Greyhawk -KotB. Location?


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For a long time I have been using the Tors, in the southern part of Yeomanry as the location of the original B2 module, I've been looking for the original source on this and can't find it anywhere. I also swore i thought I saw the "Keep on the Borderlands" noted on the new Greyhawk maps that came out in Dungeon last summer, but looking at the them tonight I don't see it. Can anyone tell me the orignal source of this as the location for the module??

Thanks


oldcoast wrote:

For a long time I have been using the Tors, in the southern part of Yeomanry as the location of the original B2 module, I've been looking for the original source on this and can't find it anywhere. I also swore i thought I saw the "Keep on the Borderlands" noted on the new Greyhawk maps that came out in Dungeon last summer, but looking at the them tonight I don't see it. Can anyone tell me the orignal source of this as the location for the module??

Thanks

IIRC, B2: the Keep on the Borderlands was either set in the Known World or was completely setting nonspecific (if that's even a word), not Greyhawk. I do believe Return to the KotB places it in the Yeomanry, though. I don't recall seeing it on the poster map either, but I don't have that section handy at the moment.

Hunter


It is definitely in the Yeomanry.

Before I had knowledge of the Return to Keep On the Borderlands module, I set the Keep near the border of the Pomarj, with the idea that it was a lone keep trying to hold out against the humanoids of the region. This was a campaign set in 578 CY, though, before the Empire of the Pomarj arose. I made the evil Temple dedicated to Orcus, though Tharizdun and Nerull (if you ignore that it is dedicated to chaos) also seem like likely candidates.


TKotB, as originally published, is a generic adventure for the original D&D game. IIRC, by the mid-eighties nearly all OD&D adventures were assumed to take place in their default "Known World" (later to be named Mystara) campaign setting, & tKotB was no exception.

It wasn't until the late 90's that someone at TSR decided to try shoehorning it into Greyhawk, placing it in the Yeomanry in "Return to the Keep on the Borderlands." However, much like the despised module "Child's Play," RttKotB in Greyhawk in name only, as nearly everything within contradicts or does not mesh with known setting information (one NPC worships a Babylonian god, for instance).

I'm all for keeping tKotB in Mystara, though I'd probably feel much different had "Return to tKotB" never seen the light of day.

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