Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Me too. I didn't get the screen or luck tokens, but now that I'm planning on running some games at my FLGS, I may order those after the rest of my stuff arrives.
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overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Mike Shea spotlights Down Among the Dead.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Folks are getting their Down Among the Dead stuff now. Still no sign of mine, but looking forward to it.
I think the whole thing of "pay $1 ahead of time to get a free coin in the final shipment" might be put me in the slower fulfillment lane. I'm glad everyone seems to have dropped that model since.
Looking forward to a bunch of piratey goodness, especially as this year has turned out to be a tough one financially and I don't think I'm going to be able to responsibly back several of the current Pirate Borg campaigns that look enticing.
I think the whole thing of "pay $1 ahead of time to get a free coin in the final shipment" might be put me in the slower fulfillment lane. I'm glad everyone seems to have dropped that model since.
Looking forward to a bunch of piratey goodness, especially as this year has turned out to be a tough one financially and I don't think I'm going to be able to responsibly back several of the current Pirate Borg campaigns that look enticing.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Listening to the latest Ship of the Dead podcast, it was wryly amusing to hear Luke get told, to his face, that Ravaged By Storms was created because the Pirate Borg campaign book wasn't out yet, and they needed to create a substitute version for themselves.
Luke said, as the person creating 100% or close to it of official Pirate Borg stuff, there's only so many hours in the day, which totally makes sense. It doesn't make me want the Dark Caribbean sourcebook any less, but I get that it's not something he can just bang out.
And given that he created Pirate Borg specifically to support the Dark Caribbean sourcebook, it's clear it's important to him to do this right.
Luke said, as the person creating 100% or close to it of official Pirate Borg stuff, there's only so many hours in the day, which totally makes sense. It doesn't make me want the Dark Caribbean sourcebook any less, but I get that it's not something he can just bang out.
And given that he created Pirate Borg specifically to support the Dark Caribbean sourcebook, it's clear it's important to him to do this right.
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timbannock
Legend
I just got my stuff yesterday. Cabin Fever book, gigantic vinyl mat water hex pad, and cardboard pawn ship tokens. Everything's really great! Cabin Fever is already inspiring me.
You'll have to let me know what you think when you get it. I've been eyeing the Foundry modules for the game, as well as his patreon, but haven't quite gotten myself to pull the trigger just yet.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Just got my stuff.
(Minus the coin I was supposed to get for paying $1 to Backerkit before the campaign began, but I think I may have made a pledge, downshifted to a $1 a la carte pledge to delay the hit to my credit card and that probably decoupled my pledge from that original $1 payment. I don't really care; I wouldn't do anything with the obol anyway and I'm happy to just count that as a tip for Limithron.)
The books -- all standard versions -- are beautiful. Textured covers, spot gloss, wonderful textured paper, useful layout as always.
The starter set, which is pretty beefy, has look-up tables printed on the inside of the box covers, making them work like a starter set screen. Trapped in the Tropics is a very long adventure -- significantly longer than Buried in the Bahamas, from what I can see -- and appears to teach the GM the rules as they go, and the boxed set otherwise just includes the stripped-down players guide with only the rules the players need. That said, in Borg games, players roll most of the dice anyway, so that probably covers most of the rules of the game. The full rulebook mostly just adds generators, more enemies and the Curse of Skeleton Point sandbox adventure setting.
Looking forward to digging into these and especially running them soon.
(Minus the coin I was supposed to get for paying $1 to Backerkit before the campaign began, but I think I may have made a pledge, downshifted to a $1 a la carte pledge to delay the hit to my credit card and that probably decoupled my pledge from that original $1 payment. I don't really care; I wouldn't do anything with the obol anyway and I'm happy to just count that as a tip for Limithron.)
The books -- all standard versions -- are beautiful. Textured covers, spot gloss, wonderful textured paper, useful layout as always.
The starter set, which is pretty beefy, has look-up tables printed on the inside of the box covers, making them work like a starter set screen. Trapped in the Tropics is a very long adventure -- significantly longer than Buried in the Bahamas, from what I can see -- and appears to teach the GM the rules as they go, and the boxed set otherwise just includes the stripped-down players guide with only the rules the players need. That said, in Borg games, players roll most of the dice anyway, so that probably covers most of the rules of the game. The full rulebook mostly just adds generators, more enemies and the Curse of Skeleton Point sandbox adventure setting.
Looking forward to digging into these and especially running them soon.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
For folks who are just getting curious about Pirate Borg now, Questing Beast has a video that's nominally about the new stuff, but which is really an overview.
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