Johan Nohr

Pronounced "Murk Borg" it translates to "Dark Fortress" in English. There are three things happening here, some amazingly cool layout/art, some great original, atmospheric writing/ideas, and a bare skeleton of a system.

Let's start with the bad. I've seen more effort put into adding rules to the Dungeon! board game than went into creating the actual game rules for this system. Seriously this could have been created in 30 minutes (an hour tops) by anyone who's tried their hand at rpg game design in the past. The minimalist style of writing here just doesn't leave any room for details.

On to why I'm still glad I bought this book. It's beautiful. I love the punk rock zine/flyer look of the design, especially in an age of super smooth, elegant design and art that's become the standard lately (which I also love btw). The small format also makes it stick out as something more "indie". It's a sexy package all around.

The creativity here is morbid and boundless. Magic items that constantly berate you with insults about how disappointed your ancestors are in you, bad habits like "addicted to eating bugs", classes like "Wretched Royalty" and "Gutterborn Scum" create a wonderful doomy landscape and get my mind racing to create ideas this outré to add to my own games.

So overall, if you don't mind making up rules as your playing, if you love Metal (especially doom or black), and/or you like having cool looking books on your shelf I suggest this. Just know there's nothing groundbreaking about the system itself, it's all about the mood and the over-the-top strangeness of the setting.… (plus d'informations)