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1. The keep on the borderlands toee Patch#
2. The keep on the borderlands toee full#
3. The keep on the borderlands toee series#

The keep on the borderlands toee series#

It's fairly boring and redundant, and it tends to devolve into a series of mass combats involving entire tribes versus the party. Your assessment of the adventure is perfectly correct. I've ran B2 twice, once at about age 11 and once at about age 15, and I'd never do it again - or at least not in anything remotely like its written form. Surviving characters got to muster out & chart their own course with the new friends & contacts that they'd made. Word was sent that actual troops were needed.Īnd thus began a campaign of guerrilla warfare to weaken the monsters as much as possible while awaiting the actual army.Īnd when we reached a point where it seemed that everyone was tiring of these raids? That's when the Kings forces showed up & there was a battle royal. They discovered "OMG! There's 7 different monster clans, an assortment of misc monsters, and a branch of the Cult of Elemental Evil." They went in there thinking it was a simple Wipe-out-a-Bandit-lair raid. Thus learning about the Caves roughly a days ride north. They did, tracking down the bandits, killing most of them & taking a few prisoners. Until a band of brigands began operating in the area. Now & then, especially in the fall, they'd have to be alert against a local tribe of forest goblins. A nice quiet posting at essentially a tax collection station for the local farming communities harvests. The PCs were a guard patrol nearing the end of their compulsory military duty, stationed at a small keep along the northern Kings Road. After the 1e Temple fell some of the priests retreated here, set up shop, & over time started secretly drawing in monster tribes. The last time I ran this I had the Temple of Evil be a remnant of one of the Elemental Evil cults from ToEE. Otherwise all you've got is a slog to kill every last monster hiding in the nooks & crannies.

And there's even more NPCs back in the Keep.ģ) On leveling - there's enough monsters/treasure/magic items to lv up a few times.Ĥ) Whatever you decide is your plot should suggest an "ending".

The keep on the borderlands toee full#

There are some mods out that give full party control with no looting though.1) In your game, why are all those monster tribes living peacefully right next to each other? Answer that & you've got yourself a plot.Ģ) There's all kinds of NPCs scattered throughout the caves in the form of prisoners. One thing that I remember now that was annoying about the game was that you weren't in control of your other party members, so they would actually loot gold and items off of corpses and you had no control over their stats/inventory. Things need to be installed in a specific order, apparently, so check out that info before installing. It's kind of tricky to navigate the site since links aren't underlined by default. Here is the downloads/mods forum for the game: This thread has some general info for installing/playing: They patched and modded the game long after Troika was gone.

The keep on the borderlands toee Patch#

When I had the game, I knew there was a fan made patch which was then turned semi official, so may want to look for those.Įdit: Ok I just did some googling and I remember the site Circle of Eight was responsible for much of the community still left standing. I actually wish they had used this combat engine for Baldur's Gate and NWN (except multiplayer would have been even more boring in them).