I agree about what a game changer playing co-op and GM-less is. I started playing Ironsworn: Starforged with a buddy and we are loving it. When you both get to GM AND play as players, you are fully engaged the whole time and really get to share in crafting the experience and story together. I normally play solo and hate group play, but GM-less co-op brings in the best of the social experience AND solo play.
I'm really surprised that its not more of an official thing for the big games. Why has the idea that an RPG needs a GM been the prevalent mode of play for so long? Honestly, I can't imagine ever wanting to play a GM-led game again.
I've been wanting to try this. An ongoing game in playing with my wife is kind of GMless but I fall a bit in the GM rut. Maybe the next one. And I only just started trying a solo as well so there's a lot to learn. Using pre-made adventures in this way is an interesting challenge. In gathering the courage to try without those training wheels as well.
I never even heard of Solitary Defilement. Sounds like a super rad idea and def looking to try it out. Also super excited to try the co-op DM style you mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
Great video and loved your take on the solitary defilement ruleset. I agree that it is a fantastic supplement for a hugely enjoyable game. I'm amazed how well it all works, the fantastic and hilarious stories it tells and simply how enjoyable it all is. I look forward to seeing your playthroughs.
Thanks to this video, I decided to take the plunge and play a co-op session of Mork Borg with a friend using Solitary Defilement! It went absolutely fantastic, and we'll definitely be continuing it!
This is such a cool idea. I haven't played RPG's in years, but I love reading game-books like this as inspiration for creating Doom metal. I've even recorded a full album inspired directly by Mork Borg, using the Calendar of Necrubel as the lyrics for the songs.
I've been playing GM-Less for about 2-3 years now with a group of 3-4 players. What I like about gm-less is anybody can take the lead as the story progress and no prep at all. We play DnD 5e because it's the system we know but any system can be played solo/gm-less with the right tool. By our expercience, you need a oracle table, event table, mundane item table, a few atmospheric tables and one of the most important is a keyword table. When we're are stock, we roll a few keywords on this table and go from there. We also use a color code event system with six D20 of different color, ex: red die for monster, green for npc, blue for traps and feature... We rolls and check if it's over the threshold, so it dynamically produce something unique everytime and we make the link between all that.
@@paavohirn3728 I'm not sure where my previous response is so i'll try again, seems youtube doesn't want me to put imgur link (a picture of our main tables). It's homemade, so it's not one pdf that I can share and it's been a few years so I don't remember what are all the source. But I'm willing to help you if you wish to build something along the line, feel free to ask questions.
@@altabob1 Wow thank you! I'll keep that in mind. I have a ton of sources to pull from (probably too many). I'll be back with questions when they arise. I appreciate your offer of help! Oh yeah, the event table. Is it like random encounters but with other things as well. Did you guys create it or do you use a published one?
Great video! I've actually had Solitary Defilement (and more recent MD stuff) sitting next to my keyboard for weeks (months?) since it delivered and haven't even taken the ribbon off it to read it yet. I've just had so many Rpgs & boardgames deliver recently (like... 25 or so?) I can't even absord them or play them (and more on the way over the next couple months). Feels like every game I bought or backed the last 2 years is arriving all at once in a 4 month window. Ha!
I think the world needs more coop Mörk Borg. I used to run DARK FORT(mini solo-dungeon) with a group of 9 year olds at the school I worked at. Was really awesome to see how the kids took turns going first into the different rooms of the generated dungeon. And then died. Their characters... Not the kids...
Emma Ruth Rundle is my fauvorite singer, I saw her live 3 times here in UK and that album with Thou is absolutelly fantastic!!! Im definitelly checking out the resto of the playlist you´ve showed. Also!! that game looks sick!! love that sketchy dark art. Thanks for sharing!!
I first experienced gmless and cooperative with Wander Home little over a year ago. It kinda takes the best bits of Solo and GM led games. You still get the surprise and unknown, cause other members in the group take you in a direction you may have never imagined. The only draw back is if you are used to being a GM or you are a strong player, you can sometimes take over. It works best if you share the spot light. Also to bait quiet players into creating by prompting them some how.
@@paavohirn3728 it sure is...but wanderhome can be played in a traumatic way. Kinda like your MB characters after they die go to an anthropomorphic heaven and take therapy. I really do need to get MB... if nothing else but for it's awesome layout and art.
