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This is a package of fun, and it’s brilliant that Indy designers like @limithron.bsky.social can work with bigger (but still independent - this is a hill I will die on) companies to make beautiful stuffed boxes like this. We admired the core book when it came out but this makes us want to play! 9/9
Assorted Pirate Borg maps and counters.
And then there are the maps! Charts for adventures battle maps for fights and sea battles, ship cross sections and deck plans. And what good are battle-maps without counters? No good at all! So there are counters too, for characters NPCs, chickens, the direction of the wind, the watch of the day 8/?
A four colour style cover illustration featuring undead conquistadors, natives and pirates. What more does a Pirate Borg adventure need?
7/? That rule book is 80 pages by the way which I think is pretty much all the rules in the core book, missing only more ships more monsters and more random adventure and encounter tables. And the box includes a second book with a new 60 pages long adventure, unavailable elsewhere. So much value!
A Morg Borg style character sheet but for Pirate Borg.
The cover of the Pirate Borg start set rules book features a skeletal pirate with cutlass and hook.
Traditionalists, and poor fools who think it’s worth getting attached to their character, will find a pad of paper character sheets in the box too. Perhaps better used *post mortis* to make of permanent record of a dead character for posterity. The rule book is of course a cut down one, but not much
Some of the cards in the starter set
Dry erase character sheets!
There is a small pack of cards, featuring creatures, NPCs, ship types and … the Tongue of Thoth ? These are beautifully illustrated, but maybe less exciting than the dry erase markers, because those markers come are for reusable character sheets! Which are incredibly useful given a Borg lifespan 5/?
A set of white on black polyhedral dice with large and clear Arabic numerals.
The polyhedral dice are
elegantly piratical. The fact that each number is simply made “big enough to fill the face of the die” leads to clarity, but also a jumble of sizes, which are BEAUTFULLY chaotic. Just like a crew of pirates. There is even a (skull)heads or tails coin included. 4/?
The touchy-feely embossed box top of the Pirate Borg starter set.
Why? Let me count the ways. First of all the thing I didn’t even notice until I was packing it away. The box is, in the Borg tradition, textured. The characters are embossed, but not only that, there is a little bit of gloss varnish on the blood red tongue and the entrails the creature holds 3/?
Listeners may already have heard me on our podcast raving about this Starter Set as I unboxed it “live” during recording. It excited me, in a way I have not been excited by stuff I have been sent in quite a while. It excited me even more than the Alien starter set (WHICH WE BLOODY WROTE!) did. 2/?
Free League officially launched sales of @limithron.bsky.social’s Pirate Borg Starter Set today. And we need to talk about this. Long term folllwerso will know that we are generally (unpaid) shills for Free League stuff, and do they often send us books and stuff and we got a copy a few days ago. 1/?
In which case, an excellent purchase!
In our latest episode we return to our first love: #Coriolis the #3rdHorizon, and interview with Kevin Hassall creator of community content, a current #Travellewr KS (with distinctly Horizoneque themes) and a forthcoming licensed product (hopefully!)
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Probably shouldn't mention that the new MacBook Neo is out in a. couple of days - $599 dollars and ALSO outperforms a 2019 pro
We are currently working on Gold County, a supplement for #TalesoftheOldWest, Lone Rider - solo rules for that game AND an epic #AlienRPG adventure for 60 players at @ukge.bsky.social. This last is shaping up nicely, first act pretty much done, 2nd act still needs work before a playtest next weekend
My, that’s a high proportion of Westerns 😉
Ha ha, we do like to create difficult situations where PCs must test their morality, but that’s normally towards the end of the adventure, not right at the beginning! Is this what Ken and Robin call “premise rejection”?
Love my Enyaq, but on the advice of a friend who chose the smaller battery, went for the 85. Heat pump too.
Was that “Cry Havok”? I loved that game
Headline from Sky News social feed reads “UK will deploy Dragon in Cyprus, Sir Keir Starmer confirms”
. @magpiegames.bsky.social really on their marketing game for the #Temeraire Kickstarter
Original KS retail backers, Paladin’s Game Castle released this video about our game. The imagery is AI generated, hence some very strange dice pools, but the script is great. youtube.com/shorts/493ag...
I have indeed missed that.
Wha…?
To be honest, I am not sure Excalibur was on the cards at this point in time. I think it was just Delano trying to find his feet, and looking for a direction that was not Moore. He did better in that regard with Hellblazer.
Well there are the Warpies, and the RCX in Captain Britain comic later, and references to camps etc.
Indeed. In my defence, I am very old
It was Daredevils, issue 5
This was early in Moores run, appearing in (I think) Mighty World of Marvel, or was it Daredevils by then?
Actually no. I think when he was drawing this, he was still doing it in his spare time, while working in a warehouse in Corby. But he will have visited it - it was a Mecca for artists and fans. And I bought three pages of his original art (which you will be reading soon) there.
That and the smooth jazz at the start seem to be the creators saying “ha! we made a good thing, now let’s have us some fun”
Very much enjoying your journey of discovery as you read I strip I experienced in black and white all those many years ago. It’s worth pointing out that the shop they are fighting in is an accurate portrayal of the original Forbidden Planet in Denmark Street, where geek like me got their US comics
😉 indeed … and I think their were also riffing off Paddington’s appearance. Bit over all they seemed to be down on the whole thing …