In the meantime, he has been renting a family home in the Keep and passing the time between working as a scribe and scrivener, drawing up contracts for merchants, and running an informal school for children in the Keep who want to learn how to read and write. Now he plans to join a group and try to lead through more subtle means. He hasn't had any luck so far since he always insisted that he should be the leader, but he has recently reconsidered since that condition has only led to refusal. He arrived at the Keep several months ago and has been hoping to find an adventuring band. He is identified as a scion of a famous family of wizards, and has plans to become the next great mage of his lineage. He has pretty good physical stats as well as a high intelligence, with his one weakness being a low wisdom which manifests when he comes up with brilliant but impractical ideas. While that is possible, I think the more likely explanation is that author John Rateliff decided to throw in these NPCs as a nod to other classic adventures that were released in the early years along with B2.ĭubricus d'Ambreville is a 1st level mage, six feet tall and thin, with an unruly mop of hair. There was speculation by Mystara fans at the time that perhaps the adventure was originally written for Mystara and then later changed to Greyhawk. I wouldn't even be including this adventure, except for the inclusion of 2-4 NPCs who have ties to Mystara. It gives the keep a history in Greyhawk that dates back about thirty years, and the events when PCs tested their mettle against the Caves of Chaos as described in B2 are assumed to have happened roughly twenty years ago, give or take. It also makes more specific suggestions for placing the Keep in the World of Greyhawk, locating it in the southwesternmost part of the Yeomanry. Like B2, this is an adventure designed to be dropped into any typical D&D setting, only this time with many of the conventions and assumptions oriented for Greyhawk. And just like the title says, it revisits the adventure B2 Keep on the Borderlands, which was first released twenty years earlier. This adventure celebrates twenty-five years of D&D. Atlas Rules Resources Adventures Stories FAQ Search Links

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