MÖRK DÖD

MÖRK DÖD is a stand-alone game and new setting: a post-apocalyptic medieval industrial world set in the bleak universe of Mörk Borg a few decades following the events of the core book 

PROLOGUE
As foretold, the world did die but not as written in The Nameless Scriptures. The Great Basilisks rose, but not before mankind found something- a substance even more valuable than silver: crude oil. They used this black liquid to fuel mechanical abominations, burning, digging, drilling, always wanting more. Needless to say, eventually they built weapons. When She came, they blasted her two heads back into the abyss.

7:7
Wars raged, and kings and queens fell as the pumping machines towered through the sunless sky, their teeth and claws dug deeper into the very core of this rotten world. And here they found it - and curiosity killed them all. Their greed opened the gates of Hell: The Seventh Seal was broken. The Prophecy fulfilled.

EPILOGUE
The earth has been scorched, the machines laid to ruin, and mankind close to extinction. But few still walk this brave new hell. Amongst cowards and traitors, a resistance stands. Brutal warriors, fueled by hatred, mutated by Hellfire, and wielding gasoline-fueled weapons of destruction and dangerous scrolls from ancient times, these juggernauts of death are called THE HELLSHREDDERS. 

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? 

Is there a game more brutal than Mörk Borg? NOW THERE IS!
MÖRK DÖD (meaning Dark Death in Danish/Swedish) is a DEATH METAL hack of Mörk Borg, making it even more ridiculously extreme.

The gates of Hell have been opened, and chainsaws exist. You take the role of HELLSHREDDERS, mutated, powerful, and relentless warriors, ripping and tearing your way through hordes of evil, blasting their asses back to Hell!

The game uses the Mörk Borg engine, with twists and tweaks making your characters mightier (and even more violent), new mechanics for slaughtering hordes, and introducing the BRUTALITY system: a bar you fill by making your kills as gory as possible, and by growling Death Metal references while doing so.

• A full set of rules, a stand-alone hack of, and compatible with, Mörk Borg & CY_Borg.
• Lots of gore-drenched spells based purely on titles of Death Metal tracks. Yes, this will indeed be messed up.
• A name and title generator giving you endless options for absolutely ridiculous (and metal as fuck) names for your characters.
• New Horde mechanics. Is there a better feeling than tearing your chainsaw through ten rotting zombies all at once, while getting bathed in their bile and blood? I don't fucking think so.
• Optional rules for Boss battles, adding miniature-friendly tactics to the climax of your session, with a few simple additions.
• The Brutality Mechanic. Run amok, make a bloodbath! The Brutality meter fills as you hack and slash your way through the hordes of hell - when filled up, unleash chaos!
• In-depth lore about the world and setting - How did the world end? And why the hell do chainsaws exist in these medieval times?
• Lots of bizarre monsters, focusing heavily on daemons and undead.
• Brutal Weapons. From medieval swords to gasoline fueled power tools and flame throwers. All you need to make a bloody mess.
• 3 pre-written one-shot adventure, written by me, Pelle Nilsson, and John Baltisberger
• Lots of disgusting artwork, inspired by 90s Death Metal album covers. Not for the faint of heart, be warned!

The game is a hack of the incredibly effective yet simple Mörk Borg and CY_Borg systems; a roll-over d20 system with only 5 stats: Strength, Agility, Presence, Toughness, and Knowledge.

The "Borg" games are notoriously known for being very deadly. In MÖRK DÖD though, you do not play as a regular squishy human scum. You play as mutated HELLSHREDDERS, bigger, tougher, and more brutal. This means, you are equipped to take a beating, to take down hordes of daemons to go against the giant Arch Daemons protecting each Rift.

The book is a full game, so you don't need anything else to play it. But you can also use it with both Mork and CY, and the countless hacks and supplements out there.

You probably already know the world, the bleak dying lands of Mörk Borg. Now fast-forward a few decades, as man discovered crude oil and its properties. Of course the desperate bastards got greedy built machines to extract even more of the substance. In their never-ending search, they dug too deep, and accidentally opened a gate to Hell. 

The world is now a wasteland of crumbled castles, ruined towns, and iron carcasses of the massive yet primitive oiling industries.

You might call this setting "Oil Punk", a medieval industrial world. There is no electricity, no spaceships, no firearms. But there is oil and its properties have been discovered. There are pumpjacks, rock grinders, and industrial vehicles. There are giant drills, flamethrowers, and oil bombs. There are gears, tubes, and iron. And there are chainsaws.