Do people take Mörk Borg seriously?
I really love Mörk Borg, but the weirdest part is that I really didn't think I'd love Mörk Borg. I'm not that into doom metal aesthetics, collage, dark medieval fantasy or the color yellow. So when I got myself the book for christmas some years ago because it was one of the few indie ttrpgs I could get shipped to my country without declaring bankruptcy, I was very surprised. It's not a spiked flail to the face and it's not heavy everything else: Mörk Borg is actually really, really funny.
The thing is, I'm not an actual play or play report kind of person, so I had never witnessed Mork Börg in play and my exposure to it was mostly the ttrpg version of Duchamp's Fountain debate. I had glanced over some of the stuff on the website too but didn't even bother to read the free "barebones" version, since it just seemed a bit too edgy for me. And hey, maybe that was in the authors' intent since it actually has a couple dark bits in it, but I felt like if was advertised in a more comedic tone (like my darling Teeth) I would have looked into it a lot earlier.
You can't expect me to look at a game that player's characters can have traits such as whistling while trying to hide (and always denying it) or being so ugly and irrelevant that Death itself doesn't want to take you away, is a game made to be taken seriously at the table. The berserking potion in the book makes you sneeze and the Pale One companion likes "obscure rituals with the group" like it's looking for goth teenager friends to hang out? The starting dungeon has two skeletons just standing there PLAYING THE VIOLIN?
It's all so edgy-silly, I love it. If anybody is having a serious, grimdark, horror game with Mörk Borg, let me know.
anb