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Cursed Skinwalker [MBC]†
Karl Druid, Johan Nohr
Concept: “Something grabbed a hold of your soul as it seeped into the river of Death and sealed you once again in mortal flesh.”
Content: Semi-dead werewolf/bear/monkey/etc.
Writing: Evocative of loss and despair
Art/design: Brutal and primal
Usability: Intuitive
Dead God’s Prophet [MBC]†
Greg Saunders, Johan Nohr
Concept: “No one wants to hear the words of your god. But you can still hear them.”
Content: A profile of cosmic despondence
Writing: Clear and full of character
Art/design: Illustrative but more subdued
Usability: Intuitive
Sacrilegious Songbird [MBC]
Karl Druid, Johan Nohr
Concept: “Your soul may be screaming, but your throat sings sweetly.”
Content: A bard befitting Mörk Borg
Writing: Provides a vain, acquisitive characterization
Art/design: A chromatic departure, but atmospheric
Usability: Intuitive
Forlorn Philosopher [MBC: Feretory]†
Pelle Nilsson, Johan Nohr
Concept: “Reason has decayed to shifting madness and only the cold remains.”
Content: A jaded intellectual in a heap of ivory rubble; immediate access to Tablets of Ochre Obscurity(below)
Writing: Seethes with bitterness, superiority, and madness
Art/design: Visually expressive of character
Usability: Intuitive
2-Headed Basilisk of the 1 Trve Faith
Walton Wood
Concept: “An inquisitor class for MÖRK BORG”
Content: Class rules, abilities, and origins
Writing: Text heavy; adds flavor to mechanics
Art/design: Crams a lot of text onto a page
Usability: Origins are a pain to read on certain screens
The Amalgamation
Ceph
Concept: “You were getting by, in your own way […] until the event.”
Content: A cobbled-together character class
Writing: Concise without sacrificing grim humor
Art/design: Ergonomic typographic and organizational choices
Usability: Intuitive
An Cailleach [FÖLK-LORE jam]
Michael Mars
Concept: “She is the lichen-covered rocks and the mountain peaks. She is the bared earth covered with snow and frost. She is the Deep Ancestress, veiled by the passage of time. And you were born under her influences.”
Content: A class closely aligned with the substances and cycles of the natural world
Writing: Delivers context and mechanics with loads of folkloric flavor
Art/design: Includes some very personal art—maybe the first tattoo used as an illustration in Mörk Borg?
Usability: Intuitive
Antiquated Drunkard (The Shadow of the Wu) [FÖLK-LORE jam]
gaffy
Concept: “Inspired by the mysticism of Wushu Theatre and the music influenced by it”
Content: A class that gains benefits from imbibing special brews (and suffers when they wear off)
Writing: Straightforward and direct with occasional bouts of humor
Art/design: A blend of Eastern art and Mörk Borg color and layout
Usability: Intuitive as a document, though the class is a bit harsher than some
Badlands Ranger
Ahimsa Kerp, Wind Lothamer
Concept: “Staunch adventurers of the wastes […] powered by equal parts expertise and ennui”
Content: A more cumulative class; comes with an animal companion
Writing: Largely devoted to instructional text
Art/design: More subdued and traditional than many supplements (but still quality)
Usability: Intuitive
“The” Bellfounder
Wayward Polyhedral
Concept: “You have heard the death knell of the world. The foundry was your escape, until you found ‘The’ bells. The resonance has the power to change everything.”
Content: A higher-risk class but with lots of variability and growth potential
Writing: Well-written descriptive text and mechanics
Art/design: Expressive art, efficient layout, and helpful typographic choices
Usability: Has the potential to get hefty over time, but still far more efficient than classes in other games
Betrayed Phantom
Tristan Jusola-Sanders and Sasha De’ath, tylor
Concept: “Between earth and the beyond, SOMETHING REACHED OUT. You took its bargain, and it took your body.”
Content: A ghostly character class with some distinctive characteristics
Writing: Very sharp, efficient, and evocative
Art/design: Efficient layout with brighter colors adding emphasis against a cool ground and image
Usability: Intuitive
Blackpowder Blackguard (Blackpowder Basics)
I. McClung
Concept: “The world might be ending, but hopefully you can end it with a BANG.”
