If you buy one thing for Prime Day, make it the Mörk Borg TTRPG

polygon.com:

Players have been blessed this last decade by the tremendous resurgence of tabletop gaming. Not just board games, mind you, which have been humming along for the better part of 15 years or more. No, we’re experiencing a renaissance of tabletop role-playing as well. Lead by the pop-culture phenomenon that is 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, the global marketplace is full to bursting with independent creators who have been inspired to drop incredible experiences seemingly every other week. None stands taller among its peers than Mörk Borg, a rules-light TTRPG from Free League Publishing. For this October’s Prime Day, it’s on sale.

Prices taken at time of publishing.

Designed by Pelle Nilsson, Mörk Borg is an 80-page hardcover book wrapped in a garish, electric yellow cover. Inside it, you’ll find a riot of chrome fonts and bright pink demons surrounded by Old School Renaissance mechanics, also known as OSR. It’s a movement among TTRPG creators to streamline the role-play experience, paring it down to its most basic elements. The biggest difference by far is that gameplay sessions are invariably nasty, brutish, and short. It’s the perfect antidote for campaign fatigue — the malaise that tends to creep in at the midpoint of a longer, more scripted storyline.

“The game and your lives end here. Burn the book.” Photo sent to us by a dedicated cultist. pic.twitter.com/7etupsytEC

But even if you never roll a die in anger using the Mörk Borg system, simply flipping through the book can be an inspiration. It’s a seemingly endless cycle of bizarre imagery and daring layouts, with loads of randomized tables rendered in obscure fonts, all used for telling stories on the fly. It’s a good reminder that the game master is more than just