Download A Free Version of MÖRK BORG!

You can now download a free 'bare bones edition of the rules-lite 'doom metal' tabletop RPG MÖRK BORG. This free version has much of the iconic graphic design and art removed, and also includes the introductory adventure Rotblack Sludge.

MÖRK BORG BARE BONES EDITION + ROTBLACK SLUDGE by Johan Nohr

The free, plain text version of the world's loudest roleplaying game. A bit more sensible. Just as miserable.

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One day all will blacken and burn. Just as the Two-Headed Basilisks have predicted.​

The world is dying, time is short. How will you face these last days? Robbing graves for soil-stained wealth, or facing down the apocalypse, hoping it can be fought?​

MÖRK BORG is a doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face. Rules light, heavy everything else. This is the BARE BONES EDITION; free, (almost) artless and the typography and graphic design turned down from 11 all the way to a sensible 4-5. When we made the original book we sacrificed a lot of things on the experimental altar of aesthetics and theme. This edition removes all that; strips the flesh off of this monster and leaves behind a bare skeleton. Still animated, armed and anxious to reenact the satanic panic, but bare and without all the horns and ornaments.

This is FREE to download. You can choose to pay for it but please don't. It's meant to be free.

For the real deal, visit morkborg.com or your unfriendly local game store and ask for that yellow book with the blood-splattered demonic skeleton warrior. Say hi from us.

 

[MGibster]

You can now download a free 'bare bones edition of the rules-lite 'doom metal' tabletop RPG MÖRK BORG. This free version has much of the iconic graphic design and art removed, and also includes the introductory adventure Rotblack Sludge.

Thanks for the tip. I've been a little curious about this game and welcome an opportunity to take a closer look.

 

[niklinna]

Unfortunately, for me the name instantly conjures up an image of Mork (from "Mork and Mindy") having been assimilated by Star Trek's Borg race. "Nanu nanu, resistance is futile!"

Johnathan

How can this be, when Mörk Borg clearly has umlaut and thereby is pronounced (in English) much closer to be more like "murk". You would not speak of Murk from Urk, it would be silly!

Mörk Borg being Swedish, I am more inclined to think of Swedish Chef singing and throwing cleavers and finishing with "Bork! Bork! Bork!" And maybe muppet chickens. Although, Swedish Chef as a Borg would also be scary. But still also silly.

Mörk Borg translates into the English as she is spoke, by the way, with meaning of "dark castle". So edgy.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

How can this be, when Mörk Borg clearly has umlaut and thereby is pronounced (in English) much closer to be more like "murk". You would not speak of Murk from Urk, it would be silly!

Mörk Borg being Swedish, I am more inclined to think of Swedish Chef singing and throwing cleavers and finishing with "Bork! Bork! Bork!" And maybe muppet chickens. Although, Swedish Chef as a Borg would also be scary. But still also silly.

Mörk Borg translates into the English as she is spoke, by the way, with meaning of "dark castle". So edgy.

 

[The White Sorcerer]

What the free version lacks in graphical flair, it makes up for in easy-to-read tables.

 

[aramis erak]

How can this be, when Mörk Borg clearly has umlaut and thereby is pronounced (in English) much closer to be more like "murk". You would not speak of Murk from Urk, it would be silly!

Mörk Borg being Swedish, I am more inclined to think of Swedish Chef singing and throwing cleavers and finishing with "Bork! Bork! Bork!" And maybe muppet chickens. Although, Swedish Chef as a Borg would also be scary. But still also silly.

Mörk Borg translates into the English as she is spoke, by the way, with meaning of "dark castle". So edgy.

English does use a diaeresis/umlaut mark, albeit rarely now. In English, it's a diaeresis - a denotation that the affected letter is pronounced separately, not combined in a digraph/trigraph. It ö is not considered different from o other than the separation. The most common uses are now fairly rare: to indicate a trailing e is not being used as a modifier, most commonly seen in the name Zoë, (zoe-ee) and occasionally the feminine/diminutive form Joë (pronounced identically to Joey).
It's also used to denote two o's in sequence separated by a weak glottal or vocalization stop, as in coöperation (now usually written without the diaerisis as cooperation, or rarely, co-operation); a double o is usually pronounced as a long u or short u, not an o.

So, it's extremely common to simply ignore the mark as an archaism for most English speakers.

It looks like mörk might be cognate to murk, an almost archaic English term for visual obfuscation, be it by lack of light or particles. Murky now generally is used mostly for describing water dark with suspended particles. Which, if true, makes the name almost ½ English...

 

[niklinna]

English does use a diaeresis/umlaut mark, albeit rarely now. In English, it's a diaeresis - a denotation that the affected letter is pronounced separately, not combined in a digraph/trigraph. It ö is not considered different from o other than the separation. The most common uses are now fairly rare: to indicate a trailing e is not being used as a modifier, most commonly seen in the name Zoë, (zoe-ee) and occasionally the feminine/diminutive form Joë (pronounced identically to Joey).
It's also used to denote two o's in sequence separated by a weak glottal or vocalization stop, as in coöperation (now usually written without the diaerisis as cooperation, or rarely, co-operation); a double o is usually pronounced as a long u or short u, not an o.

So, it's extremely common to simply ignore the mark as an archaism for most English speakers.

It looks like mörk might be cognate to murk, an almost archaic English term for visual obfuscation, be it by lack of light or particles. Murky now generally is used mostly for describing water dark with suspended particles. Which, if true, makes the name almost ½ English...

Good thing name is Swedish and not English then, or would be Därk Castlë or something. Very Mötley Crüe!

Ignore the Umlaut at your peril! Is taking away all edge and metal from name.

Fun fact! Umlaut is German word (also English since English likes to steal the words from many language). In Swedish is Omljud, it looks to being.

Mayhem!

 

[antiwesley]

Nice and legible, easy to read and no graphics that make your inner 5 year old think that you could do better than that.
It's a professional looking RPG, and doesn't look like it's a thematic sequel to Arthas Soulgazer's "50 Shades of Vorpal"...

EDIT: Is the identity of Arthas Soulgazer still a mystery? Or did it get solved and I just can't find it...