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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5478211" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>Another often overlooked thing Keep on the Borderlands does is get the DM to begin to think about the larger issues of world building.  It is impossible to have these various creature types close together and not think what would happen if the controls were not in place.  This is a scaled down version of the world building the DM will soon want or need to do to run a successful campaign.  It's a microcosm, a warped template, for sandbox campaign design that forces DMs to ask tough question in order to be accountable to a world design logic and in order to know just how much knowledge is the province of players and what is the province of DMs.  It teaches a DM to fish while a linear designed adventure merely gives the DM the stats of the fish he will need for one day.</p></blockquote><p></p>