Mörk Borg Sale @ DTRPG - 30% Off

All the cool kids are playing Mörk Borg. Or at least, that's what they tell me. I have the rules and a number of their third supplements, and it is as much about style as it is about substance. For most folks I know, it seems to be a very polarizing game to be exposed to - they either love it or hate it. I'm one of the few impressed by what it is, but not fawning over it to the point I trip over my own feet. I will say this much, for me to get a fuller appreciation of the rules as I read them, I've found playing a little Ramones (a live album, of course), or the Sex Pistols, and maybe mix the Dead Kennedys into the playlist, puts me more into the mood to appreciate Mörk Borg for what it is - an old school gaming vibe with the soul of classic punk. YMMV - the authors claim a Doom Metal Vibe, but classic punk is a better match for me. Showing my age, I guess - Tenkar ;)

Until May 15th, DTRPG is having a Mörk Borg sale - 30% off pretty much all of the Mörk Borg releases on the site in PDF.

Here's the pitch for Mörk Borg from the core rules sales page:

A doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face. Light on rules, heavy everything else.

MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. Who are you? The tomb-robber with silver glittering between cracked fingernails? The mystic who would bend the world’s heart away from it’s inevitable end? Confront power-draining necromancers, skulking skeletal warriors and backstabbing wickheads. Wander the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead, the catacombs beneath the Bergen Chrypt or the bedevilled Sarkash forest. But leave hope behind - the world’s cruel fate is sealed, and all your vain heroic efforts are destined to end in death and dismay. Or are they?

MÖRK BORG is a complete game in the OSR genre, that can be played as is or be picked apart for use in your own homebrew. The rules are easily made compatible with most of the editions of the world’s largest role-playing game. Within the book you’ll find:

• A brief look at this dying world. From The Two-Headed Basilisks’ gothic cathedral in Galgenbeck and Blood-countess Anthelia’s limestone palace, to the fields of death in Graven-Tosk and the barren wastes of Kergüs.
• The Calendar of Nechrubel, that decides the speed of the world’s demise. 
• 20 occult Powers that let you bend reality, and just as many magical catastrophes for when you disastrously fail. 
• Optional rules which brings more depth to the game. Omens let you turn bad luck into a slightly better one. Classes with unique traits and quirks, and tables that will bring life into your character. 
• 12 creatures to be murdered by.  
• Game master tools such as tables for corpse plundering, occult treasure, adventure sparks, dungeon generating and other devilry. 
• The introductory dungeon crawl scenario Rotblack Sludge, where you investigate a forgotten part of the Shadow King’s enormous ruin palace. Cannibal warlocks, poison peddlers from beyond the void and hungry gutworms await. 

MÖRK BORG is constructed by Pelle Nilsson (Ockult Örtmästare Games) and Johan Nohr (Stockholm Kartell). The game is published by Free League Publishing and is available in Swedish and English - the English text is edited and cursed by Patrick Stuart (Veins of the Earth, Silent Titans).

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Bundle of Holding - Mörk Borg Core

I have more supplements for Mörk Borg than I'd care to admit. It's a simple system, and I'm not sure how well it would work for a long-term campaign, but for 1-shots and convention play, it's a great fit.

Adventurer! This all-new Mörk Borg Core Bundle presents English-language .PDF rulebooks featuring Mörk Borg, the rules-light Old-School blackened artpunk doomsday tabletop roleplaying game from Swedish design teams Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell, published by Free League Publishing. A doom-metal album of a game, a spiked flail to the face, Mörk Borg is about miserable bastards and heretics enduring a bleak, dying world. Maybe you're a tomb-robber with silver glittering between cracked fingernails – a mystic who would bend the world's heart away from its inevitable end – a Sacrilegious Songbird singing sweetly, though your soul screams. Play Mörk Borg as-is, or pick it apart for your own Old School Revival homebrew. There's no more metal way to mark the world's demise.

