Mork Borg - Tumblr Posts
After months of slowly chipping away at this I FINALLY get to post it.
A couple years ago, as some of you might know, I started working on Mörk Själ, a soulslike hack of Mörk Borg, as a little passion project of mine. I've released a couple versions of it, but I've been working on a BIG update for a year or so, and it's finally here, and I finally decided I've done enough work to actually put a pricetag on it.
So... the full version of Mörk Sjal is here, boasting:
Fast character creation with randomly generated starting equipment
Simple but tactical combat rules.
Simple stamina management and equipment damage systems.
Instructions to convert creatures from Mörk Borg, B/X, and AD&D
Public domain art edited by me.
Aside from correcting a few typos and modifying mechanics from the previous version, this new release includes a ton of new content, namely:
Creature generator.
Weapon generator.
A pretty sick dungeon module.
The Black Salt Temple is a 100-ish room dungeon, heavily inspired in concept by the Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral here in Colombia.
In fact, all the pictures used are Creative Commons licensed photos of sections of the cathedral, heavily edited by me.
This new version of the game is $8 USD.
There is also a free version available, including all the rules and content of the old release. You just miss out on the new stuff.
I'm super proud of the work I did on this, even if it just started out as a little hack I made out of spite because I hated that the official Dark Souls RPG was built on the D&D 5e system. Hope y'all enjoy it.
Cy-Borg
[English first, poi in italiano]
At least as heavy as its fantasy predecessor, this cyberpunk game is a feat of design that hides a fun, desperate and straightforward game in its sleek entrails. Its bleak setting is crafted to give you the tools to just sit back and improvise a whole campaign by rolling on its numerous tables, or provide a frame for the story you want to tell. It will put your characters through a meat-grinder anyway, though. The merciless system has become the authors' signature, but tweaking power use by removing daily limits and increasing the fumble chance is an approach that I really appreciated. Not just because the backlashes are a lot of fun, and I really wanted to see them come into play more often, but also because it changes the dynamic from resource expenditure to risk versus reward, that, in my experience, is usually more entertaining at the table.
Aggressivo almeno tanto quanto il suo predecessore fantasy, questo gioco cyberpunk è un piccolo capolavoro che nasconde un sistema divertente, disperato e diretto nelle sue artistiche interiora. L'ambientazione oppressiva è costruita in modo da dare tutti gli strumenti necessari per semplicemente improvvisare un'intera campagna tirando sulle sue numerose tabelle, o fornire una struttura per la storia che volete raccontare. Schiaffando comunque i personaggi in un tritacarne. Lo spietato sistema è diventato ormai indicativo degli autori, ma ho veramente apprezzato la modifica nell'utilizzo dei poteri, che rimuove gli usi giornalieri facendo invece aumentare le probabilità di ottenere conseguenze. Non solo perché sono uno spasso da tirare in gioco, ma anche perché cambia la dinamica da consumo di risorse a rischi contro ricompense, che nella mia esperienza funziona meglio al tavolo.
Cy_Borg and its tool.