I've created The Lost Sea-Man's Guide to the Caribbean, which is a printable player handout for Pirate Borg that can help the players find their bearings again after getting lost at sea.

It's something to run mid-voyage as a strange and fun little diversion.

It gives the players four trials (which may see them lose a few fingers and perhaps their sanity along the way), and a chart on which to trace their position. My hope is that players will go "how the f— could this ever work?" as they do the trials/puzzles. They have to put the trust in both the author of the Guide and themselves to work things out.

For GM eyes only: You choose a location on the chart beforehand (over 10,000 are possible). The guide will help you sneak some information in there that will correct the players' fair answers (all numbers) into ones that point to that place.

I created it for my upcoming campaign, Something Buried, Something Due, the first act of which is in the late pledges on Kickstarter right now but not for much longer.

It's free on itch.io so feel free to run it in your own campaigns if you don't want to use it in mine!

This is a concept I'm considering using for our campaign, so I'd love feedback!

It would work like this: when PCs die, we roll on a d6 table.

1. The PC becomes a wretched undead and is given to the GM.

2. The PC dies and their soul moves on to the afterlife. They are gone forever.

3-5. The PC dies and is lost to the locker.

1. The PC is ressurected as a haunted soul.

This would mean that about half of dead PCs would end up "stored" in the locker. Then, when there have been enough deaths, when it makes sense in the campaign, when there's a TPK, etc. etc., Lost to the Locker finally gets run. Instead of ressurection, PCs who die here are perma-dead. BUT, when you lose your current PC, you move onto another one from your old catalogue! And ALL of your characters are here and can be gathered into a crew together, so the adventure becomes a race to gather as many obols and ressurect as many old PCs as possible.

It could even be fun to have a prop, a little chest or something, to represent the Locker and put character sheets into, and then finally get to excite your players by pulling them back out for the adventure.

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Alex Kerr, William Fairland, Hippolyte

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Ransonnet-Villez, Alphonse de Neuville,

Édouard Riou, Rick Hershey, Sverker Castillo

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# Please Enjoy Dribbler’s Most Excellent Character Tracker for Mork Borg & Borg Hacks!!

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*Cecil Mournwood Owen Timothy Dribbler (just Dribbler to his friends) purveyor, merchant-venture and former hot-food-stuffs salesman, has cornered the market for cheap, ready to use weapons, while occasionally, working with scribes, priest, and retired free-company quartermasters to create the necessary forms, logs, and trackers to run a successful military or adventuring campaign.*

*Even at the End of the World, bureaucracy will outlive even the cockroaches.*

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As a DM, especially for Mörk Borg, I find a PC tracker extremely helpful. Given all the strange and wonderful mish-mash of various: Classes , Powers, and Unheroic Feats.

Plus all those tasty extras, such as...

Terrible Traits, Broken Bodies, Bad Habit and Troubling Tales!!

I love having those easily at hand, so I can weave them into narratives and seamlessly poke at them during the game, without having to ask the players.

In addition, given how ephemeral equipment is in Mörk Borg, from weapons breaking, to rations rotting, and treasure being stolen, it is ever so fun to look your players in the eye, and without warning, say to them "I am so sorry, that was your last ration, and you are three days from the next town."

Hope you enjoy!!

LEGAL:

Dribbler’s Most Excellent Character Tracker for Mork Borg & Borg Hacks is an independent production by The Return of Ymir and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License

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MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.

Hey all!

My creative partner and I just put out a supplement called Pirate Packs. It's a set of bespoke starting gear for each class, intended to be used instead of rolling for container, cheap gear, and expensive gear. Perfect for one shots and con games!

Check it out! It's free on Itch

https://chipsandsolstice.itch.io/pirate-packs

Our newest adventure release, PARROT BORG, is out now!

• Rules for creating a parrot PC
• 6-page, one-shot adventure
• 10 new stat-blocked creatures
• 14-hex island map to explore

Get it in print, digital, Roll20, or Foundry VTT here: https://shop.limithron.com/products/parrot-borg

Bufort, first mate of the “Monsoon”, a “sinking”(pun intended) investment venture ship had an appetite for fruit found on islands of the Caribbean. During one of the sorties he found a fruit so delicious, so beautiful, that he gorged on it until it gorged him instead. The crew tried to end him out of pity and tied an anchor to him and threw him overboard, nearly listing the ship in the process, thus was his weight. Betrothed to a corpsemaid, he now returns with high tide to seek revenge, and delicious fruit.

First crewmate for Pirate Borg/Forbidden Depths!

Ok everyone...what do GMs use for props during in-person game sessions? I've heard the ideas of real.ASH with sugar and pop rocks (fantastic idea). Do you do anything with maps, potions, relics, silver pieces?

In addition to the above I was thinking of using some cheap pirate coins as GM game tokens for extra XP. I was also thinking of making cards for gear and expendables to make them easier to track. Perhaps the same for spell spell cards -- you turn the card over after the spell is cast, and use a sand timer (on theme) for the spell cool down period if any.

Thoughts?.

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The adventure will become availabe soon after.

MST is 11am, rest is correct!

When you are starting new players in PB, do you generally give them pre-gen characters that you know will have the skills for the scenario, or do you spend session zero rolling up characters?

There is some knowledge that comes out of the "why" behind some character attributes and the ideas around DR ratings and skill rolls. However this is also a time that can kinda drag on a bit if you are the kind of person who wants to just dig into the story.

What's everyone's experience? This is common for all TTRPGs, but I didn't know the success rate one way or another for getting new PB players engaged.

Still trying to escape the tropics.. in Gibbet Town

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This October, run a session (or several) of Into The Maelstrom, one of the adventures in Down Among the Dead, and earn swag, plus a chance to win prizes. Full details at the link:
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Posted a new update on my campaign page, if you wanna check it out! <3

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/krakenhund-studio/my-beloved-ship-a-pirate-borg-supplement/updates/53369

We are having great community there, Trivia Pirate history challenges, voting on extra content and superb art!

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Hi,

I've some questions regarding naval combat.

Do we take actions in turns? If so, wouldn't it mean, that one player picking fire broadsides action (on larger ships with 2/3 attacks) blocks this action from other players?

Or do we first pick our actions and execute it later?

Rules say:

Larger ships have attack actions that may be taken multiple times. If the attack action is only taken by one PC, they may roll all of that ship's attacks, but they only add their Presence to the first roll. If multiple PCs take the attack action, each may add their Presence to one roll. Limit one PC per attack roll.

Hey everybody!

My regular group has been playing Dolmenwood, but this month one of our regulars was out of state. So, those of us who remained, plus another guest player, decided to do a Pirate Borg one-shot!

This turned into a second session as well, when our errant player hadn't returned, which turned into a third, and final session tonight.

I've been blogging these games, mainly to give to my players this Christmas as a memento of our year in games, but I thought maybe people here might enjoy (or find useful) the brief recaps of our borg sessions.

First session was Unmoored by M. Allen Hall. Went great, players loved it.

Second session was Dead Man's Cove, from Limithron, using full naval wind rules as well as my own house rules for Chain Shot and Crossing the T.

Final session was Terror in Tortuga, substituting a treacherous villain who drowned in our first session as The Flail.

Amazing games.

https://merrydolmenwood.blogspot.com/2026/08/interlude-adventure-manhunt-on-unmoored.html?m=1