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<blockquote data-quote="Reaper Steve" data-source="post: 3842270" data-attributes="member: 51528">I'm trying to figure out the fascination with Keep on the Borderlands. Sure, I'm part of the crowd that cut our teeth on it when it came in the purple box, but I can remember thinking 'this doesn't make a lot of sense' looking at it when I was ten years old. Mike Mearls has a great review along those lines on RPG.net (found it:<a href="http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_1250.html" target="_blank">here</a> .However, the Caves of Chaos are great for dismantling. Each cave could stand alone as a decent side trek type of adventure (more or less.) But mashing them all together, bleh.Even worse was the feeling that there should have been a plot, but there wasn't. Tell me again why I'm at the Keep? And why do I care about these caves? Well, that was it, and that was how it played: 'OK, you're at the Keep on the Borderlands. You hear about the Caves of Chaos. You go there. Pick a cave.'It would have been better if it removed the pretension, called itself B2:The Caves of Chaos, and started out: 'After a long journey, you've arrived at the Caves of Chaos. Pick a cave.'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reaper Steve, post: 3842270, member: 51528"] I'm trying to figure out the fascination with [I]Keep on the Borderlands.[/I] Sure, I'm part of the crowd that cut our teeth on it when it came in the purple box, but I can remember thinking 'this doesn't make a lot of sense' looking at it when I was ten years old. Mike Mearls has a great review along those lines on RPG.net (found it:[URL=http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_1250.html]here[/URL] . However, the Caves of Chaos are great for dismantling. Each cave could stand alone as a decent side trek type of adventure (more or less.) But mashing them all together, bleh. Even worse was the feeling that there should have been a plot, but there wasn't. Tell me again why I'm at the Keep? And why do I care about these caves? Well, that was it, and that was how it played: 'OK, you're at the Keep on the Borderlands. You hear about the Caves of Chaos. You go there. Pick a cave.' It would have been better if it removed the pretension, called itself [I]B2:The Caves of Chaos,[/I] and started out: 'After a long journey, you've arrived at the Caves of Chaos. Pick a cave.' [/QUOTE]

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