Keep on the Borderlands, Pathfinder Edition

[William Ronald]

Steelfiredragon wrote:

which means it would have to be renamed and the maps changed around.... and then maybe get distributed by Paizo.

one can dream...

The name Caves of Chaos is not copyright as I recall, so I think that it could be used as the name of an adventure instead of Keep on the Borderlands. It would be relatively easy to create an adventure with much of the feel of the original adventure, perhaps a bit more tightly written and with some things better explained (such as what do the monsters eat, have they been there a while).

A Pathfinder introductory product SHOULD include a great introductory adventure that a new or experienced GM could build on.

I also sent out some more copies of my conversion.

[Shifty]

William Ronald wrote:

I also sent out some more copies of my conversion.

Indeed you did!

Thank you :)

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back when I re-wrote KoTB as a 2nd Ed adventure, but took some of the awesome (yet strangely unexploited!) adventure hooks to start off around the keep first. If you all recall, there is already a BBEG in the keep itself! Well it was many many many sessions before they even went wandering off to the Caves.

The other 'forest encounters' were weaved into a bigger tale.

So you can do a heap with that old content.

[Snorter]

I'd love a copy of what you've done, please.

E-mail in my profile.

[Osmos777]

May I also get a copy of your work on that very fine adventure?

[e-mail]

[gigglestick]

Got it! Thanks

[Themes86]

I would be interested in seeing your conversion. Particularly how you handled the elf adviser conversion since the original basically had them as a multi-class fighter/magic-user.

Spoiler:

[e-mail]

Thanks for considering it!

[Elijah Snow]

I would absolutely be thrilled to read a copy of your conversion if you would be so kind as to mail to me at:

Email:

[e-mail]

[denny ortega]

I'd love a copy of what you've done, please.
my Email is [e-mail]

Thanks a lot

[William Ronald]

Check your e-mail. Sorry that I have not been monitoring the thread of late.

[William Ronald]

Okay, I discovered that I did not attach the file properly, so please check your e-mail agian.

[Dr. Gradgrind]

William Ronald wrote:

Steelfiredragon wrote:

which means it would have to be renamed and the maps changed around.... and then maybe get distributed by Paizo.

one can dream...

The name Caves of Chaos is not copyright as I recall, so I think that it could be used as the name of an adventure instead of Keep on the Borderlands. It would be relatively easy to create an adventure with much of the feel of the original adventure, perhaps a bit more tightly written and with some things better explained (such as what do the monsters eat, have they been there a while).

A Pathfinder introductory product SHOULD include a great introductory adventure that a new or experienced GM could build on.

I also sent out some more copies of my conversion.

Could you send me a copy of your conversion:

email:

[e-mail]

Thanks!

[Osmos777]

Repeating my request for a copy of your conversion. Sorry, I could not figure out how to edit my earlier post. i put too many zeros in the email address. :( My bad!

My email is [e-mail]

Thanks again!

[denny ortega]

please send me again the file, it not attached to the mail please
[e-mail]

Thanks

[Bellona]

Oops, I forgot to say to say "thank you" for the conversion! So: thank you! :)

[The 8th Dwarf]

May I also have a copy [e-mail]

and thank you :-).

[Eridanis]

William - when you have a moment, I'd love a copy of your notes. (I still have fond memories of running you, Eric Noah, Ben Durbin, and others through my 3.0 conversion of Ghost Tower of Inverness at one of the first Chicago GameDays. :))

eridanis at gmail.com

Thanks!

[William Ronald]

Okay, I made sure to attach the file. I hope that it went threw.

Eridanis, long time no see. I hope that you are doing well.

By the way, I am running a Pathfinder Society scenario, the Pallid Plague, at EN World Gameday 28 -- which according to Mark CMG marks the 10th anniversary of several of us being at the GameDays three times a year.

[Eridanis]

William Ronald wrote:

Okay, I made sure to attach the file. I hope that it went threw.

Eridanis, long time no see. I hope that you are doing well.

By the way, I am running a Pathfinder Society scenario, the Pallid Plague, at EN World Gameday 28 -- which according to Mark CMG marks the 10th anniversary of several of us being at the GameDays three times a year.

Got it just fine. Thanks again!

We are doing well, thank you. I'm glad the Chicago GameDays are still going strong after all these years; it sure helps when you have awesome folks like Curt and everyone at Games Plus to support it.

[Daniel Marshall]

As with everyone else, I'd love to see your conversion, if you have a chance to send it off again of course.

Email:

[e-mail]

[The Eel]

William,

Seeing as how a year after you started this thread people are still requesting your conversion, I'd love to get a copy as well. Email is in profile.

thanks in advance

-The Eel

[Malik13]

This would be a lot of fun to run, can I get copy please
[e-mail]
Thanks!

[William Ronald]

I will send out some copies tomorrow, as the weekend was busy.

As for some of the rational behind some of my conversion choices, I decided that the PCs -- regardless of how they were created -- should be more impressive than the typical guard. I also threw in a few changes here and there to keep players on their toes. (Such changes can be completely ignored.)

