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Cursed Coordinates
Concept: A Pirate Borg Adventure
Content: Everything you need to run an adventure for a new Pirate Crew or an unlucky experienced one in The Dark Caribbean.
Writing: Very minimalist writing and slightly 'on rails' this adventure presents a curated experience.
Art/design: Artworkis cleanly done, sparingly used and the colours are well chosen to help accent the art.
Usability: Useful if you want to take your Players from point to point with an 'interlude' Adventure that won't bog down your overall campaign plans. Good filler.
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Content: Everything you need to run an adventure for a new Pirate Crew or an unlucky experienced one in The Dark Caribbean.
Writing: Very minimalist writing and slightly 'on rails' this adventure presents a curated experience.
Art/design: Artworkis cleanly done, sparingly used and the colours are well chosen to help accent the art.
Usability: Useful if you want to take your Players from point to point with an 'interlude' Adventure that won't bog down your overall campaign plans. Good filler.
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Curses, Whispers and Hallucinations
Concept: Tables to generate content on the fly for Pirate Borg.
Content: Random tables and generators for Strange Curses, Rumors and Whispers, and Mirages and Hallucinations.
Writing: Clearly written and easily read, straightforward and to the point.
Art/design: Very clean layout with excellent background choices for clarity. Some slight table format changes from page to page are unusual but not detrimental to making use of the product.
Usability: Content intended for the Harbourmaster to add some more life to the game via simple tables to generate interesting anecdotes for the Players to interact with or use as roleplaying options. Always a welcome addition to any Harbourmasters bag of tricks.
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Content: Random tables and generators for Strange Curses, Rumors and Whispers, and Mirages and Hallucinations.
Writing: Clearly written and easily read, straightforward and to the point.
Art/design: Very clean layout with excellent background choices for clarity. Some slight table format changes from page to page are unusual but not detrimental to making use of the product.
Usability: Content intended for the Harbourmaster to add some more life to the game via simple tables to generate interesting anecdotes for the Players to interact with or use as roleplaying options. Always a welcome addition to any Harbourmasters bag of tricks.
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D3 Cooks with Hooks
Concept: 3 NPC Cooks to make your Galley
Content: Exactly as presented, 3 NPC Cooks to place as you like aboard ships or in taverns
Writing: Solid amounts of depth in each Cook and their respective drives, desires, backgrounds and appearance.
Art/design: Fairly simply laid out with some interesting angles in use. Good colour and font choices.
Usability: If your Players haven't got a good Cook on their side then what are they even doing? Very straightforward, if you want to place a fleshed out NPC in your world, any of these Cooks would be a good choice.
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Content: Exactly as presented, 3 NPC Cooks to place as you like aboard ships or in taverns
Writing: Solid amounts of depth in each Cook and their respective drives, desires, backgrounds and appearance.
Art/design: Fairly simply laid out with some interesting angles in use. Good colour and font choices.
Usability: If your Players haven't got a good Cook on their side then what are they even doing? Very straightforward, if you want to place a fleshed out NPC in your world, any of these Cooks would be a good choice.
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Dark Arts
Concept: A Collection of interesting new Abilities, Curses, Cursed Items, Blessed Items and expansions to existing aspects of Pirate Borg
Content: Extensive Tables, 20 new Relics, 20 new Hexed Items, 20 new Alchemical Ingredients and their effects, Dozens of new Alchemical Glyphs, 20 new Curses and 20 new Blessings
Writing: Content takes the center stage in this supplement with the focus being on usable content as opposed to dramatic flavour.
Art/design: Minimal artwork is present but the layout and the theme sell themselves well and carry the Pirate Borg aesthetic.
Usability: This is a treasure trove for any long time player of Pirate Borg who wants to inject something new and interesting to their game to interest their seasoned players.
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Content: Extensive Tables, 20 new Relics, 20 new Hexed Items, 20 new Alchemical Ingredients and their effects, Dozens of new Alchemical Glyphs, 20 new Curses and 20 new Blessings
Writing: Content takes the center stage in this supplement with the focus being on usable content as opposed to dramatic flavour.
Art/design: Minimal artwork is present but the layout and the theme sell themselves well and carry the Pirate Borg aesthetic.
Usability: This is a treasure trove for any long time player of Pirate Borg who wants to inject something new and interesting to their game to interest their seasoned players.
