PIRATE BORG: Into the Maelstrom 🩸 Curse of Strahd on a Boat!
A terrifying ship of the undead roams the high seas with someone dear to you trapped within its cursed hold...
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Weekly / Wednesday - 11:30 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
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About the adventure
🏳🌈 You are most welcome here. --- 🏴☠️ 🇼🇪🇱🇨🇴🇲🇪 🇹🇴 🇹🇭🇪 🇦🇨🇨🇺🇷🇸🇪🇩 🇼🇦🇹🇪🇷🇸 🇴🇫 🇹🇭🇪 🇩🇦🇷🇰 🇨🇦🇷🇮🇧🇧🇪🇦🇳 Your small band of cutthroats and scallywags has been hired to do a straightforward but deadly task: sneak aboard the demonic warship The Maelstrom and slay as many of its vampyre crew as you can. The coin is good, but will the risk be worth the prize? In a twist of fate, you each have learned of a personal reason to seek out the ghoulish vessel with blood-red flesh for sails, as its captain, Albrecht the Tideborn, holds many prisoners in its haunted holds, and one of them has great meaning to you. After weeks at sea, your ship arrives at the tropical fishing town of Charlotte's Cove, where you will seek out your Patron. But first, the crew is restless, and several pints of grog and a few rounds of Three-Eyed Parrot are in order... --- For your characters, it may the worst night of their lives, but for you it's a a welcoming Wendnesday aboard a haunted ship in a dark pirate world! There will be death, but for some characters a fate much worse may await them at the end of a vampire's fangs! "Into the Malestorm" is a short 3-4 session vampyrate campaign for the rum-soaked, rules-light tabletop roleplaying game PIRATE BORG! This mini campaign presents a dungeon-crawl adventure through a haunted and bizarre Vampyre Ship. Shed the veneer of being a hero, grab your cutlass and pistol, and prepare to face the horrors of the sea in a unique twist on the vampire myth.
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Rule of Cool (RoC)
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422 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Inclusive
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About me
Hey y'all, I'm Chris. I'm a late 30-something Game Master from and currently living on the edge of Hillbilly Nation in the state of Kentucky. For a little north of the past 20 years I've usually been actively running, or thinking about running, some sort of tabletop roleplaying game. If you're at my table, I want you to feel like you can relax, have a good time, and get engaged in creating a fun experience that makes your 3-ish hours with me a highlight of your week. Everything else is just set dressing.
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Creating your character
This will include an overview of how PIRATE BORG works as a system -- including how the randomized character creation. If you want to have an image of your character ready beforehand, or find your own that's perfectly acceptable, but I will have a supply of ready-made character tokens for your use. PIRATE BORG on Foundry VTT includes a One-Button Character Creation Option that will create a randomized character for you, from which you are free to modify background details.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You'll need a free Discord account, a microphone, and a headset (certain earbuds like Apple Earpods may also work). A desktop computer is also recommended but many laptop models are more than suitable for this session. - Communication will be handled via a private Discord Server. - Books and character sheets are in PDF format. Rulebooks are hosted on non-downloadable Google Drive links. You'll also need an account on https://sqyre.app -- this is my hosting service for the Foundry Virtual Tabletop program. I use Foundry to leverage a suite of optional automation, lighting, and special effects.
What WickerGames brings to the table
I'm providing a customized Foundry VTT with a little automation to provide a fun, fast, and interactive rpg environment and a Discord music bot to play ambient music and sound effects during our sessions.
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Internet
Computer
Microphone
Webcam
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Safety
How WickerGames creates a safe table
I use a Lines and Veils document to establish safety lines, but I make sure to have a talk about safety before our first session properly begins. In-game, I have an X-card system that I encourage anyone who's uncomfortable to use. There are absolutely zero instances of sexual assault or sexual harassment permitted in my games.
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