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This is a bundle of material compatible with Mörk Borg, an "old school revival" game of apocalyptic horror - basically, the fantasy world the characters live in is going to end regardless of what characters do, all they can hope to do is prolong the agony a bit. You do NOT get the game itself, which costs $14.99 in PDF

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This Mörk Borg Compatible offer presents third-party supplements and adventures for the heavy-metal artpunk FRPG of miserable heretics in a bleak and doomed world, Mörk Borg from Free League Publishing. (Bleakness alert! The Mörk Bork core rulebook you need to use all these supplements and adventures isn't included in this offer.)

Launched in February 2020 just ahead of the pandemic, Mörk Borg is a doom-laden, in-your-face, twist-the-knobs-off apocalyptic fantasy RPG in the Old School tradition about redemption, forgiveness, misery, and the last remaining riches of a bleak and dying world. Its layout and graphic approach are unprecedented in the hobby -- if "layout" and "approach" can even convey this firehose torrent of text scrawls, ink spatters, and clipart skulls vomited onto two-page spreads of bright yellow. Mörk Borg picked up seven ENnie Awards and became a huge hit for Free League Publishing. The community has embraced it with metalhead passion. A permissive Third Party License lets ambitious indies, in supplements and adventures like those in this offer, conjure a cruel and hopeless world's grotesque monstrosities, ready to send fools and lost souls plummeting into the pitch-black depths of despair. It'll be fun!

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of some of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this offer's pandemic-related charity,Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

(Just to recap, the Mörk Bork core rulebook you need to use these supplements isn't included in this offer!)

The total retail value of the third-party supplements and adventures in this offer is US$120. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all five titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $51) as DRM-free ebooks, including The Box of Shadows (newyear Studios, retail price $12), The Bridges of Múr and the Endless Sea (newyear, retail $12), Philip Reed's Calo's Book of Monsters (retail $10) and Tower of Scoundrels (retail $5), and Fisk Borg (Sprinting Owl Designs, retail $12), the rules expansion of sinister and ominous Mörk Borg fishing.

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with five more third-party titles worth an additional $69, including The Masticator Gate (SkeletonKey Games, retail $18), plus its Endless Demon Deck (retail $8); Forbidden Psalm (OptimisticNL, retail price $13); and two soul-wrenching adventures from Christian Eichhorn: Vaults of Torment: Blood is Fuel (retail $15) and Temple of the Kraken God (retail $15).

Mörk Borg resources

• MorkBorg.com has many free downloads
• The Mörk Borg Medium feed has just one post, an interesting rundown of the game's first year
• The fan site of choice is Ex Libris Mörk Borg
• This Google Sheets spreadsheet is a comprehensive list of player and GM resources in a dozen categories (note the tabs at the bottom)
• Good god look at the 300+ Mörk Borg titles on itch.io

I'm pretty sure I'm not the intended audience for this - just looking at some of the pages gives me a headache, and I have a strange old-fashioned liking for neat typography and (dare I say it) games that are actually fun. The aim seems to be for characters to die early and often, without the excuse that they're all clones which sort of justifies it in Paranoia. The grimdark setting doesn't really appeal to me at all, but I get the impression it's proving very popular, and it looks to be reasonable value for money.