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SCVMATORIUM

Content integrated in the SCVMATORIUM character generator.

An Cailleach

Concept: “She is the lichen-covered rocks and the mountain peaks. She is the bared earth covered with snow and frost. She is the Deep Ancestress, veiled by the passage of time. And you were born under her influences.”
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

Concept: “Between earth and the beyond, SOMETHING REACHED OUT. You took its bargain, and it took your body.”
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

Concept: “What is left of your humanity is pervaded by the tides and the salt-soaked waters that you now call your home.”
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

Concept: “The unclean blessing of Nechrubel is on you. WORK IT!”
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

Concept: “Through cowardice and treachery you slew a valiant knight to usurp his title, crest and name.”
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

Concept: “Once a seafaring, deck swabbing, swashbuckling rover. Now, a defanged murderwhale.”
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

Concept: “You must inflict yourself upon the world to remind it why some things should remain dead.”
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

Concept: “Your deathmarks will never heal again. But you can get revenge. Murder the rat. Murder them all.”
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

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 

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

Concept: “A scvmbirther (that’s a noun now) with *only* unofficial third party content!”
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
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