Adaptability of Sandhearts series

[Mark Mohrfield]

I intend to start a campaign using the old Borderlands supplement but modifying and exapanding on it. Would any of the scenarios in Jonathon Webbs Sandheart series be adaptable to this? 
p.s. I’ll be using the Questworlds system, if that makes a difference.

Edited April 23, 2024 by Mark Mohrfield

[Runeblogger]

I think at least the first scenario in the first volume (Sandheart Volume One) is easily adaptable, but I'd say you need to make Duke Raus' grantlands a bit more developed than what appears in Borderlands, having already farming steads with settlers living on the other side of the river and along its banks, so that some shady businesses can be going on without the Duke's mercenaries noticing.

Edited April 23, 2024 by Runeblogger

[jajagappa]

3 hours ago, Mark Mohrfield said:

Would any of the scenarios in Jonathon Webbs Sandheart series be adaptable to this? 

The God Skin in vol. 4 could likely work. Probably the Corn Dolls in vol. 2 once farming is established (i.e. needs settlers).

[Revilo Divad Of Dyoll]

I think that those are great adventures, and there is no reason that they can't work in the Borderlands.  You can add more desolate little villages (like Weis) to the Raus domain without causing any problems.  My only note is that they are relatively 'low-level" adventures for purposes of RQG.  

[Ian Absentia]

7 hours ago, Revilo Divad Of Dyoll said:

My only note is that they are relatively 'low-level" adventures for purposes of RQG.  

A good point regarding expectations of power levels from one edition to the next, though, noted in the OP, he'll be using QuestWorlds (or HQG?) which is readily scalable.  And the original Borderlands material is similarly low-level in its approach, too, so it should be a fairly compatible fit.

!i!

[Nick Brooke]

Another book you might want to check out is Pavis County & Beyond: Secrets of the Borderlands by @Ian A. Thomson and friends, which includes notes on running a hybrid Borderlands/Pavis campaign.

The Sandheart scenarios that won't work well IMO are Tradition (Book 3) and Mad Prax: Beyond Sun Dome (half of Book 4), as they assume a Yelmalian party carrying out cult duties for the Sun Dome Temple. I think the rest could work just fine: you'll need to tweak temple archives in The Corn Dolls, as there won't be any ancient tablets recording harvests in the brand-new Weis Domain, but maybe Duke Raus is building neighbourly relations by lending his troubleshooters to the Guardian of Sun County, as she doesn't trust her local militia to deal with a sensitive situation...

[Mark Mohrfield]

3 minutes ago, Nick Brooke said:

Another book you might want to check out is Pavis County & Beyond: Secrets of the Borderlands by @Ian A. Thomson and friends, which includes notes on running a hybrid Borderlands/Pavis campaign.

Thanks, I’ve already got that one.

[Ian Absentia]

I'm excited to see the interest in the dynamic tension between Weis Domain and Sun County.  Throw in Corflu at the ass-end, and you're playing in my favorite stomping grounds/era. (I never took much of a shine to Pavis for some reason.)

!i!

Edited April 25, 2024 by Ian Absentia

[Squaredeal Sten]

Or you can have the adventurers leave Duke Raus' service and go north up the river to Sun County.

Edited May 1, 2024 by Squaredeal Sten
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[Erol of Backford]

The River of Cradles is a great start, just get to Pavis, do the series and that links them Borderlands easily. Follow that with Sand Heart, then Sun County, Shadows on the Borderlands and when they get bored go to Pavis which also has good Raus and Sun County links. Any of these are scalable and could be changed in progression with a bit of work. Strangers in Prax could be thrown in as well.

There is so much material along the river and Pavis you can't go wrong.

[davecake]

The Beer With Teeth Praxian series of scenarios work fine with all thos3 too.