Brian Yaksha
Denizens of the Dying World
Concept: “100 different types of characters; names from the core book + nonsense names of my own choosing. What they know, where it is, what this feels to them, what they can offer in return.”
Content: A random NPC generator for when the PCs ignore the important people and fixate on that one dude
Writing: Concise (by necessity) without sacrificing notable detail and character
Art/design: Wrings maximal character out of a small number of graphic elements
Usability: Click
Duncan Hall’s Mörktober 2023 – 31 Tables & Trivilities
Concept: Duncan Hall’s Little Mörktober Calendar of Horrors.
Content: “31 random generators, monsters, items, and so forth made throughout the month of October 2023.”
Writing: A tortuous elaboration from its initial prompts, full of wit and wretchedness.
Art/design: Sketches, photo bashes, full-color illustrations, and doodles in a filthy day calendar format.
Usability: Most fun when printed on a sticky note calendar.
Content: “31 random generators, monsters, items, and so forth made throughout the month of October 2023.”
Writing: A tortuous elaboration from its initial prompts, full of wit and wretchedness.
Art/design: Sketches, photo bashes, full-color illustrations, and doodles in a filthy day calendar format.
Usability: Most fun when printed on a sticky note calendar.
Gallows-Reveler
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
Maps for Mörk Borg
Illustrations of the Dying Land's major settlements
Putrescence Regnant
9 contributors
Concept: “Targ-Dungel. A festering wound upon a dying world. Time and space warp within the malodorous miasma. … This, cursed walker, is where you must go. Into the blight. Into the cold, damp mire.”
Content: A bog crawl and soundtrack filled with sludge, corpses, and brutality; also includes the Gilded Wolf character class
Writing: The prose resurrects the core book’s weird imagery and ominous tone; mechanics text is accessible and easy to use
Art/design: The Mörk Borg style we know and love, but left to putrefy in a swamp
Usability: Places three factions in explicit large-scale conflict, creating a complex backdrop for players to explore and GMs to exploit
Content: A bog crawl and soundtrack filled with sludge, corpses, and brutality; also includes the Gilded Wolf character class
Writing: The prose resurrects the core book’s weird imagery and ominous tone; mechanics text is accessible and easy to use
Art/design: The Mörk Borg style we know and love, but left to putrefy in a swamp
Usability: Places three factions in explicit large-scale conflict, creating a complex backdrop for players to explore and GMs to exploit
Soundtrack: available on Spotify
Smörgasbörg
10 contributors
Concept: “Grab your bibs and bone saws you’re in for a treat…. ”
Content: A filling 120-page harvest of human meat (and how to use it).
Writing: Sefl-indulgent self-injury, masticatory mutilation, and gratuitous gluttony.
Art/design: Sharp sketches, gruesome graffiti, and a not-inconsiderable quantity of red.
Usability: Organized and occasionally explicit body horror abounds. You have been warned.
Content: A filling 120-page harvest of human meat (and how to use it).
Writing: Sefl-indulgent self-injury, masticatory mutilation, and gratuitous gluttony.
Art/design: Sharp sketches, gruesome graffiti, and a not-inconsiderable quantity of red.
Usability: Organized and occasionally explicit body horror abounds. You have been warned.
Suitor-Knight of Kergüs
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 to add emphasis and direct focus; modest by effective typographic choices
Usability: Class features are more complex than baseline but perfectly manageable
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 to add emphasis and direct focus; modest by effective typographic choices
Usability: Class features are more complex than baseline but perfectly manageable
The Despondent Demihumans
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: A thematically fitting way to incorporate traditional RPG races
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: A thematically fitting way to incorporate traditional RPG races
The Occult Ossuary
28 contributors
Brian Yaksha
Johan Nohr
Matthew Neff
Max Verbludenko
Federico Pagliardini
machinic
Greyson Yandt
Dom Cohen
Djuun
Kevin B.
Adam U.
Martin Gehrke
Bracken MacLeod
Jesse Davenport
The Eldritch Tomb
Michael Mars
Maceo the Escher
Rugose Kohn
James M.
Christopher Betancourt
Owen McGauley
Tupac Zuleta
Pablo Dapena
Naomi Rådmark
Vagabundörk
I. McClung
Chalkdown
Jared Barnes
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
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
The Wretched Usurper
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
Writing: Visceral and evocative descriptions; includes additional background tables
Art/design: Effective use of typefaces and color to direct attention
Usability: Advances by Getting Better and as Miseries accumulate
Content: Grim even by Mörk Borg standards; tables for name and conflict
Writing: Visceral and evocative descriptions; includes additional background tables
Art/design: Effective use of typefaces and color to direct attention
Usability: Advances by Getting Better and as Miseries accumulate
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