Campaign Update: The Keep on the Borderlands (DungeonCraft #61)

The first d&d adventure I ever played. I was 11. I’m now DM’ing for a brand new group- forty years later and have bought this module out of nostalgia.

Your channel and Runehammer are the best for getting the most out of RPGs with least amount of effort from the DM. Love watching your shows.

I like the idea of visitors having to hand in their shields. The guards could display the shields, so that people could tell, at a glance, who is in town. This could be great for a game involving heraldry and duelling.

We played through this module many times. We put a halfling in a chest and tried to deposit him into the bank. Our intent was to rob the bank, of course, but I can't remember how that played out. I suspect that the halfling died horribly.

I loved the mention of the Village of Hommlet from the Temple of Elemental Evil. Keep on the Borderlands was the first adventure I ever played in D&D and i now run friends through it. Its a great module.

I keep finding myself rewatching these campaign recaps. They’re so good, the best on YouTube!

This is some of the best content on YouTube let alone your D&D and role-playing game coverage is absolutely parliament and needs to be recognized more!

I keep relistening to these campaign videos weekly while I build my own homebrew world. I am 38 today and I cut my teeth on AD&D, spent decades in 2e. I familiarize with the content. Awe level drain, etc. Good times. Damn good inspiration here and at Runehammer both. Questing Beast is a must listen as well. The three are a complete ven diagram of OSR based grim dark awesomeness!

God, I love Keep on the Borderlands....this past year I ran my 5E group through my version of it, this was before the Into the Borderlands released or at least before I had a copy, we had a blast. So many fun factions and places to just add in anything for your campaign. I actually inserted in Broodmother Skyfortress into that campaign just to really make it crazy, good times!

i will miss those goblins

And so it REALLY begins! Bravo to the players for getting that far, you really put them through a grim wringer! 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎

I love how you succeed in packing all this information in short video's. Far better than viewing whole 2 hours sessions and not understanding so much on what really works, and what doesn't;

Sounds like a great campaign to play. I really like the changes, esp no magic healing fixes but a crazy knife happy surgeon.

Love the simplified old school feel from your adventure ideas Going to try them with my group 5th edition d&d is ok but your right theres to much un necessary fluff

Your message board concept is paradigm shifting. Not a bad icebreaker.

Top notch! I love hearing about your tweaks and approach

Had an idea on the board. Never thought to do a cork board with actual leads on it. I am definitely going to buy a cork board. Thanks for the idea!

thanks for making all these videos. you're the first dm I've found who runs your games pretty much the way I have always thought they should be done. I've been thinking about trying dming again and with the stuff I've learned from some of your videos, I think ill be able to do pretty well.

Lots of great ideas and concepts in this video and on this channel. Thanks for all you do Professor. Replacing the keep with a city I stole. Bridgepuddle is now Lastbridge. Renaming and reskining the caves and calling them The Howling Hills. If you recognize the name of the city I stole then you know what is coming down the pipe. Until then its all fun and games killing monsters in the Hills. lol JK. I plan on making my players joyfully and morally uncomfortable at every turn. My players knew going in that this was a grimdark world where actions have consequences. First fight out of the gate and they killed an innocent man transporting his wife and children out of danger... OR so his alleged wife told them... Good times and mysteries in the city and grim discoveries in the Hills. Can't wait to see how all this plays out. Grab your ketchup and crunch away my friends.

I eagerly await your video on clerics. I'm also interested in how players enter into apprenticeship with mages and clerics getting ordained in your world.