How to SOLO play MÖRK BORG (Using Sölitary Defilement)

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2 ай бұрын

In this video we do the following:
1 - talk about MÖRK BORG as a phenomenon
2 - give MÖRK BORG background lore (as much as is possible)
3 - explain rules of MÖRK BORG core play
4 - explain core rules of solo MÖRK BORG using solitary defilement
5 - do a little bit of Session zero-ing by creating my character.
@DesertDwellerSoloGaming I know this doesn't count as my playthrough, that is still coming this month!!!
Links:
Games by Stockholm Kartell (I forgot about Death in Space!!!): www.stockholmkartell.com
MÖRK BORG resources (like dungeon generator and character generator and monster generator) (scroll down!): morkborg.com/content/
Buy MÖRK BORG from @FreeLeaguePublishing : freeleaguepublishing.com/shop...
Solitary Defilement by Max Moon Games (hurry up!!!): www.maxmoongames.com/product/...
Pirate Borg: freeleaguepublishing.com/game...

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@DesertDwellerSoloGaming 2 ай бұрын

Video 9 (6 of 3) of me liking and then commenting on every new upload to beg Papa Man Alone for Mork Borg Gameplay and/or Campaign. I love the @ in the video description lmao. I’m so excited for the content. My copy of Sölitary Defilement arrived recently as well. Thanks to you sharing the secrets.

@carolinelabbott2451 2 ай бұрын

😊

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Lol you know what I love most about these comments is that they are somewhat polite..."and/or" a campaign. haha thank you for the choice! So many hostage takers never say things like that, i.e. "I want a helicopter and/or ten million dollars!!!"

@Chaoclypse 2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah. Mork Borg was my introduction to RPGs, and solo RPGs as well! Really excited to dig into this video. I have 2 seasons (1 finished, 1 unfinished) of playthroughs of Mork Borg using Solitary Defilement on my channel, and I've written a book that supplements Solitary Defilement with a bunch of extra material called Solitary Depths. I just sent over a coupon for a free version of the physical version to your e-mail. Hope you like it! Edit: Love your custom character sheets, I do the same for a lot of my solo RPG sessions! Also, hey, I have those same d2 skull coins, haha.

@Melvin7727 2 ай бұрын

Hey nice to see you here. I'm a fan of your channel and the Mork Borg playthrough. And of course, the drawings. Looking forward to cracking into Solitary Depths one of these days.

@Chaoclypse 2 ай бұрын

@@Melvin7727 Thank you for the kind words! Solitary Depths currently has a few free community copies remaining on Itch - feel free to grab one!

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait to get this going!

@convicsik 2 ай бұрын

Solitary defilement, Solitary Depths, Alone in the Crowd and Feratory are the greatest solo RPG books / tools on the market for solo / coop RPGing.

@boltfan43 2 ай бұрын

I have been working on tweaking Solitary Defilement to fit the Pirate Borg theme and feel I'm pretty close. If you would ever like to take a look at it just let me know!

@macoppy6571 2 ай бұрын

1:12:59 How to Use Solitary Defilement

@lone_adventurer 2 ай бұрын

Mayo spooned directly from the jar sounds like a form of torture...and your deli meats videos will be sorely missed. Looking forward to this series! Bring it on!

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your bravery in admitting your mayo habit. you are hereby sentenced to life in prison. we cannot allow this behavior in polite society.

@vintoks 2 ай бұрын

Your transparency is what I love best about your videos. And fessing up to your failed dumb lights off experiment and confessing you're wasting [my] time was pure gold! I love it! Thanks for giving some love to Mork Borg and the solo suppliment. You made some great points in countering the "style over substance" arguement, and I agree! Mork Borg has been in my wheelhouse for years now. I play it almost every week! I look forward to more of your videos!

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

I have no editing capabilities, a $40 mic, a crappy camera, and indigestion. The least I can offer you is my honesty vintoks!!!!