So, check your e-mails tomorrow night. I will see if there are any further requests.

[Brambleman]

I'd love to see what you've done with the conversion. Could you send?

Spoiler:

[e-mail]

[Austin Reilly]

It'd be great if I could get a copy of this, too. I've been wanting to run Keep on the Borderlands in Pathfinder but as a bit of a newbie DM I haven't any idea where to start in converting it.

Email:

[e-mail]

[William Ronald]

Check your e-mail accounts.

[The Eel]

William Ronald wrote:

Check your e-mail accounts.

Just got mine. Looks great... Thanks again.

-The Eel

[Kevin Cannell]

I just sent a request to your gmail. . . if you're still sending it out I'd greatly appreciate it. :)

[Rannald]

I too am interested in your Pathfinder Conversion of Keep on the Borderlands. Thank you in advance.

email:

[e-mail]

On a sad side note, the cover artist Jim Roslof, just recently passed away.

[Thanael]

Please mail me the PF Conversion too

email::

[e-mail]

BTW here's a 3E conversion of Return to the Keep of the Borderlands including a map of the keep.

And there's an article called "Repair to the Keep of the Borderlands" by Russ Taylor in the excellent Oerth Journal #11.

[dafaddu]

May I also humbly request your conversion?

email:

[e-mail]

Thanks!

[Severed Ronin]

I'd like to request a copy as well if no one minds.

Email:

[e-mail]

Also, to piggyback on Rannald, let us all take a moment to remember Jim Roslof, the original author of Keep on the Borderlands.

---silent moment---

Why!?!? Damn you, cruel world!!!

[Sneaky]

Please when you'll have time please send a copy to my e-mail too

e-mail:

[e-mail]

[Asgetrion]

HAR HAR! Now that all of you have foolishly revealed your e-mail addresses, I can send everyone pictures of my nekkid Beard Dance! Oh, the joy of being Evil... ;P

[clff rice]

Um Lol?

[Lilaxe]

I too would love a copy of this.

Have been considering running PF and this would be a great starter module.

Movie plot spoiler:

[e-mail]

[William Ronald]

I just sent out copies of the conversion. Let me know how your games go in this thread.

[Severed Ronin]

William Ronald wrote:

I just sent out copies of the conversion. Let me know how your games go in this thread.

Thanks. I just took a precursor look at it and it looks pretty good.

Nice work.

[Thanael]

Ummm... nothing in the old inbox yet..

[William Ronald]

Thanael wrote:

Ummm... nothing in the old inbox yet..

Sorry about that! I thought that I had sent it out earlier. Check now.

[Thanael]

Got it. Thank you very much.

Have you taken a look at the links i posted above?

[William Ronald]

Thanael wrote:

Got it. Thank you very much.

Have you taken a look at the links i posted above?

Only a cursory look -- as I have a house guest and a lot to do. It should be slower next week, so I will look in more detail then. Thanks again.

[clff rice]

I'm all swimming with curiosity as well.

[e-mail]

[clff rice]

when can i see it? :)

[William Ronald]

clff rice wrote:

when can i see it? :)

Check now!

[clff rice]

thanks :)

[eric kiser]

Hello William.
When you have time I would like a copy of your work also.
eric AT kiser DOT com

Thanks, Eric

Thanael,
The the http://www.oerthjournal.com/ website is messed up.

[Crimson Jester]

contact:

crimson_jester at cox.net

Would love to see this, if you would.

[Sylvre Phire]

Color me interested in seeing the conversion as well... Also, are you just substituting the draconic kobolds for the canid kobolds of the original version or replacing the canid kobolds with pugwampi (Bestiary 2 p.144)? :D

Contact:

[e-mail]

Pax et bonum,

Dale

[William Ronald]

Sylvre Phire wrote:

Color me interested in seeing the conversion as well... Also, are you just substituting the draconic kobolds for the canid kobolds of the original version or replacing the canid kobolds with pugwampi (Bestiary 2 p.144)? :D

** spoiler omitted **

Pax et bonum,

Dale

Hi, Dale!! These are draconic kobolds.... Bestiary 2 was not out yet when I did the revision. (The kobold chieftain is a little bit different than the rest of his fellow kobolds.)

[Jason S]

William Ronald wrote:

Stuff

I've run "Keep on the Borderlands" more times than I want to think about. I think my former players even have the loot memorized after 20 years. To me, it's always been a fun, exploration-type hack and slash module.

Having said that, the module doesn't have a lot of plot going for it, and it's extremely long (days to complete), so I'm not sure it's suitable for convention play. Also, part of the fun back then was going to the keep and starting trouble there as well.

Sure, the premise behind the scenario sounds feasible, but almost anything will do, it's all about hack and slash and exploration.

Common trade goods... you could just make up things. The link below might help. Are trade goods that important for a one shot scenario?
http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medmerchant.html

Most of my conversions have been between 3.5 and PF. A lot of the time I just leave the monster stats as 3.5. Obviously you can't do that since it's 1E. So if it was me, I'd check the EL of all of the encounters before proceeding, maybe consider giving everyone a 3rd level character, so they can go farther.