{"id":56127,"date":"2023-02-02T21:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=56127"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:33:54","slug":"mork-borg-ikhon-coming-february-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=56127","title":{"rendered":"M\u00d6RK BORG: IKHON Coming February 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/349b0457-ba23-dfa0-a63c-a9fefe01fe5d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-56128\" src=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/349b0457-ba23-dfa0-a63c-a9fefe01fe5d-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/349b0457-ba23-dfa0-a63c-a9fefe01fe5d-234x300.jpg 234w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/349b0457-ba23-dfa0-a63c-a9fefe01fe5d-117x150.jpg 117w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/349b0457-ba23-dfa0-a63c-a9fefe01fe5d.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Free League Publishing and Stockholm Kartell today officially announced <strong>M\u00d6RK BORG: IKHON<\/strong>. This new module for the hit indie old-school RPG <strong>M\u00d6RK BORG<\/strong>\u00a0will be released on <strong>February 28<\/strong>. A pre-order giving early access to a complete PDF is now live in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freeleaguepublishing.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2dcfb24fb7c8d0fb9c2f52040&amp;id=3f4225ab00&amp;e=05b474b710\">Free League webshop<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IKHON <\/strong>is a mystery box for <strong>M\u00d6RK BORG<\/strong>. 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boxed set with rules on how to unfetter the Profane Profound.<\/li>\n<li>Four tracts, one for each god-creature, detailing their gifts and punishments.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Over 40 full-page illustrations by the masterful Paraguayan artist Samuel Araya, whose oil paintings will bring the Profane Profound to blasphemous life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>M\u00d6RK BORG is designed by Pelle Nilsson (Ockult \u00d6rtm\u00e4stare Games) and Johan Nohr (Stockholm Kartell), published by Free League Publishing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REVIEW QUOTES FOR M\u00d6RK BORG:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is the OSR taken to a completely different level.&#8221; 10\/10<\/em><br \/>\n\u2013Bud&#8217;s Review<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s an art piece to have in your collection.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n\u2013Bloat Games<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt manages to cram pure brilliance into such tight spaces that its outright confounding at times.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\u2013The Dread Gazebo<\/p>\n<p><strong>About M\u00d6RK BORG<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face.<br \/>\nLight on rules, heavy everything else.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>M\u00d6RK BORG<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M\u00d6RK BORG &#8211; ENNIE Awards Winner 2020<\/strong><br \/>\nProduct of the Year (Gold)<br \/>\nBest Layout &amp; Design (Gold)<br \/>\nBest Writing (Gold)<br \/>\nBest Game (Silver)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freeleaguepublishing.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2dcfb24fb7c8d0fb9c2f52040&amp;id=366b59dfb0&amp;e=05b474b710\">Find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Our upcoming games include RPGs\u00a0<em>Dragonbane<\/em>,<em>\u00a0The Lord of the Rings&#x2122; Roleplaying<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Walking Dead Universe RPG<\/em><em>, <\/em>and the <em>Mutant: Year Zero <\/em>miniatures game\u00a0<em>Zone Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Our current game portfolio includes\u00a0the official\u00a0<em>Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring<\/em>&#x2122; roleplaying game,\u00a0<em>Tales From the Loop &#8211; The Board Game<\/em>, the official\u00a0<em>ALIEN RPG<\/em>\u00a0(Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game\u00a0<em>Vaesen (<\/em>winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG M\u00d6RK BORG\u00a0(winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate &#8217;80s\u00a0<em>Tales From the Loop RPG<\/em>\u00a0(winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy\u00a0<em>Forbidden Lands<\/em>\u00a0(winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic\u00a0<em>Mutant: Year Zero<\/em>\u00a0(Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games C<em>oriolis &#8211; The Third Horizon<\/em>\u00a0(Judge&#8217;s Spotlight Award 2017) and\u00a0<em>Death in Space<\/em>, the dark fantasy game\u00a0<em>Symbaroum<\/em>, the weird-fantasy\u00a0<em>Into the Odd Remastered<\/em>, the cyberpunk RPG\u00a0<em>CY_BORG\u00a0<\/em>and the new edition of the RPG classic\u00a0<em>Twilight: 2000\u00a0<\/em>(Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freeleaguepublishing.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2dcfb24fb7c8d0fb9c2f52040&amp;id=42dce8d79d&amp;e=05b474b710\">www.freeleaguepublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,4],"tags":[4740,3930,3521,4633],"class_list":["post-56127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-rpg-news","tag-apocalyptic-fantasy-horror","tag-free-league-publishing","tag-headline","tag-mork-borg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}