Thanks! It's a place I've been tinkering with on and off since, yeah, about '80, though I have a tendency to grab a historical period and say, "Okay, we're going to do a game set during this time period" -- usually after reading or seeing something that sparks my imagination. Like, for instance, after reading Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards and subsequently re-reading The Three Musketeers and other swashbuckling classics, I did a Restoration-era campaign in Elemontia that inspired the Mark 2 redesign of the continent that you see here (set some 150 years prior to the map I've shown here, so the political borders are quite different). A few years later, the game 7th Sea came out and I revisited that era of the world.

Lately the George R.R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire books have re-captured my interest in a medieval pagentry-and-warfare style game, and the RPG based on those books is just perfect for what I want to do, which has inspired the latest redesign.