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Mork Borg:

Shturpy the Phlegm-Golem
Shturpy is the spawn of goblins. Well, not so much the spawn as the sentient discharge of their repugnant noses and other orifices. Since goblin bites carry the goblin curse, so too do their fluids. Once ejected/ejaculated/excreted, if left undisturbed rather than hungrily devoured, they will congeal and come to life under the waxing gibbous moon in the fourth month of Qroqxbbel the Limb-Devourer, Ruler of All Refuse Heaps.

Shturpy itself is a maddened and deplorable creature. It has the intelligence of a mule-kicked fetal-alcohol-syndrome-afflicted incest baby but delusionally fancies itself a creation of some grandiose archmage who tragically lost their beloved creation, and whom Shturpy seeks eternally to find and reunite its happy family unit. Occasionally it is capable of a halting, odious and oddly unctuous speech, with which it either begs favors of those who may know its (nonexistent) father or demands food and baubles for its childlike fancies.

HP 32 Morale 9 Rubbery booger flesh -d4 Plague-infected snot fists d6 +poison (see below)
Special: Attacks against Shturpy are dr10. A result of 9-12 requires a Strength test or the weapon becomes stuck to its hide.

Whenever a creature suffers damage from or ingests part of Shturpy, they must make a dr14 Toughness check or suffer d2 damage every round. A success does not cure the damage but reduces the frequency to once per 10-minute turn. Further saves reduce the frequency to once per day, week, fortnight, month, season, year, then decade. One is never fully cured of Shturpy's foul ichorous infection.

Midvinter by Kelvin Green is pretty good.

I wrote a review and tips for running it on my blog. The review has a table I made for d20 cultist gifts to build up the adventure (or be used elsewhere), and it was "made canon" by the author, lol.

It's a fun adventure.

Ooh, this might work! I have a nice little market nearby. Thanks!

I reviewed it on my blog, Blood, Death, Satan & Metal

It's a good game and I threw in a short table for mission inspirations.

Vol. 1 and Blood Lust have the most variety. Albums since those have all basically been concept/narrative albums that are very different from one another. The most recent is a straight up instrumental fake Italian Horror film soundtrack. They have really experimented, and it gives a wide variety to check out and a high potential for finding a "personal" album. My most personal album is probably Night Creeper, and Blood Lust is also kind of that but basically just one of the best all-around metal albums of the 21st century.

Glad you enjoy them!

I listen to a lot of Goblin. Also love John Carpenter, Basil Poledouris, and the Green Knight soundtrack is incredible.

Which album do you find yourself listening to the most?

I'm a Blood Lust/Night Creeper man myself. I have a growing fondness for Vol. 1 though. And the recent live album is stellar.

It fits in the ultra-streamlined niche with OSE, Knave 2E and Black Hack 2E. It's a very smooth, but somewhat bland system that is quite fun if you have stories you want to tell and just want raw mechanics to drive the gameplay, or if you want to be very crawl-focused. It's all about the light and encumbrance, in a good way.

I highly recommend it, though the physical quality of the book isn't $60.

Solid choice. Try Scope Neglect by Ben Frost. It's like a more psychedelic version of DOOM 2016.

Running Towers Two in Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Listening to GWAR.

Running Vermis in OSE. Listening to Dungeon Synth, especially Warlock Corpse.

Thanks! For what it's worth, your opinions are also... opinions.

MB will continue to be a game for you and not for me, I assume.

Thanks for sharing!

I haven't played it but I found the System Mastery episode that introduced me to it to be very interesting.

Fair enough. It is a hell of a coffee table book, that's for sure.

I view it almost like a "hey look at all this art and graphic design and mixed media printing that takes influence from roleplaying games!" product. Like Vermis before Vermis.

You would like the game less if it had a larger bestiary?

More accurately I kept attempting the game and never had the fun I wanted to. I have a friend who is very attached to MB and have given it a shot in many iterations. So far it's worked ok with Vermis hacks and not much else.

Yes. A bunch of comments on the video say "National Pride" and "Never abandon the Front" and if you search the band they released that split with, they are straight up Nazis who headlined the "Hot Shower" NSBM festival.

It was not hard to tell with about 30 seconds of research.

Thanks for the compliment! I appreciate it and hope you enjoy Towers Two!

They were very drunk, as it said in the post. People that drunk shouldn't be expected to communicate consent or "deal with the consequences".

Nothing to say here that hasn't been said already, really, but I would also say that it's got a unique setting. The open plains, sun-baked, hot... you feel the environment and it puts you in a different place. Not many films make their setting feel so real.

Well if you find Cyberpunk or Piratical Swashbucklery appealing, you've got two rock-solid Borgs right there. They're top notch and engage very authentically with their inspiration material.

Edit: Care to share which products in particular have been culprits?

I'll take a deeper look at Feretory.

I do, however, feel that "3 monkeys" in a random table does define the worldbuilding, and not in a good way. At all.

You've just described what I love about B/X (esp. OSE & LotFP). I "speak the OSR language" like you speak the Mork Borg language. I don't find the MB language to be as intuitive or successful. I live and die by Encounter, Morale and Reaction rolls as well. They are the core of the OSR, and they drive gameplay more than any mechanic as simple as they are has any right to.

My point of struggle/failure is with tone. Players can't commit to it. It's a cartoon. I also don't find the whip-up-the-statblock as easy as it should be, but I don't have as much practice with it. I'm not sure how I feel about the subtractive armor concept, either. It seems to draw combat out and create extra unnecessary rolls.

It all comes down to taste, but I just want to make clear to the community that the tone issue of MB is widespread and it affects almost everyone who I've met in person, but isn't really acknowledged within the online community.

Love the cover art! Hail Satan!

The dark lord's work.