Rules reference

MÖRK BORG is rules light and you should never feel the need to flip through the book while you're killing PCs. But should you need it, we put this rules reference page at the back of the book. And here, as a pdf. For your players maybe?

Character sheets

In the dying world of MÖRK BORG your character will probably not last long, so it might be a good idea to print some of these. Available in both fancy, printer-killing edition, and the slightly less ink drinking kind.

Character sheets:
CHRYPT EDITION

In case you run out of the regular character sheet or just really dislike it for whatever reason, this optional version by Johannes Ramö Streith is for you.

Free, plain text version:

MÖRK BORG

BARE BONES edition

Curious but uncertain? Want to peek into the Abyss before taking the plunge? This is the free, scaled down version of the entire MÖRK BORG core book. No art, except the cover image, and just the text, without any fancy fonts or experimental graphic design.

But just as miserable.

SCVMBIRTHER

For those of you who either hate paper, or are really in a hurry - SCVMBIRTHER is the official MÖRK BORG character generator. Just click away!

DNGNGEN

Need billions of accursed labyrinths and desolate murder-tombs? DNGNGEN is the official MÖRK BORG dungeon generator. Click and make your players weep.

The Monster Approaches...

Perhaps humans are the real monsters, but if you grow tired of them, use this monster generator to spawn an endless tide of new miscreations to murder.

Rotblack Sludge,
or The Shadow King's
Lost Heir

You are imprisoned for heretical theft, but offered one last chance of freedom; go to the Accursed Den, find and retrieve the Shadow King's lost heir. Rotblack Sludge is the introductory dungeon crawl adventure featured in the MÖRK BORG core book. And here.

The Forlorn Philosopher

Despondent, brooding and equipped with sorcerous clay tablets and the power of overanalyzing, this is the thinking scum's character class. So they claim.

The Tablets of Ochre Obscurity

Ancient, sought-after clay tablets containing Powers that only the most enlightened mystic (or Forlorn Philosopher) can hope to wield.

A Deadly
Dungeon Duo

The Membrane of Sarkantha and the damned Sarcopha-Ghost, two devilish hazards every death-defying dungeon delver must learn to avoid.

Devil's Tomb

The Eyes of the Icon of St Largoth have been stolen and brought to a long-lost Graven-Tosk hellhole. Bring them back! This one-page dungeon was made using the digital dungeon generator DNGNGEN.

To Hell and Galgenbeck

The official MÖRK BORG comic, by Łukasz Kowalczuk, updated with new pages every Thursday.

Dark Fort
Character sheets

Art by David Hoskins

Delve into the halls of the Dark Fort using these character sheets for reference, notes and bandage if you must.

Dark Fort is the solo/micro game included in the MÖRK BORG CULT: FERETORY zine.

Merch Borg

Get your doomsday swag here! Merch Borg is our Spreadshirt store where you can get MÖRK BORG tees and totes.

MÖRK BORG CULT

To contribute

To be a part of this, simply write/design/draw/code content for MÖRK BORG and send it to us. You are more than welcome to spread it to others before, during and after our review, you may even sell it. After we receive the content we will review it (this can take a while) and we might or might not decide to pick it up into the MBC. If we pick it up, we will make the edits and additions we deem necessary, but always together with the content creator. This might be proofreading, text edits, layout, illustrations etc, depending on what the content needs. Then, the content will be published and promoted by us, and you are more than welcome to help spread the word.

Content restrictions

We welcome any and all content, but we especially enjoy it brief, concise, clever, dark and weird. We like random tables, monsters, dungeons and scenarios, strange Powers and GM tools. We prefer a user-friendly toolbox approach before a long prose read. We rather see lots of short bullet-lists than one long text. We want it dark, depressing and cruel, but will never accept racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic content. Where this line is drawn is up to us in this case.

Submissions are currently closed until we have cleared up the giant backlog. Feel free to publish using the MÖRK BORG Third Party License in the meantime!

MÖRK BORG CULT (MBC) is our sub-label for selected, approved and curated MÖRK BORG content written by fans and laid out and illustrated by us. Digital MBC modules will always be free to download here. Most, if not all of it, is also available in print in MÖRK BORG CULT: FERETORY or MÖRK BORG CULT: HERETIC (soon in stores).

Note: Due to the extreme amount of awesome stuff recieved, the MBC is currently closed until we have cleared the backlog a bit.

