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Barrows & Borderlands - Box Set - Physical + Digital Booklets
Barrows & Borderlands - Box Set - Physical + Digital Booklets
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*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:
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Men & Mutants – core rules, character creation, combat procedures.
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Psychics & Sorcerers – roll‑to‑cast magic, miscast tables, psionics duels.
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Horrors & Treasure – Over +100 monsters (from Carcosan aliens to radioactive ants) and the loot to match.
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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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Awesome set, so awesome that I got two of them. If you are a fan of dying earth you will dig this. Mutants, psychics, magic, and black powder
Amazingly well designed old school RPG with a plethora of wonderful ideas. Fantastic service and easy ordering and delivery to Germany. Highly recommended if you feel love for old school science fantasy RPGs with easyto grasp rules and room for lots of imagination. Very well done!
Familiar but not derivative. New but not untested. Different but not for difference's sake. A complete and cohesive set of booklets with which to run the full spectrum of adventure fiction!
The core D&Dness is comfortable but you've folded in many of my personal heartbreakers in satisfying ways. Roll-to-Cast is such an underappreciated mechanic, and damage reduction from armor helps make the different armors more than a minor cosmetic or encumbrance choice.
Flipping between the things I needed was very easy, thanks to the sensible layout. The booklets are a treat and the physical compartmentalization makes reference at the table that much faster. The physical product that was delivered is exactly what I had hoped for.
Masterful Craftsmanship and production quality. Great content.
Totally recaptured the feeling of opening my D&D basic set in the primeval past. Strong Gamma world vibes as well. Big game companies could learn from the prompt delivery. Overall a great experience.