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“Bornin the meatscape, raised in the Mäinframe; your eyes augmented with a silverblack graft.”

Buy Low, Sell, DIE

“Keep your finances up to date with d40 financial headlines in a messed up future city.”

Challengers of Vanth

Concept:Challengers of Vanth is renting a VHS from the sci-fi rack at the neighborhood video rental shop after midnight.”
Content: A parody of 70s science-fiction/fantasy pop culture, seen through adolescence, writ Mörk Borg.
Writing: Restructures Mörk Borg to better incorporate TRUE SCIENTIFIC REALISM, with significantly expanded abilities, and interactions between scientific and primitive technologies.
Art/design: Retains the character of early RPG illustration and design.
Usability: A substantial core rulebook, bestiary, starter adventure, and excel character generator as separate files. 

Dead Festival 3

Concept: “A hallowed night has come” 
Content: “A Forbidden Psalm and Last War Annual mini-expansion for the spookiest of months”
Writing: Understated official briefings on four harrowing subterranean misadventures and a desperate last stand against the dark.
Art/design: Found documents and strangely doctored battlefield illustrations and photographs.
Usability: Requires Forbidden Psalm core rules or The Last War variant. 

Doorway to Blasphemy

Concept: “In the heart of the filthy marshes, you have come upon a keep overgrown and pulsing with an aura not of this Dying World. The heathen has surely taken refuge in this ruin. You’ll find them through the Doorway to Blasphemy.”
Content: A Mörk Borg adventure and Slipgate into the world of Qvke Borg
Writing: Efficiently describes the many dynamic environmental effects and triggers the define Quake level design in text.
Art/design: Sickeningly detailed map with bold colors that emulate classic Quake texture. Clean text layout with efficient sidebars for each room.
Usability: Surprisingly self-contained, only the explosive rules require Qvke Borg to run. Excellent preview to the full Qvke Borg experience. 

Dracula Church

Concept: “There stands a time-lost tomb of tyrants languishing in a long-forgotten locale. Many things might draw you here, but only cunning, luck and skill will see you escape.”
Content: A blood-fueled techno-dracula cathedral crawl.
Writing: A heavily mechanized blood bath of downed draculas and archaic alliterations.
Art/design: Intentional blend of fantasy and sci-fi elements produce a unique visual style.
Usability: Fits wherever a cathedral airship could land. 

Erratical Freak

“Hunted by the Bihelix Genetica megacorp, this unstable runaway test subject is trying to find traces of their nonexistent past life.”

Fangirl of Deserter

“The best prog-bit post-chrome var synth deafcore band in CY. You are their most loyal number one psychofan, booted and permabanned from every fanpage for overzealousness and fanaticism.”

Grinding the MMORKG

Concept: “Want to use Mork Borg modules as a virtual reality simulation in your Cy_Borg game? Or to give your Mork Borg players a taste of Cy?”
Content: Five interconnected dungeons bridging the gap between Mörk and Cy, rules for scvm conversion, sweet from rigs, and some sim-addicted punk.
Writing: A fluid and in-depth investigation that focuses on the politics of Cy and humorously subverts the core conceit of Mörk Borg.
Art/design: Deftly blends the visual style of both source material.
Usability: A well reference and stylized adventure text with self contained rules that are partitioned for easy reference.

Mud Future

Concept: “A science-fiction hellscape for MÖRK BORG, where the desperate folk try to survive as capitalism slowly destroys the world”
Content:
Includes alternate Miseries, gear, enemies, and rules for Powers
Writing:
Tone is appropriately bitter with a subtle undertone of humor
Art/design:
Aesthetics are a luxury alien to your cyber-scvm
Usability:
Content is organized into neat, self-contained categories

Mäinframe gLeech

Concept: “A Lattice-lurking, ICE-melting cortex hacker on steroids”
Content:
A cyberpunk meat-hacker class trapped in the analog Dying World
Writing:
Extremely creative; adds lots of character and humor
Art/design:
Colors, layouts, and designs seamlessly blend cyberpunk and Mörk Borg
Usability:
The l33t may slow reading, but it’s worth it.

…may also set itself as your desktop’s background

Mörk Svär

Concept: “MÖRK SFÄR (“dark sphere”) is a tabletop war/roleplaying game combining the aesthetic of MÖRK BORG with the universe of BattleTech”
Content: A battle plan for the invasion of Mörk Borg ascetics into BattleTech.
Writing: An outline. Narrative sketch, and concept design notes to establish a miserable fading sphere where humanity wars with giant mechs.
Art/design: It’s an outline, what do you expect? Frescoes?
Usability: An open invitation to expand the concept. 

Porkin’ the Void

13 contributors
Concept: “In space, no one can hear you squeal.”
Content: Rules, classes, ships, creatures, gear, settings, tables, generators, and adventures for pigs in space.
Writing: A space opera that simply squeals parody, with rules that are fattened up and ready for slaughter.
Art/design: A grease-slicked modern layout with illustrations varying from rendered near-3D comic illustrations to positively grimy porcine character portraits.
Usability: Reference tables bookend the text, with a clear table of contents to aid in reference. Clear type faces enhance legibility.

Psyber Devangelist and other Psi-Sci-Fi

Concept: “Electricity, metal, wires, chemistry, circuitry, flesh, blood, a cryptic power—all twisted together to form… you.”
Content:
  A dystopian cyber-horror class with special gear and 6 accompanying cosmic creatures
Writing:
Combines sci-fi alienness with Mörk Borg grimness and humor
Art/design:
  Adapts Mörk Borg’s aesthetic with a neon future
Usability:
A bit crowded in places, but overall nicely laid out with well-placed footnotes 
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