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Dark Fauna - Mergoblins
Concept: New Creature Type & Adventure for Pirate Borg
Content: Everything you need, Stat Blocks, Loot Tables and Maps to populate and run an Adventure in a cave packed with MerGoblins
Writing: Clearly written, using simple tables and very minimalist in nature
Art/design: Simple line art and basic table layouts make this very easy on the eyes, the maps are excellently done by Dyson Logos
Usability: This one will take some work on the part of the Harbourmaster to turn it in to a proper adventure. Fortunately the author has left space for notes on each page for just that purpose and the map is left unkeyed so that you can move and place things as needed.
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Content: Everything you need, Stat Blocks, Loot Tables and Maps to populate and run an Adventure in a cave packed with MerGoblins
Writing: Clearly written, using simple tables and very minimalist in nature
Art/design: Simple line art and basic table layouts make this very easy on the eyes, the maps are excellently done by Dyson Logos
Usability: This one will take some work on the part of the Harbourmaster to turn it in to a proper adventure. Fortunately the author has left space for notes on each page for just that purpose and the map is left unkeyed so that you can move and place things as needed.
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Dead apes tell no tales
Concept: Four new Monsters to populate The Dark Caribbean
Content: Four new Creatures for your adventures. A Chest bound Forban, a Crocodilian Sorcerer, a Possessed Dinghy, and a Sun dried Zombie
Writing: All four entries are tightly written with a small bit of flavour text added, accompanied by an introduction from Yonko, the undead Orang-Outang.
Art/design: Excellent artwork accompanies each entry and serves it well with a large amount of space present to allow for ease of use in each Entry.
Usability: Each of these creatures would be a welcome addition to any Pirate Borg adventure. They all accurately represent the feel of The Dark Caribbean.
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Content: Four new Creatures for your adventures. A Chest bound Forban, a Crocodilian Sorcerer, a Possessed Dinghy, and a Sun dried Zombie
Writing: All four entries are tightly written with a small bit of flavour text added, accompanied by an introduction from Yonko, the undead Orang-Outang.
Art/design: Excellent artwork accompanies each entry and serves it well with a large amount of space present to allow for ease of use in each Entry.
Usability: Each of these creatures would be a welcome addition to any Pirate Borg adventure. They all accurately represent the feel of The Dark Caribbean.
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Depths Unwonted
Concept: In the aftermath of their most recent voyage the crew has discovered three Artifacts and learns they must be returned to their rightful places on three separate islands within seven days lest doom befall them!
Content: Fourteen Pages detailing the Relics, the Islands they must be returned to and the challenges each island will present to the Crew before they can succeed.
Writing: Depths Unwonted takes the less is more approach of writing in a format that lends urgency to the crews quest to avoid their 'unwonted' fate. Each spread represents a segment of the adventure in a brief style that doesn't bog down the gameplay.
Art/design: Artistically this Adventure is simply fun to look at and enjoy much less play through. For all three islands the map and the writing are blended in to one unified whole that guides the eye in an entertaining way without being a chore to read.
Usability: Depths Unwonted would be a great adventure to spring on a group when they think they might be 'in the clear' after a previous one in a 'Just when you thought it was over!' style twist. Effort is made to keep it a small scale event within the writing and takes advantage of the 'Mystical' side of Pirate Borg in a great way.
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Content: Fourteen Pages detailing the Relics, the Islands they must be returned to and the challenges each island will present to the Crew before they can succeed.
Writing: Depths Unwonted takes the less is more approach of writing in a format that lends urgency to the crews quest to avoid their 'unwonted' fate. Each spread represents a segment of the adventure in a brief style that doesn't bog down the gameplay.
Art/design: Artistically this Adventure is simply fun to look at and enjoy much less play through. For all three islands the map and the writing are blended in to one unified whole that guides the eye in an entertaining way without being a chore to read.
Usability: Depths Unwonted would be a great adventure to spring on a group when they think they might be 'in the clear' after a previous one in a 'Just when you thought it was over!' style twist. Effort is made to keep it a small scale event within the writing and takes advantage of the 'Mystical' side of Pirate Borg in a great way.
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Devilsworn Bastards
Concept: Two new Character Classes for Pirate Borg
Content: Two new Classes: The Powder Monkey Tamer & Mammon's Mutineer
Writing: Both Classes are well written and clearly presented.
Art/design: Some problematic Font and colour combinations make this a little hard on the eyes from time to time, however the artwork itself is well done and edited.
Usability: Two more esoteric Class options to consider for your Campaign. Quite powerful and will require some balance adjustments perhaps, to make them fit with the Core Classes in the Pirate Borg Rulebook.
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Content: Two new Classes: The Powder Monkey Tamer & Mammon's Mutineer
Writing: Both Classes are well written and clearly presented.
