Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! I have recently purchased the new Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands, and having read it, have a few ideas for expanding upon it and tying it into the worldbuilding of my own world, Egaar. The set is based upon the old B2: Keep on the Borderlands module and I love the nod back to this old-school setting and the efforts taken to redesign the associated Caves of Chaos to better fit a game for new players and the sensibilities of the modern audience. However, in their efforts to do this, I feel that the designers have oversimplified the adventure and setting too much for my taste and so I am embarking on a quest of my own to tinker with the new set and share my thoughts and additions on here. I will be leaning into the old adventure module and various other third party materials and expansions I have found and bought, and will make recommendations as I go, citing the sources of my ideas. I have run the old module for a party of adventurers before and have had a lot of fun revisiting my notes from this recently and writing up a detailed playguide to better seat the location and people in my world. Stay tuned for further posts on this playguide.
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