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| Larry MacDougall |
“Borderfort Burning” is the name of an abandoned project from 2018. It was an attempt to synthesize my favorite classic fantasy influences (Tolkien, Warhammer Fantasy, Angus McBride, Japanese western fantasy) into a single, small-scale setting — essentially an expanded version of B2: Keep on the Borderlands. The scope of the setting was manageable, but since mechanically I was mostly trying to convert Adventures In Middle Earth (a 5e system) into something like B/X D&D (itself a deceptively fiddly set of rules), the rules framework I was using at the time was pretty maximalist in a way that I’m less interested in now. A lot of this material has reappeared in other projects, although as my tastes have changed the weight given to specific influences has shifted. Borderfort Burning skewed closer to Warhammer than The Hobbit, while the elves in particular also have a lot of the Fair Folk from Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain and the elves of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor from Magic: the Gathering in their creative makeup.
