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#MorkBorg dude. #GameDesigner and #Artist. Show me your indie games!! Farewell to Arms REDUX - a sequel hack of MorkBorg Rivetheadgames.com https://rivethead-games.itch.io/

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𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍 @astrolich.bsky.social · Apr 2

I know a lot of you have been wanting to get you hands on this! Well now you can!

rivethead games @rivetheadgames.bsky.social · Apr 2

NEWS FROM THE FRONT: FAREWELL TO ARMS REDUX IS NOW AVALIABLE FOR PURCHASE!

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rivetheadgames.com/farewell/

This is not a drill, head to the trenches, grab your gas mask, and sharpen your zweihander - war has come to the Dying Lands of @morkborg.com!

Get your copy today!
#MorkBorg #ttrpg

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 2h

A young Bela Lugosi biopic is in early development from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way for Universal.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writers behind Tim Burton’s Ed Wood and Rudy Ray Moore biographical comedy Dolemite is My Name, pen the script.

Young Bela Lugosi Biopic Penned by ‘Ed Wood’ Scribes in Development for Universal

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions is developing a Universal Pictures biopic of Dracula originator Bela Lugosi, per Deadline. The script hails from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the w...

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Massiveface @massiveface.bsky.social · 5h

I enjoyed talking to myself in a Bob Ross voice while painting the clouds, I think he would approve.

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𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍 @astrolich.bsky.social · 3h

i love this so much

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 4h

More Mörk! Part concert, part puppet show; either way you'd probably better clap for the silk-strung symphony.
Mörktober day 13: WEB
#morktober #mörktober #mörkborg #morkborg #grimdark #ttrpg #digitalart #spookyscaryskeletons

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Michael M. Hughes @michaelmhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible review from the Witch of Wonderlust!

Magic for the Resistance Book Review (2.0)

YouTube video by The Witch Of Wonderlust

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𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍 @astrolich.bsky.social · 4h

#NowPlaying

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 5h

#MÖRKTOBER Day 14: Anchor

"Accused criminals are thrown into the basin wearing iron collars. The collars anchor them to the bottom, where they can struggle and scream into the water but never surface."

Words by @loottheroom.bsky.social, art by me.

MÖRKTOBER Day 14: Anchor

THE WEIGHTED BASIN
Three miles south of the Múr, in a collapsed caldera, sits The Weighted Basin. The stone pool is forty feet deep, its water black and cold. A carnival of the damned has taken root around its rim.
Accused criminals are thrown into the basin wearing iron collars. The collars anchor them to the bottom, where they can struggle and scream into the water but never surface.
Bookmakers shout odds on how long each prisoner will thrash before going still while the market roars around them. Food vendors sell grilled eel and basin-water taffy. Children throw stones into the pool to watch the ripples, trying to hit those struggling beneath the water. The salvagers work in shifts, diving down with hooked poles to retrieve the bodies once the bets have been paid out.
The collars are worth 400s each to collectors and occultists. The bodies are sold to anatomists and necromancers for considerably less.

The Salvagers
Ostrid Deep-Lung leads the dive teams. She can hold her breath for six minutes. Her skin has taken on a grey, waxy quality from repeated exposure to the basin water.
HP 8 Leather diving suit −d2 Morale 9 Hooked pole d6
Carries 2d4 retrieved collars at any given time

Illustration showing a diver reaching for the bottom of a pool of dark water, carrying a hooked staff. On the lake's floor are rocks and bodies, and a drowning person struggling with a heavy iron collar.

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rivethead games @rivetheadgames.bsky.social · 1d

FOLDS: a trinity of solo RPGs that all link up to make a larger, multifaceted experience of discovering what it means to be human... IN SPACE!

rivetheadgames.com/shop/folds/

Chart a course, travel to undiscovered stellar anomalies, try not to get sucked into a gravity warp!

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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 1d

#MORKtober 8: Wizard

The Sundered Cabal
Capra, Leone, Drago, & Serpente

Four Wizardly cultists seeded across Tveland in their quest to revive & reform the Lord of Beasts, CHIMERA!

🎲 #OSR #MörkBORG
🎨: @subotaii.bsky.social

#MORKtober 2025 Day 8- Wizard (part 1):

Black & teal zine page with 2 collage arts of Wizards, a skeletal man in white robe & miter, whose back sports large horns, and an afroed black woman wearing a bound effigy as a necklace (both by Subotai @subotaii.bsky.social ). Teal & white text reads:

"The Sundered Cabal. Any Wizard captured 400s, Dead 125s.

Capra, Undying Scholar (male skeleton)
HP 12, Morale 5, Cloak of Bone -d4, Screaming Stave d6 in a 10 foot cone. Special: cannot be knocked over, attacked from behind, nor lied to. Imperious. Patient. Wise. Wanders Graven-Tosk. Has the Powers of 2 Sacred Scrolls & 3 Unclean Scrolls.

Leone, Malevolent Politician (afroed woman)
HP 8, Morale 12, Thick Robes -d2, Rod of Station d6. Special: declares an edict each round (d4). Further reduces all damage taken by that amount. Cruel. Petty. Strategic. Holds office in Galgenbeck. Has the Powers of 1 Sacred Scroll & 2 Unclean Scrolls."

