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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7590241" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>I'd been playing/DMing for well over 25 years before any exposure to KotB other than reading through it - never played it, never ran it.</p><p></p><p>So in 2008 for my then-new campaign I said "Dammit - I'm starting them out with KotB come what may! I'll finally get to run this thing!". I gave the Keep a name, plonked it in the foothills of a mountain range in my setting, gave the monsters a vague reason for being where they were, plugged in a few wilderness encounters, and dropped the puck.</p><p></p><p>And as fate would have it my players - mostly unintentionally - played into this perfectly. The way they formed the party was to have a Bard (and a Cavalier who was there too) roll up-country bragging about how they were going to get into Great Adventures In the Mountains, and how anyone with courage and daring should join them - and one by one they recruited a party from the villages they passed through. Then they get to Holtus (the name I'd given the Keep) and ask what Grand Adventuring needed doing, and are told (in broad terms) of the Caves, though the people of Holtus were as yet unaware just how populated things had become out there.</p><p></p><p>The rest was history. Or hysteria. Actually, both. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Many a fine fresh-faced adventurer met his or her end in those woods...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7590241, member: 29398"] I'd been playing/DMing for well over 25 years before any exposure to KotB other than reading through it - never played it, never ran it. So in 2008 for my then-new campaign I said "Dammit - I'm starting them out with KotB come what may! I'll finally get to run this thing!". I gave the Keep a name, plonked it in the foothills of a mountain range in my setting, gave the monsters a vague reason for being where they were, plugged in a few wilderness encounters, and dropped the puck. And as fate would have it my players - mostly unintentionally - played into this perfectly. The way they formed the party was to have a Bard (and a Cavalier who was there too) roll up-country bragging about how they were going to get into Great Adventures In the Mountains, and how anyone with courage and daring should join them - and one by one they recruited a party from the villages they passed through. Then they get to Holtus (the name I'd given the Keep) and ask what Grand Adventuring needed doing, and are told (in broad terms) of the Caves, though the people of Holtus were as yet unaware just how populated things had become out there. The rest was history. Or hysteria. Actually, both. :) Many a fine fresh-faced adventurer met his or her end in those woods... [/QUOTE]
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