Borough Bound

Gruuk Jit'Jit 04 - Chaos in the Skies (Patreon)

Published:

2022-07-31 23:15:10

Edited:

2022-07-31 23:28:43

Imported:

2022-09

Content

The golden age of piracy is here

Welcome back to Gruuk Jit'Jit, all! Today's release is a big one. We've got collabs with our buds over at Questiary, as well as the always masterful AbyssalBrews (both of which you can access via links in this post). We've also got one of our biggest PDFs ever, with oodles of info about the notorious sky pirates. We just have to imagine that most of your players are going to want to hang out with the friggin' sky pirates when they get to Gruuk Jit'Jit. Let's dive in!

Borough Guide

This week's borough guide is all about the Sharps and their viscious steelfang airships. If you've ever wanted to run a goblin sky pirate gang, this should give you everything you need. We've got tables of airships, a whole playbook of sky piracy strategies, and tons of goofy NPCs for you to toss into your campaigns. Plus, if you like getting really nitty gritty with numbers, we've got a guide to help you keep track of favor with the sky pirate faction. Finally, we provide some ultra-practical advice about how to actually GM sessions that involve pirate raids.

Maps

C'mon, it's the sky pirate docks! You just know there are some docked steelfangs, some badass weaponry, a crazy bar on the edge of the world, and plenty of goofy graffiti. I suspect the variants of this map are also going to be particularly popular. You could easily use the "Sea With No Blimps" variant for your Ancora Bay adventures, or the snowy version for Vyndurvoht!

No sky docks would be complete without a hangar. This will be especially fun if your players decide to build a steelfang of their own. As always, Matt knocked it out of the park with the pleasant lighting, even in this rough and tumble pirate workshop.

Music

We always want to make sure you have full agency in how you GM our cities, but I strongly believe you should GM at least one session with a steelfang dogfight. When you do, throw on "Steelfang Offensive," one of our most aggressive combat tracks yet. Charging drums and insistent strings give this a real cinematic feel. Plus, we've got two radically different variants this time around! The "Aggression" variant takes out all of the fluff: it's just DRUMS and ENGINES, perfect for longer combat scenarios. Then, the "Stealth" variant is a blatant Persona 5 rip-off: cool jazzy keys and latin drums provide the backdrop for your sneaky infiltrations.

But wait! We've got one more bonus track for you! "Hordebreaker (Jit'Jit)" is a new variant of an old Music d20 track, ideal for aerial combat.

Switchy's Creations | Collaboration with AbyssalBrews

Get the AbyssalBrews content via this link

There's a strong tinkerer element within the Sharps, and we just knew we wanted some unique 5e items to accompany this doc. The mad lads over at AbyssalBrews threw together some awesome goblin engineering for you to present your players: the bangsnap bracer, go getter, and no-fall knapsack. These are the perfect items to add some goofy goblin flair to your party's crazy arsenal.

AbyssalBrews makes magic items and so many beautiful 5e goodies. Please go support their awesome work on Patreon.

Sharp Faction Statblocks

Get the Questiary content via this link

The various D&D 5e monster books have an embarrassing lack of goblin creatures, so we decided to rectify that by reaching out to our friends over at Questiary! They've created a whole slew of monsters (14, I think???) for you to flesh out the Sharps' ranks. Each of these creatuers has some lore, beautiful art, and a perfectly balanced 5e statblock. We're giving you HALF of those with this release, but if you want the rest of the Sharp statblocks, you'll have to go support Questiary over at their Patreon!