Art/design: Some problematic Font and colour combinations make this a little hard on the eyes from time to time, however the artwork itself is well done and edited.
Usability: Two more esoteric Class options to consider for your Campaign. Quite powerful and will require some balance adjustments perhaps, to make them fit with the Core Classes in the Pirate Borg Rulebook.
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Die in Six Directions
Concept: Hex Crawl Sandbox Map Generator
Content: Contains all the information you will need to generate an Island Map for Pirate Borg alongside a useful Hex Map Download to get you started.
Writing: Simply written to allow for maximum usefulness to the Harbourmaster, this supplement comes with the Tables you need to create with and lets the Harbourmaster interpret them as they need.
Art/design: Occasionally the theme of the Supplement gets in the way of clarity of the page but it does not detract enough to make this entry difficult to use.
Usability: This is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to get in to Hex Crawl Mechanics or simply basic island generation to further populate their Pirate Borg setting. Examples are included for those who might be new to this style and represent the material well.
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Content: Contains all the information you will need to generate an Island Map for Pirate Borg alongside a useful Hex Map Download to get you started.
Writing: Simply written to allow for maximum usefulness to the Harbourmaster, this supplement comes with the Tables you need to create with and lets the Harbourmaster interpret them as they need.
Art/design: Occasionally the theme of the Supplement gets in the way of clarity of the page but it does not detract enough to make this entry difficult to use.
Usability: This is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to get in to Hex Crawl Mechanics or simply basic island generation to further populate their Pirate Borg setting. Examples are included for those who might be new to this style and represent the material well.
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Diseases of The Dark Caribbean
Concept: New Rules for Diseases to augment the existing Pirate Borg rules.
Content: Diseases of The Dark Caribbean contains infection rules, lore and dire consequences for each of the 17 most feared infections that a pirate could get and 3 lucky days. (Also recently updated to add in a Spread on Medicines of The Dark Caribbean as well)
Writing: Written with a leaning towards the comically macabre. It is concise and to the point with each entry.
Art/design: At first glance the artwork in this is very Pirate Borg, however it is overshadowed with the sheer intensity of the colours chosen and the layout of each Disease/Medicine is so tightly packed as to make the document difficult to read in many instances. Stylistically it is impressive but functionally difficult.
Usability: If you want to add some more meat to the bones of the Infection rules presented in the Core Rules then this Supplement will provide you with a wealth of information ready to use.
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Content: Diseases of The Dark Caribbean contains infection rules, lore and dire consequences for each of the 17 most feared infections that a pirate could get and 3 lucky days. (Also recently updated to add in a Spread on Medicines of The Dark Caribbean as well)
Writing: Written with a leaning towards the comically macabre. It is concise and to the point with each entry.
Art/design: At first glance the artwork in this is very Pirate Borg, however it is overshadowed with the sheer intensity of the colours chosen and the layout of each Disease/Medicine is so tightly packed as to make the document difficult to read in many instances. Stylistically it is impressive but functionally difficult.
Usability: If you want to add some more meat to the bones of the Infection rules presented in the Core Rules then this Supplement will provide you with a wealth of information ready to use.
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Drink Hearty: A Tavern Generator
Concept: Generate your very own unique Tavern
Content: Three Rollable Tables to name and set a mood/scene in a Tavern
Writing: Contents as described in the title, bare bones but cleanly done.
Art/design: Little artwork is present but the Tables are more most important and they are cleanly set up if not formatted the best.
Usability: Any Harbourmaster with a need for On the Fly content creation can make use of this supplement.
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Content: Three Rollable Tables to name and set a mood/scene in a Tavern
Writing: Contents as described in the title, bare bones but cleanly done.
Art/design: Little artwork is present but the Tables are more most important and they are cleanly set up if not formatted the best.
Usability: Any Harbourmaster with a need for On the Fly content creation can make use of this supplement.
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Five Lost Souls
Concept: Five Entry Bestiary for Pirate Borg
Content: Five new horrors of the Dark Caribbean for Pirate Borg
Content: Five new horrors of the Dark Caribbean for Pirate Borg
- Dead Man's Chest
- Dread Pirate
- Ex-Parrot
- Gold-Bug
- Old Salt
Writing: Blessedly this product includes Printer Friendly versions of its entries and they are all written in a legible manner. Entries are all content forward and leave the details to the Harbourmaster to dress them up with.
Art/design: Stylistically the black and white of this supplement embodies the concept, layout is simple but useful without being gaudy.
Usability: Any Harbourmaster can use more creatures to pit their Players against, even as inspiration for your own variants this supplement is a worthwhile addition.