@chrisdonovan8795 2 ай бұрын

Is there a table for weak hits? Something like: 1-You lost something in the attempt (theft, breakage, respect, etc.,). 2-Your outcome is half as effective. 3-It's harder than you thought. Abandon the task, or push through (-1 hp). 4-The task takes twice as long. (Treat as 3 in combat.) 5-Your success has made things worse in the near future. 6-Your confidence is shaken. You must try a different approach next time.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

I’d say you just made a damn good weak hit table!! No table afaik but they do talk about how to handle those and I’m used to it from ironsworn so I have a good menu of ideas in my mind grapes

@AceneDean 2 ай бұрын

This is an incredible combo that doesn't get enough love. Thank you so much for featuring it and covering it in such a comprehensive, informative, and entertaining way.

@omerfarukyildiz5388 2 ай бұрын

I love MB btw. My first OSR game - haven't gone back to either Pathfinder or DnD ever since. I don't know why I ever bothered with them in the first place. It just never occurred to me that ttrpg don't have to be about number crunching...

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

no sometimes it's better to just keep your numbers to single digits and blast some skeletons apart

@JonFromWA Ай бұрын

Children:"One Two, Freddy's Coming For You."

@thicctynine 2 ай бұрын

video 1 of me liking and then commenting to force Man Alone to actually do a deli meat review video.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

lol oh god no please don't do it. I think you might have to do 100 for this

@thicctynine 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone you're the one depriving yourself of delicious deli meats and the opportunity to solo roleplay them. "Today on Man Alone" - 15 minutes of waffling later - "So anyway, I picked up this stick of Chorizo and I thought, 'I can probably solo this.' It's 15 centimeters long, so we'll be using 2d20 and try to roll under it's length on at least one of the dice." *Waves the chorizo around* "Every time neither die lands under, I fail the roll and I'll have to take a bite out of it, that means the game gets harder as the chorizo gets shorter and shorter. This is like life, where as time goes on you can find yourself trapped in a cycle of failure, but you can never give up the hope of rolling a one and succeeding against all odds."

@liquefiedpork 2 ай бұрын

I have yet to get neck deep into a Borg/Psalm campaign, but I keep getting supplement books because they (for the most part) are interesting to read and look at. Can't wait for your play.

@ike_d5402 2 ай бұрын

Anyone who endure SIX Man Alone videos is an absolute self-hating beast of a nerd. Much respect.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

obviously there's a level of derangement there, I have to do the video just as charity for a sad soul like that

@leafsneakers3257 2 ай бұрын

Great stuff as always

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

(tips hats and winks) just doin my job (rides away on horse, but horse is a donkey and I fall of into a ravine)

@DestroyerHivePro 2 ай бұрын

Wow, just what I was looking for!

@jaymehickey 2 ай бұрын

Great video as usaual. I have Mork Borg but spending more time on solo Forbidden Psalm, dig miniature painting and playing. Also, picked up the Core Manual & GM Guide for Symbaroum so looking forward to your solo work on Symbaroum.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

oh man I am so stoked about symbaroum - finally completed my set with the Advanced Players Guide!

@fenrous 2 ай бұрын

Crawl sheets were additional pdfs. Love the mini crawl concepts. Also do Not neglect Alone in the Crowd. It introduced a lot of cool ideas, like city chases and City Crawls. As far as condiments spicy mayo.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

I found the pdfs!!! Alone in the Crowd...was that part of that or did I miss that?

@Mantorp86 2 ай бұрын

I think Morg Borg is one of the easiest TTRPG to play solo because the rules are one page and they can be so easy modified for custom setting. You don’t nees to play in the Morg Borg universe. The best thing about MB is the player facing rolls which simplifies the game and also the monster stats. HP, damage, motivation is all you need.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

COMPLETELY AGREE!

@michaelk.2907 2 ай бұрын

Either I have a different version of Mörk Borg or this is some sort of Mandela Effect but you don't go down the dice ladder for the calendar... I recently heard multiple KZfaqrs mentioning this but it definitly isn't in my book... I just checked. I read the rule as you choose this before the start of the game and stick with it... Thus a d100 is some miserable years

@matthewrawls1184 11 күн бұрын

You are entirely correct. There is no rule in the rules as written that the die size must be degraded with each new Misery - the die size listing is simply to give an idea of how long a campaign would tend to last (measured in game days) based on the die size chosen by the GM and players when initiating the campaign.

