Alternate B2: Keep on the Borderlands

[JonMonster]

Incidentally, The Warriors is a modern retelling of Xenophon's Anabasis, originally about 10,000 Greek mercenaries trying to get back home from Persia.

Yeah, now that you mention it, I guess it is. Huh. That make a lot more sense than my own take on it being a version of the trials of Odysseus. Either way, it's not a perfect fit as The Warriors is more of a journey from point A to point B and I see a revised KotB as more of a playground for pulpy heroes to turn degenerate mobs into pulp on thier way to a righteous showdwon with the powers behind the squalor.

 

[BabbageCliologic]

I've always wanted to run KotB as a modern day adventure in the spirit of the movie, The Warriors. I picture a neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks. A neighborhood of large squalid housing projects, each of which is the turf of a violent gang of thugs. The orcs and hobgoblins become independent gangs of thugs. There is a scrappy and numerous enclave of murderously violent children who bribe a mountain of a man named Yark to help defend thier basement home. On the far side of this neighborhood is a large glittering office building that is the home of the soulless corporation/government officials who use and abuses the inhabitants of the ghetto for thier own evil aims. The keep becomes a small suburban community desparate to keep the savage forces of the ghetto city at bay.

Haven't seen the Warriors, but I'll put it on my netflix queue. I like the idea of the giant Yark and the violent children. And the secret evil cult as a corporation.

Good ideas, all!

/BC