{"id":217,"date":"2018-05-29T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=217"},"modified":"2018-05-29T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:27:13","slug":"217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/05\/29\/217\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Into<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading my copy of Goodman Games’ Original Adventures Reincarnated #1: Into the Borderlands<\/em>.\u00a0 At 384 pages this is no lightweight.\u00a0 It republishes the first 2 adventures written almost 40 years ago for Basic Dungeons & Dragons: B1 In Search of the Unknown<\/em> and B2 The Keep on the Borderlands<\/em>.\u00a0 It was my first time reading B1.<\/p>\n

Not only are the original adventures republished with restored maps and commentary but new material is added and everything is converted to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition.\u00a0 The new encounter maps that extend the old maps are a nice addition regardless what edition of D&D you plan to use.\u00a0 Some of the new material was taken from a novelized version of The Keep on the Borderlands<\/em> which didn’t appeal to me at all but these details are easy to change.<\/p>\n

It was somewhat disappointing to see several of the new encounters being very much in line with the modern approach to D&D.\u00a0 This makes them jarring when placed in the same adventure with the original encounters.\u00a0 For example, finding many “magic-proof” cages on the side of the road broken and their magic rabbit prisoners running everywhere presents a different take on magic than a reader will find in the original Keep on the Borderlands’ encounters.\u00a0 Thankfully the encounters are easy to rewrite.<\/p>\n

Although a little pricey I recommend Into the Borderlands for fantasy roleplaying fans.\u00a0 Its material is useful and will likely be at my game table soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading my copy of Goodman Games’ Original Adventures Reincarnated #1: Into the Borderlands.\u00a0 At 384 pages this is no lightweight.\u00a0 It republishes the first 2 adventures written almost 40 years ago for Basic Dungeons & Dragons: B1 In Search of the Unknown and B2 The Keep on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,8,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}