Events Align - OSR Commentary - Mark Taormino's Maximum Mayhem Dungeons #0 Village of the Borderlands Kickstarter & The Hyperborea rpg 'Borderlands' Campaign

 

"… you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires."

"Beyond the Black River" (1935) Robert E. Howard 

So for our 'Borderlands' campaign  Mark Taormino's Maximum Mayhem Dungeons #0 Village of the Borderlands works very well. And I'll tell ya why. The village is the perfect target for raiders. And let's pick up right where we left off here on the blog. So the valley is completely artificial and everything about the valley in MMD#0 points to the fact that it's a perfect target for raiders. The fact that the royals of the area have dropped the ball on protecting it and a dark influence of Chaos has moved into the area makes me think of B2 Keep on the Borderlands?

That old time religion of Chaos actually. The Caves of Chaos stirring up all of the local humanoids and if combined with MMD#0 Village of the Borderlands  then we've got a real issue. 
And that issue is the fact that the raiders are already within the Borderlands! The Caves of Chaos gives us this fact in spades. 

Now given this fact and the villain within #0 Village of the Borderlands then we have the complete motivation for this. The destablization of the Borderlands and it's environs. 

So not only do we have the motive for the forces of Chaos within B2 & MMD#0 but we've got means. 
Whose behind the whole sale grind of these events?! 

"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph." 

"Beyond the Black River" (1935) Robert E. Howard 
For the Hyperborea rpg? There really doesn't have to be a huge big bad persay. If we include events from let's say Adventurer, Conqueror, King's The Sinister Stone of Sakkara. Then things become much more dangerous. How? Because the fall of the royals within such a campaign goes from being merely a coincidence to a full on conspiracy. Here the humanoids are the hand of Chaos & Chaos influence is deadly. 

Such a campaign as this one will carry PC's from level one right on up through to say at least 5th level or beyond. But we are only getting started.