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Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 36: Kelsey Dionne (Arcane Library)

Kelsey Dionne, creator of Shadowdark, joins Luke at Gary Con 2025 to talk about her new Kickstarter, her favorite RPGs, and her design style! They also talk about how similar Pirate Borg and Shadowdark are and what the future holds for her!

2025-04-05 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Trapped in the Tropics Alpha [PDF, Various]

Ok, this is a BIG one. I proudly present the Alpha PDF for Trapped in the Tropics, the adventure included in the upcoming Pirate Borg starter set.

I've been working on this for MONTHS. Months of planning, writing, play...

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 35: Mike Mearls (Chaosium/Mike Mearls Games)

Mike was the lead designer on D&D 5E (2014) and has now moved on to work on great games like Magic: The Gathering and Chaosium's RuneQuest. In this episode, they talk about his design choices, journey through games, and what he personally enjoys about RPGs. There's some extra juicy stuff during the ...

Bermuda Sloop [20x26]

Another ship! I've had many requests for an updated Sloop, since it was my 2nd ship mpa and 3rd map ever, and because we are including this map in the Pirate Borg Starter set, AND since the sloop is like THE PARAGON OF PIRATING VESSEL, I d...

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 34: Joseph R. Lewis (Dungeon Age)

Luke has adventure creator and Merry Mushmen writer Joseph back on the show to dive deeper into his style, method, and ideology. They break down why he designs adventures this way over that way and discuss his current projects.

• Joseph R. Lewis Web...

  2025-02-23 15:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Locations Bundle | Buildings 1

Immense castles, expansive mansions, solid strongholds, cozy taverns, voluminous wizard colleges, and more packed within a single bundle! Includes 9 different buildings, dozens of variations, and hundreds and hundreds of assets and props. Included Products: Governor's Mansion Seaside Fort Skeleton Point Castle Fort de Rocher Gr...

Locations Bundle | Dungeons & Lairs

Crawl through a deadly dungeon or perhaps several of them with this bundle that sends you to Hell, Atlantis, and every place in between. Includes 11 different dungeons, plus loads of variations and assets. Included Products: Atlantis Temple & Dungeon Underground Mine Cultist Cave Dungeon of Traps Hell Fortress Underground L...

Locations Bundle | Ports & Coastal Cities 2

Even more ports of call, but this time with an extra dose of the bizarre! This bundle broadens the number of seaside locations and injects some occultism into the mix. Included Products: City of R'Lyeh Coastal Battery Beach Shipyard British Port Generator Pirate Port Generator Wretched Port Generator Included Assets: 19 Maps (...

Locations Bundle | Ports & Coastal Cities 1

Crews should remain wary when disembarking on unknown shores. Deserted temples, secret hideouts, isolated villages, and even desolate graveyards are packed within this bundle. Included Products: Nassau Town Merchant Outpost Port Royal & Kingston Harbour Tortuga City Port Docks Havana Port City Included Assets: 11 Maps + As...

Ship Bundle | Shipwrecks

This bundle contains 11 ready-to-use maps, 19 Ship Tokens for naval combat, and 50 Assets for making your own maps and encounters. Included Products: Shipwrecks & Naval Battlefield Capsized Galleon Coral Reef Shipwreck Shipwreck City Included Assets: 9 Maps + Assets (Shipwrecks & Naval Battlefield) 8 Maps + Assets (Cap...

Locations Bundle | Islands & Jungle

Crews should remain wary when disembarking on unknown shores. Deserted temples, secret hideouts, isolated villages, and even desolate graveyards are packed within this bundle. Included Products: Dark Fantasy Islands & Generator Dead Man's Grotto Shrine of the Snake Pirate Hideout Jungle Temple Cenote Cave Desert Island Hang...

Ship Bundle | Core Ships

Fill yer waters with the entire navy a dozen times over! This bundle includes all 11 core ships, plus dozens of variations and hundreds of assets to customize to your heart's content! Included Products: 1st Rate Ship of the Line Sloop Galleon Man of War & Flying Dutchman Brigantine Boats, Rafts, & Canoes Frigate Tartane...

Tool Kit Bundle

Fill your decks and cargo hold with the finest of assets! This bundle features our Landing Page Kit, which customizes your virtual tabletop game's starting point, plus all manner of graphics to build out treasure maps, sea maps, coral reefs, and tropical hexes. Included Products: Landing Page Kit Tropical Hex Tiles Caribbean Ma...

Map Bundle | Essentials

This bundle contains 11 ready-to-use maps, 19 Ship Tokens for naval combat, and 50 Assets for making your own maps and encounters. About The Maps All maps are 45 x 45 square inches at 140ppi. The intended scale when using Ship Tokens is 50ft per square, but they could be used at any scale! Included Maps: Open Water Original Ar...

