Grading the Mörk Borg System

[overgeeked]

Any idea of approximately how long (in hours) it would probably take to run Rotblack Sludge (the free Dungeon Crawl)?

No idea. I try to avoid most modules.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any idea of approximately how long (in hours) it would probably take to run Rotblack Sludge (the free Dungeon Crawl)?

One of my players ran through it with another group. I believe he said it was a three hour game.

 

[Shardstone]

Cy-Borg is truly amazing. I think it's such a work of art and a great addition to the cyberpunk genre.

 

[Malmuria]

Any idea of approximately how long (in hours) it would probably take to run Rotblack Sludge (the free Dungeon Crawl)?

It's like 12 rooms? So 3-4 hours, depending on how quick your group is.

 

[MGibster]

I own it but haven't played it yet. It seems a bit bleak and light on the setting, so I'm not sure how to hook my group into playing it.

 

[Aldarc]

I hate it, but it's more the graphic design than the actual system. The books make my eyes bleed.

I'm sure it's a serviceable system, but I can't get past the graphic design choices and the general bleakness.

 

[jdrakeh]

I will say that Pirate Borg, as a previous poster mentioned, while still heavily stylized, isn't the nightmare for my eyes that other Borg games are.

 

[iPwnedMSCS]

I have run Mörk Borg a lot and really enjoy it. The mechanics are all player facing and fit on two A5 pages.

The vibe is the top and it seems that either you love it or you hate it with no middle ground to speak of.

The third party license is very permissive which is good and has resulted in some amazing things being made. The down side is that there is a lot of dreck to wade through to get to the good stuff.

Don't know if you're intending your list of derived systems in the opening post to be exhaustive or not, but if so there are quite a few that need to be added.

 

[CleverNickName]

Don't know if you're intending your list of derived systems in the opening post to be exhaustive or not, but if so there are quite a few that need to be added.

I doubt it'll ever be exhaustive, because there are dozens (hundreds?) of systems out there. But I'd like to have a good mix of the most popular ones, the newest ones, the controversial ones.... basically, the ones most likely to generate a good discussion. The idea is to get people talking about non-5E, non-d20 systems, maybe talk some folks into giving them a try.

If you have any recommendations, just let me know and I'll take a look. I try to drop a new survey every 1d3 weeks.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm sure it's a serviceable system, but I can't get past the graphic design choices and the general bleakness.

I will say that, in Pirate Borg at least, the bleakness goes so far around the bend that it comes back around to comedy. If you played the Dark Caribbean straight, it's basically the Cthulhu Mythos endgame, coupled with everyone being coked-up to their eyeballs on the remains of the undead in the ruins of a previous zombie apocalypse.

But in practice, there's slapstick, gross-out horror and more deflating that ton. (I mean, you can play an alcoholic parrot with a pegleg as a PC. There's a lot of humor baked in.)

From what my player has told me, his group plays Mork Borg in a similar fashion. It's cartoon fatalism, not true nihilism.