Driftport: The Wandering City of the Endless Sea

by Steven Chabotte

A Mobile Island of Lashed Ships Campaign Setting With New Character Options for 5e

Welcome to Driftport

A gritty seafaring setting for 5e and beyond

Far out on the Endless Sea, a storm-broken pirate ship snared the first of the towing beasts, a living mountain of the deep. With its masts shattered and rigging lost, the crew lashed wrecks to their hull, capturing other ships and adding them to a roving pirate enclave. Over decades, the floating mass grew, shifting from lawless plunder to a strange, chaotic civilization.

Now Driftport spans hundreds of ships, barges, and patched hulls, chained and roped together in a sprawling, unpredictable sprawl. Colossal creatures tow the city from coast to coast, following a semi-predictable trade route. Within its decks and alleys, you’ll find eccentric clans, dangerous politics, strange ocean-born monsters, and a way of life unlike anywhere else.

Driftport is ragged, loud, and alive. It is a place of hard bargains, shifting loyalties, and odd customs, where even the fiercest feud is carried out with a grin over a shared drink of brine-spirit.

What You’ll Find Inside

Driftport is a complete seafaring city setting designed for both Game Masters and players. Whether you want to run an entire campaign aboard the wandering city, use it as a recurring location, or lift its mechanics for your own worlds, everything you need is here.

Inside you’ll discover:

• The History of Driftport – From its pirate birth to the age of towing beasts and sprawling trade networks.
• Clans of the Endless Sea – Detailed profiles of eccentric family-boats, each with unique customs, feuds, and secrets.

• Life Aboard the City – Laws, politics, feuds, fire brigades, defenses, and the strange markets that thrive here.
• Trade & Travel – How the city survives through fishing, salvaging shipwrecks, gathering rare sea herbs, and bartering at coastal ports.
• Beasts of Burden & Beasts of Prey – Colossal towing creatures, allies in the depths, and threats lurking in the refuse trails of the city.
• Underbelly & Shadows – Criminal networks, forgotten decks, and the hidden dangers between the hulls.

• Monsters of the Endless Sea – Fully statted creatures for 5e, from lurking hull-feeders to mind wyrms that drink your dreams.
• Weather & the Towing Masters – How Driftport reads the skies and avoids the worst of the storms.

Player Options 

• New races: Amphibians of the deep and translucent ghost-folk living on the edge of death.
• New class: The Sea Hunter, a spear or trident-wielding expert in hunting sea beasts.
• New feats and backgrounds tied to shipboard life and ocean survival.
• New items and components.
• And much more.

Why Driftport?

• A city that moves – The ocean is your map. Ports, rivals, and dangers change with every leg of the route.
• A setting built for both GMs and players – Rich lore, vibrant NPCs, and mechanical support for campaigns that live and breathe the sea.
• Balanced grit and wonder – The Endless Sea is full of danger and hard living, but also strange beauty and eccentric joy.
• System-friendly – While packed with 5e content, most of Driftport’s lore, trade systems, and culture can be used in any fantasy RPG.

The City Never Stops Moving

The chains creak. The beasts pull. Somewhere deep in the hull maze, a clan feud is about to boil over. Above, the gulls wheel and scream, and the smell of a fresh salvage haul drifts downwind. Driftport doesn’t wait for anyone — and neither should you.

Climb aboard and help us bring the Endless Sea to life. Your pledge builds the ships, feeds the beasts, and unlocks the strange, dangerous wonders that will make Driftport a place your table will never forget.

Driftport is a full color 8.5″x11″ book available in PDF, POD softcover and POD hardcover formats. The POD printing cost will be approximately $12 for softcover or $17 for hardcover (based on an estimate 140-150 pages and actual print cost subject to final page count) plus shipping.

Estimated Shipping date : November 2025

Kickstarter Link : Driftport: The Wandering City of the Endless Sea