@whangbar 2 ай бұрын

Ravi Shankar eats his own flaming eyeballs in an angry fugue of rage in 88th layer of the Abyss at your comment. Then again, he is now Ravishank Mörkar, Bard of Demoborgon. And his sitars bring doom.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

This was one of the most interesting comments I ever read, and I read it like six times. I am pretty sure this is a hex? I'm hexed now, right?

@whangbar 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone lol nah.

@Sweeperz 2 ай бұрын

Your vids get me through the brain-numbing slog of a work day. Thank you! Also, honey mustard.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

now we're talking - honey mustard by the truckload!!!

@devolutr 2 ай бұрын

The crawlsheets are included with the PDF. It’s a wierd concept.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

I found them from my oooooold download from itch.io but I do think they're free now?

@geoframsay Ай бұрын

Hi, great video! I had a couple questions. For someone interested in Soloing Mork Borg, what books do you recommend getting? Also Where did you get your decision dice (the black yes, yes and, no, maybe, etc) and that cool d4?

@donc7664 2 ай бұрын

*listens to video* *looks at Mork Borg on shelf collecting dust* *looks at box of Pathfinder core books that just arrived* ....*looks longingly back at Mork Borg*

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Just ignore it...don't look over at your shelf...you love your Pathfinder books...you don't wake up in the night in cold sweats thinking about the 88 page MB book...

@donc7664 2 ай бұрын

@amanisalone i dunno man, i mean these books just came in... In all seriousness, so stoked for this playthru. Would love for you to do vids on running included adventures (like rot black sludge) if you get time. Im always too intimidated to try a premade campaign because I don't know how to retain any surprise.

@adub_from_2534 2 күн бұрын

THOUSAND ISLAND! 🤣

@omerfarukyildiz5388 2 ай бұрын

Oh man, I can never play a game of DnD without my "ring with a brain on it". Classic DnD! Mörk Borg can't even compete...

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

HAHAHA yeah I just calls it like I sees it!

@YouTubdotCub 2 ай бұрын

jalapeno relish is my answer to the bonus question but plz do more borgy morky defiling!!!

@horacioaugustofilho6487 2 ай бұрын

If you want to pronounce Mork Borg, listen to the Swedish Chef singing.

@RPGDAD1980 2 ай бұрын

There is a bare bones pdf of Mork Borg out there. I like the art but it drives me nuts trying to read the book lol.

@GrayArmyGaming 2 ай бұрын

I love how the authors are trolling us all by expecting nobody to pronounce the “ö” in Mörk Borg, yet then they go in to add a “ö” to solitary. Brilliant. 😎

@arheru 2 ай бұрын

Sadly, different authors...

@GrayArmyGaming 2 ай бұрын

@@arheru Oh, darn… 😔

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

"SYOLEATARY DEFYLEMUNT"

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

You need to give every single person who participated in the "I can solo that" contest a trophy because they participated.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

no participation trophies! There will be winners and then everyone else must do a walk of shame to Vimeo

@davidcashin1894 16 күн бұрын

Note those Crawl sheets etc you were looking for are downloadable from the 1d10+5 page. Love me the 4 ability and really low detail of Mork Borg and Forbidden Psalm. It feels so much more like Vance's the Dying Earth where even the most Brilliant Mage's can only cram 4 spells into their brains. And because Forbidden Psalm is a Solo and or COOP game, and uses the identical rules and stats but bridges the gap to using miniatures and a tabletop I will use Solitary Defilement to enhance play. Seriously I hope you have looked at Forbidden Psalm and Cloth Goblins.

@matthewward4636 2 ай бұрын

When you mentioned the d&d books about them having things in them that won't really be used I agree, but 5e is my mine game the way I see it is more like a menu at a restaurant, I use the core system and throw out alot of rules and just do it narratively or simplify it, it flows quite well then, I think the idea of d&d is to make it your own, if I can't be bothered with certain things eg travel rules ; I'll just do it narratively and estimate the time it takes to get to the chosen location just remembering the 24miles per day.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

absolutely, I was being a bit obtuse of course. I think there is something to be said for just having so many options. I also think just because it's in the book doesn't mean you have to use everything. So yes, I was basically being a bit of an a-hole to prove a point but I think I was just being defensive about MB

@matthewward4636 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone youre not a a-hole, you're allowed an opinion 🙂 plus i really enjoyed your video on philosophy, really gave me food for thought and changed the way i see Solo gaming

@Matthew.thirtyseven Ай бұрын

Old Bay Street from the bottle

@arheru 2 ай бұрын

Tzatziki! Fresh as all frick!