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Forlorn Encounters
Concept: Inhabitants of extraordinary customs and peculiar morphologies can be encountered in the remote reaches of the Dark Caribbean. It is my earnest hope that this compilation will be of significant value to scholars from distant latitudes and serve as a cautionary guide to unwary travelers.
Content: This PDF consists of a series of 6 NPCs compatible with Pirate Borg and Mörk Borg.
Writing: Presented as excerpts from an exploration of The Dark Caribbean (Pirate Borg's Setting) these six Entries all serve well to provide an intriguing range of NPCs for your group to discover in their travels.
Art/design: Artwork provided by Francisco Lemos is highly evocative of the Setting and carries a wonderful atmosphere, with Editing by Melfy
Usability: This project would be an excellent starting point for an adventure or side quest in any Dark Caribbean game.
Product Link: Itch.io PDF
Content: This PDF consists of a series of 6 NPCs compatible with Pirate Borg and Mörk Borg.
Writing: Presented as excerpts from an exploration of The Dark Caribbean (Pirate Borg's Setting) these six Entries all serve well to provide an intriguing range of NPCs for your group to discover in their travels.
Art/design: Artwork provided by Francisco Lemos is highly evocative of the Setting and carries a wonderful atmosphere, with Editing by Melfy
Usability: This project would be an excellent starting point for an adventure or side quest in any Dark Caribbean game.
Product Link: Itch.io PDF
Harceleur
Concept: A new Creature type for Pirate Borg.
Content: Everything you need to run this devilish little beast up against your Pirates.
Writing: With just enough meat on its bones the text of this entry gives you all the playing prompts you might need to harass your Players with a Harceleur.
Art/design: Excellent use of art and colour make this entry supremely easy to read and use.
Usability: A great addition to any long voyage after a successful raid by a Pirate Crew to spice up their return voyage.
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Content: Everything you need to run this devilish little beast up against your Pirates.
Writing: With just enough meat on its bones the text of this entry gives you all the playing prompts you might need to harass your Players with a Harceleur.
Art/design: Excellent use of art and colour make this entry supremely easy to read and use.
Usability: A great addition to any long voyage after a successful raid by a Pirate Crew to spice up their return voyage.
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Hooks of Tortuga
Concept: An aid for the Harbourmaster to help bring the city of Tortuga to life.
Content: Tables and Story Hooks to breathe new life in to the Port of Tortuga, things you might see, people you might meet and events that might be taking place as your Pirates explore the famed Pirate haven.
Writing: Quite well written and presented with just enough detail to leave a Harbourmaster with a host of options to present their players.
Art/design: Excellent background and font selections make this product delightfully easy to read and therefore make use of.
Usability: If you have ever found yourself struggling for nuanced descriptions of a place to make it feel more 'lived in' then Hooks of Tortuga is a tool you need to add to your repertoire.
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Content: Tables and Story Hooks to breathe new life in to the Port of Tortuga, things you might see, people you might meet and events that might be taking place as your Pirates explore the famed Pirate haven.
Writing: Quite well written and presented with just enough detail to leave a Harbourmaster with a host of options to present their players.
Art/design: Excellent background and font selections make this product delightfully easy to read and therefore make use of.
Usability: If you have ever found yourself struggling for nuanced descriptions of a place to make it feel more 'lived in' then Hooks of Tortuga is a tool you need to add to your repertoire.
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How Dare Ye!
Concept: A Collection of Insults suitable for any Pirate!
Content: Four D20 Tables of Insults, Rebuttals and Declarations for your favourite pirate crew!
Writing: Written in interesting tones, these jibes are sure to spruce up any pirate conversation.
Art/design: Unfortunately awkward layout and font choices make this product a little less visually appealing than it might otherwise be.
Usability: If you've ever struggled to find a witty retort or other scathing comeback from an NPC to deliver to your Players this might be a well needed addition of variety to your piratical speech.
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Content: Four D20 Tables of Insults, Rebuttals and Declarations for your favourite pirate crew!
Writing: Written in interesting tones, these jibes are sure to spruce up any pirate conversation.
Art/design: Unfortunately awkward layout and font choices make this product a little less visually appealing than it might otherwise be.
Usability: If you've ever struggled to find a witty retort or other scathing comeback from an NPC to deliver to your Players this might be a well needed addition of variety to your piratical speech.
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Ill Gotten Gains
Concept: After the plundering is done, there are lots of ways to squander away all that loot--or walk away with so much more! These rules give options for easy-to-implement gambling games and rules for cheating at them to your game of Pirate Borg.
