I like to check Chaosium’s site from time to time and see if there are any physical products on sale. Seeing that the 7th Sea Booty Box was on sale at nearly 50% off, I quickly jumped on it.

I have been wanting a Sorte deck since GAMA of this year (until then I had been using d12s to determine things that would normally be resolved with the Sorte deck) and the deck itself is hard to come by these days. I was unsure as to whether I would be able to find a use for the rest of the contents of the Booty Box, but for $45, I wasn’t about to get picky. 🙂

CONTENTS

Although a player could get some use from the Booty Box, I think its primary intention is for the Gamemaster. The box itself is lavishly illustrated and looks great on the shelf; I have mine sat in front of my 7th Sea books.

The Booty Box is a box-inside-a-box compilation of various bits and bobs from the game: ten bone-colored d10s with a skull in place of the 0; twenty beautiful poker-chip style Hero Point tokens (these are surprisingly hefty); a deck of Hero cards and a deck of Villain cards (presumably, these are taken from the supplemental book Heroes & Villains); and the main attraction: a 78-card Sorte deck with 22 major and 56 minor arcana.

The cards are all fashioned from thick card stock and have a beautiful matte finish. The illustrations on the Hero/Villain decks as well as the Sorte deck are top notch as well, with the Sorte card size conforming to what one would expect from a Tarot card.

SORTE DECK

In-world, the Sorte deck is used by Vodacce women to view the skeins of Fate.

In-game, the Sorte deck can be used during character creation to determine your Hero’s Virtue and Hubris. These are typically drawn the GM. You can also use the physical deck as a prop for the in-world artifact and there is a variant rule for using the Sorte deck in place of rolling dice, should you want to go that route (I never have).