Grading the Mörk Borg System

[Retreater]

Would the art-free PDF be OK with your kids, do you think, or is the end of the world nihilism the issue for them?

I don't know. They come from fairly religious households and attend private church-based schools.
Honestly, in our community, I'm kinda shocked that vanilla D&D is approved.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't know. They come from fairly religious households and attend private church-based schools.
Honestly, in our community, I'm kinda shocked that vanilla D&D is approved.

I think it would be possible to rebrand Mork Borg as an "end times" RPG and fit in with my relatives' conservative religious views, but YMMV. It would require replacing the default setting with one more inspired by St. John the Divine, rather than Swedish death metal. I'm mildly surprised no one has done a project like this yet.

 

[aramis erak]

I think it would be possible to rebrand Mork Borg as an "end times" RPG and fit in with my relatives' conservative religious views, but YMMV. It would require replacing the default setting with one more inspired by St. John the Divine, rather than Swedish death metal. I'm mildly surprised no one has done a project like this yet.

A few have tried. They got little press and less love.

Small press stuff in the 90's and 00's.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A few have tried. They got little press and less love.

Small press stuff in the 90's and 00's.

But apparently a time machine, since Mork Borg was published in 2020.

 

[aramis erak]

But apparently a time machine, since Mork Borg was published in 2020.

Pundit - Is that you?
I didn't intend to imply they used Mork Borg.
The market may be big enough now for someone to grab onto one of the current systems, even Mork Borg... nee especially MB...

The ones using D20 tended to focus on Ragnarok. The ones focused on the greeks were a variety of other systems, mostly thin reskins of TSR D&D.
ffg wrote a tetrology of end of the world games- not mork borg... but avoided the Christian faiths; they did do a generic "The old gods returned" in one of those.
CORPS Down In Flames is thirteen adventure setups for various end of the world stuff; most of them don't need CORPS to function.

 

[Casimir Liber]

I love the vibe of Mork Borg - converted Rotblack Sludge to 5e and DMed it to my players

 

[Doc_Klueless]

I voted "pretty bad." But I may just think that way because I had such a hard time reading and parsing the information contained within because of the layout of the pages.

Waaay too busy for me.

 

[Sir Brennen]

I voted "pretty bad." But I may just think that way because I had such a hard time reading and parsing the information contained within because of the layout of the pages.

Waaay too busy for me.

Mentioned earlier in the thread, there’s a “text-only” version of the rules available for free (linked on their site). If you’re still interested in the premise, might want to give it a look.

I ran a campaign with MB and had a lot of fun. It was like playing in a heavy metal Monty Python game.

I’m really hyped to play Pirate Borg next.

 

[darjr]

Mentioned earlier in the thread, there’s a “text-only” version of the rules available for free (linked on their site). If you’re still interested in the premise, might want to give it a look.

I ran a campaign with MB and had a lot of fun. It was like playing in a heavy metal Monty Python game.

I’m really hyped to play Pirate Borg next.

I’ve run a few one shots and a campaign in Mörk Borg. It was definitely like you describe with a touch of “The Black Company” mixed in.

I’ve also run Pirate Borg and hung out with the creators a bit. The game is amazing and the scurvy crew of naer do wells are awesome.

 

[Sir Brennen]

I’ve also run Pirate Borg and hung out with the creators a bit. The game is amazing and the scurvy crew of naer do wells are awesome.

Despite actually having a credit in the front of the book, I’ve yet to run more than a couple one-shots

Hope to change that after the current DragonBane campaign I’m running.