Content: A variety of entertaining 'one shot' style Gambling games to make any sea voyage or tavern crawl more entertaining. Includes a table for what happens when you get caught Cheating as well.
Writing: Whimsically written, these quick and easy rules are well laid out on a single page.
Art/design: Minimal art but well used in its entirety, details are well presented and the skull artwork is used to great effect.
Usability: If your crew has ever wanted to Gamble while they tavern crawl or carouse then this supplement is perfect, the games are simple but fun and a deck of cards and a coin are all you need to make it work.
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Content: A variety of entertaining 'one shot' style Gambling games to make any sea voyage or tavern crawl more entertaining. Includes a table for what happens when you get caught Cheating as well.
Writing: Whimsically written, these quick and easy rules are well laid out on a single page.
Art/design: Minimal art but well used in its entirety, details are well presented and the skull artwork is used to great effect.
Usability: If your crew has ever wanted to Gamble while they tavern crawl or carouse then this supplement is perfect, the games are simple but fun and a deck of cards and a coin are all you need to make it work.
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Klabautermann
Concept: A Haunting for your Crews Ship
Content: Six Pages defining a series of random tables to build a Haunt for your Pirate crew culminating in the Stats for the dread beast you craft.
Writing: Evocatively written to fuel the Harbourmasters mind and provide an entertaining addition to any vessel. Several Tables guide you in the creating of your very own unique Klabautermann with which to saddle your crew. Will it be beneficial? Will it be vengeful? Will your crew figure out how to keep it in a good mood? Or will they suffers its wrath and anger the Haunt?
Art/design: Artwork is minimalist but does a good job conveying the mood and tone of the work, layout and design are clean/concise and do their jobs effectively.
Usability: This product can be anything from an entertaining diversion or mystery to be solved all the way up to a mascot for the crew to enjoy and learn about. It is quirky without being cumbersome.
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Content: Six Pages defining a series of random tables to build a Haunt for your Pirate crew culminating in the Stats for the dread beast you craft.
Writing: Evocatively written to fuel the Harbourmasters mind and provide an entertaining addition to any vessel. Several Tables guide you in the creating of your very own unique Klabautermann with which to saddle your crew. Will it be beneficial? Will it be vengeful? Will your crew figure out how to keep it in a good mood? Or will they suffers its wrath and anger the Haunt?
Art/design: Artwork is minimalist but does a good job conveying the mood and tone of the work, layout and design are clean/concise and do their jobs effectively.
Usability: This product can be anything from an entertaining diversion or mystery to be solved all the way up to a mascot for the crew to enjoy and learn about. It is quirky without being cumbersome.
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La Mulata
Concept: A ship and her crew for use with Pirate Borg
Content: La Mulata contains the titular Ship and a small Crew which she carries along with inspiration for what the ship carries, where she might go and so forth.
Writing: La Mulata is a breath of fresh air in written form. Thematically an excellent work with that perfect meeting of design and function.
Art/design: Using a deceptively simple and yet somehow evocative art style, La Mulata is actually a lot of fun to read with several small map locations and interesting use of design to draw the eye to the content.
Usability: How often have you had a Crew find a harbour and say "What ships are in port?" and you scramble for ideas on the fly? Well La Mulata takes one entry off that list and even comes with a small crew should your Players want to interact with someone other than "Generic Pirate B" Simple motives and several hooks allow you to drop La Mulata anywhere and have it be effective.
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Content: La Mulata contains the titular Ship and a small Crew which she carries along with inspiration for what the ship carries, where she might go and so forth.
Writing: La Mulata is a breath of fresh air in written form. Thematically an excellent work with that perfect meeting of design and function.
Art/design: Using a deceptively simple and yet somehow evocative art style, La Mulata is actually a lot of fun to read with several small map locations and interesting use of design to draw the eye to the content.
Usability: How often have you had a Crew find a harbour and say "What ships are in port?" and you scramble for ideas on the fly? Well La Mulata takes one entry off that list and even comes with a small crew should your Players want to interact with someone other than "Generic Pirate B" Simple motives and several hooks allow you to drop La Mulata anywhere and have it be effective.
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Lovelorn Lost
Concept: Rollable Tables for lost loved ones
Content: A series of Rollable Tables to determine the nature of a lost loved one and what has happened to them, as the dead seldom stop moving in The Dark Caribbean.
Writing: Entertaining tables present a large variety of interesting combinations.
Art/design: Simple and effective layout with a well chosen colour style for the background and foreground elements make this spread easy to make use of.