Content: Class features include novel blackpowder-based gear
Writing: Mostly given over to mechanics but includes plenty of flavor
Art/design: On-brand use of color and varied type
Usability: Intuitive
Blighted Merman
Chalkdown, Djuun
Concept: “What is left of your humanity is pervaded by the tides and the salt-soaked waters that you now call your home.”
Content: A character class adapted to aquatic environs
Writing: Class options provide mechanics, color, and some humor
Art/design: Graphic helps to visualize the characteristic transformations
Usability: Intuitive
Bone Slave
Michał Gotkowski
Concept: “You roam the gods-forsaken realms in your true skeletal form.”
Content: A skeleton character class with some innovative options
Writing: Clear, clean, and concise
Art/design: Would scream “Mörk Borg” if it had any vocal chords
Usability: Easily readable and navigable
Boy and Tiger (1990’s Proto-Folklore) [FÖLK-LORE jam]
Ahimsa Kerp
Concept: “Young children escorted by dangerous beasts”
Content: Totally not based on a comic strip named after John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes
Writing: Adapts its source material beautifully
Art/design: Typographical hierarchy makes for easy navigation
Usability: Intuitive
Concept: “Blessed be the forgers of iron, and the spikes and the barbwire.” – Mgła
Content: Borgsmith. ’Nuff said.
Writing: Some neat tie-ins to content in the core Mörk Borg rulebook
Art/design: Typographical choices aid navigation and add emphasis; illustration lends an appropriate sooty, smoke-filled ambience
Usability: Layout of class features is a little nonlinear but not prohibitive to use
Concept: “He leaned his heavy head on his fist and began thinking of his poverty, of his hard life with no glimmer of light in it.” – Chekhov
Content: A kick-ass cobbler; unfortunately, has no relation to baked desserts
Writing: A morose, melancholy epigraph tempered by Ceph’s proficiency with rimshots and wordplay
Art/design: Primarily typographical with judicious use of color
Usability: Intuitive
Cannibal Cook
Ian Long
Concept: “Some people are dying. Other people are hungry. You just might have found a way to solve both their problems.”
Content: A character class whose name says it all
Writing: Showcases the comedic side of eating people
Art/design: Clever layout and typographic design with perfect public domain art
Usability: Stylized but pretty straightforward
The Catacomb Saint [Occult Ossuary]
I. McClung
Concept: “These richly-adorned skeletons watch over the holy resting places and sacred relics of the One True Faith.”
Content: A class that guards (and wields) powerful holy relics
Writing: Clear and characterful; contains some fun Easter eggs for the faithfvl
Art/design: Clean text layout with a piece of colorful (but not too colorful) art
Usability: Intuitive
Chaos DJ
Knight Owl Publishing
Concept: “They say you are what you own. Well, the Chaos DJ owns a brain and a tongue.”
Content: A writhing ball of randomness with metagame mechanics; bonuses in Albumcrawl adventures
Writing: Direct and to the point
Art/design: Some variety to choose from
Usability: Intuitive
Child of Nechrubel
Flora van den Berg, UndeathMetal, Khordal
Concept: “The embodiment of Nechrubel’s darkness, here to enforce the ending of the World.”
Content: An apocalyptically themed class
Writing: Sets a bleak tone, but does so entertainingly
Art/design: Highly appropriate Doré engraving
Usability: Easily navigable thanks to typographic choices
Corpse Plunderer
Harkenstone
Concept: “Sweat trickles from your brow as the shovel bites into the dirt. Treasure lies below and will be your soon.”
Content: A gravedigger class with a sardonic tone
Writing: The definition of gallows humor (but it’s graves, not gallows)
Art/design: Good use of color to differentiate text segments and aid navigation
Usability: A couple more details to remember than some other classes, but that’s why you have a character sheet
The Cult of the Iron Golem
Matthias Platzer
Concept: “Your god is the †ron Golem and you will shatter all the sinful flesh in his name.”
Content: Construct-inspired class with interesting features
Writing: Mostly mechanics but weaves in plenty of flavor
Art/design: Muted ground colors keep text readable; variation in typeface adds emphasis and character
Usability: Roll your background first to avoid re-rolling base abilities
Cursed Goblin Hunter
Fantastic Dimensions, John Lamb
Concept: “Outraged by your impending doom, you have sworn to hunt and kill goblins wherever they may be found.”
