Forbidden Psalm: an Artsy Mork Borg Supplement

I’m late to the party on this one (about a year). For those who don’t know, Forbidden Psalm is a standalone “expansion” to the roleplaying game Mork Borg - produced by Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr- to enable playing the game as a 28mm skirmish game. Mork Borg has an extremely permissive liscence, which allows anyone to produce and sell expansions to the base concept providing the follow a few rules, which I won’t go into here.

The result of this has been an explosion in story and rules modules intended to port a base fantasy roleplaying system to cyberpunk, weird war and mystery genres. This is all getting a bit corporate analytical, so lets examine the substance of the thing. In this case, the style is the substance. Flipping through the pages of any of these books, you’ll find glossy, grungy images using vibrant colours to hint at a greater narrative than what is conveyed in the written text of the book. This will be the make or break factor for the majority of people I feel. When you look past the evocative presentation, what remains is a satisfactory ruleset. If you don’t find the metal album cover art style evocative, you are probably going to bounce right off of Mork Borg and it’s ilk.

The rules provide a framework in which to run the game, centred around small groups of player characters (2-5 depending on which end of the roleplaying to wargaming spectrum suits you) which can crawl dungeons and raid tombs in either solo, co-operative or opposed play formats. The “satancore” art style is what will really spark your imagination to create backstories and motivation for horrid little men which you will control in your adventures. You won’t find handsome Conans or swarthy Aragorns here. No, here everybody is Gollum, Ephialtes or if you’re lucky Tuco Benedicto. You can use whatever miniatures you like for this game, but for inspiration, you could consider checking out 28-mag as well as the official miniature line from westfalia miniatures.