@@paavohirn3728 I try now to get just pdfs...they take less space and are more portable. I realize some people like the tactile feel, I guess you could print them out. Also recently discovered they are shareable that way during online play (discord)
@@malchitos There are certainly pros for pdf's. I use them quite a bit. Sending pics from them to players, using a second copy on my phone keep access to certain pages etc. But physical books are also quite lovely as items and more convenient especially if the book is big (though a small book world be more convenient ofc).
Mork Borg is RAD! Don't forget to pick the soundtrack! masterfully orchestrated by GNOLL, available through "Heimat Der Katastrophe music" (HDK 40 †), And Putrescence Regnant - BORG bog crawl, vinyl record to really set the musical back ground mood.
Thanks for the review!! This RPG remind me a lot of a Dungeon Degenerates mood! I play a lot of Ironsworn every now and then but Ironsworn is getting too much sober and classical for me!! Mork Borg is absolutely amazing to look at and with your explanations, I'm gonna try it for sure! A "bug eater"!! What a nice class to play!! I was afraid it was just a kind of "good for the eyes" book without content, but I'm happy to see that you can get oracle and other stuff to expand and shape the world and your campaign! I also really like the atmosphere of death and decay in this game with no easy way out and really strange items!!! Thanks for the review , I will sure buy it!! Ho! And thanks for the playlist suggestion!!!
Sounds like a ton of fun! I would love to hear more about how you come up with stuff together. On a side note the letter ö is pronounced quite a bit like the e in "the". 😄
@@TheDungeonDive Oh yeah, that too. It's the same. Oh wait, is Tolkien's Murkwood actually Mirkwood? In any case I think the etymology there is also mörk, which means dark. Actually I was initially thinking about the name Öl which means beer in Swedish. I'm not meaning to be a language police, i just thought it might be interesting to know. Ö is a special letter we share between Finnish and Swedish.
I think it’s hard for non-native speakers like myself to pick up on the subtleties. I appreciate the comments though. :) I’ll always try to pronounce something correctly, just out of respect.
@@TheDungeonDive Yeah. I think that's cool. I can't pronounce every language even if I tried. I find english fascinating and frustrating. In Finnish and many other languages you can just say what the pronunciation is if the other language has it. If not, then then you have to actually learn by hearing. In English you have almost every sound but also every letter is pronounced in endless different ways.
I have been binging content of all sorts the past week ha I just ordered stuff on drivethrurpg, Sacrifice all of the current stuff POD and the PDFs (Alex T game love his stuff have Across a Thousand Dead Planets) Got Mork Bork, FERETORY, HERETIC, Solitary Defilement Expanded Edition and Forbidden Psalm (all PDFs of those) I am well sorted I ended up getting Psalm because one it was dirt cheap, adds skirmish warbands, plus I get stuff from Beastiurm Miniatures they do content with their minis for Psalm each month so might as well spend a tiny bit more to use what I have already :-) I will be well sorted for a long time and can get others to play as well if I want :-) trying to get my GF to try stuff out ha Thanks again bud I spent so much time trying to find what was right for me your videos were some of the best help out there.
@@TheDungeonDive yes big time also over the Christmas time il be doing alot of night work the place I work will be closed for two weeks so I can read alot and learn ha also thanks for reading about 20 million of my comments lol It was a long hard choice lol
Omg just noticed that Playlist. Ruins of beverast and Empyrium are two of my most loved bands. I adore Rain upon the impure but Thule grimoires is a masterpiece as well. Have seen them live here in Germany. Absolutely fantastic! Hmmm..seems like this is right up my alley and your taste in music makes me think even more about whether it's time to upgrade to 25 $ support.
You just hyped me to buy MORG Borg. 10min later…I just bought physical copies of Morg Borg, the supplement, and Cy_Borg. I hope the Solitary Difilement can be played also with CY_Borg.
Great vid. I started looking this stuff up for my solo duo games. I backed Mork Borg and Feretory but slept on this content. Is there any way to get Alone in the Crowd still? Super interested in that, but on a cursory search, only found info about it being KS exclusive.
