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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6682050" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya! Little Keep on the Borderlands is amazing in a billion different ways. It's one of my all-time favorite modules. It's got some "campy" stuff, obviously (WotC wouldn't let them publish the first few drafts as they weren't "silly" enough), but that stuff is easy to strip out or only use if everyone at the table is in need of some comic relief for all the death and dismemberment going on around them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The Beholder is a TPK waiting to happen...to players that act before thinking or to players that make the "3e assumption" that everything in a module is meant to be killed, and that the PCs are capabale of killing them. Hackmaster4e isn't that kind of game. It requires players to place themselves in the shoes of their PC's and make intelligent choices. Yes, some meta-gaming is assumed to be used by the players (e.g., their 1st level PC's may have never heard of a beholder, but the players have; players that have their PC's run like stink away from the beholder are not 'penalized' for it).So, as long as you look at LKotB from the blood-stained goggles of HM4e, you'll have no trouble.By the way, there is so-o-o much going on in the Keep and surrounding area that a DM could just use it as the base for a multi-year campaign, with the PC's never leaving the 'overland map' area in the back cover. If that isn't supreme bang-for-your-buck, I don't know what is!^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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