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Glimpses of a Dying World
Concept: “Savage creatures lurk in the depths of forgotten crypts, incomprehensible relics lie waiting in the shadows of crumbling tombs, mystics argue incessantly trying to find a escape to the impending doom, and the powerful occupy themselves with vengeance.”
Content: A sprawling offering of all things Mörk Borg
Writing: Captures the tone and atmosphere of the Dying World through the descriptive text as well as the character of the mechanics
Art/design: Adapts the aesthetics and tactics of the core book with extensive use of modified public domain art
Usability: There’s something here for everyone
Grave Matters
Concept: “New uses for dry corpses”
Content: Undeath-themed classes, gear/weapons/scrolls, optional rules, monsters/NPCs, encounters, and an adventure site
Writing: Loads of creative concepts presented through expressive, inspiring, and witty prose
Art/design: Modified public domain images and original art support the theme along with layouts, typography, and colors that make this undeniably Borgy
Usability: References amongst entries create a sense of cohesion and interconnection; an excellent resource for a game or arc themed around skeletons, zombies, and corpses
Hallowed Scrolls
“Sing praise to Verhu. … Roll d8 on the table.”
Helm of Awe
Concept: “Enter as three and be free”
Content: A Norse myth puzzle crawl.
Writing: Encounters that heavily reference mythological events and figures.
Art/design: A map and protective ward.
Usability: More likely to confound the enemies of the Æsir.
Content: A Norse myth puzzle crawl.
Writing: Encounters that heavily reference mythological events and figures.
Art/design: A map and protective ward.
Usability: More likely to confound the enemies of the Æsir.
In the Footsteps of the Mad Wizard
“A campaign setting for Forbidden Psalm picking up the narrative where the core book leaves off.”
Innistrad X Mörk Borg
“To start your gothic horror Innistrad X MÖRK BORG adventures, with lots of fun references for fans of the Magic plane.”
Lady Hope's Garden
Concept: “In the quiet gloaming, she nurtures her children, her hopes for the future, her legacy. … Her fecund children will outlive her. Outlive us all.”
Content: An arborescent adventure with extra accessories and classes
Writing: Fairly straightforward but not lacking in appropriate character
Art/design: A mix of various typefaces alongside photography and original art
Usability: Keep off the grass
Content: An arborescent adventure with extra accessories and classes
Writing: Fairly straightforward but not lacking in appropriate character
Art/design: A mix of various typefaces alongside photography and original art
Usability: Keep off the grass
Last War: High.Devil.Iron.Horse.
Concept: “New content for scavengers of the endless trenches of Forbidden Psalm: The Last War”
Content: Manuscripts, weapon mods, bayonets (and how to use them), four commanding mercenaries, and one hell of a train.
Writing: Concise, orderly, and at times bizarre. Like the bureaucratic anarchy of war.
Art/design: Thomas the Tank Engine never looked so mean.
Usability: Requires Forbidden Psalm: The Last War
Content: Manuscripts, weapon mods, bayonets (and how to use them), four commanding mercenaries, and one hell of a train.
Writing: Concise, orderly, and at times bizarre. Like the bureaucratic anarchy of war.
Art/design: Thomas the Tank Engine never looked so mean.
Usability: Requires Forbidden Psalm: The Last War
Libēr de abominatio
Concept: “Cursed rituals for twisted minds, the grimm knowledge of decaying sages”
Content: Eight new scrolls for use with Forbidden Psalm.
Writing: A transformative collection of body-horror-fueled mechanics.
Art/design: A generated pile of ambiguous meat crowds a loose collection of mystic texts.
Usability: A little twisted, but ultimately understandable.
Content: Eight new scrolls for use with Forbidden Psalm.
Writing: A transformative collection of body-horror-fueled mechanics.
Art/design: A generated pile of ambiguous meat crowds a loose collection of mystic texts.
Usability: A little twisted, but ultimately understandable.
Monolith 1: Harvest
8 contributors
Concept: “A quarterly publication that focuses its cyclopean gaze on a single system with every issue”
Content: “A journey through dilapidated townsteads, rejuvenated fields and terrifying dungeons, with all the horrors you meet along the way”
Writing: The pedagogy of planting and population planning, and a forgotten temple to begotten basilisks, all aggressively annotated.
