Adventures in the Dark Caribbean 🏴‍☠️ Grog-swilling Pirates, Undead Galleons, Jungle Ruins, Arcane Treasures, and High Sea Adventure 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Borg 🏴‍☠️ Beginner-friendly

About the adventure

Ahoy, Me Hearties! 🏴‍☠️ A beginner-friendly game while engaging enough for experienced players. 🏴‍☠️Storylines driven by your characters' decisions. 🏴‍☠️Balance of roleplay, exploration, social encounters, and cinematic combat and naval battles. 🏴‍☠️This is a welcoming, open table and there is no space for racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia. Whether you signed up under Captain "Devil Knife" Thatch years ago or just last week, life on Siren's Song has been good. It’s been a life of adventure: Treasure and merchant ships to plunder, jungle ruins to explore, fortunes spent in a night of entertainment. And there’s always been plenty of grog to swill. Sure, the Caribbean hasn't been the same since the Scourge came two years ago, but what's a few undead galleons and monsters to you? A good fight, that’s what. And you've got a ship sorcerer, and old One Eye can call upon Poseidon for protection. Try as they might, no one alive or dead has sunk Siren's Song yet. ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ Pirate Borg is a rules-light game based on the MÖRK BORG ruleset. It's an alternate history/dark fantasy/horror game of pirates, undead galleons, arcane treasure, ancient ruins, and high sea adventure. This is a beginner-friendly game. No experience with Pirate Borg is expected.

Additional Details

How to prepare

To play, you will need: 🏴‍☠Have a reliable internet connection and microphone for voice chat via Discord. 🏴‍☠Have the ability to use Foundry VTT (sadly, it doesn't work on tablets or mobile devices). To prepare for your first session, you should: 🏴‍☠Join our Discord server. 🏴‍☠Join our Foundry VTT game. 🏴‍☠Log in to our LegendKeeper site 🏴‍☠Download the Pirate Borg Player's Guide (you don't need to read it, just download it for reference). 🏴‍☠Download the one-page Pirate Borg Rules Reference. 🏴‍☠Download, fill out, and submit the Monte Cook Consent Checklist.

What I provide

I bring my 25-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 Legends Keeper server for us to populate maps and take notes of locations and NPCs we encounter. 🏴‍☠ A copy of the Pirate Borg Player's Guide and the one-page Rules Reference for you to refer to as needed.

Gameplay details

This is an inclusive, welcoming game that is LGTBQ+, BIPOC, and beginner-friendly. 3+ players needed to start. Prior to our Session Zero, I will send out the Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist, and during our Session Zero, we will 🏴‍☠️Discuss our safety tools, including lines and veils and the open door policy; 🏴‍☠️Cover Foundry's interface (if needed), including a walkthrough of the character sheet, using skills, managing the characters' inventories, and engaging in combat; 🏴‍☠️Make characters; and 🏴‍☠️Create a shared history of your characters. Gameplay will involve a mixture of theater of the mind, maps and images for reference, and battle maps for tactical naval combat. During each session, we will also have a 10 minute break roughly halfway through each session. As Pirate Borg can be quite brutal in terms of character survivability. Having a backup PC ready to go is highly encouraged.

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

Breaks
Debriefing
Lines and Veils
Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist
Open Door
Session 0
Stars and Wishes
X, N, and O Cards

How will character creation work

Players may use the Pirate Borg character generator, request a pre-generated character, or roll up your own character as you choose. I encourage players to create a backup character as well. Likewise, you may fill in your own Foundry VTT character sheet or send me a copy of your character to fill out the Foundry character sheet for you. I will also have a number of pre-generated characters available to use as needed.

Players can expect

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• Book your session and wait for the Game Master to approve you.
• If you don't have a blast with your first game, your next game is on us.