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G21 | Heroes of the Borderlands (2025) | Level 1
Beyond the safety of the Keep, chaos stirs—bandits, beasts, and darker things lurk in the Borderlands. Glory awaits, but so does death.
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Monday - 8:00 PM UTC
Jan 26 / Session 2
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
Campaign Length / 15–30 Sessions
4 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
4/5
About the adventure
Welcome to Keep on the Borderlands ⚔️—a classic frontier adventure where civilization ends and chaos begins. This game is set in a rugged wilderness teeming with danger 🌲🦅—bandit camps, monster lairs, and ancient ruins lie just beyond the safety of the Keep’s stone walls 🏰. Whether you’re a fresh-faced adventurer or a seasoned player looking for old-school thrills, this campaign offers a gritty, exploration-driven experience with plenty of room for heroism, cunning, and survival 🎲🛡️. The tone is grounded and adventurous 🧭, with a focus on player choice and cooperative storytelling 📖. You’ll scout hostile terrain, negotiate with dubious factions 🤝, and uncover secrets buried in forgotten caves 🕳️. Combat is tactical but fast-paced ⚔️, and roleplay is encouraged—whether you’re a stoic mercenary, a curious scholar, or a reckless rogue with something to prove. Expect moral ambiguity, resource scarcity, and the thrill of carving your legend into the untamed Borderlands 🌄. This game is perfect for players who enjoy classic dungeon crawls 🐉, wilderness survival 🌨️, and the tension of venturing into the unknown. New players are welcome—a mix of the best rules from the 2014 and 2024 rulesets will be taught as we go 📚, and creativity is always rewarded 💡. If you like maps, mysteries, and meaningful consequences, you’ll feel right at home 🗺️. So sharpen your blade, pack your rations 🥖🪓, and trust no one beyond the gate. The Borderlands are calling... 🏞️
Game style
Combat Heavy
Combat Lite
Dungeon Crawl
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Roleplay Heavy
Roleplay Lite
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Rules as Written (RaW)
Sandbox / Open World
Meet the Game Master
4.9
(65)
2 years on StartPlaying
887 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Knows the Rules
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi, I'm AP a Best-Selling Author, and I have 20k+ hours of experience GMing D&D 5e on Roll20 and 4 years as a full-time professional GM. * Roll20 Profile: https://app.roll20.net/users/7656131 * Playing and DMing since the days of yore (AD&D). * Now playing and hosting 5e games since 2020. * Newish to Foundry * New to Fantasy Grounds Unity Roll20 Profile: https://app.roll20.net/users/7656131
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Creating your character
- Standard Point Buy - Any content on DNDBeyond - Pregenerated Characters are available and recommended for new players.
A group of long-time players with hundreds of sessions with me, The Hitgooders (a working title) is continuing Waterdeep: Dragon Heist/Dungeon of the Mad Mage until we get at least 1 more player (4+), then we're starting Keep on the Boarderlands (2025). If you'd like to join, and play Waterdeep: Dragon Heist/Dungeon of the Mad Mage, you can make level 12 character. Otherwise, you may make a level 1! The team is ready to start their next campaign and we can finish Dragon Heist as a side quest at a later time during the next campaign. P1: Alexious. V. Human. Monk, Ruined. P2: Aries. V. Human. Barbarian, Rewarded. P3: Queek. Spinemanglr. C. Lineage. Barbarian, Cloistered Scholar.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Computer w/ Chrome or Firefox and Beyond20 Browser Plugin(free - instant install) if using DNDBeyond Microphone and Headphones A Roll20 Account (free) or a Forge-VTT accound (Free) A Discord Account (free) A DNDBeyond Account (free & optional) While some smartphones and alternative browsers may work, they are not expressly supported by Roll20 at this time and are disallowed as some features may be missing or nonfunctional and this may result in issues for other players.
What GM AP brings to the table
- Discord Server - Roll20 Game - Tokenization of your Token Art - Full Color Maps, Often Animated
Homebrew rules
Drinking a healing potion as a bonus action: Roll the dice. - Drinking a healing potion as an action or out of combat: Max - Cleaving (2014 characters only): If you reduce a creature to 0 hp using a melee attack with damage to spare, the rest can be applied to another target within range that the initial attack roll would have hit. - Flanking: +1 on melee attack rolls when an ally is directly opposite your character or when you and two or more allies are within melee range of your target.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How GM AP creates a safe table
Every session can be a session 0. I use a session opener that encourages players to use/update their safety tool preferences on an ongoing basis. Also included is the ability of players to create private and/or public threads where they need only state their safety tool concerns and I will avoid it and do my best to steer the players away from said concern and handle any desired discussion of the topic to the best of my ability and seek feedback from the concerned where and when necessary before doing so.
Content warnings
Safety tools used