PIRATE BORG is a self-contained rules-light RPG for running swashbuckling campaigns using the Mörk Borg Third Party License. Character creation is optimized for random generation (though not required), and during combat all rolls are made by the players: enemies don’t roll to attack, instead PCs roll to defend.

Mörk Borg is fun, easy to learn, potentially deadly, and perfect for OSR style one-shots and for campaigns that focus more on player agency and smart decisions and less on character optimization and “what’s on my character sheet”. It is great for battlemap combat as well as theater-of-the-mind style of play, and it really excels at weird, strange, and dark, perfect for a horror-style pirate campaign.