolled this one.

• The local magic-user has heard legends that a gateway between worlds exists in the bowels of the Castles dungeons. He is paying a small fortune to anyone who can locate the portal and determine its function. The scholar seeks to dispose of something (a cursed magical artefact) and wants it thrown into the portal to banish it to another world before it re-awakens.

***UPDATE***

Just realised I forgot to include the link to the full post. You can find a longer version here:

GREAT DEMIURGES/GODS OF THE OLD WORLD.

• BALOR: Swallower of cities. (N)
• CZERNOBOG: The Black God. (C)
• BAHUMUT: (L) 
• ULTOS/COZMOS: ?
• RUST: The devourer of kin. (L)
• TIAMAT: This Warmachten appears as an enormous Wyyrm with five heads, each the colour of one of the Chaos dragon types (white, black, green, blue, and red), which by no coincidence align with the current heraldry of the leading prominent Duchies. (C)
• SHIVA: ? 
• KONGULA: The Brass Weaver of fates (L)
• XFSS BEAGLE: A chaotic Lich, built from the mechanical wreckage of the FSS Beagle ~ exploration vessel of the ancients. Necromantic receptacle and current phylactery of Stephen The Rock.
• GRIMLOCK: This immense saurian beast, a relic of the Golem Wars, is the greatest of any known creatures of this type, for it has cults and shamans that are starting to reach beyond the Scavengers Deep. Fortunately, its influence seems limited to that area, and seemingly slow in spread, perhaps because the cults operations are conducted deeply underground.

This is what the Corporation the PC's work for have been digging up from below the sands of the Autumn Lands. The PC's have been delving in search or reactor core pieces which the company needs to bring it back online.

Stated as Titan.

• Origins: Introduced in the Greyhawk supplement as an extension of the giant family, quickly evolving from simple "super giants" to beings with divine attributes.

Picked up a few goodies for as birthday present to myself. I have already added a few things from Dragons Beyond to my home game and we are loving them.