Pirate Borg: Adventures in the Dark Caribbean

Creating your character

Players may use the Pirate Borg character generator, request a pre-generated character, or roll your own character as you choose. I encourage players to create a backup character as well. More about character creation during Session Zero.

Preparing for the session

To play, you will need: 🏴‍☠ A reliable computer and internet connection with the ability to access our Discord and Foundry VTT servers. (Sadly, Foundry VTT doesn't work on tablets and mobile devices.) 🏴‍☠ A reliable microphone for voice chat via Discord. Web cameras are optional and headphones are useful. 🏴‍☠ Free accounts on Discord and Foundry. To prepare for our free Session Zero, you should: 🏴‍☠ Join our Discord and Foundry VTT servers. 🏴‍☠ Fill out our modified Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist so we may establish our game's expectations for lines, veils, ask first topics, and issues and themes of interest.

What Gunnhrafn brings to the table

I bring my 26-years experience as a GM, my infectious enthusiasm for the game and roleplaying games in general, and my ability to run games that are both beginner-friendly and enjoyable for experienced players. I will also provide: 🏴‍☠ A private Discord server for voice and text chat to be used before, during, between game sessions, 🏴‍☠ A Foundry VTT game server with 24/7 access to use for character sheets, maps, dice rolling, and combat, and 🏴‍☠ A copy of the Pirate Borg Player's Guide and the one-page Rules Reference for you to refer to as needed. 🏴‍☠ Mechanics for players to establish and achieve short and long-term goals for their characters and to build those interests into our campaign.

How Gunnhrafn creates a safe table

Maintaining a comfortable and inclusive experience for everyone in our game is a top priority, and we have a number of tools to help us achieve that goal. I strongly encourage player feedback, both in what you like about current play, what you would like to see happen in future play, and what hasn't been working for you in previous play. My job as trying to create the best experience I'm able to for each player, and that requires good feedback from you. We'll discuss the following table tools during Session Zero and as needed, and we are always able to renegotiate our use of these tools. |Inclusive Table| This is a welcoming, open table and there is no space for racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia. |Open Table and Breaks| Players may come and go as suit their needs in the moment, whether that's to walk away from an intense or difficult moment or to let the dog out or answer the door to get dinner. During each session, we will have at least one 10 minute break, roughly halfway through our game. |Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist (lines and veils), X-card, and Script Changes| Before our Session Zero or as soon as possible, players should fill out our version of the Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist to indicate content we should remove (lines), content that should be off-stage (veil), and content they would like to see included. During play we have both the X-card (a request to end a scene or shift the content immediately — An in-game call for a Line), as well as the following Script Change tools (Rewind, Pause, Fast-forward). | Roses and Thorns, Stars and Wishes, and Debriefing| In our Discord, we'll have channels to discuss past sessions using to give each other feedback about game play. 🏴‍☠ Roses and Thorns: Identify what you particularly liked about a session (Roses) and what you wish was handled differently by your or the group (Thorns). 🏴‍☠ Stars and Wishes: Identifying particularly strong player contributions (Stars) and indicating what you'd like to see happen in the future (Wishes). 🏴‍☠ Debriefs: A place to discuss issues that are hindering your fun.