Luke Stratton’s Pirate Borg takes the grim, artpunk bones of Stockholm Kartell’s Mörk Borg, published by Free League, and casts them into the blood-soaked tides of the Dark Caribbean. Published by Limithron, this standalone tabletop roleplaying game thrusts players into a historical fantasy apocalypse circa 1650 to 1750. You run greedy scoundrels, cut-throats, and zealots raiding merchant vessels, navigating haunted islands, and trading Ash – the narcotic, crumbled residue of pulverised undead.
The latest Bundle of Holding collects the complete core rulebook, the sprawling Starter Set, and a flotilla of third-party scenarios from Limithron, Snapback Game Studios, and SkeletonKey Games. Packed with naval combat systems, rotting sea monsters, and ready-to-run sandbox adventures, this digital package delivers up to $93 worth of tabletop gaming material for a fraction of retail.
Piratical Starter – $9.95
The opening tier provides the foundation for taking to the high seas, containing $40 worth of core material:
- Pirate Borg (166 pages, retail price $20) – The complete core rulebook and toolkit containing full rules, naval combat mechanics, 18 ship profiles, 80+ NPCs and monsters, and the sandbox adventure The Curse of Skeleton Point.
- Pirate Borg Starter Set (122 pages plus assets, retail price $20) – Includes the 60-page Player’s Guidebook, the introductory island-crawl adventure Trapped in the Tropics, reference cards, tokens, the 172-page jam compilation Cabin Fever, the Terror in Tortuga scenario, port generators, and a printable GM screen.
Piratical Bonus Collection – Threshold ($24.99)
Paying above the current threshold price adds ten extra adventures, relics, and maritime expansions valued at an additional $53:
- Pirate Borg: Buried in the Bahamas (24 pages, retail price $8) – An introductory sandbox scenario across three islands exploring the haunted Cave of Seven Skulls.
- The Battle of Dead Man’s Cove (2 pages, retail price $3) – A quick naval combat encounter designed to run in under three hours.
- Cavern of Cursed Tears (6 pages, retail price $8) – A subterranean expedition through flooded grottos in search of ancient artefacts.
- The Sinking of C’Thagn (2 pages, retail price $5) – An encounter set within an eldritch, non-human citadel regurgitated from the ocean floor.
- Faction Relics (16 pages, retail price $3) – Potent magical artefacts tailored to the setting’s major factions, including the Republic of Pirates and the Dark Yucatán.
- The Repentant (12 pages, retail price $3) – An expanded high-stakes scenario involving a derelict vessel carrying dangerous, Ash-laden cargo.
- Tangled in Shrouds (27 pages, retail price $8) – A branching high-seas chase adventure written to pit crews against British, French, or Spanish pursuit.
- Blood in the Water (2 pages, retail price $4) – Survival hazard rules and encounters dealing with shipwrecks, feeding sharks, and mermaids.
- Raise the Black (2 pages, retail price $4) – Maritime morale rules for hoisting colours, witchjack artefact flags, and a d20 pirate flag table.
- Sweet Tusk (6 pages, retail price $7) – An exploratory sandbox based around an overgrown coastal plantation plagued by feral boars and underground secrets.
Mechanically, Pirate Borg mirrors the rules-light philosophy of its parent system. Tasks resolve around rolling a d20 plus a relevant ability modifier against a target Difficulty Rating. Characters originate from archetypes such as the Brute, Rapscallion, Swashbuckler, and Zealot, alongside offbeat options like the undead Haunted Soul or the beast-born Tall Tale. Survival hinges on rationing Devil’s Luck, a finite pool that lets scoundrels shrug off fatal wounds, force rerolls, or secure lethal critical hits before luck inevitably runs dry.
Naval encounters discard passive waiting in favour of active crew participation. Ship-to-ship combat treats the vessel as a shared party extension: players assume specific roles each round, coordinating navigation, issuing captain’s orders, and firing broadsides. When crews finally dock, procedural tables drive portside carousing, letting characters burn silver on illicit Ash to acquire temporary supernatural edges or risk immediate rot. When your character drops, rolling a fresh buccaneer takes roughly two minutes.
All PDFs provided in this offer are completely free of DRM restrictions. The deal runs until midnight at the International Date Line (UTC -12) on Monday, 5 October 2026.
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- Bundle of Holding: Pirate Borg
