Keep on the borderlands

These are the Private Apartments located behind the Inn in the Keep. Apartment 7a is the Jewel Merchant and his wife, while Apartment 7b is the jovial Priest with his two silent acolytes. Over the next several days I will be posting floorplans for the other buildings in the Keep. These maps are more of the old school blue I'm fond of, based on some hand drawn maps I found some time ago over on Dragonsfoot by paleologos.

Hexographer version of the KotB Wilderness Map Abandoning all other projects I delve deeply into gaming history and we find ourselves upon the Borderlands of "the Realm". This map was created with Hexographer, and yes fellow delvers of the deeps you will find the Hexographer Map included hereafter. The map was carefully adapted from the

B2 Wilderness Map showing the seldom used road to the ruined monastery While reading Timrod's posts on the 1E DMG Sample Dungeon, and re-reading the original material (pg 94-100), I noticed some similarities to B2 that would make it easy to combine the two. Timrod mentioned Gygax's description of the ruined monastery as being near the edge of a fen on a low mound connected by a causeway, and surrounded by "a few clumps of brush and tamarack here a

I'm very excited about this post! I've been "collaborating" on a little project with a very, very talented artist friend of mine, Scott from DarkFantasyPainting. By collaborating I mean "I point excitedly at one of my favourite Old School D&D Pictures and say can you do something like that?" and then Scott works his magic. The Keep on the Borderlands Long term D&D players will probably recognise Erol Otus's iconic visualisation of the The Keep on the Borderlands from the D&D module of the…

So over on Facebook a post came up on last night's B2 Keep On The Borderlands commentary,'What do you do about the Caves of The Unknown?' Well, I didn't know about B2.5 Caves of the Unknown By By Charley Phipps, Thom Wilson, Mike Badolato from ThrowiGames & NTRPGCon a B/X module Levels 2-4. Brice over at the Ten Foot Pole blog has a pretty solid review of the adventure. Glen Halstrom also has a review of the B2.5 Caves of the Unknown & its a solid overview of the module. But these are only…

I hope for ShadenCraft to be a resource for Minecraft players with a collection of ideas, tutorials, builds, and tips for building in Survival mode. There is a ton of information about Minecraft available but many of the tutorials were difficult to build in survival especially when you have young kids that like to be […]

My irregular DCC game has arrived at the Castellan’s Keep, north of the settled lands… in an area that can only be described as “the borderlands”. Yes, this is a redraw of a…

D&D Next’s first playtest adventure was Caves of Chaos, nearly a copy of the original Keep on the Borderlands. Review the interesting history of this adventure and avoid its faults when …

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