Art/design: Darkly grotesque cultists, disturbed floral prints, cultured public domain illustrations, and colorful marginalia highlight the body text.
Usability: Organized, aside from a few intentionally frustrating almanac charts. But I’m sure you can manage those with a little old-fashioned spit and polish.
Content: “A journey through dilapidated townsteads, rejuvenated fields and terrifying dungeons, with all the horrors you meet along the way”
Writing: The pedagogy of planting and population planning, and a forgotten temple to begotten basilisks, all aggressively annotated.
Art/design: Darkly grotesque cultists, disturbed floral prints, cultured public domain illustrations, and colorful marginalia highlight the body text.
Usability: Organized, aside from a few intentionally frustrating almanac charts. But I’m sure you can manage those with a little old-fashioned spit and polish.
Morbid Cache
Concept: “Necromancers are lazy bastards, hence why they make such scrolls.”
Content: A scroll to turn tombs into storage trunks.
Writing: Delightfully simple and open-ended desecration.
Art/design: A yellow spirit stalks behind the black boxed text.
Usability: Despoil or withdraw from the bank of the dead at any nearby gravesite.
Content: A scroll to turn tombs into storage trunks.
Writing: Delightfully simple and open-ended desecration.
Art/design: A yellow spirit stalks behind the black boxed text.
Usability: Despoil or withdraw from the bank of the dead at any nearby gravesite.
More Mork Mëchs
“An expansion that builds on Roland Boshnack's Mech Borg”
Mörk Borg Cult: Feretory
15 contributors
Concept: “A collection of tables, monsters, items, classes, rules and ideas”
Content: Includes a random monster generator, rules for distance travel and subsistence, The Death Ziggurat and Goblin Grinder adventures, rosters of mundane and profane gear, the Grey Galth Inn setting, a gambling minigame, the Black Salt environmental hazard, new character classes (Cursed Skinwalker, Pale One, Dead God’s Prophet, Forlorn Philosopher), and new Powers
Writing: Mörk Borg imagery and tone in wide a variety of styles
Art/design: Matches content to myriad layout and design strategies
Usability: The mechanical and expository elegance you expect from Mörk Borg; the monster generator particularly uses dice in a clever way
Content: Includes a random monster generator, rules for distance travel and subsistence, The Death Ziggurat and Goblin Grinder adventures, rosters of mundane and profane gear, the Grey Galth Inn setting, a gambling minigame, the Black Salt environmental hazard, new character classes (Cursed Skinwalker, Pale One, Dead God’s Prophet, Forlorn Philosopher), and new Powers
Writing: Mörk Borg imagery and tone in wide a variety of styles
Art/design: Matches content to myriad layout and design strategies
Usability: The mechanical and expository elegance you expect from Mörk Borg; the monster generator particularly uses dice in a clever way
Mörk Manual
Concept: “Mörk Borg mayhem in a grunge fantasy world”
Content: oDnD classes, creatures, and setting, with an extra helping of misery.
Writing: The Dark Lord’s invasion of darkly absurdist humor into an early fantasy setting.
Art/design: Playful collage of vintage prints emphasize their subjects, strong white-bordered text aid clarity and adds to the aesthetic.
Usability: Self-contained rules, navigable index and table of contents, reference material. Solidly utilitarian.
Content: oDnD classes, creatures, and setting, with an extra helping of misery.
Writing: The Dark Lord’s invasion of darkly absurdist humor into an early fantasy setting.
Art/design: Playful collage of vintage prints emphasize their subjects, strong white-bordered text aid clarity and adds to the aesthetic.
Usability: Self-contained rules, navigable index and table of contents, reference material. Solidly utilitarian.
Mörk-drasil
“The old gods are dead, and people are fighting for the right to survive in a world ruled by monsters.”
Mörking About
“A fan-made zine of sexual misadventure”
Now That’s What I Call Mörk Borg
Concept: “Inspired by the 1983 U.K. release Now That's What I Call Music or Now 1.”