If you have an oculus quest, you need to try ragnarock. All those music choices would be great for that game. Thank you for turning me on to this and dungeon degenerates. The Black metal themes are doing it for me!
Hm. I like the idea of a coop, gm-less rpgs. I'll need to delve into this, as it may be something to do with my wife or a friend. I probably will avoid morg borg lol, not a fan of the theme. Still, cool product and details!
I agree about what a game changer playing co-op and GM-less is. I started playing Ironsworn: Starforged with a buddy and we are loving it. When you both get to GM AND play as players, you are fully engaged the whole time and really get to share in crafting the experience and story together. I normally play solo and hate group play, but GM-less co-op brings in the best of the social experience AND solo play.
I'm really surprised that its not more of an official thing for the big games. Why has the idea that an RPG needs a GM been the prevalent mode of play for so long? Honestly, I can't imagine ever wanting to play a GM-led game again.
I think more games should more like this. It would help with the GM burnout. Especially for D&D. Maybe WOTC should learn something here.
I've been wanting to try this. An ongoing game in playing with my wife is kind of GMless but I fall a bit in the GM rut. Maybe the next one. And I only just started trying a solo as well so there's a lot to learn. Using pre-made adventures in this way is an interesting challenge. In gathering the courage to try without those training wheels as well.
I never even heard of Solitary Defilement. Sounds like a super rad idea and def looking to try it out. Also super excited to try the co-op DM style you mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
Great video and loved your take on the solitary defilement ruleset. I agree that it is a fantastic supplement for a hugely enjoyable game. I'm amazed how well it all works, the fantastic and hilarious stories it tells and simply how enjoyable it all is. I look forward to seeing your playthroughs.
Thanks to this video, I decided to take the plunge and play a co-op session of Mork Borg with a friend using Solitary Defilement! It went absolutely fantastic, and we'll definitely be continuing it!
Great! Glad to hear it.
Been meaning to try this solo for ages. Just picked up the final copy available of these solo rules from the authors! Inspiring video as usual 😄
This is such a cool idea. I haven't played RPG's in years, but I love reading game-books like this as inspiration for creating Doom metal. I've even recorded a full album inspired directly by Mork Borg, using the Calendar of Necrubel as the lyrics for the songs.
I'd love to have this just to read through and look at the amazing art!
It's worth it for that.
@@TheDungeonDive Sold.
It’s absolutely my favorite RPG book to show people (well this, Pirate Borg, or Frontier Scum depending on the vibe, but all are similar in style).
Love that you enjoyed Mörk Borg! Pelle and Johan are great rpg designers and really nice guys!
I've been playing GM-Less for about 2-3 years now with a group of 3-4 players. What I like about gm-less is anybody can take the lead as the story progress and no prep at all. We play DnD 5e because it's the system we know but any system can be played solo/gm-less with the right tool. By our expercience, you need a oracle table, event table, mundane item table, a few atmospheric tables and one of the most important is a keyword table. When we're are stock, we roll a few keywords on this table and go from there. We also use a color code event system with six D20 of different color, ex: red die for monster, green for npc, blue for traps and feature... We rolls and check if it's over the threshold, so it dynamically produce something unique everytime and we make the link between all that.
Nice! Sounds great.
Sounds really cool!
Where did you get these tools?
@@paavohirn3728 I'm not sure where my previous response is so i'll try again, seems youtube doesn't want me to put imgur link (a picture of our main tables). It's homemade, so it's not one pdf that I can share and it's been a few years so I don't remember what are all the source. But I'm willing to help you if you wish to build something along the line, feel free to ask questions.
@@altabob1 Wow thank you! I'll keep that in mind. I have a ton of sources to pull from (probably too many). I'll be back with questions when they arise. I appreciate your offer of help!
Oh yeah, the event table. Is it like random encounters but with other things as well. Did you guys create it or do you use a published one?
@@paavohirn3728 I'm user alta_bob on bgg. I've upload an picture of our main tables in my gallery
Great video!
I've actually had Solitary Defilement (and more recent MD stuff) sitting next to my keyboard for weeks (months?) since it delivered and haven't even taken the ribbon off it to read it yet. I've just had so many Rpgs & boardgames deliver recently (like... 25 or so?) I can't even absord them or play them (and more on the way over the next couple months). Feels like every game I bought or backed the last 2 years is arriving all at once in a 4 month window. Ha!
