pointcrawl
30 Days of Mörk Borg Adventure Chapbook vol. 1
Concept: “Plumb the depths of Death's Fort in search of the riches hidden within. Scale the volcano of The Shattered Tunnels to take on the evil Blood Wizard. Wander the Sarkash in search of The Shrine of Evil.”
Content: 3 self-contained adventures
Writing: Alternately uses descriptive prose and tables to suit each adventure’s content
Art/design: Presents each adventure in a distinct style to suit its character and structure
Usability: Content warning: naked antics, poo monsters, and BEAR-THING
Content: 3 self-contained adventures
Writing: Alternately uses descriptive prose and tables to suit each adventure’s content
Art/design: Presents each adventure in a distinct style to suit its character and structure
Usability: Content warning: naked antics, poo monsters, and BEAR-THING
500 Paces
6 contributors
Concept: “You have to press forward...up to the keep, up to salvation. Up the 500 Paces.”
Content: A postmortem adventure from battlefield to keep and beyond
Writing: Provides copious descriptions of locations and events
Art/design: A more traditional, conservative layout with discrete body text and illustrations
Usability: Includes bulleted summaries of each section for easy reference during play
Content: A postmortem adventure from battlefield to keep and beyond
Writing: Provides copious descriptions of locations and events
Art/design: A more traditional, conservative layout with discrete body text and illustrations
Usability: Includes bulleted summaries of each section for easy reference during play
Album Crawl
19 contributors
Concept: “A collection of deafening dungeons and auditory misadventures for MÖRK BORG.”
Content: 22 music-inspired settings and scenarios; many intriguing rules and foes; alternate Miseries; a whole spread of punishments for unruly dice
Writing: Variously fascinating and horrifying
Art/design: Widely variegated but all nicely done
Usability: A couple atypical layouts that reward a bit of scrutiny and patience
Content: 22 music-inspired settings and scenarios; many intriguing rules and foes; alternate Miseries; a whole spread of punishments for unruly dice
Writing: Variously fascinating and horrifying
Art/design: Widely variegated but all nicely done
Usability: A couple atypical layouts that reward a bit of scrutiny and patience
Ancient Skin
Concept: “One of you dregs is plagued with a maddening itch and not only that – the skin is starting to rot. They say Mausoleum Knutha, on the edge of the graveyard Graven-Tosk, holds the only known cure.”
Content: A complex and variable (not to mention twisted) crawl through Sarkash
Writing: Efficient but vivid descriptions of locations and inhabitants punctuated by grim wit
Art/design: Marvelous maps; type design helps map the connections amongst locations and items
Usability: Provides checkboxes to track variables (but if you mark this pamphlet, you’re a heathen and you deserve whatever misery befalls you)
Content: A complex and variable (not to mention twisted) crawl through Sarkash
Writing: Efficient but vivid descriptions of locations and inhabitants punctuated by grim wit
Art/design: Marvelous maps; type design helps map the connections amongst locations and items
Usability: Provides checkboxes to track variables (but if you mark this pamphlet, you’re a heathen and you deserve whatever misery befalls you)
*Backer reward for original Kickstarter campaign; special thanks to Johan for providing a copy of this rare little gem
A Pestilence of Maths
Concept: “A plague of madness spreads across the countryside: people hopelessly repeating strings of numbers and words until their head bursts into flames and they die in shrieking violence.”
Content: Includes an ad hoc sanity metric, random travel events and tower rooms, and a whole lot of exploding heads
Writing: Clean and characterful with dry gallows humor and well-chosen, interconnective details
Art/design: Effective and appropriate graphic choices that interact cleverly with the concept
Usability: Packs a fair amount of tension and grit into a relatively small package
Content: Includes an ad hoc sanity metric, random travel events and tower rooms, and a whole lot of exploding heads
Writing: Clean and characterful with dry gallows humor and well-chosen, interconnective details
Art/design: Effective and appropriate graphic choices that interact cleverly with the concept
Usability: Packs a fair amount of tension and grit into a relatively small package
A Piece of Rotten Fish
Concept: “Two feuding and starving fishing hamlets. One tasty rotting carcass of a giant sea monster in between.”
Content: Contains detailed information about the settings as well as copious random tables
Writing: Very text heavy, and the writing carries a lot of the descriptive weight
Art/design: Fairly straightforward single-column layout in black and white with some yellow highlights and lots of grody illustrations
Usability: Includes a separate handout of images and maps for the players
Content: Contains detailed information about the settings as well as copious random tables
Writing: Very text heavy, and the writing carries a lot of the descriptive weight
Art/design: Fairly straightforward single-column layout in black and white with some yellow highlights and lots of grody illustrations
Usability: Includes a separate handout of images and maps for the players
A Shadow King's Palace
Concept: “The setting features rumours, beasts, and various locations. Of course, it also includes random tables.”
Content: Yeah, what he said.
Writing: Abundant descriptions of locations and things found within the palace
Art/design: Fairly straightforward, text-first pages with some more elaborate, image-dominated spreads later in the document
Usability: “It’s up to the GM to let the PCs escape the palace. It won’t change anything.”
Content: Yeah, what he said.
Writing: Abundant descriptions of locations and things found within the palace
Art/design: Fairly straightforward, text-first pages with some more elaborate, image-dominated spreads later in the document
Usability: “It’s up to the GM to let the PCs escape the palace. It won’t change anything.”
