Are you seeking grand adventure, mighty sea battles and the glory of the pirate life? Do you have the strength to battle hordes of skeletons, treacherous rogues, and ancient curses? Then get ready to set sail, roll dice, and make your mark upon the Sea of Thieves!

As with all aspects of the Sea of Thieves expanded universe, Mongoose's proposal swiftly found itself before Rare's Head of Brand and Licensing Adam Park, alongside Brand and Licensing Art Director Peter Hentze. Having sampled more than their fair share of tabletop gaming sets at conventions and expos around the world, Peter and Adam were already big fans of Mongoose, and could immediately see the appeal of combining Sea of Thieves' shared-world experience with a roleplaying game centred on a crew adventuring together. Needless to say, it wasn't long before the project was underway. Even when the link to the preview worked, it wasn't an especially good preview. Hopefully the notice that the preview is broken may give them an excuse to revisit it.Want to fire a cannon at it? Drop it offa cliffand retrieve the gold from its smashed remains? Nope, not goingto work. The game says only Gold Pirate Ledgers: Six cards that show what your pirate is carrying and how close they are to becoming a Pirate Legend.

It’s delightfully silly stuff, but when you begin exploring it some of the ideas that we simply accept when they’re in a video game become a little awkward when it comes to a tabletop RPG. If you find a buried treasure chest, for example, you can’t actually open it yourself – instead, you need to take it to a specialised in-game faction who will trade it for a reward. If the party accrue enough successes they solve the problem at hand and move on, but if they don’t manage tothe goal within a certain number of rounds they fail and have to deal with the consequences. On top of this, particularly bad rolls can either injure players – taking dice away from their pool – eat through resources or cause further spiralling problems that need to be dealt with.Pirate Ledgers: Six cards that show what your pirate is carrying and how close they are to becoming a Pirate Legend. Plus! There's an exclusive code for the very appealing Lord Guardian Sails, which, once redeemed, can be used in Sea of Thieves the video game. Here they are now: Those lovely Lord Guardian Sails. As a general description from a reader of it, the system itself is relatively "rules light". The system only uses a few d6 dice, with the subtle twist that four custom faces are used. (Two of them appear twice/are assigned neighboring numbers when playing with a cheat sheet instead of the customized dice in the physical sets.) It's a possible reason to favor the physical box set over the PDFs if you would prefer playing with the custom face dice directly rather than a lookup process. Legendary Dice: Eighteen Legendary Dice that will mark you out as a Pirate Legend or scurvy landlubber! There’s a pretty solid chance that death won’t be too far away as, while most storytelling games have a fairlylight touch when it comes to killing off