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CREATURES (Innistrad X MÖRK BORG)

“26 Monster Stats to retheme/supplement the MÖRK BORG core book … to get your monster slaying on in Innistrad!”

Creatures of the Dying World

“21 lavishly illustrated monsters and an emphasis on folklore over combat stats”

Creatures of the Dying World 3

Concept: “...in which he mines the alien world of insects to produce Lovecraftian Things that Should Not Be.” 
Content: 19 sanity-shaking creatures. d66 delusional prompts to manage the fallout.
Writing: A thorough mix of indescribable humor and horror. With a fantastical sanity system that won’t take your players out of the game. 
Art/design: Impressionistic and inked illustrations capture both the silly and the strange.
Usability: Text which balances between utility and style from passage to passage. 

Death Rope

Concept: “Submission for Babalonian Jam!”
Content:
A sneaky centipede that mimics rope and then kills you (hence the name)
Writing:
Stats and Special, straight and to the point
Art/design:
Skullipede front and center
Usability:
A good “gotcha!” hazard for malicious GMs

Duncan Hall’s Mörktober 2023 – 31 Tables & Trivilities

Concept: Duncan Hall’s Little Mörktober Calendar of Horrors.
Content: “31 random generators, monsters, items, and so forth made throughout the month of October 2023.”
Writing: A tortuous elaboration from its initial prompts, full of wit and wretchedness.
Art/design: Sketches, photo bashes, full-color illustrations, and doodles in a filthy day calendar format.
Usability: Most fun when printed on a sticky note calendar. 

Dungeoneer's Black Book

Concept: “Welcome to the Dungeoneer's Black Book, a collection of boggy holes and haunted cellars. No evening shall pass without the gruesome, ultimately inevitable death of a beloved character.”
Content: 16 dungeons in a disturbing array of contents and formats
Writing: A variety of adventures await you with their own unique styles. The only guarantee is misery.
Art/design: A engrossing (sometimes gross) exploration of dungeon layout and illustration.
Usability: With a variety of design formats, make sure to read your selected dungeon before the session.

Ecdysis

Concept: “Ecdysis / (ˈɛkdɪsɪs) /the periodic shedding of the cuticle in insects and other arthropods” 
Content: A sonorous ascension from the depths of Sarkash.
Writing: An emergent horror vignette of insular cults and deep dark secrets.
Art/design: A consistent scratched and blotted illustration style the projects clear menace and dread. You can almost hear it.
Usability: Strong visual styling that does not hamper its utility. 

Elk Deathyard

Concept: “Among the dead and those that refuse to stay still, even the accursed fear the true silence.  
When you can’t hear anything but your breathing, you might be
close to the-”
Content: A Tveland Cabin Crawl.
Writing: Supernatural horror. Full of foreboding. With shocks and twists as well as horror tropes.
Art/design: Design elements emphasize a descent into darkness.
Usability: Mini-map, representative spot illustrations, and clean layout aid in table reference. 

Fire Bugs

Concept: “And Forth comes the fire on insectile wings.”
Content:
A ruinous swarm of fire-starting vermin
Writing:
Some short, prophetic flavor text and a stat block with special attention to igniting characters and items
Art/design:
An intuitive layout with appropriate graphic and typographical character
Usability:
Easily scaled to the GM’s desired level of challenge or catastrophe

Firemicidae Horde

Concept: “These ants are the size of human feet, and swarm at their targets with razor sharp mandibles, and fiery acid spit.”
Content:
Delivers exactly what’s promised
Writing:
One stat block for the entire swarm
Art/design:
Orients the textual components around the central image
Usability:
Some small text may be challenging to read, especially when printed

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Flail to the Face Episode 7 Companion

6 contributors
Concept: “In honor of our seventh episode of Flail to the Face, we give you d20 Random Things Behind Closed Doors” 
Content: D20 reasons to just close the door and pretend it never happened.
Writing: Absurd scenarios delivered with believably serious specificity.
Art/design: Text that frames some serious mahogany, with stained glass that lets in no light.
Usability: As a reward for the over-enthusiastic door checker. 