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Love it on a gyro, but plain? Well I guess it's just yogurt with garlic and dill, right? I mean I eat strawberry yogurt so why am I prejudiced against garlic and dill?

@arheru 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone Never had it with dill. I think the Orthodoxy of Sauce commands it to contain cucumber instead, which makes it supremely fresh.

@Utreshimon 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the in-depth explanation, I've seen it mentioned in a lot of places without knowing what it was. I don't mind the gist of the setting but it looks and sounds like something I'd actually hate to GM for others or play solo. And I would drink spicy mayo from the jar.

@CornishCrusade 2 ай бұрын

1. Great video 2. Not quite a condiment, but I would drink malt vinegar by the bottle if it was socially permissible. Unfortunately, we live in a society

@AceneDean 2 ай бұрын

Don't bow to the fools, you drink from that bottle if you want to! ❤

@CornishCrusade 2 ай бұрын

@@AceneDean Thank you king, may your ketchup always be Heinz

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

oh my gosh I love it on Fridays but wouldn't drinking it straight evaporate my stomach lining? Or I guess maybe it neutralizes acid so would it just BASE my stomach to nothing?

@CornishCrusade 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone you gotta get on that malted grindset, turn that stomach acid i to stomach alkaline!

@CornishCrusade 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone on a serious note I recently discovered your channel and I'm enjoying it. You've sold me on Mork Borg and I'm tempted to play it, albeit with some aesthetic changes (I find a lot of the 80's anti-Christian vibe to be a bit cringe tbh, but that's just me). The apocalyptic calendar function looks perfect for 1:1 time, #BroSR style

@nicabar 2 ай бұрын

I could live my life near drowning in honey.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

okay this is true I have 100% just squirted honey onto a spoon and gulped it and put it back on the shelf

@arkanewizdom9363 Ай бұрын

BBQ sauce

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

Not sure if it counts as a condiment but that Greek sauce made with yogurt and cucumber and garlic. I would main line it if I could.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

you're the second to mention Tzatziki!

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone thank you I could not freaking remember what it was called for all I was worth. As far as I can tell the only difference between tzatziki and heroin is that tzatziki is legal.

@ethanlowe1845 2 ай бұрын

Ranch

@GrayArmyGaming 2 ай бұрын

Worcestershire sauce!

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

no this cannot be real...how do your inner cheeks survive?

@GrayArmyGaming 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone 😂😂😂

@GooberMcSnorford 2 ай бұрын

Fancy sauce, you know ketchup and mayonnaise together

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

hahaha one time I brought fancy sausage with miniature sausage winers to a party and only later realized it was supposed to be a "classy" party. I was like...uhhh...it's called "fancy" sauce???

@MrDowntemp0 2 ай бұрын

Horseradish sauce. Revenge upon my accursed sinuses.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

how could you do that to yourself

@arheru 2 ай бұрын

Mörk Borg is a strange beast: I've had one of the best sessions in my life GMing it, but some of the products are laughable. Have you seen the new pamphlet by Johan Nohr and his son? Have you seen what it costs? The _pamphlet_?!

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

I know...however I think (THINK!) that I saw on twitter yesterday that he is drawing a picture and writing a personal message in every single one of those pamphlets? That's wild.

@arheru 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone Fair, I guess (?). Sort of like a collectible. It's just... Compared to something like Trilemma adventures, which is a book of superb one-page dungeons at a similar cost, it gives off a cash-grabby vibe.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

@@arheru yeah I feel you on that, I think that it might be one of those things where the value is determined by the price which sets expectations of value which allows for a higher price (and so on). I love MB but I’m not gonna be in for that much…

@wbbartlett Ай бұрын

Almost ANY book looks good compared to 5e, though I did enjoy that brutal take down of the DMG. Mork Borg has some good stuff and is interesting to look at (like a messy car crash), but for actually using it, I'll stick to the plain text versions.

