Barkeep on the Borderlands
Gold ENnie Award Winner 2023 for Best Supplement; Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards 2023 Finalist; Polygon’s Best New Tabletop RPG Book of 2023
What if carousing in fantasy taverns were its own adventure?
Barkeep on the Borderlands is a barhopping, fantasy adventure amidst Mardi Gras-like festivities, including 20 detailed pubs and dynamic drinking rules.
Barkeep on the Borderlands flips the script on the tired trope of starting in a tavern. In this adventure, players explore the many taverns of the Keep in search of a missing antidote, getting into shenanigans along the way. The pubcrawl is like a dungeoncrawl but with bars and streets instead of rooms and corridors.
What you’ll find in the adventure…
20 detailed taverns, with unique premises like a speakeasy run by cultists, an undead dance club, a gambling den for kobold gangsters or a cozy bar in a witch’s cottage
36 character backgrounds for potential pubcrawlers
5 intertwined factions vying for control of the Keep, including a wizard academy, a cult of chaos and an NGO run by goblins
A gameable timeline detailing a precarious political situation that the players can interact with and disrupt
Over 100 full-color illustrations, with some on every page
Grand total of 100 random tables with 745 total results to facilitate endless sessions of adventures in a fantasy city
What you’ll get…
The book: 60 pages, with singer sewn binding, digest size (5.5” x 8.5”), full color cover and interior
The downloads: PDFs of the adventure automatically sent to your inbox, so that you can get started on the fun right away
The award-winning team…
Writing: W.F. Smith of the Prismatic Wasteland
Layout: K.T. Nguyen
Guest Writing: Zedeck Siew, Ty Pitre, Nick LS Whelan, Marcia B., Luka Rejec, Gus L., Emmy Verte, Chris McDowall, Ben Laurence, Ava Islam and Anne Hunter
Art: Sam Mameli, Jim Hall, Acid Lich, Amanda Ho, Artie Esquire, Bertdrawsstuff, Caleb Nelson, Connor Ricks, Demidevilqueen, Emiel Boven, Gus L., Guy Pradel, Hodag RPG, Keny Widjaja, Luka Rejec, Norn Noszka, Sam Miller and TorTheVic
Editing: Ava Islam, Nick LS Whelan, Ty Pitre
If you’re interested in hearing a review of Barkeep on the Borderlands, check out this glowing YouTube video by Questing Beast (Ben Milton).