Forbidden Psalm: Würm Moon

Concept: “A new scenario for Forbidden Psalm, featuring a suspicious farmer with an uncomfortably slow drawl.”
Content: A wriggling farmyard massacre under the Würm Moon.
Writing: Dialogue worth drawling out, and a scenario that’s both clear and bursting with tiny details. 
Art/design: A near-psychedelic monstrosity haunts a crooked and layered neon design. 
Usability: Stylized and largely functional. 

Galgenbeck Bestiary

Concept: “Galgenbeck… crooked thieves, cruel knights, obsessed zealots, broken souls.
And then there are the monsters.”
Content: At least nine (but potentially fourteen) monsters.
Writing: Strangely folkloric, highly specific, and vicious absurdism in its ecology.
Art/design: A mixed media collection dominated by sharp high-contrast marker, each creature layout accommodating its illustration.
Usability: Short, legible, and humorously horrific. Deluxe edition contains all 14 monsters.

Gargantuan Ectoparasite

Concept: “The size of a castle.”
Content:
A monstrous, scavenging vermin
Writing:
Direct and to the point
Art/design:
Giant and ugly
Usability:
Seriously lethal—but you can ride it

Garth Grimgar’s Guide to the Flora of the Dying World

Concept: “These are the field notes of the famously reclusive Occult Herbmaster Garth Grimgar, found in the ruins of his hut years after his death.”
Content: An Herbmaster’s guide to 16 flora and fauna and their medicinal use.
Writing: Decoctions and their mechanics cleverly disguised as field observations.
Art/design: Weathered, hand-inked visual style achieves a found document aesthetic
Usability: Consistent and legible. Do not try these recipes at home. 

Giant Moth Demon

Concept: “It is rarely seen until it is too late, after it has grabbed livestock or a hapless human.”
Content:
It’s a giant moth.
Writing:
Sketches behavior and provides a concise stat block
Art/design:
Embraces Mörk Borg’s penchant for public domain art and violent pinkness
Usability:
Simple and easy to use

Goblant

Concept: “The Goblant is a hybrid of a Goblin and a Giant Ant, and carries the Goblin curse.”
Content: Like goblins, but worse.
Writing: Just the mechanics. Let the name and depiction do most of the work.
Art/design: Top half art, bottom half text. Back half ant, front half goblin.
Usability: Practically begging for a goblant colony. 

Goblant Drone

Concept: “The Goblant Drone is a hybrid of a Goblin and a Giant Ant, and carries the Goblin curse.”
Content: A worker goblant.
Writing: Just mechanics. The name and depiction do all the work.
Art/design: Top half art, bottom half text. Back half ant, front half goblin. Ready to work.
Usability: It’s probably building the goblant colony. 

Goblant King

Concept: “Wearing only a loincloth and a child's tin crown, this abomination leads the Goblant colony. Armed with a skull-headed sceptre, he is itching for a good fight!”
Content: King of the goblants. Complete with tin crown and skull sceptre.
Writing: The origin of goblants revealed. Magic skull sceptre adds variety to the encounter.
Art/design: Top half art, bottom half text. Back half ant, front half goblin. 
Usability: A goblant colony waiting to happen. All it takes is one. 

Hollow Saint

Concept: “The wooden cocoon of the saint burst open to reveal a horrible half human, half moth creature of godly compusure.”
Content:
Includes all three phases of the monster’s lifecycle
Writing:
Descriptive text serves as a legend and hook; mechanical text is simple and easy to use
Art/design:
Some very cool, inspiring artwork
Usability:
A big “yes” both mechanically and conceptually

Holy Artifacts of the Sacred Tragedies

Concept: “The powers and locations of artifacts made from the remains of the Sacred Tragedies... that gives insight into the Order of Her Devoted Midwives sect”
Content: Three single-sheet pamphlet adventures, and one on a new sect of the One Trve Faith.
Writing: A plausibly disturbing take on Basilisk worship which ties the adventures together into a larger optional campaign.
Art/design: A consistent palette makes for a cohesive collection, while exploration of contrast differentiates each pamphlet.
Usability: Well designed for use as a physical prop at the table. Get them in print if you can. 

