MÖRK BORG

An unofficial, mechanics-only Open Character Format pack for the MÖRK BORG core rules, for apps that keep MÖRK BORG character sheets: the six core classes and the classless character, abilities and tests, omens and powers, the starting weapons, armor and scrolls, the Occult Herbmaster's decoctions, the class companions, random and guided character creation, and getting better. It carries no rules text, no flavor text, no art, no logo and no claim to be official. The text in i18n/en.yaml is names and short labels written for this pack.

MÖRK BORG is ©2019 Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell. The Open Character Format MÖRK BORG pack (mork-borg-core) is an independent production by pixelqueue and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License. MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.

Install and load

pnpm add @opencharacter/engine @opencharacter/mork-borg-core

This release needs spec 0.4: @opencharacter/engine 0.4.0 or later. An engine for an older spec refuses it (spec-version-unsupported).

import { computeSheet, loadRuleset, type CharacterFile } from '@opencharacter/engine';
import morkBorg from '@opencharacter/mork-borg-core';

const loaded = loadRuleset([morkBorg]);
if (!loaded.ok) throw new Error(JSON.stringify(loaded.errors));

const scvm: CharacterFile = {
  specVersion: '0.4.0',
  id: 'scvm',
  packs: [{ id: 'mork-borg-core', version: '0.3.0' }],
  values: { 'mork-borg-core:abilities.strength': 1 },
  features: [{ id: 'class', item: 'mork-borg-core:classes.fanged-deserter' }],
};

const sheet = computeSheet(loaded.ruleset, scvm);
sheet.values['mork-borg-core:load.capacity']?.value; // 9 (Strength + 8)

The English text is @opencharacter/mork-borg-core/i18n/en. To make a new character instead, start a character with creating: true and run one of the creation starts below (guided, class or classless) with startAction.

License

• Metadata: mechanics-only. The license's required notices (above) are in the manifest, so apps pass them on to their users: the copyright line is the pack's credit, and the independent-production statement its not-affiliated notice.
• Terms: LICENSE gives the pack's terms: the contributors' own work in it is under CC0 1.0 (the repository's default for packs), with the notices above.
• What the Third Party License allows:
  • Anyone may publish material based on MÖRK BORG, free or paid, without asking.
  • The mechanics and rules may be reused freely.
  • The names of creatures, locations and entities of the game world may be used.
• What it forbids:
  • Reusing or translating the books' art and text without permission.
  • Using the publishers' logos.
  • Suggesting the product is official or endorsed.

