Borderlands

Borderlands is a boxed tabletop role-playing game adventure for RuneQuest. Originally published by Chaosium in 1982, this edition was republished in 2018 in PDF format as part of Chaosium's RuneQuest: Classic Edition Kickstarter. Contents Borderlands is designed for a party consisting of 4-6 moderately powerful player characters and 1-2 beginning characters, who have been hired by a duke to help him tame a new holding. The boxed components include a large scale map of a semi-wilderness frontier along the River of Cradles; a handbook for the gamemaster with general information about the area and its important personalities; a book of encounters; and seven individually bound scenarios, that when played in sequence, make up the complete adventure: A peaceful tour through the region, giving the players a chance to get a lay of the land and meet important personalities. Outlaw hunt Rescue the duke's daughter from Tusk Riders Find and destroy the source of a plague that killed the duke's wife Destroy a temple of evil newtlings Retrieve the egg of a giant condor from a mountain peak Trade the condor's egg for a magic item in the possession of Gonn Orta, a famous giant The final scenario then links up with the next Runequest adventure, Griffin Mountain. Publication history Borderlands was written by John E. Boyle, Tony Fiorito, Mark Harmon, Janet Kirby, Rudy Kraft, Charlie Krank, Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis, and Elizabeth Wolcott, with art by Lisa Free, and was published by Chaosium, Inc. in 1982 as a boxed set containing a 48-page book and a 32-page book, seven pamphlets (4 to 20 pages each), a large map, several small maps, and a mercenary contract sheet. Although he was only 14 years old at the time, Reid Hoffman's name was featured on the box of Chaosium's RuneQuest role-playing game release Borderlands (1982), receiving equal billing with game designers Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen and Greg Stafford.