ORC BORG
A downloadable game
The DERELICT is a great big beautiful trash rocket smashing through space and it is jam-packed with ORCS, generations upon generations of them, sporing and scrapping, building murderous idols to their mad gods, and praying for DOOM when the Derelict will crash into heaven and disgorge every dead-hard big-toothed bastard in a glorious tide of violence.
YOU are an ORC, and you fight and kill and pray and scheme and tinker and howl for a place in heaven.
ORC BORG is a zine-length standalone RPG with beautiful, brutal art on every page. ORC BORG is a collaboration between Grant Howitt (Spire, Heart, Honey Heist, Goblin Quest) and ROLLINKUNZ (Fragnarok, The Dungenerator, Goblinfinite). It's powered by the MÖRK BORG engine - so it's fast, cruel, and obsessed with the apocalypse.
In it you'll find, amongst other things:
- Everything you need to make an obsessive weirdo desperately trying to accelerate the apocalypse
- New guns, powered and unpowered melee weapons, and lots of miscellaneous bits and pieces to steal from anyone foolish enough to leave them unguarded on account of being dead
- Rules for piloting, fighting and stealing legendary Big Robots such as BANG TEN THOUSAND, MASSIVE PROBLEM, and RUST BITCH
- Cybernetic limb replacement rules and a unique orc cyborg class called, ingeniously, the ORCBORG
- Guidance for jamming existing dungeon maps into the Derelict to avoid doing any actual prep work
- Two new kinds of Power: distilled Technowizardry (Summon a monorail car! 3D-print your dinner!) and yell-powered Orc Prayers (Make guns much louder, and therefore much deadlier! Get twice as big!)
You'll also be able to roll up new orcs on the fly with GENERATORC, a free web-based character generator:
I WANT THE PHYSICAL ZINE
You can also grab the gorgeous Risograph-printed physical version directly from Rowan, Rook & Decard:
It comes with the digital version included, and it's even bigger and louder than a screen can contain!
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
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Just bought my physical copy of the game at my LGS and I love it! So much flavor and vibes!
I do have some questions about running the game. I couldn't find if there were any limitation on using orc Prayers and powers going Drastically wrong. Are these supposed to be let free to GMs to decide?
Made a custom phone case from the book!
Wow, this is really cool! I'm honored! <3
heck yeah! 🤘
how does one, lets say, import the orcborg class to mork borg? or import anything from this into mork borg?
You can basically just jam 'em right in there! The main rules difference between the two is what happens when characters go down (in MB they die; in OB they get incapacitated or dismembered and then have their bits replaced with cool cyborg gear).
Converting to CY_BORG takes one simple rule:
Orc-borgs get to roll Presence when they would roll Knowledge, and anyone trying to work orcish tech can use Presence instead of Knowledge if they wish. Orc tech runs on vibes and intuition!
Sorry for the tardy reply (I don't get notifications for these)!
Is there clarification how the Darkness work in the game? I didn't seem to find it in the booklet.
Also what Musical Slugs do?
Hi there!
Musical Slugs are orcish music recorded on big, chunky magazines that you can slam into your head-mounted jam players, pop into your Big Robot's music port, etc.
What are you referring to with the "Darkness?" Page number?
Cheers!
So no game mechanic for musical slugs?
Darkness is mentioned for example The Prophecies of Doom result 6:3
ORC BORG and other Mork-Borg hacks let the variable Difficulty Ratings of tests do a lot of mechanical heavy lifting.
Darkness might affect the difficulty of a related test (like trying to find an unconscious orc in a completely dark compartment), but musical slugs- along with any of the other unexplained inventory items- could affect the DR as well (the unconscious orc left their skull-mounted jambox playing when they passed out).
That being said, "musical slugs with greater mechanical effects" is a cool idea! Maybe there are special ones to collect, maybe there's a new character class that focuses on them, or maybe there's a Power that brings them to life. OB is very hack-forward! :D
Bought it on Drive Thru RPG and had it printed because it's the best looking RPG book ever.
Waaaagh, thank you so much for your kind words!
While Orc Borg does not require tactical miniature combat, that is the way my group will be playing it (might plugin Forbidden Psalm like rules). Anyone else wishing to do so, I found the perfect set of 15mm space orc minis (30 for only $14.99) on etsy.
Hey, these are super cool! Thanks for sharing :)
WAAAGH!! This game rocks :)
WAAAAAAGH! Glad you're enjoying it! :D
If you got friends who love playing the Big Dumb Strongguy, this has got to be one of the BEST games for those people.
Playing as Big McDumbstrong is so refreshing. Everyone needs an excuse to shout and punch an unstable reactor core once in a while! :D