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Barrows & Borderlands - Box Set - Physical + Digital Booklets

Barrows & Borderlands - Box Set - Physical + Digital Booklets

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**3rd printing box sets are in! Shipping starts Friday Aug 29th**

*This product also includes the digital version as a download after checkout

Barrows & Borderlands
 started life as my binder of OD&D/1E house‑rules and grew, over two years, into a four‑volume, over 200+ pages On the table it plays like the 1970s with a cracked‑reactor glow: flintlocks bark alongside longswords, spell scrolls fizz with fallout, and wyrms coil around dead reactors.

System wise it sits halfway between 0E and 1E. What I bolted on are the bits I always wanted at my own table: radiation, mutation tables, a psionics duel system, black‑powder rules, and a swingy roll‑to‑cast sorcery based on chainmail that can blow up in your face. Six classes—Fighting‑Man, Cleric, Magic‑User, Thief, Gamma (mutant scavenger), and Psychic—plus a handful of weird races like the Greenskull (irradiated skeletons immune to radiation).

Setting wise it’s a dying frontier where medieval keeps butt up against rusting star‑metal and 17th‑century pike lines. Thought these booklets teach you how to craft your own borderlands.

The rules are split into four digest booklets:

  1. Men & Mutants – core rules, character creation, combat procedures. 

  2. Psychics & Sorcerers – roll‑to‑cast magic, miscast tables, psionics duels.

  3. Horrors & Treasure – Over +100 monsters (from Carcosan aliens to radioactive ants) and the loot to match.

  4. The Underworld & Borderlands – dungeon/wilderness exploration, time‑keeping, domain play, aerial combat.

The Box set includes all 4 booklets, A woodgrain style handmade box to carry them in, 10 premium card stock character sheets, and a set of dice to play the game with. 

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Anonymous

Great little box set. The box is sturdily constructed and the paper stock has a bit of tooth which is pleasant to the touch.

Instructions are well organized and conveniently dispersed in a smaller ‘zine format for easy at the table.

And hey . . . Dice!

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Michael

Great stuff! Excited to start my solo campaign using your system on the Dungeons in the Attic Podcast! Follow me @dungeonmaster_mike and @ditapodcast on instagram!

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Hauke

Perfect condition, great reading, fast shipping!

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Aaron

The B&B boxed set arrived quickly and was nicely packed. The boxed set itself now lives next to my original white box and my reprint of Chainmail. The material is a great stockpile of fun ideas that I plan to mine for future OD&D projects. A great achievement!

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Dale McKee

The quality of these books were amazing, it was like being back in time. While I found a few typos that could be fixed in a later edit, the game itself was amazing and I have zero regrets on my purchase. Next goal is to actually play this!