Forged by the left hand of Nechrubel, bound in cured skin and soot-black wood, the ancient god-vessels known as IKHONs are detested by the Two-Headed Basilisks. Wielding their Powers, unfettering the Profane Profound shackled within is a serious heretical crime and whoever may carry these blackened shrines will be forever hunted by the inquisition. But perhaps it is worth it.
Free League Publishing and Stockholm Kartell today officially announced MÖRK BORG: IKHON. This new module for the hit indie old-school RPG MÖRK BORG will be released on February 28. A pre-order giving early access to a complete PDF is now live in the Free League webshop.
IKHON is a mystery box for MÖRK BORG. A gaol keeping four almost-forgotten folk gods at bay; the Bilkherd, the Becklure, the Old Dead and the dreaded Silkfiend. Those who dare commune with them are promised great rewards. But life and death go hand in hand and too small a sacrifice could be perceived as an insult. This gift could very well be a curse.
Contents:
- Boxed set with rules on how to unfetter the Profane Profound.
- Four tracts, one for each god-creature, detailing their gifts and punishments.
- Written by Pelle Nilsson but torn apart and rebuilt in a stranger, darker form by Fiona Maeve Geist and Jarrett Crader of the MoonRat Conspiracy.
- Over 40 full-page illustrations by the masterful Paraguayan artist Samuel Araya, whose oil paintings will bring the Profane Profound to blasphemous life.
MÖRK BORG is designed by Pelle Nilsson (Ockult Örtmästare Games) and Johan Nohr (Stockholm Kartell), published by Free League Publishing.
REVIEW QUOTES FOR MÖRK BORG:
“This is the OSR taken to a completely different level.” 10/10
–Bud’s Review
“It’s an art piece to have in your collection.”
–Bloat Games
“It manages to cram pure brilliance into such tight spaces that its outright confounding at times.”
–The Dread Gazebo
About MÖRK BORG
A doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face.
Light on rules, heavy everything else.
MÖRK BORG is a blackened artpunk RPG about miserable bastards and heretics enduring a bleak, dying world. It came out of nowhere and ravaged the role-playing game scene in 2020 when it won four gold ENnies (Product of the Year is one of them) and has become a cult hit with a dedicated following ever since.
MÖRK BORG – ENNIE Awards Winner 2020
Product of the Year (Gold)
Best Layout & Design (Gold)
Best Writing (Gold)
Best Game (Silver)
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About Stockholm Kartell
A creative coven of writers, designers and idiots. Stockholm Kartell manifested in 2015 and has been a key player in the Swedish old-school RPG scene as an organizer of events and publisher of game material ever since. In 2020 they entered the international stage when MÖRK BORG RPG swept the ENnies. The rules-light, gritty sci-fi game Death in Space and the MÖRK BORG cyberpunk spin-off game CY_BORG was released in 2022.
About Free League Workshop
Free League Workshop is a sub-label for externally designed games that Free League help print, publish and distribute.Released on the sub-label are the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG, thescience fiction RPG Death in Space, the weird-fantasy RPG Into the Odd Remastered and the dark fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG . About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our upcoming games include The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, The Walking Dead Universe RPG,the MÖRK BORG spin-off game Pirate Borg, Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame, and Dragonbane.
Our current game portfolio includes the official Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring™ roleplaying game, Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate ’80s Tales From the Loop RPG (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017), and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).
