B2 - The Keep on the Borderlands

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Title: The Keep on the Borderlands
By: Gary Gygax

Number: B2
Level: 1-3
Pages: 32 (28 page module with 4 page map/table inserts)
Copyrighted: 1981
Cover Price: $5.50

Part Number: 9034 [ Front cover, lower right ]
Product Code: 394-51547-1TSR-550 [ See below ]
ISBN: 0-935696-47-4 [ See below ]
Logo: Wizard face
Dimensions: See below

Printings:
3rd Printing: 8 1/2" x 11" or 8 3/8" x 10 3/4". ISBN located on back cover, lower left. Part number, front cover, lower right. No product code listed. Some interior artwork has been changed. NPC's no longer has any reference to DX (Dexterity) ability score. Center page reference page format changed.
4th Printing: 8 3/8" x 10 3/4". ISBN located on back cover, lower left. Product code located on back cover, lower right.
5th Printing: 8 3/8" x 10 3/4". ISBN and product code located on back cover, lower left. Interior identical to previous printing.
6th Printing: Identical to the 5th printing. It was re-released by itself in shrinkwrap with a cardboard top.

Back Cover Synopsis: (3rd Printing)

This item is only one of the many popular playing aids for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Fantasy Adventure Game pro-
duced by TSR Hobbies, Inc.  Other playing aids currently available for use with the D&D game system include:


  Dungeon Module B1 (In Search of the Unknown)
  Dungeon Module B2 (The Keep on the Borderlands)

  Dungeon Module X1 (The Isle of Dread)

  Monster and Treasure Assortment, Set One to Three: Levels One through Nine (make the job of stocking dungeon
      levels easy)

  Dungeon Geomorphs (allows the DM to create thousands of different dungeon levels by arranging them in differnet
      combinations)

  D&D® Players Character Record Sheets (allows players to record all important information about their characters in
      an easy-to-use format)



Other releases of additional items relating to D&D® Adventure Games are planned for the future. TSR Hobbies pub-
lishes a complete line of fantasy, science fiction games and rules which are available from better hobby, game,
and department stores nationwide. If you desire a complete catalog, write to: TSR Hobbies, Inc., POB 756,  Lake
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Adventure Plot:

There is a fine line between civilization and chaos. And it is on these borderlands where brave and bold adventurers seek fortune and fame. Some of these exceptional adventurers venture into the realm of Chaos itself, into the evil forces' own den.

You have traveled for many days, traveling from the relative safety of the city to the wilderness, where danger lies in every turn of the path. You have moved up along a rocky track, heading to one of the nameless Keep that watches the border from the evils of Chaos.

From the Keep you set up your temporary home. You set out to explore the untamed wilds that surrounds the Keep. Following the trail deeper into the woods, you discover a set of caves. Mass tribes of different evil humanoids have set their homes in these caves. But you know riches and fame awaits to those who dare journey into the Caves of Chaos.

Review:
(3rd Printing)

Probably the most well known module in D&D system. This module is a classic. Gary Gygax gives both the Dungeon Master and the players a taste of what playing D&D is meant to be. Although majority of the module is dungeon crawling through the Caves of Chaos, there is also a section on the full inhabitants and rooms of the Keep, giving the players a chance to interact with NPCs; with rumor charts and descriptions of the NPS to give both the DM and players a chance to role-play. A map and encounters of the surrounding area, allows the adventurers a realistic feeling of what it is like to journey from one place to the mission, instead of a starting the adventure in the first room of the dungeon.

Caves of Chaos is a fully stocked dungeon. It has many different creatures to fight. Tribal interaction and relations. It will require multiple trips to finish the Caves of Chaos. Allowing an average size party to advanced to Expert level when they are done.