#Name of the keep on the borderlands how to#

There's also one cave populated by an owlbear and three grey oozes. It's easy for the players to get in over their heads here since a lot of the tribes will call others to their aid if given a chance in particular the goblin tribe has an agreement with a nearby ogre who is entirely capable of making some level 1 characters exceptionally dead. Most of the caves are populated with humanoid tribes of various types who have ongoing alliances and enmities with each other that the players can take advantage of if they're particularly clever. The actual adventure area is made up of nearly a dozen caves scattered in a sort of box canyon area not far from the keep. In practice, I suspect a lot of parties began murdering their way through the keep for all the nifty magical loot within. The intention is clearly that the players can use the keep as a staging point to first clear out the nearby Caves of Chaos and then go further afield to whatever dungeons the DM comes up with next. Shops, temples and so on are detailed with NPCs to interact with (although not a single one is given an actual name, titles only here). The eponymous Keep is presented as a base of operations for the players situated near the border of 'The Realm' where the forces of Chaos are forever trying to invade. The adventure adamantly states that smaller parties must have the services of several men-at-arms made available to them and should be advised to keep to the lower caves. B2 has a reputation as a challenging adventure and I'd bet that more than a few under-manned parties found themselves in way over their heads. Of particular note, it's stated that the module is designed for 6 to 9 players, and is intended to require multiple sessions to complete.

#Name of the keep on the borderlands how to#

If I had to guess, I'd bet that it was decided that a simpler adventure should be included due to the younger audience that edition was aimed at.īeing an introductory module, the first few pages consist of much the same information that was provided at the beginning of module B1 advice for the dungeon master, information on tracking time, how to divide treasure and compute experience, and so forth.

The Mentzer revision of the Basic Rules did away with module B2 in favor of the castle adventure included in the Dungeon Masters Rulebook. It replaced In Search of the Unknown in the original Basic Rules set and was included with the Moldvay edition of the Basic Rules throughout its publication run. The Keep on the Borderlands was written by Gary Gygax as a new introductory module to go with the D&D Basic Rules.