Usability: Depending on your Crew and their adventures, if you have need of a lost loved one to return for whatever reason.. or even if you want to bring back an NPC you feel might have been eliminated too early, this short set of tables might be more useful than you think.
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Content: A series of Rollable Tables to determine the nature of a lost loved one and what has happened to them, as the dead seldom stop moving in The Dark Caribbean.
Writing: Entertaining tables present a large variety of interesting combinations.
Art/design: Simple and effective layout with a well chosen colour style for the background and foreground elements make this spread easy to make use of.
Usability: Depending on your Crew and their adventures, if you have need of a lost loved one to return for whatever reason.. or even if you want to bring back an NPC you feel might have been eliminated too early, this short set of tables might be more useful than you think.
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Man the OSR!
Concept: Man the OSR! is a supplement for the Pirate Borg rules which adds mechanics and rules that allow for more old school, sandbox, and open world styles of play.
Content: Classic OSR sandbox games had mechanics for random generation of treasure, monsters, encounters and the like. This supplement has got you covered with rules for these process plus tons more. Scrolls, Potions, rules for XP, and more is in this jam-packed document. Includes a fully fledged customizable system for building your own pirate hideaway or haven and get to work on domain play. Now with instructions on how to use the Haven or Hideaway Worksheet (Regular and Form Fillable) on your favorite VTT.
Content: Classic OSR sandbox games had mechanics for random generation of treasure, monsters, encounters and the like. This supplement has got you covered with rules for these process plus tons more. Scrolls, Potions, rules for XP, and more is in this jam-packed document. Includes a fully fledged customizable system for building your own pirate hideaway or haven and get to work on domain play. Now with instructions on how to use the Haven or Hideaway Worksheet (Regular and Form Fillable) on your favorite VTT.
Writing: Exceptionally well written with an attention to the detail of onboarding those who might not be familiar with a more OSR style of game.
Art/design: Artwork and layout are excellent in this product and maintain the core concept wonderfully while presenting everything in an appealing format.
Usability: Anyone familiar with the OSR will find this well worth the effort to read and absorb while those who might be new to the style will see many parallels to the Rules Light aesthetic of Pirate Borg.
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Meanwhile... Somewhere, Deep in the Dark Caribbean
Concept: Solo Micro Dungeon Crawl
Content: Meanwhile presents a Solo Dungeon Crawl using a Standard deck of 52 Cards as your decision maker in both dungeon design and content.
Writing: Throughout this supplement the writing is very consistent and leaves the user with enough room for interpretation while still setting a solid mood/theme.
Art/design: Artwork is solid throughout and minimalist for the most part provided by the Author, Aaron Best with some photography by Bill North
Usability: Meanwhile is a great way for anyone who wants to enjoy some rum soaked adventure in the Pirate Borg setting to do so without need to find a group. Cards provide enough randomization for several adventures and could even then be used to run that same adventure for a Group with the created assets.
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Content: Meanwhile presents a Solo Dungeon Crawl using a Standard deck of 52 Cards as your decision maker in both dungeon design and content.
Writing: Throughout this supplement the writing is very consistent and leaves the user with enough room for interpretation while still setting a solid mood/theme.
Art/design: Artwork is solid throughout and minimalist for the most part provided by the Author, Aaron Best with some photography by Bill North
Usability: Meanwhile is a great way for anyone who wants to enjoy some rum soaked adventure in the Pirate Borg setting to do so without need to find a group. Cards provide enough randomization for several adventures and could even then be used to run that same adventure for a Group with the created assets.
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Pirate Gangs
Concept: Four new Gangs of Pirates for use with Pirate Borg
Content: Pirate Gangs is a collection of four weird, wild, and wicked pirate crews, each ready for the table with enemy and ship stats and roleplaying generators to aid storytelling.
Content: Pirate Gangs is a collection of four weird, wild, and wicked pirate crews, each ready for the table with enemy and ship stats and roleplaying generators to aid storytelling.
- The Feast: Vicious, aristocratic deep-one fishmen intent on selling their goods and devouring your innards.
- The Ironwrought: Brutal raiders who love iron and battle, led by a barbarian-blacksmith who forges the Caribbean's most wicked instruments of death.
- The Pale Oak: Mysterious pirate-sages transformed into gleaming driftwood, wandering the waves and whispering of secrets.
- The Slime: Infinite Tess captains a dead whale-submarine and a crew of oozing cadavers on her quest to find her lost soul... and you may hold the secret of its fate.
Writing: Beautifully written in every sense.
Art/design: A near perfect compliment to the writing, the art and layout of this supplement are astonishing. Blending together seamlessly with the writing to create a piece of pirate art.
