Portents & Curses of the Prince of Gorse
A downloadable Mork Borg solo tool
Eschew company! Heed the omens! Beware the howling lamb!
This bookmark-sized tool is for everyone's favourite tar-black grim fantasy RPG, MÖRK BORG. It provides two things:
Portents
A d20 table solo oracle — use this to receive random prompts to inspire the twists and turns in your game. Useful for questions ranging from "what is here?" to "what was the boar king's dying wish?"
Curses
A mini procedure for introducing repercussions into your game. Thought you'd felled that gibbering skeleton? Well think again.
Physical edition
Physical copies are available on my store.
Portents & Curses of the Prince of Gorse is an independent production by Alfred Valley and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License. MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.
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This looks great! For curses you roll on same d20 table just with 2d6? Im confused about that. Thanks!
The curses are separate to the portents but together they make a small system you can use for solo'ing.
After you have a dangerous encounter you roll 2d6 and list the result alongside a small summary of that encounter, e.g.
If you go to add a result but it has the same number result as one that's already in the list it indicates there's a repercussion stemming from one of the incidents. Choose which one, erase it and play out what that repercussion is. If you need help working out what the repercussion is you can always use the portents.
Does that help?
Came here looking for exactly that and it does help a lot! Although using the pit trap from 6 encounters ago requires some great narrative judo hahah.
I was thinking that those could be more abstract things, similar to proper curses, e.g. after fighting a skeleton, a 2d6 =5: nightmares with the undead. Then I think it's easier to roleplay whenever it comes up again.
Thanks a lot for this!
Is there any way to have just one with white background as my printed does not like the yellow color :(
Of course! I've just added a (hopefully) printer friendly version. Let me know how you get on.
Yes thank you it came out great. I printed it on yellow paper to make it feel like its part of the game.
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know.
when might the physical copies be for sale?
They’re currently available on my web store: https://www.hausofvalley.com/product/portents-curses-of-the-prince-of-gorse
Exalted Funeral also have them: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/portents-curses-of-the-prince-of-gorse
Using this for my MORK BORG solo playthrough and I can't praise this enough.
The main words and symbols are extremely evocative, and the 3 extra words that go along with each helps spark the imagination.
Really cool the amount of variety Alfred Valley got into the oracle using just a D20! 5/5 stars!
Thank you!