Content: A class that accumulates goblin-related features and physical attributes; also includes a personal countdown mechanic for conversion or reversion
Writing: Fairly straightforward with a grimly witty edge
Art/design: Relatively conservative with a retro/OSR feel; some subtle work in the illustration visually reinforces the concept
Usability: May become more powerful than the average character if they survive the multiple factors working against them
Damned Blade-Thrall
Nathan Harrison
Concept: “Still you heft the blade, or when too weary of its heavy fate, drag it yet unscathed.”
Content: Your zweihänder’s power comes with a steep cost.
Writing: Darkly characterful descriptions and class options
Art/design: Efficient and effective color and typographical choices
Usability: Intuitive
Dark Diver
Edward H.L. Rankin
Concept: “Practitioner of profane and dark arts, … you often wander in search of the next bleak and horrid place to hone your craft.”
Content: A cerebral class oriented on Powers and otherworldly arcana
Writing: Interesting class features with evocative descriptions
Art/design: Typographical choices add emphasis and enable quick navigation
Usability: Intuitive
Deathbound Marauder [FÖLK-LORE jam]
Ben Gyurik, Dmitry ‘Brushray’ Tenia
Concept: “Forced to live outside the village as an outcast, your new worship of the evil ancestor spirit carved out a new path.”
Content: A northern barbarian fit for Mörk Borg
Writing: Includes standard class profile with an additional Blackened Ancestor Spirit feature
Art/design: Text is easy to read and navigate; art is a characterful, well composed depiction
Usability: “Wear gloves while handling this scroll as the Frost Giant skin it was etched on will rot your hands.”
Decrepit Seer
Graven Images
Concept: “Sorcerer. Magician. Witch. What you have traded for your terrible secrets will always haunt you.”
Content: An Omen- and Power-oriented class with access to an alternative “spell” type
Writing: Clear descriptions of mechanics and some appropriately anguished, esoteric flavor
Art/design: Features some insidious-looking flora and fauna
Usability: Straightforward; use of color is good for fast visual reference
Demigod of an Ancient Family [FÖLK-LORE jam]
Saluman
Concept: “You deny the prophecies of Verhu, because only one is your god: Zeus!”
Content: A class inspired by Greek myth
Writing: Includes a standard profile with an extended table of misfortunes for one of the class features
Art/design: Primarily typographical, but color and other graphic elements facilitate quick reference
Usability: Anyone with the Necklace of Harmonia is going to have a tougher time than usual in the Dying World
The Despondent Demihumans
Brian Yaksha
Concept: “Ancestral memory fills you with dread and sorrow.”
Content: 3-in-1 mini-classes adapting high fantasy races
Writing: Lives up to the concept; strong characterization
Art/design: Typographic and color choices organize content and add emphasis
Usability: Linear and straightforward
Concept: “Hell itself spit you back out. Is this your chance for redemption or merely an opportunity for more wickedness?”
Content: A real rat-bastard with some underhanded features
Writing: Clear, concise, and full of snark
Art/design: Varied typefaces and color make for quick navigation
Usability: Intuitive
Concept: “You lost it all and now you find yourself wandering the Dying Lands.”
Content: Who knew innkeepers could be so well-suited to adventuring?
Writing: Clean and clear with a wry undertone
Art/design: Efficient typographical choices with an entertaining bit of art
Usability: Intuitive
D. Raven (1990’s Proto-Folklore) [FÖLK-LORE jam]
Ahimsa Kerp
Concept: “This tragic revenant emerges from the grave with one mission: Revenge.”
Content: Adapts a certain icon portrayed by Brandon Lee
Writing: Artfully conveys tone and character
Art/design: Typographical hierarchy makes for easy navigation
Usability: Intuitive
Eagle Warrior [FÖLK-LORE jam]
Rodrigo Herrera
Concept: “Born a warrior by the will of prehistoric gods, they started asking for sacrifices the moment you came of age.”
