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Solo campaign for my commute {Saturday}: Dungeons & Dragon 1st ed: As filtered through the Swords & Wizardry ruleset. Campaign- Keep on the Borderlands ME: Is 1e really as deadly as everyone says? MY PARTY: TPK's from rat swarm in the 1st room. #TTRPG #OD&D #Sword&Wizardry #KeepOnTheBorderlands

Here is the last post in my series on
#Keepontheborderlands .
s://www.theseoldgames.com/2025/11/the-keep-on-borderlands-2025-sessions_0810296011.html

Solo campaign for my commute: D&D 1st ed: As filtered through the Swords & Wizardry ruleset. Campaign- Keep on the Borderlands Characters... May have gone overboard... currently 100 player characters are camped out in a tent city outside the Keep. #TTRPG #D&D #Swords&Wizardry #KeepOnTheBorderlands

The Keep on the Borderlands is a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module by Gary Gygax, first printed in December 1979. In it, player characters are based at a keep and investigate a nearby series of caves that are filled with a variety of monsters. It was designed to be used with the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, and was included in the 1979–1982 editions of the Basic Set. It was designed for people new to Dungeons & Dragons.

The Keep on the Borderlands went out of print in the early 1980s, but has been reprinted twice; a sequel was also made. A novelized version of the adventure was published in 2001. The module received generally positive reviews, and was ranked the 7th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004.

La boîte du Starter Set de D&D est bien remplie. Haute de 7cm, elle contient livrets, tokens, fiches de perso, carte d'équipements, battlemaps, dés, rangements, etc.
C'est du très haut niveau.

#JDR #DnD #starterset #keepontheborderlands

In a few days I'll be running some #DnD for my coworkers, which means I really need to get something ready...

I'm thinking about running the #OSE adventure/sandbox the #PaintedWastelands. Last year I used #KeepOnTheBorderlands and want to do something a little weirder.

Stack of handwritten character sheets on 3x5 note cards

Tonight's D&D game saw my players tackling Cave C of the #CavesOfChaos , and wiping out most of the orc combatants thanks in large part to 2 sleep spells and a meat shield who's rolls were great! Their only loss was the halfling at arms. They opted to leave the non combatants alive, and didn't get to the chief, so he's gonna have a miserable time joining up with the other orc tribe.

#DnD #OldSchoolDnD #KeepOnTheBorderlands

A new D&D Starter Set entitled "Heroes of the Borderlands" is coming in September 2025, offering a new take on an iconic adventure. We dig into all the details. https://dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/new-dnd-starter-set/ #DND #dnd5e #dnd2024 #dungeonsanddragons #wizardsofthecoast #wotc #keepontheborderlands #heroesoftheborderlands #ttrpg #dungeonmaster

Official art from the new "Heroes of the Borderlands" DnD Starter Set, featuring a group of adventurers battling bugbear warriors.

This week's work D&D session the party randomly roamed the woods looking for magic mushrooms the drunk wizard in the tavern told them about. One died from a trio of crab spiders.

They came upon a werebear who was moved by the dirge they were singing in her honor & helped them dig a grave. He also gave them direction to the mushrooms.

The magic mushrooms charmed almost everyone, but 2 weren't moved by "a whiter shade of pale"

1/2

#ost
#OldSchoolDND
#DND
#CavesOfChaos
#KeepOnTheBorderlands

For the first time in as long as I can remember I'm caught up on my session reports for my #Stonehell / #RappanAthuk Sunday night classic #DnD game. The reports will be going live on my blog twice a week through till the middle of November.

Now that that's caught up, I'm going to start writing up the Thursday afternoon #CavesOfChaos #keepontheborderlands session reports.

https://towerofthearchmage.blogspot.com/

My daughter hosts an online venue in #FinalFantasy. This week she is converting it to a #DungeonsAndDragons theme for the #50th #anniversary.

The poster for the event pays homage to #DnD classic adventure #KeepOnTheBorderlands.

Nice! I’m prepping to run a #keepontheborderlands game. I’m either going to use Knave 2e or AD&D. It all depends on the group.

Hobgoblin chief.

2 hirelings and 2 characters (of 7) died.

Back at the keep.

1 character died by poison.

The session ended with shock, amazement, and rolling new characters!

#KeepOnTheBorderlands #DnD #RPG

New blog post about last night's Keep on the Borerlands session:

https://timmymac.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/session-report-keep-on-the-borderlands-2/

#ttrpg #dnd #osr #keepontheborderlands

We took 15 minutes to roll up new characters, and the players got right back into the action with a clever little twist of story that justified the new characters watching the old ones get bodied and then coming in to finish the fight.

Basic D&D on the 50th anniversary was the right call for sure!

#osr #keepontheborderlands #dnd

Well, damn - 2 hours into the #KeepOnTheBorderlands, and we have a #tpk LOL

The modern GM prepares #KeepOnTheBorderlands

#dnd #ttrpg #osr #bxdnd

A photo of two monitors - one displaying the iconic Keep on the Borderlands cover and another showing a basic D&D character. Vintage copies of the module and the rulebook sit on the desk. Also there's a vape but don't tell my wife.

Prepping #KeepOnTheBorderlands for tomorrow night's 50th anniversary #dnd session. It's been really fun and instructive re-reading the basic rules and this module. Like, there are several creatures in here my #LowFantasyGaming campaign has used to great effect 50 years later. Maybe there really is something to the theory that every #ttrpg really is just an iteration on these rules.

That said, I expect a TPK tomorrow night, no question.

I spent all of #Christmas day reading those rulebooks, so my brother and I could get playing #DnD and #StarFrontiers as soon (and as much) as possible. Those were good days. Honestly, the #KeepOnTheBorderlands and Volturnus were more real to 12-year old me than Canada.

My late mother never could explain why she changed her mind about #ttrpg. About six months later, she even let us start playing ADVANCED D&D. I felt so mature! I had a #PlayersHandbook and Armory Gem #Dice!