Content: A card set that expands core Mörk Borg components (bad habits, scrolls, hirelings, etc.) … but based on pop music
Writing: Appropriately concise (since it has to fit on a card alongside the art) but still characterful
Art/design: Predominantly yellow and pink on black in a unique adaptation of Nohr’s style
Usability: Project is incomplete
Content: A card set that expands core Mörk Borg components (bad habits, scrolls, hirelings, etc.) … but based on pop music
Writing: Appropriately concise (since it has to fit on a card alongside the art) but still characterful
Art/design: Predominantly yellow and pink on black in a unique adaptation of Nohr’s style
Usability: Project is incomplete
Pestilent Gifts
Concept: “a horrible little zine with a bunch of plague themed stuff for MÖRK BORG.”
Content: Enough gear, scrolls, NPCs, and ailments to make you sick.
Writing: Clear, evocative, disgusting. A hypodermic needle full of filth.
Art/design: Textured heavy ink, text that coughs and sputters, and a sickly yellow-green highlights bring this work to festering life.
Usability: Strong visual elements compensate for the occasional reorientation to make for an entertaining rather than frustrating experience.
Content: Enough gear, scrolls, NPCs, and ailments to make you sick.
Writing: Clear, evocative, disgusting. A hypodermic needle full of filth.
Art/design: Textured heavy ink, text that coughs and sputters, and a sickly yellow-green highlights bring this work to festering life.
Usability: Strong visual elements compensate for the occasional reorientation to make for an entertaining rather than frustrating experience.
Recared’s Unclean Pamphlet
Concept: “This pamphlet includes 13 new unclean powers.”
Content: Some seriously brutal Powers
Writing: Mixes mechanics with visceral, violent imagery
Art/design: Some striking, appropriate art and helpful typographical choices
Usability: It’s a tri-fold pamphlet. Make sure you fold it correctly, or you're probably doomed.
Content: Some seriously brutal Powers
Writing: Mixes mechanics with visceral, violent imagery
Art/design: Some striking, appropriate art and helpful typographical choices
Usability: It’s a tri-fold pamphlet. Make sure you fold it correctly, or you're probably doomed.
Scriptures
Concept: “The one responsible for scribbling the magic scrolls.”
Content: A miserably overworked scroll scribe.
Writing: The satirical origins of all the dying worlds scrolls.
Art/design: Strong clean hierarchy over a yellowed still-life backdrop.
Usability: Fulmör the Scrollsmith deserves a raise.
Content: A miserably overworked scroll scribe.
Writing: The satirical origins of all the dying worlds scrolls.
Art/design: Strong clean hierarchy over a yellowed still-life backdrop.
Usability: Fulmör the Scrollsmith deserves a raise.
Scum’s Guide to Kergüs
Concept: “Want to get a bit deeper into the dreary wastes of Kergüs? Want to investigate the dream-plagued snow? This guide will give you many helpful tips, and get you well on your way.”
Content: Includes new gear, weather, finds, injuries, scrolls, variants for core classes, rules and encounters for arctic travel, monsters, and a dungeon generator
Writing: Well written with on-brand grimness and humor
Art/design: Relatively conservative but still stylized enough to be distinctly Mörk Borg
Usability: “Author is not responsible for symptoms of frostbite, hypothermia, or insanity caused by Kergüs's (un)natural environment.”
Content: Includes new gear, weather, finds, injuries, scrolls, variants for core classes, rules and encounters for arctic travel, monsters, and a dungeon generator
Writing: Well written with on-brand grimness and humor
Art/design: Relatively conservative but still stylized enough to be distinctly Mörk Borg
Usability: “Author is not responsible for symptoms of frostbite, hypothermia, or insanity caused by Kergüs's (un)natural environment.”
Slasher Victims
Concept: “In the worlds of slasher horror movies, victims are archetypal and there is only one of each.”
Content: A toolkit for building slasher-movie player characters
Writing: Concise and descriptive as content dictates
Art/design: A bloody mess, but in the good way
Usability: Also includes a table for giving a special slasher-movie power to an adversary
Content: A toolkit for building slasher-movie player characters
Writing: Concise and descriptive as content dictates
Art/design: A bloody mess, but in the good way
Usability: Also includes a table for giving a special slasher-movie power to an adversary
Slasher Zine / Jam Compilation
18 contributors
“Slasher Jam was a jam I ran over the course of October 2021 that got 20 entries. I have compiled those entries into 2 volumes. Volume 1 contains classes, items, and monsters. Volume 2 contains the adventures of Slasher Jam.” – Michael Mars, ed.
