It'll be nice to add some names to people along the way. On Naming: Everyone in the book itself has just a generic title, not a name. I stole it with care!Īlso, in the interest of discussion, how do you normally do the Keep? What sorts of changes, new NPCs, or challenges do you add? so if you recognize an idea as yours, thanks. I also happened, in the course of research, to run into some interesting ideas from other people here on the rpg.net boards. Why are the monsters all living in what's essentially condominiums in the caves of chaos? I get to decide that! What's the Temple of Evil Chaos up to? My choice! Do I want certain people to be more important? I get to!Īs such, I've been thinking up some notes on how I wanted to run things, my style. Story, and riffing on things, pulling together ideas to make a coherent whole. It's that special kind of thing that leaves all the fun parts of creation up to the DM. I'll make sure to just have them write down a THAC0 number, so that I can do the calculations myself.īut that's not the fun part.
The rules, I think I'm competent enough with the B/X rules to run them well enough, even for newbies. So, I'm planning to run The Keep on the Borderlands for some people who've never played an old-style D&D game from earlier than 4th edition.