return to the keep on the borderlands maps

Return to the keep on the borderlands maps series#

With the game not even formally announced, we don't expect Infinity Ward and Activision to comment on this newly-surfaced rumor. He is the author of the adventures Standing Stone and Return to the Keep on the Borderlands, as well as co-editor of (and contributor to) d20 Cthulhu. The fourth and final map is Quarry, and again it's a medium-sized map and it's also set in Brazil, like Favela, though obviously it's set in specifically a quarry.Īt the moment of publishing, there's no confirmation of these four maps being in next year's installment. Author of roleplaying games and an independent scholar, specializing in the Inklings, especially Tolkien studies. The third map is Terminal, which is another fan-favorite and another medium-sized map. An important reminder (to me at least) that the 1st/central line of elevation on the map is 25 feet up the bottom was often perceived as a flat plane. 5th Edition D&D has a playtest module based on The Keep on the Borderlands called Caves of Chaos. My only two takeaways from the Return module were the name Kendall Keep, and the addition of a stream flowing down the center of the Caves area, a nice feature to indicate 0 elevation. It is set in the Nentir Vale setting, rather than Greyhawk or Mystara. It's a multi-tiered map set in a not-so-nice part of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A 4th Edition D&D module based on this one was released in 2010 under The Dungeons & Dragons Encounters series: 'Keep on the Borderlands: A Season of Serpents'.

The second of these maps is Favela, another medium-sized map that isn't as popular, and as you may remember, it was actually originally supposed to be a Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare map. Reams of reams of graph paper were used, pencils worn down to. Personally, I really like the Altan Teppes location for the Known World and the Pomarj location for Greyhawk.The first of these four maps is Highrise, a popular medium-sized map that takes place on top of a nearly constructed skyscraper. The map That cover map spawned countless imitations. Kenzer's Little Keep on the Borderland is located in their own Garweze Wurld. When TSR did the 1999 Return to the Keep on the Borderlands, they put it in Greyhawk, since the Known World/Mystara campaign had long since been discontinued. Although the original B2 publication was generic in terms of setting, the 1999 Return located the Keep in the World of Greyhawk. It was set twenty years after the events of The Keep on the Borderlands, and featured a fully re-stocked Caves of Chaos. The 1986 B1-9 compilation and the 1987 GAZ1 Grand Duchy of Karameikos cemented this relationship by adapting the location suggestion from the 1983 Expert set. Return to the Keep on the Borderlands is an adventure module for 2nd Edition AD&D. So, as of 1983, regardless of the original intentions, the Keep was set pretty firmly in the Known World. In the same year, the 1983 World of Greyhawk boxed set listed suggested locations for a number of modules, but didn't list B2 (or B1, curiously, even though it listed a number of possible Greyhawk locations in its first couple of printings). Role Playing DnD Map - Reusable Tabletop Square Mats - RPG Dungeons. In the 1983 Expert boxed set, there was a suggestion that the Keep be put in the Altan Teppes mountains on the north-east border of Karameikos in the Known World. The Keep On The Borderlands - Dungeon Module B2 (vintage Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

Return to the keep on the borderlands maps series#

I should note, some Cannonical Greyhawk modules like the GD series which were published in the same time period also have no campaign setting information in them. Keep on the Borderlands Dungeon Module B2: Dungeons and Dragons Introductory Module for Character Le by Gygax, Gary and a great selection of related books. Gary Gygax D&D adventure allows characters to re-explore the best-selling adventure of. There was a thread somewhere, where Gary Gygax suggested the Keep be put on the western border of the Pomarj. Return to the Keep on the Borderlands and the Caves of Chaos, where fell creatures lurk and wait for unwary adventurers. Given the author, I'd assume it was originally set in Greyhawk. er, keep, youre pretty exposed to a couple of looking towers, presumably while guards are raining down arrows. This means that while youre marching to storm the castl. This shouldn't be considered too strange, as TSR hadn't published any campaign setting yet B2 preceded the World of Greyhawk folio by about a year. You can see from the map above (click to enlarge) the entrance is at the end of a winding road. No setting information was given in the original version of the adventure.