#RPGaDAY2025 – Day 12: Path
| Prompt | Result |
|---|---|
| Daily | Path |
| Question | Why |
| Mood | Grateful |
| Subject | Person |
Prompt interpretation:
Why am I grateful for encountering Robert Conley on my path?
I am grateful for meeting a great deal of people on my gaming path, but today I wish to share more about my encounters with Rob. When I set out to run a new campaign, I was mesmerised by Wilderlands of High Fantasy, one of the original D&D settings.
That was quite recently, in 2022, and I quickly realised I have arrived to the party quite late. Judges Guild was gone, courtesy of ill behaviour from its owner, print copies that were once cheap, were now difficult to get, and digital stuff mostly existed as fan made supplements. But I found Rob was selling his updated maps of the Wilderlands. I bought them all! And then I picked Barbarian Altanis as the campaign starting point.
I quickly realised something was off on the map, and reached out to Rob. He sent quite a thoughtful and exhaustive reply. That's when I started to pay more attention to his work—Blackmarsh, Majestic Fantasy RPG, and Points of Light in particular. Since then Rob published an amazing how-to guide on sandbox campaigns and Majestic Fantasy Realms, a spiritual successor to Wilderlands.
Besides that, I found him to be generous with his time and insight, which is indeed vast after playing and running open-ended sandbox campaigns for over forty years. How could I not be grateful to be able to learn from such a fellow!
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