A pubcrawl pointcrawl sounds irresponsible, but one of the things Prismatic Wasteland, the publisher, has done has provided a Google Doc version of their Kickstarter. That’s hugely responsible, the opposite of Kickstarters that put all their text in images. It means screen readers and other accessibility enhancing agents can more easily read the pitch.
And the pitch is a good one; a system-neutral drinking fest that can be run as an adventure or dipped into when the PCs go pubcrawling anyway. Kickstarter approves, and the project has shattered its funding target.
If you use the book like this, the Barkeep on the Borderlands adventure is no longer on the borderlands, and the Keep has become a centre of culture and business.
However you use the book, it’ll be a 52-page zine crafted by L.F. OSR and written by W.F. Smith.
Actually, there’s a tonne of guest authors and artists such as Chris McDowall of Electric Bastion Land and the “secret-half” of Prismatic Wasteland K.T. Nguyen.
Barkeep on the Borderlands offers 20 bars, with random tables, a map of the Keep and procedures for generating pubcrawls as pointcrawl adventures.
There are even rules for being drunk.
This adventure is designed to be system neutral and can be easily adapted to fit most systems, including Old-School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Knave, Into the Odd, Black Hack, White Hack, Worlds Without Number, Pathfinder, 5e, etc.
A pledge of $10 will get you the full-colour PDF and appropriate stretch goals.
At $20, the zine goes into print thanks to L.F. OSR, and there’s worldwide shipping on offer.
I don’t know about three kobolds in a trenchcoat, but I do spy three goblins.
In theme with drinking, a coaster set is added to the rewards for backers who find $30 and a poster at $40, with fulfilment slated at Dec 22.
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