This all-new offer gives you the English-language core rulebook, three supplements, play aids, and the rulebooks for the standalone companion games CY_BORG and Pirate Borg, all for a price even a Gutterborn Scum can afford. For just US$9.95 you get all four titles in our Mörk Collection (retail value $45) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Mörk Borg core rulebook, Cult: Feretory and Cult: Heretic, and the GM Screen.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.02, you'll level up and also get our entire Borg Collection with three more titles worth an additional $50, including the CY_BORG Core Rules, the Pirate Borg Core Book, and Free League's recent Mörk Borg magic-item supplement Ikhon.

 

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Deal of the Day - Demon Dog (Stand Alone Mork Borg RPG)

Demon Dog is a role-playing game set in a medieval history that never was. You play "Dogs", revenants that were snatched from purgatory by Demon Barons, seeking redemption and a pint. You're not a hero now and you weren't one before you lived, but you're possibly making things better, or worse, or at the very least less boring.

I must admit, Demon Dog looks interesting. I'm not sure if it would work well as an ongoing campaign, but Demon Dog looks like a fun change of pace for a one-shot or convention play.

Demon Dog is usually 17.50 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, it is on sale in PDF for 5.95.

This book here, well, the PDF of it as that's what's here on DTRPG, its got Nightfall Games' splatterpunk style and dark humour, but they've cranked it up to 12 cause this here game is an ode to punk and the OSR revival. An' just cause we use words like "ode" an' shite, don't mean we didn't make an awesome game. Demon Dog is an irreverent game set in an irreverent age. It is MÖRK BORG, punk-style.

What Do I Get? 

A full colour, high-quality A5-sized PDF, including all you need to pick up and play Demon Dog:

• 80 messy pages of background, art, stats and rules.
• A brief look at the world and history of the Dogs. 
• The six Demon Barons and their back story.
• Background for the world of Demon Dog.
• A smattering of locations for the Dogs to get drunk in and kicked out of.
• Loads of creatures and baddies to stick the boot into.
• Fun tables to chuck dice at.

Be sure to grab Eight Page Goose (it's the PWYW Quickstart you've been waiting for)!  

Demon Dog is based on MÖRK BORG, a fantastic lightweight and brutal system that gets out of the way as much as it can, allowing you to get your havoc on without getting bogged down with complicated tables and stuff. MÖRK BORG is a rules-lite doom metal album of a game in the OSR genre and Demon Dog takes the same thesis and applies it to the Punk aesthetic.

While iinspired by MÖRK BORG and is compatible with it, Demon Dog is a stand-alone product. You can smash together the ideas in both books or pull ideas from one into the other!

 

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Bundle of Holding - Mork Borg 2

I really enjoyed reading through the Mork Borg rules. I feel it would be a blast to run at a convention or as a short campaign. As for a long campaign, I think I'd need to see the rules in play first.

One of the current bundles at Bundle of Holding is the Mork Morg 2 Bundle. While it doesn't include the core Mork Borg rules, it does include a large selection of third-party releases for the system.

Adventurer! This all-new Mörk Borg 2 Bundle presents gloomy and dispiriting third-party supplements compatible with the doom-metal apocalypse-artpunk tabletop fantasy roleplaying game Mörk Borg from Free League Publishing. (Misery alert! This offer does not include the Mörk Bork core rulebook you need to use these supplements!) Published under a permissive Third Party License, these English-language indie titles transport you to dark, joyless worlds that send foolhardy adventurers to despair, death, and Purgatory – for an unbeatable bargain price!

For just US$14.95 you get all nine titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $60) as DRM-free ebooks:

• Galgenbeck: Sacrifice by Christian Eichhorn (Vaults of Torment)
• Richard Kelly's conversion-hack Cthork Borg, which brings Mörk Borg into the Jazz Age for cosmic-horror investigations, plus five Cthorkian supplements: Bork Cthorg, Faces in the Crowd, Miserere Mei Deus, Rumrunner's Arsenal, and Seven Strangers
• Dire Mutterings by Greg Saunders (Warlock!)
• Philip Reed's micro-hexcrawl Curic's Cursed Chapbook

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $28.66, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with ten more titles worth an additional $71:

• Three more horrific imaginings by Christian Eichhorn: Bergen Chrypt, Dungeoneer's Black Book, and Purgatory (a way for your character to return from the dead, which you need a lot in Mörk Borg)
• Five Cthork Bork investigations: All's Well at the Macallen Farm, Moonlight and Tide, A Quiet Country Home, Signs in the Entrails, and Tombs of Our Ancestors
• A Wizard's Dying Wish, five quick encounters by Philip Reed
• Richard Kelly's treatise on good bois in dark times, Bork Borg

 

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Kickstarter - HST.3.33, a Third-Party CY_BORG Musical Interlude (Phil Reed)

Phil Reed is the master of the One Dollar Kickstarter. It's not a level where you "kick in to support" but a level where you get all of the goods in digital format. It is really something special to see.

