Discovering OSR: MÖRK BORG's Rotblack Sludge!

About the adventure

You always wanted to try OSR games? Here is your chance! I'm launching the OLD SCHOOL REVIVAL TOUR 2025. I will be offering different OSR games every week over the next few months. Mothership, Liminal Horror, Electric Bastionland, Pirate Borg, Old School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lamentation of the Flame Princess, Troika... WHAT ABOUT THIS WEEK? --------------------------- And we will start with no other than MÖRK BORG, written by Johan Nohr and Pelle Nilsson, published by Free League. The game has received so many awards and is considered today one of the most iconic titles in the OSR movement, with its unique artistic direction, its simplistic mechanics and its huge community of 3rd party creators. In the author's own terms, "it's a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world". We are talking heavy metal inspired dungeon crawling, the kind where you die fast and create a new character even faster. If you never heard of it, think The Darkest Dungeon visually with a streamlined D&D 3.5 approach in terms of game design. We will start as soon as we have enough players, and we will play for the first week the classic "Rotblack Sludge", the original starting adventure published with the core book. THE STORY ------------ You face execution for heretical theft but a masked Seer, a Courtier of the Shadow King, offered you a chance at life. The King’s one true heir, his son Aldon, is missing. Without an heir, the Shadow King will eventually be forced to hand his crown to his imbecile brother. Get him back discreetly and wealth, life and freedom will be yours. It’s believed Aldon is imprisoned in an infamous underground locale, a place no free man would willingly go, a place called "The Accursed Den."

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