ADVENTURES

Sepulchre of the
Swamp Witch

Adventure by Christian Sahlén

Proofreading by Walton Wood, Fiona Maeve Geist (MRC) and Jarrett Crader (MRC)

In a hidden repository deep in the Slithering Swamp is a witch's altar of glyph-covered roots. They say it can fulfill any wish. Could stopping the approaching Doom be within its powers? Only one way to find out.

The Goblin Grinder

Adventure by Ripley Caldwell

Editing by Fiona Maeve Geist and Jarrett Crader (MRC)

The streets of Galgenbeck are overrun by Goblins, turning burgher and pauper alike into their own cursed kin. But a local alchemist claims to have a cure. Only, the price is steadily increasing.

Graves Left Wanting

Adventure by Karl Druid

Editing by Fiona Maeve Geist and Jarrett Crader (MRC)
Additional proofreading by Walton Wood

The PCs find themselves buried alive in the vast, ever-changing cemetery of Graven-Tosk. This dark and weird tombcrawl is suitable as a campaign starter or a post-TPK adventure.

Bloat

Adventure by Greg Saunders

Original map design by Dyson Logos

Villagers disappear. Tracks lead to an underground temple of bacchanalian frenzy, reeking of rot, offal and bile. Find them and sate your hunger in Bloat, a gluttunous one-page dungeon.

The Death Ziggurat

Adventure by Carl Niblaeus

A delve into the ruins of a lost temple city where something is awakening. A descent into undead madness. A Cosmic Necrocrawl at the end of time. The Death Ziggurat is a short adventure about postponing the inevitable.

GAME CONTENT

Blackpowder Weapons for the Rich and Foolhardy

Weapons by Ian McClung

Proofreading by Walton Wood

Let's end the world with a BANG. These optional rules are the spark that adds fire- to your fights. Whether it's a pepperbox or a ribauldequin, you can be assured these things are loud and deadly.

The Merchant

Ghastly trader by Johnny Carhat

Art by Joakim Hanner

Cursed with eternal life and destined to roam the world trading shards of souls for ruinous relics. You never know when this mysterious monger might appear. Will you make a deal?

d100 Items and Trinkets

Random table by Pelle Svensson

Proofreading by Fiona Maeve Geist and Jarrett Crader (MRC), Alex Genn-Bash

You never know what you might find when you rummage through the cellars, coffers and corpses of the dying world. Well, now you can find out.

The Tenebrous Reliquary

d66 items by Anders Arpi, Ben H, Dom Cohen, Ripley C, Johan Nohr, Karl Druid, Leander E, Paul Wilde and Flora v/d B.

Occult treasures, trinkets and weapons to be found in the many sealed graves and vaults of MÖRK BORG.

Unheroic Feats

Rules by Johnny Carhat

Enhance and personalize your classless characters with these optional advancement rules.

The Bone Bowyer

Monster by Matthew Bottiglieri

This horrid fey lurks in the tangled depths of Sarkash where it fashions heart-seeking bone bows and blood-dyed cloaks from the flesh of the lost.

Eat Prey Kill

Rules by Karl Druid

Rules for hunting for food (or sport). Also 54 fully statted monsters, 6 for each major area of the dying world.

Overland Travel

Rules by Svante Landgraf

Homebrew rules for overland travel, including distances, road encounters, village types and destinations.

CLASSES

Sacrilegious Songbird

Class by Karl Druid

You struck a deal with a devil and since that woeful day your soul scream but your throat sing sweetly. And so does your purse. A small price to pay.

Dead God's Prophet

Class by Greg Saunders

Only the blind and foolish heed the words of the Two-Headed Basilisks. You know the name of the one true god, the dead god. And soon, so will all.

Pale One

Class by Tim Rudloff

Proofreading Karl Druid

You are utterly alien, fundamentally other, and belong no where. Watching, judging, waiting.

Cursed Skinwalker

Class by Karl Druid

A shapeshifting class whose careless drifting in the land of the dead merged it´s soul with that of another being.

CHARACTER SHEETS

Character sheets
in Italian

By Marco Milanesi

Would you rather spend the last days of the ruined world speaking Italian? Now you can do so with these character sheets. Riposi in pace!

Character sheets
in French

By Nicolas Folliot

May your would-be heroes live short and miserable lives: regardless of language! These French character sheets will let you say au revoir to your poor PCs.

Character sheets
in Portuguese

By Arthur Burity

MORTE BORG. In case you want to face the inevitable end in Portuguese, this is for you.

Character sheets
in Ukrainian

By Vladyslav Kulikov

Face down the bleakness and horrors of Nechrubel and the plentiful Miseries in Ukrainian with these character sheets.