Bog Iron
Concept: “ In the Vales of northern Bergen Chrypt villages harvest bog iron that they charge with blood sacrifes. The area is also plagued by manifesting beliefs. ”
Content: Includes bog-iron weapons, a map of the area, various encounters, and 7 creatures
Writing: Adds lots of local color that’s in line with the larger character of the Dying Land
Art/design: Draws lots of visual tropes from Mörk Borg but still maintains a distinct style
Usability: Keep it handy in case the party ever ventures through the region (or if you want some nasty weapons and monsters)
Content: Includes bog-iron weapons, a map of the area, various encounters, and 7 creatures
Writing: Adds lots of local color that’s in line with the larger character of the Dying Land
Art/design: Draws lots of visual tropes from Mörk Borg but still maintains a distinct style
Usability: Keep it handy in case the party ever ventures through the region (or if you want some nasty weapons and monsters)
Carnival of Desecration
Concept: “A great carnival stretches out before you. It has been recently set up and the carnival barker outside promises nothing but disappointment.”
Content: A series of carnival encounters inspired by Triple Live Möther Gööse at Budokan by Green Jellÿ
Writing: Playfully grim and sardonic, just like we like it
Art/design: “Art and Layout by no one.” Sans serif all day, baby.
Usability: Adventure flow is largely at the GM’s discretion
Content: A series of carnival encounters inspired by Triple Live Möther Gööse at Budokan by Green Jellÿ
Writing: Playfully grim and sardonic, just like we like it
Art/design: “Art and Layout by no one.” Sans serif all day, baby.
Usability: Adventure flow is largely at the GM’s discretion
Corny Groń (Black Peak)
Concept: “Based on Pelle Nilsson’s Dark Fort, but with Polish Carpathians Mountains folklore’s flavor”
Content: Adapts and builds on the Dark Fort concept with wilderness locales, dungeons, and thematic enemies and items
Writing: More elaborate than its source material, but adds more mechanical intricacy and plenty of character
Art/design: Wiśniewska’s woodcut-inspired illustrations create a distinct sense of time and place
Usability: Complex but not overly complicated
Content: Adapts and builds on the Dark Fort concept with wilderness locales, dungeons, and thematic enemies and items
Writing: More elaborate than its source material, but adds more mechanical intricacy and plenty of character
Art/design: Wiśniewska’s woodcut-inspired illustrations create a distinct sense of time and place
Usability: Complex but not overly complicated
Cthork Borg
Concept: “Gloomy gilded age struggles against cosmic horror”
Content: A full adaptation of the Mörk Borg core system for weird, investigative horror in the early 20th century
Writing: An appropriate mix of clear instructional text with more evocative descriptions
Art/design: More traditional layout and design than some releases, but the colors and illustrations establish the setting and tone well
Usability: At 120 pages, a bit heftier than the norm
Additional supplements for this conversion are available on the creator's itch page.
Content: A full adaptation of the Mörk Borg core system for weird, investigative horror in the early 20th century
Writing: An appropriate mix of clear instructional text with more evocative descriptions
Art/design: More traditional layout and design than some releases, but the colors and illustrations establish the setting and tone well
Usability: At 120 pages, a bit heftier than the norm
Additional supplements for this conversion are available on the creator's itch page.
Cult of the Blood God
Concept: “‘... AND AS I SIPPED OF THE CONCOCTION PRESENTLY I WAS SHOWN VIVID SIGHTS OF A BLACK FIELD GROWN FULL OF THOSE SAME FLOWERS I HAD INGESTED… AND FINALLY I KNEW I HAD ENTERED THE FORGOTTEN DIMENSION OF BLOOD ...’”
Content: A drug-fueled, rage-filled, blood-slick temple crawl—and berserker death race.
Writing: A lovingly crafted starter adventure, that guides new scvm through a bloodthirsty rage dungeon.
Art/design: Cunningly designed mini-maps, clever symbols, and layout blend utility and aesthetics seamlessly.
Usability: Not quite printer-friendly, but as legible as it is gorgeous.
Content: A drug-fueled, rage-filled, blood-slick temple crawl—and berserker death race.
Writing: A lovingly crafted starter adventure, that guides new scvm through a bloodthirsty rage dungeon.
Art/design: Cunningly designed mini-maps, clever symbols, and layout blend utility and aesthetics seamlessly.
Usability: Not quite printer-friendly, but as legible as it is gorgeous.
Damned in Darkness
“A chaotic dungeon dash through gore fueled horror”
Dead Girls in Sarkash Forest
Concept: “You are lost. You are dead.”
Content: A random pointcrawl through Sarkash, 6 original thematic classes, and optional rules and gear that add more conceptual depth and distinction without straying from the Mörk Borg core
Writing: Brooding and grim with an undertone of forlorn optimism; extremely effective in conveying the intended tone and atmosphere
Art/design: Visually diverse art and typographical choices unified by a focus on the setting and themes
Usability: Deliberately deals with sexism and trauma; intended as a self-contained module, but the adventure and classes can be used with other Mörk Borg content
Drafts: Dead Girl Classes, Dead Girls in Sarkash Forest, Encounters in Sarkash Forest
Down and Out in a Schleswig Sanitorium
Concept: “Recently the staff has all been murdered by a patient gone rogue. That suits the King’s ends well enough.”
Content: Clever scenario, especially the conclusion
Writing: Disturbingly descriptive at times, humorously irreverent at others
Art/design: Adapts Nohr-esque style to express its “sterile” environment
Usability: Well organized by category, but involves some flipping/scrolling/shuffling
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