Knowledge is Power

Concept: “The great library of Galgenbeck is ruled by mole-like characters... It only makes sense that they would feed on bookwörms.”
Content: Worms that travel through books, figuratively.
Writing: A monster that encourages literacy. Laudable.
Art/design: I couldn’t spot the bookwörm in the backdrop.
Usability: Design that makes it easy to search for bookwörms. 

Kult Proroka Pnączy (The Cult of the Vine Prophet)

Concept: “Odkryj tajemnicę złowrogiego Kultu Proroka Pnączy i staw czoła jego groźnym wyznawcom w ekscytującym jednostronicowym module do Mörk Borga!” 
Content: A overgrown, larva-infested, basement cult-crawl.
Writing: A convincing cult hideout. With agency, ecology, and ingenuity. Captured in a moment.
Art/design: Grimy and vine-choked isometric map captures a moment in time.
Usability: Stylish and organized. Polish & English language. 

let them eat BUGS

Concept:  
“‘Well if they’re so bloody fucking hungry…  LET THEM EAT BUGS!’
• Marie-Claire Delcroix, Allians noble (deceased)” 
Content: 5,800 possible bugs, and what happens when you eat them.
Writing: Entire mechanics for catching and eating bugs. With a veritable hive of crunchy, protein-rich tables.
Art/design: Juicy grubs and grinning goblins splatter this neon green sensory experience.
Usability: Organized, legible, but intentionally antagonistic. 

Lighthouse of Weeping Bluff

Concept: “Your ship is destined to splinter on the bluffs if the light isn’t relit, condemning you to live out your remaining days in this icy hell-hole.”
Content:
A ticking-clock adventure that encompasses the journey to the lighthouse and the hornet-infested lighthouse itself
Writing:
Clearly written and punctuated with visceral imagery and details
Art/design:
Red and yellow elements direct attention without hindering usability; hornets crawling around the page are a fun, immersive touch
Usability:
Well-organized text and clever use of color to coordinate it with the maps

Lilith's Biblia Blasphemia

Concept: “Inspired by Nurse With Wound's album Soliloquy for Lilith”
Content: “Six otherworldly abominable creatures to kill and maim your player's characters”
Writing:
Stat blocks and copious descriptive text for entries
Art/design:
Features full-page illustrations for each
Usability:
Special abilities are a bit more elaborate than Mörk Borg’s baseline

Living Hive

Concept: “Defend the hive as the hive defends you.” 
Content: "Your body is host to a swarm of insects that obey your pheromonal command.”
Writing: Dynamic swarm mechanics coalesce around a multitudinous theme.
Art/design: A honeycombed figure stands naked before a golden yellow backdrop.
Usability: A honeyed blend of style and substance. 

Lord of Flies

Concept: “We are hundreds, thousands and millions of flying insects that move your body.”
Content: A bug-based class
Writing:
Concise and straightforward without skimping on character
Art/design:
Relatively conservative with typefaces and visual elements, but features a great illustration
Usability:
Probably not for entomophobes

Lord of the Flies

Concept: “The lord of flies appears whenever the smell of death is too strong for any human to endure, when rivers of blood flow and soak the earth.”
Content:
A giant, gross fly commanding a bunch of regular-size, gross flies
Writing:
Concise but effective in the flavor text and mechanics
Art/design:
A strange but oddly endearing illustration
Usability:
High HP + ability to bypass armor and ignore manipulation = potentially lethal

Marrow Bees & Osteapiarists

Concept: “The Marrow Bees’ honey is tasty and valuable…. if you can get to it. If they don’t bore into your bones and you escape the Osteopiarists.”
Content:
Parasitic bees, their (in)toxic(ating) honey, and their keepers
Writing:
A fair split of flavor and mechanics, both well conceived and written
Art/design:
Subtle but effective representations of colonized humans
Usability:
Honey mechanics are split, but not detrimental on a 1-page document
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