SCVMATORIUM
An Cailleach
Content: A class closely aligned with the substances and cycles of the natural world
Writing: Delivers context and mechanics with loads of folkloric flavor
Art/design: Includes some very personal art—maybe the first tattoo used as an illustration in Mörk Borg?
Usability: Class features are more thematically than mechanically oriented (but still pretty useful)
Betrayed Phantom
Content: A ghostly character class with some distinctive characteristics
Writing: Very sharp, efficient, and evocative
Art/design: Effective layout with brighter colors adding emphasis against a cool ground and image
Usability: Versatile; some special features are purely narrative-oriented
Blighted Merman
Content: A character class adapted to aquatic environs
Writing: Class options provide mechanics, color, and some humor
Art/design: Illustration helps to visualize the characteristic transformations
Usability: Aquatically oriented but usable in landlocked situations as well
Brazen Blacksmith
Concept: “Blessed be the forgers of iron, and the spikes and the barbwire.” – Mgła
Content: Borgsmith. ’Nuff said.
Writing: Some neat tie-ins to content in the core Mörk Borg rulebook
Art/design: Typographical choices aid navigation and add emphasis; illustration lends an appropriate sooty, smoke-filled ambience
Usability: Layout of class features is a little nonlinear but not prohibitive to use
Cannibal Cook
Concept: “Some people are dying. Other people are hungry. You just might have found a way to solve both their problems.”
Content: A character class whose name says it all
Writing: Showcases the comedic side of eating people
Art/design: Clever layout and typographic design with perfect public domain art
Usability: Stylized but pretty straightforward
Corpse Plunderer
Concept: “Sweat trickles from your brow as the shovel bites into the dirt. Treasure lies below and will be your soon.”
Content: A gravedigger class with a sardonic tone
Writing: The definition of gallows humor (but it’s graves, not gallows)
Art/design: Good use of color to differentiate text segments and aid navigation
Usability: A couple more details to remember than some other classes, but that’s why you have a character sheet
Death Witch
Content: An archetypal witch class with 10 new unclean and sacred Powers
Writing: Clearly written and easy to understand
Art/design: Easy-to-use layout and a lovely Klimt sketch; nicely emulates the feel of an old, well-used spellbook
Usability: Modifies the penalties for failed Powers for a different but still challenging spellcasting experience; particularly fun use of d6s and modifiers in Draw Down the Doom, which is specific to this class
Fugitive Knight
Content: An ironic armor-based class; includes 6 unique armor options
Writing: Clear, well-crafted, with plenty of inspiration for players
Art/design: Nicely executed with some clever graphic flourishes
Usability: Includes some incentive for intra-party betrayal
Landlocked Buccaneer
Content: A rimy seafarer adapted to Mörk Borg
Writing: Descriptive paragraph and class abilities add a briny flavor
Art/design: Substitutes slate blue for vibrant yellow with great effect
Usability: Sneak attack comes standard
Misbegotten Relict
Content: A primal and potentially alien class
Writing: Conveys a sense of savagery from another time
Art/design: Minimal but appropriate and effective
Usability: Linear and straightforward
Mutated Goblin
Concept: “The goblin-curse has twisted your body and racked your mind. Food. Eat. Bite.”
Content: A goblin character class with some really compelling features and callbacks to other published adventures
Writing: Simultaneously grim and playful—just like a goblin
Art/design: Relatively conservative (by Mörk Borg standards) but very clean and easy to read
Usability: Offers a host of character abilities but still not as complex as a certain dragon game
Nachthex
Content: A vengeful pagan-inspired class with tables for deathmarks and abilities
Writing: Provides lots of character and backstory in a smaller space than other classes
Art/design: Text design gives the impression of mental turbulence and motivated madness
Usability: Character motivation is tied more intimately to backstory than some other classes
Psyber Devangelist and other Psi-Sci-Fi
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
Rotting Recalcitrant
Concept: “Your limbs betray you, your senses decay and putrefy.”
Content: A class for characters who crave the grave
Writing: Delightfully sardonic
Art/design: Druid’s unique adaptation of Nohr’s grammar and aesthetic
Usability: Easily navigable thanks to judicious design choices
Scvmatorium
Content: Adds a slew of new options; under active development
Writing: As per individual scvm; clever reload button
Art/design: Atmospheric and unintrusive
Usability: Linear and clear; links to content docs and source materials