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Help the commonfolk trapped within the Keep on the Borderlands in their struggle against the Cult of Evil Chaos.
- Announced in the Producer letter/March 2019.
- Keep on the Borderlands will offer a new experience for players adventuring at the lower levels of the game.
- Released 13th November 2019.
- Introduced mounts.
To get to the keep, speak to Kregan the Gatekeeper, who is in both Korthos Village (Heroic only) and The Gatekeepers' Grove.
Prior to U46, this NPC was located in the Hall of Heroes
Wilderness[edit]
This adventure pack includes The Borderlands, a wilderness adventure area targeted at Levels 1-3.
The Keep on the Borderlands story arc is bestowed by Norworth Koln. After completing all of the quests, he will give an end reward for the entire chain (short list of random-gen ML 20-21 loot).
City zone[edit]
"The Keep on the Borderlands" is the name for the city zone within the wilderness area.
Points of interest[edit]
(Clockwise from east entrance)
- Quaal of Vesve <Wondrous Mount Vendor>
- Quest givers:
- Morten Edgewright <Weaponsmith> (trades ingots for weapons, in alley)
- Alleine Yarrow <Auctioneer>
- Portal of Return (large purple portal to Hall of Heroes, center of south wall, up on 1st level walkway)
- Tavern, Rudyard Hynge (against the round tower at the west end of the southern wall)
- Vendors (southwest "corner" of the keep)
- Trainers (grouped in the northwest corner)
- Drainage Pipe (alternative exit to the wilderness, to the west and to the north)
- Makeshift Altar <Spirit Binder> (also for Remove Curse etc; north wall)
- Fregar the Frugal <Banker> (down an alley running south, just east of the altar)
- Mailbox - an "Eveningstar" style bird house, near the very center of the keep
Named Items[edit]
PnP gallery[edit]
Original Basic D&D module by TSR, published in 1979
AD&D 2nd edition module by TSR/Wizards of the Coast, part of the 25th anniversary project for D&D in 1999
Novel adaptation in 2001, part of the Greyhawk Classics novel series
D&D 4th edition Encounter scenario in 2010. It is only a thematic homage to the original and does not take place in the Caves of Chaos.
2018 hardbound book by Goodman Games, includes scan-reprint of B1 and B2, also with newly written 5E D&D adaptation of both modules
Requires access to adventure pack
