The Keep on the Borderlands is a beloved classic adventure. Either the mad hermit in the wilderness, or the ogres that served as a serious wake-up call for unsuspecting adventurers. I’m sure almost everyone who’s been playing since the ’70s/early ’80s has their own memories of Keep on the Borderlands. It makes me wonder if Monte Cook had this in mind when he expressly called the complex of lairs, caves, and ruins under Ptolus “The Dungeon?” It also mentions that the designers intend the word “dungeon” to refer to ANY of the myriad unground complexes ripe for exploration and not just trap/monster-filled lairs of illogical coincidences or literal dungeons used as jails under castles. Goodman also includes 3 stocked versions by their designers before the 5E update.
#B2 the keep on the borderlands map how to
It includes suggestions on how to stock the rooms, as well. So, B1 is much more robust than I ever thought it was. Are bandits looting it now? A team of historians? A tribe of bugbears? Are they just random looters, or related to the original builders? It gives you a good background to use when deciding how to stock the location. Why it’s there, what it was for when built. Each room has a description rich with the history of what WAS. The original B1, indeed, is an unstocked dungeon, but don’t mistake that for just a map with empty rooms. Naturally, you can strip out the 5E encounters to use your own (more in a minute on that).
#B2 the keep on the borderlands map update
So, Into the Borderlands contains a reproduction of the original publication of B1, an updated reprint version, and a stocked 5E update of it. I’d heard it was just an empty dungeon that DMs needed stock themselves and to pre-teen and teenage me, I didn’t see the point. I’d heard about In Search of the Unknown, of course. I ran it for my first 4E campaign in 2008. The GM used it as the basis for the first 3E campaign I ever played in in 2001. It includes 2 different versions of the original publications, plus 5E updates of these adventures.ī2 was my first D&D experience back in 1982. Recently, Goodman Games released a hard bound reprint/update of B1: In Search of the Unknown & B2: The Keep on the Borderlands called Into the Borderlands.
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