The Jolly Roger for Pirate Borg

 

I have mentioned in the past that my role-playing group has been up to shenanigans lately using the excellent Pirate Borg (D20 OSR/Mork Borg) system, and I can't highly recommend it enough. Seriously, it is excellent.

The lads have been searching for their missing ship, and it hit upon me that for the next adventure they would encounter a very famous Captain that was hunting them for a certain Gem of the Sea that they now possess. So that Pirate Captain would need a ship, and I decided that I would make that ship The Jolly Roger.

Previously I had purchased a Bambu Lab A1 filament printer. I had some teething problems with it doing layer line skipping and it took me a while to work out that I had incorrectly replaced a panel I had removed when lubricating the rails, and that this was the source of my woes. Problem solved I set about looking for a suitable model for the good 'ol Roger. In my travels I found one of the first submarine designs ever produced. In an epiphany, I had found my Jolly Roger!

But who would crew such a bizarre beast of the seas? Of course, who else but a bunch of bilge rats. With that, the bones of the next adventure began to take formal shape.

This model comes from the Bambu Studios creation hub and is a full submarine. So, I needed to cut the bottom off in Bambu Studios software and print it out as it will be sitting on the surface of the water when the lads encounter it. I used a 0.4mm nozzle and so nothing flash in the settings and it worked fine.

As it is a small model (approx. 18cm) compared to the pirate ship I already have (you can see that each of the small squares on my cutting board are 1cm), it could only hold a small crew onboard. Thus, the idea of The Bilge Rats as its crew began to make logical sense. A bunch of Skaven-like like rat pirates. Given also that the Captain won't be a rat, it makes sense that they serve under his leadership with some resentment. Hence some of the graffiti visible on the 'Roger.

And so, with that The Jolly Roger prepares to set sail. All I need to do is paint the Captain, First Mate, and the Bilge Rats crew. And a whole bunch of other things before we have out next game. No rest for the wicked, hey?