Content: A lean, restrictive class dependent on dark deities
Writing: The standard spread with extra class features (Gifts)
Art/design: Purely typographical, but organized and laid out well
Usability: Limited compared to other classes but also more variable day-to-day
Eldritch Earthbound
Heckin Viv
Concept: “Not all earthbound are cursed, diseased, or foul. And in fact very few have actually traded their soul for terrible secrets and power. You, however, have.”
Content: Includes standard stat adjustments and some diverse class features along with a table for rolling your malefactor and conferred title, and an Outcast Score mechanic that affects certain rolls
Writing: Captures and conveys an attitude of bitter retrospection
Art/design: Clean, easy-to-read text with some entertaining design flourishes and enough diversity to make an overall graphically interesting document
Usability: Outcast Score is integrated seamlessly, keeping complexity at a standard level
Endless Sea Raider
Harkenstone
Concept: “Predator of the Endless Sea”
Content: A piratical player-character class
Writing: All the standard features with some inspired class-specific items/companions
Art/design: Graphics convey the grim bleakness of the Endless Sea with some appropriate splashes of Mörk Borgy color
Usability: Nicely blocked out for easy reference
Exalted Gambler
Sznurek
Concept: “To pay off a debt, you signed an unholy pact with a bizarre being.”
Content: Interesting abilities and patrons for rogue-like characters
Writing: Clearly written with compelling pathos
Art/design: Appropriate and pretty entertaining
Usability: Intuitive
Exiled Sanguinary
Owlbear Culture
Concept: “You once held court in the gutters, sewers and tombs where fawning courtiers paid you tribute in blood and death and fear … Then you blew it.”
Content: An ostracized member of the undead aristocracy
Writing: Clear, descriptive, and comes with a free punchline in every paragraph
Art/design: Type facilitates navigation and features a compelling illustration
Usability: Intuitive
Forsaken Oathbearer
Ben Gyurik, Graham Moltham
Concept: “With the mortal coil severed like an umbilical cord, you are now an abomination.”
Content: Three tables to generate background, 4 dark gifts, and a fun vampiric feature
Writing: Establishes the class’s damned/unholy/undead nature
Art/design: Effective typographic design and an interesting, expressive illustration
Usability: More tables = more rolls = more fun
Fugitive Knight
Michał Gotkowski
Concept: “Through cowardice and treachery you slew a valiant knight to usurp his title, crest and name.”
Content: An armor-based class with incentive for intra-party betrayal
Writing: Clear, well-crafted, with plenty of inspiration for players
Art/design: Nicely executed with some clever graphic flourishes
Usability: Intuitive
Gallows-Reveler
Brian Yaksha
Concept: “Ere the world doth crumble and tis an errant tickle to know others shall suffer as you have.”
Content: A self-destructive fool fit for Mörk Borg; some elaborate and unpredictable abilities
Writing: Stylized but accessible
Art/design: Relatively minimal (not a bad thing)
Usability: A dictionary may be called for, but you’ll learn some new vocabulary
Half-Fiend Berserker
Graven Images
Concept: “The end has come and even the wretched are needed.”
Content: A close-combat powerhouse that lives up to its name
Writing: Clear descriptions of mechanics and some appropriately cataclysmic flavor
Art/design: Relatively conservative but thematically appropriate
Usability: Straightforward; use of color is good for fast visual reference
Haunted Demonologist & Demons & Beasts
Dylan “Bambu” Foster
Concept: “You achieved what all others failed to do, and called a creature from the Beyond.”
Content: Enslave infernal familiars for fun and profit (mostly fun)
Writing: Clear, expressive, and entertaining
Art/design: Good use of color to delineate sections and add visual emphasis; illustrated by appropriate, atmospheric engravings
Usability: Simple for the player, and the demon-switching rules provide room for GMs to torment players
The Inheritor
Asher Winnie
Concept: “No heroes walk this world. And it’s your fault.”
Content: The causes and consequences of a derelict squire
Writing: Concise mechanics and lots of background tables
Art/design: Effective color use and an expressive graphic
Usability: Intuitive
The Jackanapes
Hekate V. Nichols
Concept: “You bear one thing against the odds, a special talent.”
Content: A fairly variable class for players who want more of a challenge
Writing: Standard class description and rules with a d66 feat table
Art/design: Primarily devoted to usability and navigability
Usability: Intuitive
Knight Errant
Edward H.L. Rankin
Concept: “You are cursed to walk the lands once again in search of something greater than yourself to serve, whether worthy or not.”
