Editing B2: The Keep on the Borderlands

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Shit, this is back when old-school adventures ''were'' oldschool.

Created back in the glory days of [[Dungeons and Dragons]], when traps were dangerous, poison was save-or-die, and everything was [[Awesome]]. It was one of the first adventures released for the system, by [[Gary Gygax]] himself back in 1978. The general gist was that an unknown evil had taken up occupation in a series of caverns (the so-called Caves of Chaos) not too far from a strategically-important castle town (the aforementioned keep) in the borderlands.

Classic dungeon crawling and high adventure ensue. It was made for low-level groups, so it's soft-around-the-edges unlike [[Tomb of Horrors|a certain other module that has been known to drive men to madness]]. In spite of this it had some serious challenges in it, including some nasty cursed items, a bunch of warring monstrous humanoid clans getting ready to attack the keep, and a temple of an evil god set up to profit from it all. All in all, it was a forgiving module, well-suited to a wide array of different party styles and tactics, whether a group was full of warrior-diplomats or sneaky gits, magic-users, and fighty-types. There was treasure to be had, and so many memories for the players who hopped into this game, that it remains a fond segment for all.

The Keep on the Borderlands went out of print in the early 1980s, but has been reprinted two times; a sequel was also made. A novelized version of the adventure was published in 1999 (like the one for [[Tomb of Horrors]], it sucks a bag-full of dicks). 

The module was well-recieved by almost everyone who played it, and was ranked the 7th greatest [[Dungeons and Dragons]] adventure of all-time by [[''Dungeon'' Magazine]] in 2004. Like a lot of old-school adventures that [[Wizards of the Coast]] [[Derp|fucking dragged their heels on]], they didn't release an updated version of Keep on the Borderlands until [[4e|4th edition]], where it's once again a generally low-level module and is infinitely less dangerous, leading most of /tg/ to proudly declare that it [[FAIL|sucks]], having lost a lot of the [[Grimdark|suspense and sense of danger]] the original tended to drive home due to 4th's less-lethal combat and traps regimen.

The Keep on the Borderlands was never remade for 3rd or 3.5, despite there being overpowering demand for it. Veteran elegan/tg/entlemen are quick to point out that this squarely falls into the same category as some of WotC's other bone-headed moves, like suing to stop other companies from working on books for [[Ravenloft]] in 3rd Edition, claiming they were going to release their own version of the setting (and then never doing so), Failing to sell [[Planescape]], [[Spelljammer]], and [[Dark Sun]] (settings highly sought-after and that frankly would have sold themselves), and so on.

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