Sea of Thieves RPG (MGP70000)

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Before you get too distracted by the three sizeable books at the heart of the game, we'd like to share the story of how Sea of Thieves crossed the divide from desktop to tabletop. It's a journey that begins in the notorious pirate haven (or so we'd like to think) of Swindon, Wiltshire, in the offices of Mongoose Publishing– a company already well-known for roleplaying mainstays like Paranoia and Traveller. The Sea of Thieves RPG has received its first major supplement, introducing a number of recent updates from the seafaring video game to its tabletop counterpart. 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. Athena's Might Cutlass • Blooming Barrel Blunderbuss • Captain Bones' Original Pirate Cutlass • Cursed Adventurer Cutlass • Emerald Ocean Crawler Cutlass • Flamingo Pistol • Frozen Ashes Blunderbuss • Jailor's Cutlass • Launch Crew Eye of Reach • Splash Fight Eye of Reach • Stranger's Cutlass • Sword of Souls • The Ballista Eye of Reach It’s a workable enough system that can be made incredibly flexible with a bit of thought, though it does come with a couple of quirks. As players start rolling more dice things can get very swingy,generating either oodles of success or a tide of horrible failures in a single go, and failing to make much distinction between different characters. 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. Pirate Ledgers:Six cards that show what your pirate is carrying and how close they are to becoming a Pirate Legend.We wanted to do more than a pirate game with Sea of Thieves branding. We wanted to capture the 'essence' of the video game and transpose it, taking advantage of the strengths of tabletop gaming– such as no game-based limits on what players could attempt to do and, of course, using the best 'graphics' in the world! 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 Mongoose Publishing reserves the right to alter or amend the specifications and/or prices of the products offered for sale, or withdraw them completely without prior notice. We're referring, of course, to the couriers who were delivering copies of the long-awaited Sea of Thieves Roleplaying Game, because we enjoy an obvious comedy bait-and-switch as much as anyone. Yes, the time has come to unbox a set of Legendary Dice, grab a mulled grog and some friends and bring the Sea of Thieves experience to your dining table, kitchen counter or any other suitable surface. A Tale of Two Captains follows two smaller supplements previously released as digital-only expansions that similarly incorporated elements from the PC and Xbox One title. Hunting the White Lady introduced rules for encounters with the sea’s fearsome giant shark Megalodons, along with the ability for player characters to use ship-mounted harpoons. Juliana’s Heart, meanwhile, added a tabletop equivalent to Sea of Thieves’ player-versus-player Arena, plus more detailed ways of handling modular damage to ships and the impact of waves while sailing.

Matthew Sprange, the veteran game designer who helmed the Sea of Thieves RPG, was involved from the get-go: If you're new to TRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, don't worry, you're still part of the target audience. If not, you'll probably know the company making Sea of Thieves Roleplaying Game: Mongoose Publishing, the company behind the latest editions of Traveller and Paranoia. The former tabletop game is about going on dangerous voyages for big profits, and the latter is about people ostensibly cooperating to achieve a goal but mostly sabotaging each other in various hilarious ways. In other words, the pedigree's all there for a proper Sea of Thieves experience. Hoarders can open treasure chests. This is far from the only example of having game logic clash with the do anything nature of tabletop roleplaying, but it can be a shade disconcerting if you’ve not already bought into the setting. Days Eyepatch • 1000 Days Golden Eyepatch • Constellation Tattoo Set • Day One Patch • Emerald Sovereign Eyepatch • Face of Fear Makeup • Merciless Marauder Scars • Ruby Sovereign Eyepatch • Sapphire Sovereign Eyepatch • Seashell Eyepatch • Silvered Legendary Eyepatch • Skeleton CurseAs 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. bugaboo-bill cheers. i have the same problem :) havent played rpgs for over 20 years. it could be fun to reminisce over a few beers tho.