Content: A spirited adaptation of the classic wandering knight
Writing: Great descriptions, especially of major class features, with an undercurrent of grim humor
Art/design: Typographical choices add emphasis and enable quick navigation
Usability: Intuitive
Landlocked Buccaneer
Karl Druid
Concept: “Once a seafaring, deck swabbing, swashbuckling rover. Now, a defanged murderwhale.”
Content: Nautical-themed character class
Writing: Skillfully adapts a rimy seafarer to Mörk Borg
Art/design: Adds a briny flavor
Usability: Intuitive
The Lost Keeper [Bad-Basilisk Berg-Borg jam]
Ceph
Concept: “For centuries, you have kept your post, standing guard before a single soul had even heard of HE or SHE. Yet now you are the only one that remains.”
Content: A highly variable class with features cleverly adapted from the image
Writing: Descriptions are fairly brief but express the concepts well
Art/design: Text on the top, basilisks on the bottom, pink all over
Usability: A good choice for someone who likes the core concept but wants a surprise or challenge in the class particulars
Mäinframe gLeech
Michał Gotkowski
Concept: “A Lattice-lurking, ICE-melting cortex hacker on steroids”
Content: A cyberpunk meat-hacker class trapped in the analog Dying World
Writing: Extremely creative; adds lots of character and humor
Art/design: Colors, layouts, and designs seamlessly blend cyberpunk and Mörk Borg
Usability: The l33t may slow reading, but it’s worth it
…may also set itself as your desktop’s background
Concept: “You have spent your days traveling the Dying Lands and few know it as well as you do. The road is home.”
Content: A travel- and communication-based class with some tricks up their sleeve
Writing: Economical but often humorous and even poignant
Art/design: An abundance of neat typographical choices
Usability: Intuitive
Misbegotten Relict
Nick Tregidgo
Concept: “You must inflict yourself upon the world to remind it why some things should remain dead.”
Content: A primal and potentially alien class
Writing: Conveys a sense of savagery from another time
Art/design: Minimal but appropriate and effective
Usability: Linear and straightforward
Murderhobo with an Arquebus
Walton Wood
Concept: starring Rutger Hauer
Content: Standard class profile with a table of one-liners
Writing: An even split between mechanics and flavor
Art/design: Medieval hobo. Medieval shotgun. Lots of spatter.
Usability: Background conflicts with some of the non-critical flavor text
Mutated Goblin
Hekate V. Nichols
Concept: “The goblin-curse has twisted your body and racked your mind. Food. Eat. Bite.”
Content: A goblin character class with some really compelling features and callbacks to other published adventures
Writing: Simultaneously grim and playful—just like a goblin
Art/design: Relatively conservative (by Mörk Borg standards) but very clean and easy to read
Usability: Offers a host of character abilities but still not as complex as a certain dragon game
Mycelial Symbiont in Mörky Mycology
I. McClung
Concept: “A world in decline is a veritable paradise for fungi of all kind.”
Content: Fungi, environs filled with fungi, fungus-based class and items, and some mushroom monsters
Writing: Efficient but with enough detail to spur interest and imagination
Art/design: Relatively sparse but still under development
Usability: Very efficient layout for a lot of content
Nachthex [FÖLK-LORE jam]
StegaFlora
Concept: “Your deathmarks will never heal again. But you can get revenge. Murder the rat. Murder them all.”
Content: A vengeful wicca-inspired class
Writing: Concise but evocative and descriptive
Art/design: Text design gives the impression of mental disintegration and motivated madness
Usability: Intuitive
The Occult Ossuary
I. McClung (ed.), Pablo Dapena, et al
Concept: “27 pieces exhumed from the depths of lavish graves, themed around skeletons, bones and skulls.”
Content: “Classes, items, companions, monsters and encounters created by sacrilegious mind.”