That would fill me with so much anxiety! :) I hate when I get more than 2 games at a time. :D
You're playlist means we just became friends.
It's so nice to see more metal heads doing ttrpg content.
I think the world needs more coop Mörk Borg. I used to run DARK FORT(mini solo-dungeon) with a group of 9 year olds at the school I worked at. Was really awesome to see how the kids took turns going first into the different rooms of the generated dungeon. And then died.
Their characters...
Not the kids...
The kids, lol. :). Love it.
Emma Ruth Rundle is my fauvorite singer, I saw her live 3 times here in UK and that album with Thou is absolutelly fantastic!!! Im definitelly checking out the resto of the playlist you´ve showed.
Also!! that game looks sick!! love that sketchy dark art. Thanks for sharing!!
She’s great.
I first experienced gmless and cooperative with Wander Home little over a year ago. It kinda takes the best bits of Solo and GM led games. You still get the surprise and unknown, cause other members in the group take you in a direction you may have never imagined. The only draw back is if you are used to being a GM or you are a strong player, you can sometimes take over. It works best if you share the spot light. Also to bait quiet players into creating by prompting them some how.
That's a game I wish to try out as well! A little different vibe to MörkBorg 😅
@@paavohirn3728 it sure is...but wanderhome can be played in a traumatic way. Kinda like your MB characters after they die go to an anthropomorphic heaven and take therapy. I really do need to get MB... if nothing else but for it's awesome layout and art.
@@malchitos Oh no! An endless loop of those game worlds 😱
I only have the pdf:s unfortunately.
@@paavohirn3728 I try now to get just pdfs...they take less space and are more portable. I realize some people like the tactile feel, I guess you could print them out. Also recently discovered they are shareable that way during online play (discord)
@@malchitos There are certainly pros for pdf's. I use them quite a bit. Sending pics from them to players, using a second copy on my phone keep access to certain pages etc. But physical books are also quite lovely as items and more convenient especially if the book is big (though a small book world be more convenient ofc).
Mork Borg is RAD! Don't forget to pick the soundtrack! masterfully orchestrated by GNOLL, available through "Heimat Der Katastrophe music" (HDK 40 †), And Putrescence Regnant - BORG bog crawl, vinyl record to really set the musical back ground mood.
Nice! I don’t collect vinyl, but I’ll see if those albums are available digitally and check them out.
I already have Forbidden Lands, Tales from the Loop, & Mutant Year Zero from Free League Publishing. This looks interesting.
They make great games.
Thanks for the review!! This RPG remind me a lot of a Dungeon Degenerates mood! I play a lot of Ironsworn every now and then but Ironsworn is getting too much sober and classical for me!! Mork Borg is absolutely amazing to look at and with your explanations, I'm gonna try it for sure! A "bug eater"!! What a nice class to play!! I was afraid it was just a kind of "good for the eyes" book without content, but I'm happy to see that you can get oracle and other stuff to expand and shape the world and your campaign! I also really like the atmosphere of death and decay in this game with no easy way out and really strange items!!! Thanks for the review , I will sure buy it!! Ho! And thanks for the playlist suggestion!!!
I’m thinking of incorporating the Dungeon Degenerates board with MORK Borg.
@@TheDungeonDive Great idea!! With the encounter cards this would be a nice mix!!
Mörk Borg really is amazing.
I love your playlist, I had no idea of your amazing musical taste until now
Thanks! I love all kinds of music. I’m a recording artist as well. :). Once I start my podcast, I’ll be talking about music more.
@@TheDungeonDive I just got wise to the Ukrainian band, JINJER... Tatiana's voice is unreal!
I’ll check them out.
My recommendation for the Mörk Borg playlist is Elderwind - The Colder the Night.
Just check them out. Great!
Solitary Defilement is a great suppliment. I particularly like the micro crawl section, I use it for not just Mörk Borg but other games too!
Sounds like a ton of fun! I would love to hear more about how you come up with stuff together.
On a side note the letter ö is pronounced quite a bit like the e in "the". 😄
In the book it says to pronounce it like MURK.
