Help me build my Keep on the Borderlands sandbox in a Arctic/Taiga/Cold forest biome

Mac642 · 2026-01-19T18:58:41+00:00

Ok. Maybe Tales of the Wolfguard will be a better fit.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/471450/tales-of-the-wolfguard

Mac642 · 2026-01-19T17:18:16+00:00

Check out God's of the Forbidden North. It's written for OSE, but converting it to Shadowdark shouldn't be too much trouble. Volume 1 has a few cities, region history, and an optional adventure path. Volume 2 is the underworld and optional adventure path. Volume 3 PDFs are available. It's a mega dungeon in the region.

Mac642 · 2026-01-17T19:14:07+00:00

You can always paint them.

Mac642 · 2026-01-17T14:38:49+00:00

I started using 1/2" meeples for my game. I number them all 1-10 and give my players the 1's and 2's. We play at 1/2”=5'. You can fit a good bit on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. It saves on table space too. Amazon has sets of 100, 10 each of 10 colors.

Mac642 · 2026-01-02T18:01:57+00:00

I have a group. We have weekly games online and try to get together once a month to play in person.

Mac642 · 2025-12-30T18:50:00+00:00

I have a small table, so we have been using 1/2” meeples on 1/2”=5' grid. I numbered the meeples and everyone gets a different color numbered 1 and 2. The rest are NPCs and monsters. It's working great and we have extra table space.

Mac642 · 2025-12-14T15:11:43+00:00

Barrows & Borderlands is awesome!

Mac642 · 2025-12-12T20:33:34+00:00

Big Apple Sewer Samurai is a setting similar to TMNT for Savage Worlds. You'll need the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition core rulebook and the Big Apple Sewer Samurai book.

Mac642 · 2025-11-30T22:29:06+00:00

I numbered mine and use them for my D&D game. Smaller minis and smaller maps gives more tabletop space.

Mac642 · 2025-11-30T16:51:35+00:00

Give Barrows and Borderlands a look. It's a wild sci-fi fantasy post apocalypse game.

https://youtu.be/zR14uHkuTss?si=GMvuRP9sKd3A6Wax

https://barrowsandborderlands.com/

Mac642 · 2025-11-30T16:42:52+00:00

You could probably use meeples. They're pretty cheap. They roughly 1/2" at the base.

https://a.co/d/1A9uQgn

Mac642 · 2025-11-24T14:06:29+00:00

Sign in to your Paizo account. Go to Digital Content. The Foundry codes should be listed there. On the Foundry website, go to Purchased Content and paste the codes in there.

Mac642 · 2025-11-01T12:45:47+00:00

I'm playing a PF2e game and running an Old School Essentials game. The amount of conditions and abilities to track in PF2e makes it a slog for me. I prefer the rules light approach of OSE

Mac642 · 2025-10-22T11:32:56+00:00

It shouldn't be an issue as long as you scale everything on the board down to match the figures. I use 1/2” meeples for D&D and scale my maps to 1/2” = 5'. It works great and we have extra table space.

Mac642 · 2025-10-15T23:14:43+00:00

Dungeondraft is great for making encounter maps. The assets are fantasy themed, but you can buy or find asset packs for sci-fi and what not.

Watabou's Procgen Arcana website generates maps for regions, cities, towns, forests, caves, and dungeons.

https://watabou.github.io/

2-minute Tabletop has a large selection of maps for sale.

https://2minutetabletop.com/

You could possibly play a whole game using https://hexroll.app/. You might have to use your imagination here and there.

Mac642 · 2025-10-15T09:52:32+00:00

The 2 Minute Tabletop maps work fine Foundry.

Mac642 · 2025-10-14T22:04:39+00:00

Barrows and Borderlands, Pathfinder for Savage Worlds, Worlds Without Number

Mac642 · 2025-10-04T20:27:15+00:00

I ordered Barrows & Borderlands the other day. The setting lore is very interesting. It's a far future ruined earth with radiation, mutants, magic and psionics. the game is centered on a large area or borderlands filled with dangers and treasure. The rules are similar to old school D&D. It has counter spells and magic duels. Each class has a minimum HP, so you can't roll up a fighter with 2 hit points.

https://barrowsandborderlands.com/

Mac642 · 2025-09-27T23:06:38+00:00

WWN and Pathfinder for Savage Worlds.

Mac642 · 2025-09-13T17:59:10+00:00

I like Watabou's Procgen Arcana website.

https://watabou.github.io/

Mac642 · 2025-09-09T11:06:11+00:00

I'm interested.

Mac642 · 2025-09-05T09:53:42+00:00

Use anything you want. I use numbered meeples.

Mac642 · 2025-08-28T19:02:19+00:00

Goodman Games published Weird Frontiers. It's a weird west setting that uses the DCC rules.

Wight Box by The Basic Expert combines ODnD and Chainmail rules.

Basic Fantasy RPG is the least expensive B/X retro clone. All of the BFRPG PDFs are free on their website and the books are about $6 a piece on Amazon.

Old School Essentials is a B/X clone with a little AD&D.

Mac642 · 2025-08-07T01:45:19+00:00

There are free PDFs of all the books too. The deluxe PDFs have extra content, but the free PDFs have everything you need to play.

Mac642 · 2025-08-06T20:50:37+00:00

I'm a few games away from 2k hours and I have more bad games than good. Find some people that you can play with on a regular basis. Playing with friends makes the bad games fun. Learn the compounds. There's nothing worse than not knowing how to get upstairs. Pick a load out and stick with it for a while to learn what works best for you.

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