The Keep on the Borderlands

Not directly.

So like Bar Keep on the Borderlands is kind of Keep on the Borderlands 100 years in the future.

It wasn't based on like a session or something like a game of Keep on the Borderlands I was doing.

It was more like I was reading through it.

So I have a blog post called Keep on the Borderlands is Full of Lies, basically saying if you read this old module that Gary Gygax wrote in the late 70s, early 80s, Um, if you read it almost as like, it feels like propaganda because it's talking about how, you know, this is, you know, a little small bastion of light and, you know, whole world's pressing in on it.

Um, but actually the, the keep seems actually really antagonistic.

The monsters are doing their own thing in caves and, you know, the keep sending adventures out to hunt them.

Um, there's, there's lots of like small pieces of like textual evidence that I cited in the blog post being like, I don't know, maybe the keep is like a fascist state trying to, you know, colonize this place that all these, you know, quote unquote monsters are living that are actually just like, humanoids with their, because every time you go in the caves, it's like, it's a family of 10 kobolds and five of them are children.

We're running Castle Zinterland by Gabor Lukes.

Palace of the Silver Princess and Keep on the Borderlands by TSR.

We're also doing stuff by Chris Gonneman's Basic Fantasy range and other stuff too that is in the pipeline.

Great.

That was one of the big things that I've noticed, both from reading this, but then also recently from...

I was rereading Keep on the Borderlands, and it really struck me how, like, Detailed and fussy with like, this is exactly where things are in the room.

There's two and a chance of a third.

What was it? Gray, gray oozes.

I think it's a great set.

It also features the Keep on the Borderlands, which for me has a lot of nostalgia.

That was the first module I played.

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Mm-hmm

... also had Keep on the Borderlands.

Right.

Right.

We're running Castle Zinterland by Gabor Lukes.

We're doing B2P3 by TSR, Palace of the Silver Princess, Keep on the Borderlands.

We're also doing The Chaotic Caves by Chris Gonneman's Basic Fantasy Range.

Cool.

So we are, what are we doing? We are doing Greg Gillespie's Barrow Maze.

We are doing B1, B2 by TSR, Keep on the Borderlands, Palace of the Silver Princess.

We're doing Castle Zintalan by Gabba Lukes.

Oh, we've just got a subscriber.

Usually you'd have to get into X territory to get into the wilderness.

But the last thing that I thought was really kind of interesting is it does seem like this was meant to be a sort of keep on the borderlands replacement kind of thing.

Apparently when we got to the third printing of base, now this is according to, our man on the inside, Shannon Applecline, that it says, B5 is quite similar in a general nature to B2 Keep on the Borderlands.

It includes a home base out of the wilderness, Guido's Fort, and then from where the players contract to monster-infested areas.

We can speculate that this might have been a purposeful replacement as TSR was releasing the third edition basic D&D set at the time, and thus B2, which had been a staple of the first and second edition basic D&D sets, was dropping out of print.

Other than that, I mean, it is very similar, I think, in structure to Keep on the Borderlands.

There is a castle.

There is also some... dangerous place that you can go.

I would turn 13 in January of 84, and I did not spend very many years playing Dungeons & Dragons, but I was playing at this time, and I probably started around 82 or so.

Started with Redbox, Keep on the Borderlands.

And I was playing with my friends and enjoyed it a lot because I was already a fan of, like you said, King Arthur type stuff.

I'd read Chronicles of Narnia.