@xeltanni8999 13 күн бұрын

In my humble opinion, 5e's greatest failure is that it is fine. It's like playing tee ball or putting bumpers in the lane before you bowl. It is a solid C, maybe even a C+ of a game. There are issues and there are positives but over all it is the most beige of the RPGs.

@AceneDean 2 ай бұрын

BALSAMIC VINEGAR

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

WHAT IT'S JUST OIL AND VINEGAR, RIGHT???

@AceneDean 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone ONE GLASS OF OIL AND VINEGAR, NEAT, PLEASE.

@DesertDwellerSoloGaming 2 ай бұрын

Chick-Fil-A Sauce.

@jonathana6298 2 ай бұрын

Still waiting for the Borg Borg Star Trek hack. 😢

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

lol damn every time you write this I think...hmmm...I think I *could* do that

@agincourt_archer 2 ай бұрын

Marmite. I would not need to be forced.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

you and my girlfriend!!! How do you brits eat that stuff is like yeast jelly that looks like poo poo!

@agincourt_archer 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone Something deep in our DNA that means we need to be constantly atoning for unknown things in our past!

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

Is that dark fört or dark färt? The difference would be eschatological as opposed to scatalogical. That matters. One deals with a deep dark philosophical set of concepts and the other is, well, biology. 🤣

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

lol I knew where the joke was going five words In, but I went ahead and read the rest of the comment anyway

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

@@amanisalone I congratulate you on your intestinal fortitude. Just because I cannot resist sophomoric jokes, doesn't mean anyone should be forced to read them.

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

Because the glow-in-the-dark demo didn't work, this is where you start a patreon not so you can make money but so you can get money to get a better camera and improve the channel..... At least that's what everybody else seems to say on KZfaq it's not cuz I want the money it's cuz I want to improve the channel. Well my channel is going to continue to suck. Setting up a patreon or some account where people can send me money is too much work. BTW, the substance of Mork Borg is its style. Hate is way too strong a word for a game, but I'm sure not interested in playing it.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

I will only start a patreon when I have enough followers to quit my day job!!! I don't need the money yet - but I might if/when I get canned!

@ben3521 2 ай бұрын

Still waiting for you to solo an OSR Technics turntable with a salami

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Okay serious question if you carved the little lines into a flat salami, will it play a song just like a vinyl?

@nairobie755 2 ай бұрын

So one book filled with tools, items, enemies, options, etc good. Other books with the same things bad. Not that im a fan of dnd either but gives off some man shouts at clouds vibes.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

Over-description bad. Let me create the world, not be spoon fed a bunch of needless description. But hey different strokes for different folks

@evandierker2272 6 күн бұрын

I feel like merely the amount of pages in mork borg really illustrates the difference between the two. There are rules for everything in d&d. Whats the point of my DM? Simple OSR games are toolsets that allow way more creativity and take maybe an hour to read the whole rulebook a few times. 5e is thick, it still feels simple, theres all sorts of rules that piss me off (sorry you gotta drop that shield to cast a spell or take a feat) and on top of that, most of the subclasses are hyper specific archtypes that dont really fit all vibes. I got what man alone was saying. Im a 5e vet and i used to love it... before i looked into other rules light systems

@SaintSolo 2 ай бұрын

emotional blackmail

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

no no "ENCOURAGEMENT" meaning "FORCEFUL ENCOURAGEMENT"

@crapphone7744 2 ай бұрын

You should not give into cyberstalkers. I'll just continue to encourage you to play other solo games. This will spiral out of control into a psychotic depressive state where you are driven by random texts in your comment section and no longer have any self-control. 😊

@micah_raygun_ 2 ай бұрын

47:50 easy jealousy unsub

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

not only do I understand an envious unsubscribe, I encourage it. Having jealousy in my inner court of subscribers will only lead to backstabbing!!!

@svunnig 5 күн бұрын

Watched 20 minutes, did not talk about how to play.

@nanashimumei8392 2 ай бұрын

Does a pat of butter count? 🧇🧇 Speaking of food, I need to stop listening to your videos while I'm eating because one of these days one of your surprise attack sardonic statements is going to make me aspirate my Cream of Wheat.

@amanisalone 2 ай бұрын

hahahahah PLEASE DO NO ASPIRATE CREAM OF WHEAT. What a horrible messy expiration. Also - judges? - DING yes! A pad of butter DOES count!