Stiff Sorcery
“The scent of rotting flesh, the cloying sweetness of fresh blood, and a thick miasma of bodily odors permeate the air around them, alerting all who know of Stiff Sorcery to their nature.”
The Cailleach’s Call
Concept: “The Cailleach’s Call scroll calls forth a creature that will help and serve the scroll’s caster.”
Content: A Power enabling casters find a familiar; includes rules for abilities and rosters of animals and traits
Writing: Primarily devoted to explaining the Power’s mechanics
Art/design: Appropriately mimics the appearance and texture of a scroll
Usability: Simple and straightforward
Content: A Power enabling casters find a familiar; includes rules for abilities and rosters of animals and traits
Writing: Primarily devoted to explaining the Power’s mechanics
Art/design: Appropriately mimics the appearance and texture of a scroll
Usability: Simple and straightforward
The Sacred Abhors the Unclean Hates the Sacred
Concept: “Some of former powers are aimed against the latter. Some of the latter powers are aimed against the former.”
Content: 10 sacred and 11 unclean scrolls
Writing: Esoteric titles and clear descriptions of effects
Art/design: Sacred on the left, unclean on the right, and colored titles for some visual character
Usability: A mix of different Powers with direct, practical effects
Content: 10 sacred and 11 unclean scrolls
Writing: Esoteric titles and clear descriptions of effects
Art/design: Sacred on the left, unclean on the right, and colored titles for some visual character
Usability: A mix of different Powers with direct, practical effects
The Secret Teaching of the Foul Wizard and the Unliving Magus
Concept: The collected powers and teachings of Baum, Recared, and Titus.
Content: A compilation of Philip Reeds sacred and unclean scrolls and Powers in a hardcover A5.
Writing: Some truly brutal Powers, for either good or ill, with forceful imagery throughout.
Art/design: Efficient textual layouts and vibrant graphic design.
Usability: Easy consistent design elements make for easy navigation, though I do wish Recared’s scrolls were also numbered.
Content: A compilation of Philip Reeds sacred and unclean scrolls and Powers in a hardcover A5.
Writing: Some truly brutal Powers, for either good or ill, with forceful imagery throughout.
Art/design: Efficient textual layouts and vibrant graphic design.
Usability: Easy consistent design elements make for easy navigation, though I do wish Recared’s scrolls were also numbered.
The Shadow of the Wu
Concept: “Inspired by the mysticism of Wushu Theatre and the music influenced by it”
Content: 20 Powers and 2 classes inspired by martial arts media
Writing: Straightforward and direct with occasional bouts of humor
Art/design: A blend of Eastern art and Mörk Borg color and layout
Usability: Some Power descriptions visually intermingle or conflict; not unusable, but takes a moment to parse
Content: 20 Powers and 2 classes inspired by martial arts media
Writing: Straightforward and direct with occasional bouts of humor
Art/design: A blend of Eastern art and Mörk Borg color and layout
Usability: Some Power descriptions visually intermingle or conflict; not unusable, but takes a moment to parse
The Sunken Tome
Concept: “A collection of 17 spells to unleash in MÖRK BORG!”
Content: 8 unclean and sacred scrolls apiece, plus the more elaborate Cascading Rebirth
Writing: Concise spell descriptions and creature stat blocks
Art/design: Slick, monochrome Mörk Borginess
Usability: Readable and straightforward
Content: 8 unclean and sacred scrolls apiece, plus the more elaborate Cascading Rebirth
Writing: Concise spell descriptions and creature stat blocks
Art/design: Slick, monochrome Mörk Borginess
Usability: Readable and straightforward
The Tablets of Ochre Obscurity
Concept: “Relics of a forgotten mind-cult”
Content: More powerful than scrolls and more fragile
Writing: Esoteric titles on par with the core book’s Powers; mechanics and effects are easy to understand
Art/design: Entries are visually stylized as tablets with pink titles pop against the yellow ground; illustration reinforces the tablets’ grim power
Usability: Intended for use with the Forlorn Philosopher but could be used by other classes
Content: More powerful than scrolls and more fragile
Writing: Esoteric titles on par with the core book’s Powers; mechanics and effects are easy to understand
Art/design: Entries are visually stylized as tablets with pink titles pop against the yellow ground; illustration reinforces the tablets’ grim power
Usability: Intended for use with the Forlorn Philosopher but could be used by other classes
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