SWORDS OF THE
NORTHLANDS
a 3.5 D&D
campaign being played bimonthly in
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ATTENTION: As of 6-06-06, this game has ended. Join us on 6-20-06 as we begin The Shackled City Campaign!
About the Campaign:
SWORDS OF THE NORTHLANDS is a 3.5 edition D&D Game.
Swords of the Northlands originally started as an original D&D campaign
set in a fantasy world loosely based on Dave Arneson's Blackmoor. I
borrowed some encounter areas and a few NPCs as well as the excellent Judges
Guild map from The First Fantasy Campaign. The majority of the
rest of the material was invented by me or begged, borrowed or stolen from
somewhere. I used the First Fantasy Campaign as an outline, then allowed
my imagination to roam a little more freely and combined it with elements from
past games.
Now that Zeitgeist Games is
publishing a d20 Blackmoor updated for D&D 3.5, I was faced with the
possibility that my Blackmoor would contradict the published setting. I didn't
relish the idea of the confusion created when my "unofficial
Blackmoor" suddenly began to have to compete with Arneson's official
setting. I decided to rename and rework the campaign to avoid the issue.
I have been gradually replacing or customizing material; continuing to
call it, "The Blackmoor Campaign" had begun to sound inaccurate ---
so I have renamed it "The Northlands." Since "The
North" was one of the names by which I called my original campaign, I
decided to combine elements of a campaign I ran 20+ years ago with the campaign
I was running today. Incidentally, if you have good google skills,
you might find mention of another "Northlands"
campaign being played in New Zealand. The two campaigns on different
sides of the globe have nothing to do with one another (yet --- I've been
reading the excellent campaign chronicles of the New Zealand game with interest
and will probably steal more than a few ideas from there...)
If you live near Rochester Hills, Michigan, and would like to join us for a
game, please contact me at stefan@pair.com
for more details. We are always looking for new players!
this page last updated 6-06-2006