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7:7 - A Dying Card Game

Concept: “Well, it’s like a Living Card Game, but it’s up to all of you to keep it shambling on in a foetid undead state. Its brains have now been splattered gruesomely across the Mӧrk Borg community, decentralized, disaggregated, dismembered, ready to be resurrected at any time through the BLACK MAGIC of the Third Party License.”
Content:
A Print and Play Card Game with an Open License.
Writing: Flexible rules account for 3 modes of play. With delightfully characterized (and miserable) scvm.
Art/design:
Consistent use of symbolism and color for quick visual reference of card types and stats. Characterful illustrations and public domain art.
Usability:
Usable for 1v1, solo play, or as a prompt for randomized Mörk Borg adventures. Has a flexibility license so you can release your own expansions.

An Exodus

Concept: “a ‘choose your own adventure’ that should take around 20 minutes to play.”
Content: A Grift escaping, bridge crossing daycare crawl.
Writing: A harrowing race against the clock, full of misdirection, misery, and oblique references to nearly every variety of child endangerment. 
Art/design: Delicate splashes of color and texture engage this print-friendly design. Moody spot illustrations to drive the miseries of Grift home.
Usability: Children are surprisingly resilient, you are not. It probably won’t end well for any of you. 

BASILISK!

Concept: “The Seventh Misery is at hand, yet there may be salvation for some…”
Content: A dungeon scrawl for filthy scvm who’d do anything to escape the apocalypse.
Writing: Mörk Borg rules returned to Dark Fort style. 
Art/design: Characterful and easy to print rules with understated but effective navigation aids.
Usability: Currently under active playtest. 

Basilisk! - Tunnels of Nechrubel

Concept: "Explore the chaotic passages beneath Verhu's catacombs... occult relics and terrifying creatures lurk therein!" 
Content: A two-player expansion to Basilisk!, with chaotic tunnels to explore.
Writing: Rules additions, clarifications, and supplementary tables establish the interactions between the base game and Tunnels of Nechrubel.
Art/design: The same tasteful, textured, printable, clean layout as the original
Usability: Consistency in visual elements and subtle navigation aids in easy reference.  

Castaway - Stranded

Concept: “Wash up alone or with other castaways to suffer cooperatively and make your own way with our unique Paths system for GM-less play.” 
Content: A solo-play supplement for Castaway, with oracles and tools for daily life and strange encounters on a desolate island.
Writing: New mechanics for solo play that capture the grinding and haunting decline of the original.
Art/design: A desolate, ink-splattered, pastel hellscapes of desperate and wild beauty.
Usability: Castaway – now playable on your own deserted island. 

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

Crashing Ghost of the Grotesque Fang

Concept: “A shadow is cast over your past, burning with remorse. Face your greatest foe and uncover deeper truths, else the wounds will continue to fester...”
Content: A trauma exploring, choose your own adventure, solo crawl.
Writing: A choose your own adventure narrative which engages the format on a textual and metatextual level.
Art/design: A visual motif using color and symbolism to explore dissonance, reflection, rumination, and trauma.
Usability: Clear text and concise instruction enhance the choose your own adventure style. 

d6 ARKFORT

Concept: “Begin your perilous journey into the ARKFORT. No GM to save you; yet, if you are too cowardly to venture alone, rope some friends into your misery.”
Content: The macro game to Dark Forts micro game.
Writing: Complementary resource management mechanisms and other complications add depth to Dark Fort's light gameplay.
Art/design: An effective, if dense, text layout harkening back to early digital office correspondence. Some not-so-traditional elements produce the sense of a found document.
Usability: More robust than traditional Mörk Borg fare but rewarding in equal measure. 

DARK FISH BLADE FORT

Concept: “For an authentic experience, get a fish and a blade, and listen to Murmaider by Dethklok. On repeat.”
Content: A standalone fishblade hack of DARK FORT, with optional co-op rules.
Writing: Puns that are succulently fishy. Mechanics that are seriously blade-y.
Art/design: Awkward man-fish, and fish-saws flop between pages of aquamarine and white.
Usability: Available in full size, A4, and letter format. Included character sheet.  

Dark Fort

Concept: “The catacomb rogue enters the stage.”
Content:
A solo dungeon crawler; useful as a generator alongside Mörk Borg’s GM tools
Writing:
Clear and concise; primarily mechanical but with bits of effective descriptive text
Art/design:
More traditional than Mörk Borg’s, but still atmospheric
Usability:
Extremely efficient layout

Darker Forts

Concept: “Adds THREE new dungeons and accompanying characters to DARK FORT”
Content:
New settings, characters, monsters, items, and optional rules for solo play; useful for generating themed dungeons on the fly
Writing:
Primarily informational but with just the right amount of creative flair
Art/design:
Strongly reminiscent of Dark Fort
Usability: Like its predecessor, each variant fits on one sheet of paper; doesn’t include custom character sheets

Deep Waters Run Deadly

Concept: “A tool for solo, gmless and on the fly dungeoneering involving moisture.”
Content: A moisture generator, d20 soggy denizens, fishing rules, d12 miserable fish, and treasures.
Writing: A generalized but descriptive style. Inspiring rather than dictating mechanics.
Art/design: A geometric and textured layout with tailored AI art.
Usability: A specific emulator for cruel and unusual bodies of water. 

DNGNSTOCK

“Common and Rare Encounters and NPCs to fill your Solitary Defilement dungeon-crawls!”

Endless Flesh

Concept: “You were sent to rescue Tergol’s lost Scroll of Endless Flesh... Find it and bring it to the church!”
Content: A solo endless fleshcrawl.
Writing: A concise solo game. Establishing tone and self-contained mechanics in two pages.
Art/design: Cleanly formatted black text over a fleshy pink background.
Usability: Includes downloadable character sheet. 

Feculence

Concept: “Start on the backside!”
Content: A dung’eon crawl to play on the toilet.
Writing: Filthy and fun. A delightfully nutty rules texture with the occasional crunch.
Art/design: Unexpectedly clean text layout. Perfectly legible on paper. Less so on toilet paper.
Usability: Available in A5 and half-letter. Accommodations for public bathroom play are provided in extras. Your results may vary. 
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