Writing: A variety of styles, all appropriate to their content
Art/design: Worth downloading just to check out the range of art and layouts
Usability: Complexity varies by entry but consistently easy to use
Ostracized Monk (The Shadow of the Wu) [FÖLK-LORE jam]
gaffy
Concept: “Inspired by the mysticism of Wushu Theatre and the music influenced by it”
Content: A standard profile with tables for broken vows and holy relics
Writing: Relatively lean but delivers all the standard mechanical components and character background
Art/design: Also fairly conservative by Mörk Borg standards but uses yellow to highlight key mechanics
Usability: Intuitive
The Profane Survivor [Occult Ossuary]
Jared Barnes, Pablo Dapena
Concept: “What fervor and devotion you pledged to the unknown was only repaid with the mangling and warping of your anatomy.”
Content: A mutilation- and misgrowth-based class
Writing: A good mix of vivid characterization and crunch
Art/design: Restrained but effective typographical and visual work
Usability: Intuitive
Psyber Devangelist
Greyson Yandt
Concept: “Electricity, metal, wires, chemistry, circuitry, flesh, blood, a cryptic power—all twisted together to form… you.”
Content: A dystopian cyber-horror class with special gear
Writing: A good mix of mechanics and flavor
Art/design: Adapts Mörk Borg’s aesthetic with a neon future
Usability: Nicely laid out with well-placed footnotes
Quarantine Defector
Black Candle Games
Concept: “You’re diseased, a walking cyst, but you’re somehow still cheating death.”
Content: Includes standard character mechanics plus a table of diseases
Writing: Concisely conveys the many maladies of the body
Art/design: Nice juxtaposition of images and overall balance
Usability: Intuitive
The Requiescent Ratcatcher
Wayward Polyhedral
Concept: “The rats found you, and you whistle morose tunes to them, and folk happily pay you money to take your people off their hands.”
Content: A rat whisperer; includes stats for rodent minions and followers
Writing: Clear descriptions of mechanics with plenty of wry humor
Art/design: It’s the color of rat piss. Remember that every time you touch a copy.
Usability: Intuitive
Robber Knight
Owlbear Culture
Concept: “There are however, rumored to be a few true knights left who follow the old ways … and as long as they never show up you’ll be able to loot and pillage the defenseless.”
Content: A less-than-noble knight fit for Mörk Borg
Writing: Straightforward class features with a dose of wry humor
Art/design: Tyopgraphic choices clearly delineate class feature blocks, plus a side of Albrecht Durer
Usability: Intuitive
Rotting Recalcitrant
Donovan Caldwell, Karl Druid
Concept: “Your limbs betray you, your senses decay and putrefy.”
Content: A class for characters who crave the grave
Writing: Delightfully sardonic
Art/design: Druid’s unique adaptation of Nohr’s grammar and aesthetic
Usability: Easily navigable thanks to judicious design choices
Sinful Sailor (Within a Mile of Home)
Michael Mars
Concept: “You’ve always been a fan of drinking, fighting, and pillaging. Especially when it’s easy to get away on a boat.”
Content: A sailor of the seven seas with features based on the seven sins
Writing: A standard class profile clearly conveyed
Art/design: Primarily typographical; makes for easy navigation
Usability: As easy as an overhand knot
Slapping Bastard
Bracken MacLeod, Vierge
Concept: “Though lumbering and unable to make a closed fist or grip anything smaller than a stout branch, you slap like a burlap sack full of rocks.”
Content: An open-palm brawler class
Writing: Descriptive with a dryly humorous streak
Art/design: Colors help text stand out against background image in a well-organized layout
Usability: A bit difficult to read when printed in black & white; if you’re using it on the screen or in color, you’re good to go
Suitor-Knight of Kergüs
Brian Yaksha
Concept: “YOU know love, and her name is ANTHELIA.”
Content: A chivalric knight in service to the Blood Countess; creative trait tables
Writing: Captures and conveys the affect of an infatuated courtier
Art/design: Good use of color for emphasis and to direct focus; subdued by effective typographic choices
Usability: Intuitive
Sun Scorched Zealot
Nick Tregidgo
Concept: “You reject the coming end of all; instead you shall help herald in the birth of a new dawn.”
Content: A solar-empowered but still-bleak class
Writing: Diction supports the class’s enraptured character
Art/design: Judicious and effective typographic choices; well-executed illustration
Usability: Linear and straightforward
Svampätare: The Mushroom Eater
reverendunclebastard
Concept: “You wander the world, gathering and consuming the sacred fungi.”
