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WHY WAS THE KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS THE BEST D&D MODULE EVER?
Did you know the best-selling D&D module ever wasn't Tomb of Horrors? Vecna, tieflings and the drow had never been heard of, and Greyhawk, Ravenloft and the Forgotten Realms were a thing of the future. Selling over a colossal million copies, it was The Keep on the Borderlands. How did it reach 1,000,000+ copies? How many players ventured into the Caves of Chaos for their first dungeon crawl? And how many characters were lost to the goblins, orcs and cultists that dwelt in the caves?
Are You Flip-Flopping Over Manga?
Walk into most comic shops and indeed Waterstones or WH Smiths and you are guaranteed to find a selection of Manga on sale. Open a Manga volume in the way you would a traditional graphic novel and you’ll be presented with this page telling you to flip the book over as Manga is meant to be read from right to left. Manga purists will tell you that this is the only way to read Manga, but back in the 1980’s when Manga was first introduced to American and UK comic readers it was published monthly, in American sized comic format and it was ‘flopped”.