@@TheDungeonDive Oh yeah, that too. It's the same. Oh wait, is Tolkien's Murkwood actually Mirkwood? In any case I think the etymology there is also mörk, which means dark. Actually I was initially thinking about the name Öl which means beer in Swedish. I'm not meaning to be a language police, i just thought it might be interesting to know. Ö is a special letter we share between Finnish and Swedish.
I think it’s hard for non-native speakers like myself to pick up on the subtleties. I appreciate the comments though. :) I’ll always try to pronounce something correctly, just out of respect.
@@TheDungeonDive Yeah. I think that's cool. I can't pronounce every language even if I tried. I find english fascinating and frustrating. In Finnish and many other languages you can just say what the pronunciation is if the other language has it. If not, then then you have to actually learn by hearing. In English you have almost every sound but also every letter is pronounced in endless different ways.
I have been binging content of all sorts the past week ha I just ordered stuff on drivethrurpg, Sacrifice all of the current stuff POD and the PDFs (Alex T game love his stuff have Across a Thousand Dead Planets) Got Mork Bork, FERETORY, HERETIC, Solitary Defilement Expanded Edition and Forbidden Psalm (all PDFs of those) I am well sorted I ended up getting Psalm because one it was dirt cheap, adds skirmish warbands, plus I get stuff from Beastiurm Miniatures they do content with their minis for Psalm each month so might as well spend a tiny bit more to use what I have already :-) I will be well sorted for a long time and can get others to play as well if I want :-) trying to get my GF to try stuff out ha Thanks again bud I spent so much time trying to find what was right for me your videos were some of the best help out there.
Oh wow! Sounds like you've got some great times ahead of you! Enjoy. :)
@@TheDungeonDive yes big time also over the Christmas time il be doing alot of night work the place I work will be closed for two weeks so I can read alot and learn ha also thanks for reading about 20 million of my comments lol It was a long hard choice lol
Omg just noticed that Playlist.
Ruins of beverast and Empyrium are two of my most loved bands. I adore Rain upon the impure but Thule grimoires is a masterpiece as well. Have seen them live here in Germany. Absolutely fantastic!
Hmmm..seems like this is right up my alley and your taste in music makes me think even more about whether it's time to upgrade to 25 $ support.
By the way, be sure to listen to "Her True Nature" by The Nest...if you haven't already!
You just hyped me to buy MORG Borg. 10min later…I just bought physical copies of Morg Borg, the supplement, and Cy_Borg. I hope the Solitary Difilement can be played also with CY_Borg.
I think there is a dedicated solo system for CyBorg on Itch.Io.
Ruins of Beverast are great but you can't beat a good Dungeon Synth playlist for playing TTRPGs
I love a good ambient soundtrack as well. But Mork Borg is all about the atmospheric death metal!
Great vid. I started looking this stuff up for my solo duo games. I backed Mork Borg and Feretory but slept on this content. Is there any way to get Alone in the Crowd still? Super interested in that, but on a cursory search, only found info about it being KS exclusive.
The Solitary Defilement- Expanded Edition on Drivethrurpg has it all in pdf format.
@@davidwillems9904 Awesome thank you!
Thank you. Ever looked at CRGE? It’s also designed for CO-OP.
I have not. What does that stand for?
GOOD VIDEO!
If you have an oculus quest, you need to try ragnarock. All those music choices would be great for that game. Thank you for turning me on to this and dungeon degenerates. The Black metal themes are doing it for me!
I don't have a rift. VR doesn't interest me at all. But thanks for the rec!
fun fact: your friends character Öl's name means beer in swedish
Oh, nice! I wonder if he knows that? Thanks for the trivia. Love it!
Eyeballing Pirate Borg on KS but it does not look like there is a solitary defilement equivalent
I would like to see an actual play to get a sense of how this works.
Check out the videos in my Mork Borg playlist.
th-cam.com/play/PLKewgRd8Eir8IMmgpoNIlJ2APrE5x45gX.html
Where can you buy this solo rulebook in print form?
Don’t know. Google search is probably your best bet.
Hm. I like the idea of a coop, gm-less rpgs. I'll need to delve into this, as it may be something to do with my wife or a friend. I probably will avoid morg borg lol, not a fan of the theme. Still, cool product and details!
You still looking to get rid of Skull Tales?
Not right now.
Good video, rough pronounces :)
Lol. The irony.
First.