Today, Free League Publishing and Limithron officially released the Down Among the Dead expansion for PIRATE BORG, alongside the PIRATE BORG Starter Set and Gamemaster Screen, bringing new adventures and tools to the scurvy-ridden tabletop RPG. The new range is now available for purchase in the Free League webshop and in hobby stores worldwide. Digital copies are also for sale through DriveThruRPG.
- A 148-page Down Among the Dead expansion book with a glow-in-the-dark, 5-color Pantone spot ink cover
- Two book ribbons
- Three character classes
- Three full-length adventures
- 90+ tables
- Generators for flags, islands, coral reefs, and treasure
- A bounty of other player and Gamemaster resources
- Player’s Guidebook, a 60-page rulebook with player options
- Trapped in the Tropics, a 60-page deluxe adventure
- 12 resin dice
- 58 tokens
- 22 reference cards
- 10 poster maps
- 25 character sheets
- Six character worksheets
- Two dry-erase markers
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In true pirate fashion, the game revolves around being a greedy, filthy scoundrel, as players sail the high seas in search of booty. Starting from humble beginnings, budding pirates must find a ship, recruit a crew, and begin raiding, pillaging, and plundering to make a name for themselves.
As each campaign unfolds, players can acquire and upgrade increasingly powerful vessels while killing, sneaking into forts, raiding ports, and uncovering hidden treasure – growing in infamy along the way. A pirate’s life can end as quickly as it begins, however, as unfathomable creatures lurk beneath the waves and danger awaits at every turn, encouraging fallen players to roll up a new character and try different tactics.
PIRATE BORG includes a 166-page book featuring eight character classes, easy-to-learn naval combat rules, stats for 18 vessels, 80+ NPCs and monsters, 90+ system-agnostic tables, and The Curse of Skeleton Point – a sandbox-style adventure spanning 11 pirate-themed locations.
Our game portfolio includes Coriolis: The Great Dark, the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE winner 2022), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate ’80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the blue-collar science fiction Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying, and The Electric State Roleplaying Game.
We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, The Labyrinth, and Swedish Machines – Sunset at Zero Dawn by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.
