Landsharks, pirates, and the Appendix N jam

Right now my brain is jetlagged between thinking it's 8 am and 2 pm, I haven't played RPGs in a month, and writing words is honey on a cold day, drip drip drip. But the more I stare at this screen, the faster the honey drips, so here goes. I wrote an entry to the Appendix N jam 1 using the title i was given, "The Opal Griffon Rises!". Today I want to tell you about the Pirate Borg adventure that resulted, which I think kicks ass and was fun to playtest. It's free for the next month on my Itch page, and afterwards I don't plan to charge more than a cup of coffee for any adventure. Landsharks, Ash, a sandy isle: a deadly one-shot for Pirate Borg.The hardest partBy far the hardest part was deciding what the hell to do with the random title I was given. First off I petitioned to change Griffin to Griffon, because while there are many great spellings of griffon (e.g., gryphon), "griffin" is the only wrong one. It's a majestic animal darnit, not a hiker on the Appalachian Trail with smelly…