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Patreon Exclusive: PIRATE BORG Preview
🕑 Added 2021-08-01 04:39:42 +0000 UTCUPDATE: This project is now titled PIRATE BORG. See below.
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=====================UPDATE============================
After some focused brainstorming sessions, playtesting, and feedback from the Limithron and Mörk Borg communities, I’m pivoting the scope of the upcoming projects. There are now two projects with two different Kickstarters: PIRATE BORG & THE DARK CARIBBEAN.
PIRATE BORG
The first book is now called PIRATE BORG and it is coming along splendidly. You can preview the first section of the book here in this post. Many people expressed interest in adapting this content to their own settings, so it will no longer be a setting book, and I’m removing elements that tie it to Earth and the Caribbean as well as information about the factions.
PIRATE BORG is a self contained rules-light RPG for running swashbuckling campaigns using Mörk Borg as a framework. Character creation is optimized for random generation (though not required), and during combat all rolls are made by the players: enemies don’t roll to attack, instead PCs roll to defend. Mörk Borg is fun, easy to learn, potentially deadly, and perfect for OSR style one-shots and for campaigns that focus more on player agency and smart decisions and less on character optimization and “what’s on my character sheet”. I’ve also found it is great for theater-of-the-mind style of play, and that it really excels at weird, strange, and dark, perfect for a horror-style pirate campaign.
PIRATE BORG DETAILS
- A complete, self contained RPG system based on Mörk Borg (via their 3rd Party License)
- about 40% complete
- target Kickstarter launch: this fall
- Format: A5 hardcover book, around 100 pages, full color, glossy
- Includes:
- 6 PC classes (rapscallion, swashbuckler, brute, zealot, Vodou Bokor, and buccaneer) plus 2 optional classes: Tall Tale and Haunted Soul
- bestitary with pirate themed monsters
- tables for making random human enemy
- random tables for loot, treasure hunting, maritime travel, and pirate quests
- simple naval combat rules and ship stat blocks
- possibly a short, introductory adventure.
- PIRATE BORG form fillable Character sheet plus random generator
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Rewards are the same for all tiers on this one.
I proudly present the first draft of the rules and character creation guidelines for PIRATE BORG! Coming to Kickstarter later this year. Sign up here to get notified when it launches.
Limithron patrons get early access to everything, and you get to help me shape the world as part of the Dark Caribbean West Marches style campaign (open to all Patrons), which is kicking off with the 500 Patron Party next Sunday, August 8th… more on that in another post.
If you don’t like Mörk Borg, or aren’t interested, have no fear: much of the art and content in this project will make its way into the upcoming DARK CARIBBEAN 5th Edition book.
Feedback
I would LOVE your feedback on this release. Fill out this form: Playtest Feedback, plus we have dedicated channels in my Discord Server.
About PIRATE BORG
PIRATE BORG is a campaign setting and hack for Mörk Borg. It is a self contained game using the 3rd party license, and while the Mörk Borg book is not required play it is highly recommended! In this Patreon exclusive preview you will find:
- 6 new classes: Brute, Buccaneer, Zealot, Vodou Bokor, Rapscallion, and Swashbuckler, all with dynamic options for leveling up. (2 more coming!)
- 9 tables for starting equipment and characteristics
- d10 new starting weapons
- d10 clothing and d12 hats tables
- Grenades and bombs
- d100 backgrounds
- 20 magical artifacts (replace scrolls and powers) - [under development]
About Mörk Borg
MÖRK BORG is a complete game in the OSR genre, that can be played as is or be picked apart for use in your own homebrew. The rules are easily made compatible with most of the editions of the world’s largest role-playing game. Within the book you’ll find:
- A brief look at this dying world. From The Two-Headed Basilisks’ gothic cathedral in Galgenbeck and Blood-countess Anthelia’s limestone palace, to the fields of death in Graven-Tosk and the barren wastes of Kergüs.
- The Calendar of Nechrubel, that decides the speed of the world’s demise.
- 20 occult Powers that let you bend reality, and just as many magical catastrophes for when you disastrously fail.
- Optional rules which brings more depth to the game. Omens let you turn bad luck into a slightly better one. Classes with unique traits and quirks, and tables that will bring life into your character.
- 12 creatures to be murdered by.
- Game master tools such as tables for corpse plundering, occult treasure, adventure sparks, dungeon generating and other devilry.
- The introductory dungeon crawl scenario Rotblack Sludge, where you investigate a forgotten part of the Shadow King’s enormous ruin palace. Cannibal warlocks, poison peddlers from beyond the void and hungry gutworms await.
MÖRK BORG is constructed by Pelle Nilsson (Ockult Örtmästare Games) and Johan Nohr (Stockholm Kartell). The game is published by Free League Publishing and is available in Swedish and English - the English text is edited and cursed by Patrick Stuart (Veins of the Earth, Silent Titans). https://morkborg.com/
PIRATE BORG is an independent production by Limithron and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License.
MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.
Comments
Seth Millwood
I'm not one to be looking for other rule sets to learn, but my lord, the art and the design and the whole aesthetic is absolutely gorgeous and eye-grabbing, and punk rock as fuck, if i may say.
Thomas
Ah okay. Thanks, I don‘t know.
Limithron
Hey thanks for the feedback. Lwa is actually the preferred spelling for Haitian Vodou, but before I started researching this book I spelled “loa” too! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa
Thomas
What I noticed is that it should be Loa and not Lwa by the Vodou Bokor. 😁
