Ready to bring pirate adventures, naval battles, and buried treasure to your tabletop RPG campaign? Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder from Kobold Press gives Game Masters the tools to build exciting seafaring adventures, while the matching Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder Map Folio brings those adventures to life with ready-to-use battle maps.
Designed for Tales of the Valiant and 5th Edition fantasy roleplaying games, these resources help Game Masters create memorable adventures across the open ocean, in bustling ports, and on mysterious islands.
What Is Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder?
Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder is a nautical worldbuilding guide from Kobold Press for Game Masters and players who want to explore the high seas. This campaign toolkit combines new character options, naval combat rules, black powder mechanics, and adventure inspiration to help you build a pirate campaign or add seafaring adventures to an existing game.
Inside, you’ll find:
- New character options: Eight subclasses and 14 new heritages, lineages, and backgrounds for building a crew of seafaring heroes.
- Naval combat and crew mechanics: Expanded rules for ship-to-ship battles, commanding a vessel, and life aboard a ship.
- Black powder weapons: Rules for gunslingers, cannons, muskets, and explosive encounters.
- Nautical adventure inspiration: Seaborne threats, piratical enemies, curses, treasures, and forgotten islands to explore.
- Ship management tools: A downloadable character sheet for tracking your vessel.
Whether your players are privateers serving a distant crown, treasure hunters chasing a legendary fortune, or pirates seeking fame on the high seas, Pirates & Plunder provides the tools to make their adventures memorable.
What Is the Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder Map Folio?
The Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder Map Folio is a collection of 10 full-color, nautical-themed battle maps designed for tabletop roleplaying games. Each map unfolds into a 24-by-36-inch gridded playing surface, with dry-erase and wet-erase compatibility for flexible tabletop play.
The Map Folio gives Game Masters ready-to-use locations for exploration, social encounters, tactical combat, and high-seas adventures.
The collection includes:
- Tropical Island Beach
- Shipwreck in the Shallows
- Treasure Cave
- Shanty Town
- Floating Market
- Harbor Fortress
- Seaside Temple
- Merfolk Village
- Deck plans for a galleon
- Deck plans for a keelboat and a cog
From a desperate fight aboard a ship to an expedition into a hidden treasure cave, these maps help turn your campaign ideas into playable encounters. The maps are also suitable for any tabletop RPG system, making them useful beyond a single game or setting.
How Do Pirates & Plunder and the Map Folio Work Together?
The Pirates & Plunder sourcebook gives Game Masters the rules, character options, and inspiration to build a nautical campaign. The Map Folio provides the physical spaces where those adventures unfold.
Use the book to introduce ship combat, create a crew of daring adventurers, or develop a quest for a lost treasure. Then bring those ideas to the table with a map of a tropical beach, a fortified harbor, a bustling floating market, or the decks of a sailing vessel.
Together, the sourcebook and Map Folio help reduce game preparation while giving players more opportunities to explore, investigate, negotiate, and fight.
The Map Folio can also be used independently with other fantasy roleplaying games, making it a versatile addition to any Game Master’s collection.
Which Game Systems Are Compatible with Pirates & Plunder?
Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder is designed for Tales of the Valiant and Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Its nautical themes and worldbuilding tools can help Game Masters develop seafaring adventures in a variety of fantasy settings.
The Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder Map Folio works with any tabletop roleplaying game system. Use its maps with fantasy RPGs, homebrew campaigns, and other games that benefit from detailed locations for exploration and tactical encounters.
Build Your Next High-Seas Adventure
Whether you’re planning a full pirate campaign or adding a single voyage to your existing game, Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder and its matching Map Folio give you practical tools to bring the high seas to life.
Explore the Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder sourcebook and the Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder Map Folio from Kobold Press, and prepare to hoist the sails for your next adventure.
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