the keep on the borderlands original pdf

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*Footnote 1: In a recent interview of Anne of DIY & Dragons (who, full disclosure, is slated to be a guest writer on my upcoming Kickstarter, Barkeep on the Borderlands) over at the Weird & Wonderful Worlds blog, Anne had this to say about the meet-in-a-tavern trope: That’s where you go to learn what’s happening a library is where you go to learn what’s happened. When I enter a town as a player, one of the first places I go is always the tavern.

Perhaps you go to the bar to meet a seedy space pirate who will transport your outlaw party members, or to confront the black hat gunslinger that’s been threatening the local ranchers, or just to swap stories of your exploits with other adventurers and get leads on new adventure hooks. It allows for a mingling of people that can be fruitful for storytelling. Or at least, every game that is based on typical fantasy tropes (taverns), or western tropes (saloons), or space westerns (cantinas), or cyberpunk tropes (nightclubs), or… actually, I will just say that probably every game could use a bar or two! While the “you meet in a tavern” trope is played out (to understate it*), there is a reason that so much fiction involves these liminal social spaces. It is, therefore, only natural that in making my own adventures I aim for something that can be run either in toto as an adventure, or broken down into its constituent parts and plugged into an existing campaign.Įvery game needs bars. Accordingly, what I find most useful in practice are gaming products that can be described as toolkits, more modular, smaller bits to plug into whatever existing mess my players get themselves into. However, I personally struggle with adventures in practice (just see, for instance, my failed attempt to bring You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge to the table). They promise such an elegant play experience-just read the book and do what it says, and you’ll have material for a nice couple of sessions with your gaming group. I, like many, am often drawn to adventures as roleplaying products.

The keep on the borderlands original pdf