This time, Phil is offering both an MP# file and a PDF adventure for a buck (but you can back at a higher level to get physical copies of both).

The HST.3.33, a Third-Party CY_BORG Musical Interlude Kickstarter is Phil's latest offering.

The 22.08" x 10.48" double-sided pocket map ($12 reward) featuring game content, and the lathe-cut record ($36, $50, and $62 rewards) are both exclusive to this Kickstarter campaign and will not be offered in this form again. We may release the game and music content in other physical formats in the future, but they will not appear again in the versions introduced through this project.

The digital edition -- both game content and music -- will be released as free downloads if this campaign is successfully funded.

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Kickstarter - Strange Citizens of the City, a Third-Party Mörk Borg Book (by Phil Reed)

Phil Reed is one of my favorite Kickstarter creators. His work is always top-notch and one time (or early) and you can usually buy-in for the PDF version of his latest project for real cheap - in this case Strange Citizens of the City, a Third-Party Mörk Borg Book (by Phil Reed) can be snagged - with stretch goals - for a single buck!

I own the Mörk Borg RPG in print, and while I'm not sure I'd run it, it oozes with inspiration that I could (and will) use in my net OSR campaign.

(you can listen to some further thoughts on Phil's pricing scheme at the Tavern Chat Podcast)

From the Kickstarter page:

NOTE: The $1 PDF reward includes Strange Citizens of the City in PDF and, if the stretch goals are unlocked, the two other 32-page zines.

When the third-party Mörk Borg license was released (find the license here), I knew I would have to craft something for use under the game's delightfully light and streamlined engine. Personally, I prefer roleplaying game systems that do not block the gamemaster's creativity . . . and getting out of the way of creativity is exactly what Mörk Borg does. 

The game's openness to imaginative play suits me perfectly. Add to that the game's visual design and there was no way my mind was going to let me ignore the existence of that third-party license.

Strange Citizens of the City is a 32-page 5.5" x 8.5" zine that will be printed at Mixam. This is a digital mockup and is not 100% accurate. The finished booklet will vary slightly in appearance. Color and graphic details may change in small ways.

Strange Citizens of the City is a collection of characters, possibly monsters, and was written to assist the gamemaster in populating the game world. The characters described within the pages of this slim booklet are divided into three categories:

 Strange Citizens of the City, a 2d6 table to characters and the bulk of the book. Each of these eleven different characters fills a two-page spread and offers background info on the character that the GM may run with or ignore. (twenty-two pages)

 Hired Goons, a 1d8 table of minor characters who are far less detailed than those characters described in the previous section of the book. At times, the 2d6 characters within the Strange Citizens of the City chapter will list "hired goons" as a special ability of sorts. When that happens, feel free to select a few of those goons from this section. (four pages)

 (Possibly) Harmless Wanderers, 2d6 characters that are mostly intended as bizarre encounters the player characters may stumble into when walking the city streets. These characters include no game statistics and are purely descriptive. (four pages) 

Strange Citizens of the City is a 32-page 5.5" x 8.5" zine that will be printed at Mixam. This is a digital mockup and is not 100% accurate. The finished booklet will vary slightly in appearance. Color and graphic details may change in small ways.

And that is it! When we add the front and back covers, we reach the book's total of thirty-two pages and have no more space left to discuss. Strange Citizens of the City could technically be used with almost any fantasy roleplaying game -- so long as the gamemaster isn't afraid of adapting concepts and inventing the stats necessary to use the characters with other games -- but it works best with Mörk Borg. 

Simply good stuff :)

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