Usability: Every Harbourmaster worth their salt takes great pains to bring The Dark Caribbean to life and infuse the setting into the minds of their Players and this supplement is a masterwork in that concept. Each gang is unique and well rounded enough to that it could easily be added to a variety of locales as needed. A careful Harbourmaster will need to consider some of the items it will introduce to their game however as some of them may influence game balance.
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Privateer & Powder Monkey
Concept: Two new Classes for your Pirate Borg Game
Content: Rules for two new Classes, Powder Monkey and Privateer
Writing: Concise writing in keeping with the Pirate Borg Core Rules
Art/design: Beautiful layout and excellent use of art lend a unique and visually appealing theme to both of these Classes, some slight difficulty reading a small portion of the text but it is easily puzzled out.
Usability: If you play Pirate Borg long enough.. someone discovers Bombs and then the world changes. This supplement gives you a Class to use with that person, the Powder Monkey. Alongside it.. if you have ever wanted to begin as a Privateer, well then this is definitely the Class for you with a very unique and engaging twist as you level up!
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Content: Rules for two new Classes, Powder Monkey and Privateer
Writing: Concise writing in keeping with the Pirate Borg Core Rules
Art/design: Beautiful layout and excellent use of art lend a unique and visually appealing theme to both of these Classes, some slight difficulty reading a small portion of the text but it is easily puzzled out.
Usability: If you play Pirate Borg long enough.. someone discovers Bombs and then the world changes. This supplement gives you a Class to use with that person, the Powder Monkey. Alongside it.. if you have ever wanted to begin as a Privateer, well then this is definitely the Class for you with a very unique and engaging twist as you level up!
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Random I Am
Concept: Rollable Tables for Tavern Drink and Dining options
Content: 2 Rollable D20 Tables to enhance your drinking and dining in The Dark Caribbean.
Writing: All items have a short and highly descriptive contents area.
Art/design: Minimalist layout serves this supplement very well as it allows the table to function quickly which is what is needed.
Usability: More variety in the little things of your Pirate Borg game give it that 'lived in' feeling that so many players and Harbourmasters crave. This little supplement adds to your repertoire by giving your Players something to chew on ( I apologize for nothing! ) in their Roleplay which can be a treasure all its own.
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Content: 2 Rollable D20 Tables to enhance your drinking and dining in The Dark Caribbean.
Writing: All items have a short and highly descriptive contents area.
Art/design: Minimalist layout serves this supplement very well as it allows the table to function quickly which is what is needed.
Usability: More variety in the little things of your Pirate Borg game give it that 'lived in' feeling that so many players and Harbourmasters crave. This little supplement adds to your repertoire by giving your Players something to chew on ( I apologize for nothing! ) in their Roleplay which can be a treasure all its own.
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Random Missions and Dire Calamities
Concept: Two Table Generators for Pirate Borg
Content: Two extensive tables, one for generating a randomized mission for your players and the other a table to plague your players with a calamity.
Writing: Both sets of tables are excellently detailed and very well written in precise formats and with the ubiquitous Pirate Borg feel.
Art/design: Unfortunately low resolution on the background images takes away from the presentation of this product, as does the font size and colour choices on the Random Mission Table (remedied by scaling the page size up on the document). However the Calamities Table is much more easily read.
Usability: As any Harbourmaster worth their salt knows, there will be times when you just need to let the dice decide where your creativity gets directed. This supplement allows you to do that without repetition for quite some time and yields excellent results. As a Harbourmaster Prep tool I would recommend this one without reservation.
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Content: Two extensive tables, one for generating a randomized mission for your players and the other a table to plague your players with a calamity.
Writing: Both sets of tables are excellently detailed and very well written in precise formats and with the ubiquitous Pirate Borg feel.
Art/design: Unfortunately low resolution on the background images takes away from the presentation of this product, as does the font size and colour choices on the Random Mission Table (remedied by scaling the page size up on the document). However the Calamities Table is much more easily read.
Usability: As any Harbourmaster worth their salt knows, there will be times when you just need to let the dice decide where your creativity gets directed. This supplement allows you to do that without repetition for quite some time and yields excellent results. As a Harbourmaster Prep tool I would recommend this one without reservation.
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Red Bart's Navalry: Legendary Ships & Crews
Concept: A repository of legendary ships and the sailors that crew them.
Content: Red Bart's Navalary is a detailed journal of first-hand encounters of legendary ships for Pirate Borg. It reads from the point of view of Red Bart a sailor and cartographer who spent their life learning of and documenting unique ships and their crews.