Content: Foraged mushrooms grant effects (but not always the ones you want)
Writing: Mechanics-focused and efficiently so
Art/design: A variety of ’shrooms and an impressive ’stache
Usability: Intuitive
Tannsowan
Ahimsa Kerp
Concept: “When monsters die, you are there […] ready to bloodily wrest teeth from skull.”
Content: Necromancer with compelling restrictions and opportunity for interpretation
Writing: Straightforward and direct; includes suggestions for skeletons’ dialogue
Art/design: Complements the concept well
Usability: Minor organizational confusion due to proximity and layout of preconditions and base mechanics, but still very usable
Tarnished Strumpet
David L. Pigman
Concept: “You entertained and serviced the highest echelons of society and royalty. But the fun & games had to come to an end.”
Content: A class for those seeking to explore the sensual side of Mörk Borg
Writing: Eloquently establishes character without being gratuitous; punctuated with some snide humor
Art/design: Supports the concept at subtle and explicit levels; incorporates the standard Mörk Borg palette
Usability: Intuitive
Tormented Toymaker
Reverndunclebastard
Concept: “Once you were a peaceful toymaker. […] Now your toys are imbued with dark magic, and wreak havoc on the dying land.”
Content: A crafter/artificer class that uses Powers to create magical automata
Writing: Intriguing flavor and concise descriptions of mechanics
Art/design: This class may or may not be a giant owl in a funny hat
Usability: The document is aces; remembering where you left your toys may make in-play management a bit more involved than other classes
Ucalegon [THE END IS NEAR jam]
Alex K. Barton
Concept: “A reckless unguided horde of desperate terrified people seek refuge. The endless flames of their homeland push them to the only place that remains untouched by flame.”
Content: Some lore (tying into the Box of Shadows title), 4 classes, 3 items, and a merchant who sells them
Writing: Provides copious historical background for the game components; classes in particular have some grim humor but are on the lighter side regarding features and personal background
Art/design: Efficiently ordered and laid out with economical color and typographical choices alongside interesting and atmospheric images
Usability: Feels like a strong tool kit for building an adventure around a band of outsiders
Wayward Wickhead
Hekate V. Nichols
Concept: “Wick-Head, a-Wick-Head the longer you stand, the shorter our life grows!”
Content: Converts the iconic wickhead enemy/hireling to a playable character class
Writing: Captures the playful, sinister weirdness portrayed in the core book with creative prose and appropriate, compelling mechanics
Art/design: Visual elements aid navigation and add flavor alongside the digital collage illustration
Usability: Also includes a plain text version for easier reading
Western Raider [THE END IS NEAR jam]
Josh Domanski
Concept: “You are alone. The Horde is coming. The kingdom will burn. You will rejoin. But for now, you are alone.”
Content: A fire-and-combat-oriented character class
Writing: Evokes a strong sense of character without being overly wordy
Art/design: A linear layout with plenty of color for emphasis and navigational cues
Usability: A good choice for outsiders joining a pre-existing party
Witness to the Shadow King’s Majesty
Cody Faulk, Jens Heimdahl
Concept: “You are … unworthy, left with but one eye to tempt you into a second (and final) blessing.”
Content: Character options include a table of traumatic origins
Writing: Evocative and wickedly witty
Art/design: Colors create an overall dark but still readable whole
Usability: Intuitive
The Worst
Rinaldo Agostini
Concept: “You’re at the bottom of the food chain and you’ll always be.”
Content: A derelict, miserable class with certain advantages
Writing: Descriptive and frequently brutal
Art/design: Not for the easily queased
Usability: Intuitive
The Wretched Usurper
Brian Yaksha
Concept: “When Yetsabu-Nech emerges from the underworld and the sun is snuffed of light, you will usurp your betters and sit upon a throne of void.”
Content: Grim even by Mörk Borg standards; tables for name and conflict; advances as Miseries accumulate
Writing: Visceral and evocative descriptions
Art/design: Effective use of color to direct attention
Usability: Easy to navigate and understand
Rules • Classes • Items • Monsters • Traps • Dungeons • Etc.
Rules Errata • Tools • Variants • Conversions • Apocrypha
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