Criticism
Mörk Borg & Lamentations of the Flame Princess: A Comparative Review
What makes a fantasy TTRPG “weird horror”?
Mörk Borg & Human Occupied Landfill: A Comparative Review
The giant trash fire at the end of the world
Ludo-Garbologies
4 games that make you think about trash
Dice x Space
Using shiny math rocks for more than shiny math
GAME OVER
How 4 TTRPGs imagine the end of the world
Neoteny in Print
Aether Operations & the process of (un)becoming a book
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Reviews
Never Going Home: A Game/Book Review
War is literally Hell.
Mage Knight Redux
Reminiscences of a collectible miniatures game
My Body is a Cage: a material review
John Battle guides us through the dungeons of the night.
A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of Their Remove, Part 3: Autumn
Contrast and cynicism in a cold season
To Slay the Apocalypse
DIY doom for every occasion
A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of Their Remove, Part 2: Summer
Repetition with difference in the division of a new domain
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Theory
Science & System
Philosophy of science as RPG theory
Databases & Dragons
New media’s influence on RPG design and experience
Story & 💿🐴
How narratology can clarify (and confound) discussions of story in RPGs
Table Talk
TTRPGs as communication & communication in TTRPGs
Roleplayer’s Dilemma
Making tough choices in RPG theory and game theory
The Typology and Sociology of Play
A reference sheet for Roger Caillois’s Man, Play and Games
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Reference
The Mörk Borg Third-Party License & You
A guide to compliance in the Dying World
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Indie RPGs (& How You Can Too)
Where do you turn when D&D isn’t enough … or becomes too much?
Rolling Solo
A roster of GM & player emulators, oracles, and engines for TTRPGs
Analyses of the Unreal
A curated reading list of TTRPG theory for designers, players, and thinkers
Ex Libris Mörk Borg
An annotated bibliography of official, semi-official & community content for Mörk Borg. Updated weekly.
Anatomy of a Rulebook
Don’t judge a game by its rulebook.
Hacks & Homebrew
*Lance Not Included
But you’ll wish you had one in Chris Bissette’s Freelance RPG
Zeitgeist in Ravenland
GM-less play and material culture in Fria Ligan’s Forbidden Lands
Random BS
Thousand Year Old Vampire Secret Companion Volume: A Review
An almost spoiler-free review
Why We Need Mörk Borg Lite
And other cogent, coherent observations
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