Book Features:
Content: Red Bart's Navalary is a detailed journal of first-hand encounters of legendary ships for Pirate Borg. It reads from the point of view of Red Bart a sailor and cartographer who spent their life learning of and documenting unique ships and their crews.
Book Features:
- 5 unique legendary ships each with new NPC captains and crews.
- Player-facing pages with first-person POV encounters of the ships and their crews.
- New conditions that the NPC captains and crews can inflict on PCs
- Full stats for ships, captains, and crews.
- GM tips for using the supplement and incorporating it into their game.
Writing: GMs can use this supplement as both an in-game item/ handout for players at their table or online to encourage them to either seek out or be wary of new threats, targets, allies, or points of interest while sailing in the Dark Caribbean.
Art/design: Illustrations by DC Stow and Anton W. Blake
Usability: Perfect for any Harbourmaster who needs a fitting nemesis for their game to bring forth against the players or simply to populate The Dark Caribbean with a variety of truly unique foes!
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Rough Seas
Concept: This supplement for Pirate Borg contains several random tables and one small island-crawl for you to insert into your pirate adventures.
Content: Packed with Rollable Tables for Encounters at Sea, On Land, augmented tables for Loot the Body and more!, NPCs, an Adventure Location and a Hex Crawl Map.
Writing: This product is jam packed with content and all of it is expertly presented to be of maximum use.
Art/design: Special attention has been given to selection of complimentary colours and styles with minimal artwork present allowing for some very Pirate Borg layout choices.
Usability: Rough Seas is a veritable treasure for any Harbourmaster. Tables for every occasion and they are all well conceived to boot. Certainly worth the addition to your Harbourmaster collection!
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Content: Packed with Rollable Tables for Encounters at Sea, On Land, augmented tables for Loot the Body and more!, NPCs, an Adventure Location and a Hex Crawl Map.
Writing: This product is jam packed with content and all of it is expertly presented to be of maximum use.
Art/design: Special attention has been given to selection of complimentary colours and styles with minimal artwork present allowing for some very Pirate Borg layout choices.
Usability: Rough Seas is a veritable treasure for any Harbourmaster. Tables for every occasion and they are all well conceived to boot. Certainly worth the addition to your Harbourmaster collection!
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Rules for Faction Bound Classes
Concept: Want more major faction engagement in your Pirate Borg games? Interested in harnessing the power of a major nation, cult, or power when you take a class?
Content: These are a few simple guidelines to flesh out faction interaction, and to allow players to take positions with those factions via pc class.
Writing: Very cleanly written for a subject often considered obtuse or complex by many Players.
Art/design: Lovely blending of the artwork and the layout has been done with this product allowing both to take equal share of the attention without interfering with one another.
Usability: If your Players are keen to dabble in the political landscape of The Dark Caribbean and you are not sure how to make that work currently then this Supplement is a great guide for you to do so.
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Content: These are a few simple guidelines to flesh out faction interaction, and to allow players to take positions with those factions via pc class.
Writing: Very cleanly written for a subject often considered obtuse or complex by many Players.
Art/design: Lovely blending of the artwork and the layout has been done with this product allowing both to take equal share of the attention without interfering with one another.
Usability: If your Players are keen to dabble in the political landscape of The Dark Caribbean and you are not sure how to make that work currently then this Supplement is a great guide for you to do so.
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Scrimshaw
Concept: Four brand new Classes for use in Pirate Borg
Content:
Content:
- The Angler, a former fisherman turned pirate. Unlike their rowdy compatriots, they have the patience and skill to successfully reel up fish from the inky depths in which they dwell.
- The Coagulant, a horrific nightmare altered by alchemy gone wrong. To survive, they must fuse their body with that of another, subsuming flesh and bone into themselves to once again become whole.
- The Reaper, heavily inspired by DEADBOLT from Hopoo Games, the other game with a drug called ash that comes from the corpses of undead. They are skilled assassins and hunters of the damned.
- The Shipwright, an on-board mechanic to keep boats going through constant wear-and-tear. Their specialized skills let them both repair and modify ships with everything from hull-smashing cannons to wheels.
Writing: As one might expect the writing of these Classes is excellent, so much so that this product one the Cabin Fever Game Jam award for Best PC Class.
Art/design: Simply incredibly thematic choices for both art and layout were made in the crafting of this remarkable supplement. It is pleasing to the eye, exceedingly mindful of the setting and a joy to read.
Usability: Any or all of these Classes could be seamlessly added to any Pirate Borg game without worry about Rules Balance which is something often on the mind of any Harbourmaser.
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