#MORKtober 2025 Day 8- Wizard (part 2):

Black & teal zine page with 2 collage arts of Wizards, a helmed man in black robes with sword, and a pale tattooed woman wearing a toga, casting a spell (both by Subotai @subotaii.bsky.social ). Teal, red, & white text reads:

"A cult! Spread across Tveland & dedicated to the resurrection of their many-headed God; the Lord of Beasts, Chimera!

Drago, Priestly Vizier (robed male)
HP 10, Morale 8, Black Helm -d2, Un-Saint's Blade d8. Special: can tear rosary apart to negate all damage from 1 attack. Intelligent. Depraved. Calm. Advises in Schleswig. Has the Powers of 3 Sacred Scrolls & 1 Unclean Scroll.

Serpente, Manipulative Oracle (tattooed woman)
HP 6, Morale 12, no armor, Venomous Touch d4+ special. Special: can attack 2 targets each turn. Test Toughness DR12 or lose next turn. Special: lithe & dances like a snake, DR14 to hit. Flattering. Cunning. Treacherous. Resides in Grift. Has the Powers of 4 Unclean Scrolls."

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MÖRK CY_BORG @morkborg.com · 4d

Make something for MÖRKTOBER you coward

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 9d

"Well" they all peer up from the pooling inky puddle, eyes affixed on you now. "What do you think, isn't it magnificent?!" Better make a presence test, quick...
#mörktober day 05: #stain
#morktober #morkborg #mörkborg #grimdark #digitalart #ttrpg

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 7d

The pale one will trade ointment for sheaves of discarded skin, which seem to possess the same arcane potency as...scrolls?!
#morktober day 06: HUSK
#mörktober #morkborg #mörkborg #grimdark #ttrpg #digitalart
(gave it 6 fingers on purpose, human art only, all my homies hate robo-slop)

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 2d

Your honor won't be the only thing tarnished if you're struck by the foul flurry of this ignoble warrior bug; Steward of the Feculant Sphere
Catching up on #morktober prompts with yesterday's: BEETLE.
#mörktober #mörkborg #morkborg #beetle #ttrpg #digitalart

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 2d

Closing the catchup gap with some SCALES.
#morktober #mörktober #mörkborg #morkborg #grimdark #digitalart #ttrpg #illustration

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 1d

THORN: for #morktober day 09. Better late than never!
#mörktober #morkborg #mörkborg #digitalart #grimdark #ttrpg

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Sebastian Barth @sebastianbarth.bsky.social · 1d

Just about caught up with #mörktober now with today's BINDING. Always read the instructions thoroughly, especially if they're written in a cursed tongue. #morktober #mörkborg #morkborg #grimdark #ttrpg #digitalart #illustration

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𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍 @astrolich.bsky.social · 1d

Gal Gadot is genocidal Christopher Walken

𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍 @astrolich.bsky.social · 2d

At first i thought this was a Gundam reference... then i realized Stardust Memories is an actual film and far more likely.

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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · Jul 10

Vermont from Mahvel

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Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 2d

Adding a little color to the #MÖRKTOBER creations. Here’s Day 8 again.

I’m not hitting every day on the day of the prompt, but doing well. Days 10-14 are coming up soon and should be good to go.

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𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍 @astrolich.bsky.social · 2d

19 days 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween

19 days 'til Halloween, Silver Shamrock

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Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 2d

#MÖRKTOBER day 12: Binding

"The giants may be gone but the peak remains, as do the old rituals. How to measure the solstices and the equinoxes when there is no sun in the sky and time itself has grown slippery? None but Randlef knows ..."

Words by @loottheroom.bsky.social, art by me

MÖRKTOBER day 12: Binding
Randlef's Peak

What sort of tribute is a goat to one the size of a giant? A snack. A morsel. An apéritif. And yet in days gone, this is what they offered, to keep the great slow ones from crushing all they had built and gnawing on their bones.
The giants may be gone but the peak remains, as do the old rituals. How to measure the solstices and the equinoxes when there is no sun in the sky and time itself has grown slippery? None but Randlef knows, and she keeps her methods secret.
If the sacrifices are not offered, the Miseries will come.

Randlef, the Vessel
Time flies through her veins. It has nowhere else to go. It churns in her guts, spills from her mouth when she speaks. She grows from young to old to young again over hours. She offers her sacrifices to bleed off excess time, drowning in moments that pile up inside her, keeping the giants buried deeply in the past where they belong.
HP 12 Unarmoured Morale – Attack DR10. No damage, Temporal Bleed.
Temporal Bleed: Test Presence DR12 or age d6 years
(−1 to a random Ability). She heals d4 HP each time this occurs.

Illustration of a tall, sharp-peaked cliff with stairs spiraling from the ground to the top. The stairs are lined with tall torches. A lone goat stands tied on the top of the cliff, as a sacrificial offering.

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 2d

It costs $0.00 to support a human artist

(repost) monthly lubi september 2024, a roughly painted experimental digital piece of a character holding a sword + a quote by ursula k le guin

(repost) simple digital illustration in mostly flat colours. a swordsman stands on a large bloody X mark on the right, a black dog watches him from the left side

(repost) elric of melnibone, agonizingly reaching for stormbringer

(repost) monthly lubi experimental from july 2025. he's standing in the middle of a room, holding a sword with his reflection in the mirror

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