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 33: Brian Colin (Creature Curation)

Brian Colin is back and hanging with his bestie Luke. These two creators gush about moving into the skirmish game world and how that has opened up their creative worlds. Brian is a dear friend of the Limithron crew, and we are stoked to have him back.

Show Notes: 

2025-02-16 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 32: Zac Goins (Limithron)

Our very own Zac Goins joins the podcast to talk about his new Pirate Borg Kickstarter, Tangled in Shrouds. The two gents muse about the community, what makes a great adventure, and Zac’s Moria campaign. Later, they dive into a heated controversy over one of Luke's favorite topics.

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 31: Mike Tuñez (Firelock Games)

Firelock Games might just be the closest game company aligned in spirit with Limithron. In this episode, Luke sits down with Mike Tuñez to talk about all their pirate-themed skirmish games, naval combat games, and upcoming RPGs. It quickly becomes clear that both captains are cut from the same sail cloth!

2025-02-02 11:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Fluyt Sailing Ship

I proudly present the final ship missing from the core list of ships in Pirate Borg and Limithron's Guide to Naval Combat for 5th Edition: THE FLUYT!

A Fluyt is an olde...

Limithron's Table of Contents & Free Downloads

Welcome! I am Limithron and I make maps and con

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 30: Mike Mason & Paul Fricker

Two of the heads at Chaosium Inc. pull up a chair and chat with Luke about the depths of Horror RPG gaming. They talk about how they both got into the game, 7th edition Call of Cthulhu RPG, their influences, music tastes, and what's coming next from Chaosium.

Mike Mason - 2024-12-29 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 29: World Building The Dark Caribbean

*Spoiler Warning for The Dark Caribbean Setting Book*

In October 2024, Luke hosted a panel at Gamehole Con called “World Building The Dark Caribbean”. He talks about designing the Dark Caribbean setting and how others can apply those design ideas to their games. As noted there are spoilers ...

Cenote Cave [32x59]

Earlier this month at PAX Unplugged, we ran our annual MEGA game on four tables over four hours. Check out the video from last year's game here. This year, instead of using Dwarven Forge terrain, I wanted to ...

Ship of the Dead Ep. 28: Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland)

The Neon Lord Brian Shutter instantly becomes one of Luke’s favorite new people as these two hang out and talk about the creation of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, 80s/90s culture, and the crazy fun of wacky RPGs. This episode is as much of a hang as an interview! 

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland: 2024-12-15 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep27: Professor Dungeon Master (Dungeon Craft)

THE Professor Dungeon Master of YouTube, aka Dungeon Craft joins Luke to talk all about his Career as a youtuber, professor and RPG player. They talk about what it's been like seeing the hobby change over the years and how great it is looking.

Dungeon Craft Youtube 2024-12-08 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 26: Ben Milton (Questing Beast)

Ben Milton aka Questing Beast is THE OSR Youtuber and writer of Knave. Luke asks Ben all about his career path and dives into his adventures.

Questing beast channel https://www.youtube.com/@QuestingBeast

Questing Blog  2024-12-01 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

The Cavern of Cursed Tears [PDF]

Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised to see that "More Short Pirate Borg Adventures" won the last content poll. Plus, our convention GMs needed a new adventure to run at this year's PAX Unplugged four table mega game, so this really worked out.

I'm working on a new YouTube video about how to generate quick adve...

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 25: Sean McCoy (Mothership Month)

New Video episode: Sean McCoy is the creator of Mothership RPG, Two Rooms and a Boom, and the co-founder of Tuesday Knight Games. Luke is very excited to pick his brain. They discuss designing the upcoming expansion for Mothership called Wages of Sin, the new Backerkit event for Mothership Month, and the future of Tuesday Kni...

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 24: John Marron (OSR Connoisseur)

John Marron is many things: an RPG editor, convention rock star, archaeologist, farmer, but most of all, he’s an OSR connoisseur. He’s also an amazing human being who's always a pleasure to be around. Luke and John trade their favorite OSR games and stories back and forth. The show notes include links to every game mentio...

Ship of the Dead Podcast Ep. 23: Andrew Kolb (Wonderland)

Andrew Kolb is back to talk about his new book Wonderland (as in Alice in Wonderland). Luke discusses with him the deep design of this book compared to his other two, Oz and Neverland. In return, Andrew interviews Luke about his own work!

Andrew Kolb...

Ship of the Dead Ep. 22: Jordan and Zach Weisman (Sea of Legends)

Jordan Weisman and his son, Zach Weisman, talk about their new Kickstarter computer game Sea of Legends RPG. Luke fanboys out over all the games Jordan has made that Luke loves, like Pirates of the Spanish Main.

2024-11-03 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post