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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3319115" data-attributes="member: 34865">Ah yes...B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS.  I've (attempted to) run through it solo a couple times and have DM'ed it...two, maybe three times?  I know that doesn't sound like a lot but B2 is a whole campaign-in-a-module.The very first time I ran it, I had little grasp of what DUNGEONS & DRAGONS was.  Providence guided me to choosing that particular module, as about 65% of what you need to know to play D&D is contained in those pages.  What's missing is a real rundown on how combat works, spell explanations and XP charts.  That's really all else you need!Anyway, my sister and my neighbor were the first two to brave the CAVES OF CHAOS and they did swimmingly well - considering that I was reading everything in the encounter area descriptions ("There's a pit trap...") <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.The next time I played it was many, many years later when I restarted with ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS following advice I'd gotten from Gary, I put the Keep in the Pomarj and started a campaign that would have taken the party from B2 to a gotterdamrung conclusion with S1 THE TOMB OF HORRORS with every classic module in between, including a run through the Giants series!Alas that wasn't to be.  Fortunes changed and people drifted away...but I digress.The second run through the module was lots of fun.  I distinctly recall the party's paladin being head-butted by the Minotaur into unconciousness; my wife who was running the party thief attacked the sleeping owlbear in its lair and by using a backstab attack on a prone or held opponent, coupled with arrows from two other party members, managed to finish the beast off without it so much as getting a single claw in!Of course she later made the mistake of disturbing the infamous bowl and pitcher in the Temple of Evil Chaos and had to be...persuaded to come back into the light.I've played in the module as a party member a few times as well.  Memorable journeys include a fight against Thouls (who replaced the ogre, courtesy of the DM wanting to mix things up a bit) and actually negotiating with the Hobgoblins and convincing them to seek their fortunes elsewhere....That's all I've got, sorry its not more exciting! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> </blockquote>

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