Keep on the Borderlands - Starting Materials

Keep on the Borderlands by Erol Otus

Since I mentioned Keep on the Borderlands on my last post, I thought I'd share two documents. I used these the last time I ran this module. I had this amazing opportunity to run B2 for a group of college students. Except for one person, they had never played a role-playing game before. The one student was a regular 5e player. The main draw to play the game was they were all fans of either Strange Things or Game of Thrones (or both).

The first PDF is a set of starter tables:
Starter Tables

This includes an heirloom for each player, a motivation for being at the Keep (called "The Greyfort"), and a names list of each race.

The second PDF is a list of NPCs and Rumors:
NPCs and Rumors

This contains a set of names for all the major NPCs at the Keep. This includes names for the main establishments inside the Keep. I used the Game of Thrones angle to hook in the main draw for the players. There's also some intrigue hooks set up between the Castellan and the Captain of the Guard. The Castellan is in charge as a reward. The Captain is secretly furious since his own house owns the Greyfort. The players could get wrapped up in some shit there.


Anyway I hope you enjoy these resources! The students I ran this for were ravenous gamers. The game happened during our per-semester Animation retreat. It's a 24-hour jam session were we all cram on creative efforts. This initial session lasted 8 hours! They cleared out the entire wilderness area between the Keep and the Caves. The only exception was the extra small dungeon I threw in. We had to stop as one of the players was passing out from exhaustion at around 4 a.m.


Until next time, thanks for reading!