What's modeled

• Abilities: Strength, Agility, Presence, Toughness, from −3 to +6.
• Character sheet:
  • HP (0 is broken, below 0 is dead).
  • Omens (with the class's omens die) and power uses, both as today's total and what's left.
  • Silver, starving and infected flags, the days without food, a hemorrhage's hours left, and two timed states from decoctions (Fernor's Philtre, berserk) that the app clears when they end.
  • Carrying capacity (Strength + 8) and the items carried: the weapons, armor, shields, ammunition, scrolls and decoctions in the inventory, plus other items the player counts. More than the capacity is encumbered.
  • Armor tier.
• Tests: test rolls d20 + an ability against a DR (12 by default).
  • A natural 20 is a crit and a natural 1 a fumble, whatever the total.
  • Omens: spending one before a test lowers the DR by 4 (situational choice omen). After a failed test, an omen can reroll it or turn a fumble into a plain failure (the fate choice). After a failed defense, an omen takes d6 off the damage (the ward choice). Both choices recommend not spending, so they only stop the action when the app's policy pauses on them.
  • DR penalties: medium and heavy armor make Agility tests +2 and +4 and defense +2. Being encumbered makes Strength, Agility and defense tests +2. Some classes change these too.
  • In a hemorrhage every test is at least DR16 in the first of two hours and DR18 in the last (condition.hemorrhage, which the broken roll sets and the app counts down).
  • From other characters, as applied boon content: a Speaker of Truths' clarity (boons.clarity, +4) makes the next test 4 easier, and the Horn of the Schleswig Lords' blare (boons.horn, the roll tally horn) the next non-combat test a success (a crit stays one); each ends itself on the test it changes, an omen's reroll keeping the clarity. Two scrolls leave a boon on their one target too (below): boons.unseen (Metzhuotl Blind Your Eye: attack and defense at DR6, +6 on the roll, for its rounds or until the holder takes damage; two count once) and boons.grace (Grace for a Sinner: its rolled bonus on one roll, which the holder names with the situational choice grace, test or damage, offered while one is held; that roll ends it).
  • Rounds: the turn-boundary clock action, which the app runs on every character at each turn change, counts down applied entries that last rounds (a rounds state) as their applier's turn starts, and ends each on its last, so a holder keeps one through its own turns in between.
• Classes: the six core classes (Fanged Deserter, Gutterborn Scum, Esoteric Hermit, Wretched Royalty, Heretical Priest, Occult Herbmaster) and classes.classless for a character without one. Each carries:
  • its ability dice, hit die, omens die, starting silver and starting weapon and armor dice;
  • its fixed numeric features: the Deserter's Agility penalty, scroll ban and bite; the Scum's easier Presence and Agility tests; the Priest's powers in medium armor;
  • its d6 feature table as a choice (feature) of named options: one pick, two different picks for the Royalty, and one or two for the Scum, which rolls a second specialty the first time it gets better (get-better, below). Features that are weapons (the Brown Scimitar, Old Sigûrd's Sling, the Shoe of Death's Horse, the Blade of Your Ancestors, Eurekia, the Snake-Skin Dagger, the Sacred Shepherd's Crook) are items in content/weapons (fromFeature, off the starting table); the option grants its weapon into the hidden features.weapons, and creation adds what that holds, so an add-on class's feature brings its own weapon. Features that are companions are below.
• Class features in numbers (rules/features.yaml): each feature's option sets a hidden flag, and its actions are offered while it is set. Uses per day come back with new-day.
  • Fanged Deserter: Wizard Teeth (rattle-teeth before battle, a d6 a tooth; each 6 a charge the maximum choice after a hit spends for maximum damage). The Brown Scimitar's 1-in-6 sepsis on a hit and the Shoe of Death's Horse's 1-in-6 smashed skull are outcome data (sepsis, skullSmashed): the 10 minutes and the creature's size are the app's and GM's.
  • Gutterborn Scum: Coward's Jab (a weapon action, offered by the weapon type's use entry on a light one-handed weapon: DR10 Agility, then damage + 3; an omen on the hit, picked in the maximum choice, makes the weapon's die its maximum), Filthy Fingersmith (fingersmith, DR8 Agility), Abominable Gob Lobber (gob-lob: DR8 Presence; a hit blinds for d4 rounds and hands each witness a Toughness test, ally DR10 and enemy DR12), Escaping Fate (a follow-up on each omen spent lists escape-fate, a d2 per omen, a 1 giving it back) and Dodging Death (a follow-up on death lists dodge-death: a d2 of 1 and the scum is back after 10 rounds with d4 HP).
  • Esoteric Hermit: Master of Fate (find-the-way, DR8 Presence), A Book of Boiling Blood (boiling-blood, once a day: d2 slayers, a d6 of 5–6 turning them; the enemy's DR12 test is the GM's), Speaker of Truths (speak-truth, twice a day, applies boons.clarity to a recipient), Initiate of the Invisible College (invisible-college, once a day: d2 scrolls of a d4's kind, each a d10 on that kind's scroll table in the book's order, added as summoned copies that one use or the next new-day removes).
  • Wretched Royalty: the Snake-Skin Dagger kills on a damage roll of 1 (poison, the target's HP set below 0); the Horn (blow-horn, once a day: DR12 Presence, then boons.horn on the recipient: their next non-combat test succeeds).
  • Heretical Priest: the Stolen Mitre's defense DR10 (worn, as the pack assumes), List of Sins (read-sins, DR10 Presence, and the situational choice sinner, +2 to defend against a revealed creature), the Nechrubel Bible (read-bible, once a day: even, the day's rests heal faster; odd, d3 hallucinations), the Stones of Thel-Emas (cast-stones, DR10 Presence; a failure silences them until the next new-day).
• Companions: the Fanged Deserter's Ancient Gore-Hound, the Esoteric Hermit's hawk, and the Wretched Royalty's Poltroon the Court Jester, Barbarister the Incredible Horse and Hamfund the Squire.
  • Their own sheets: each is a character file of this pack holding a companion item (content/companions) instead of a class. The companion creation start (create-companion, optionally given the companion) adds it and sets its HP: 10 for the hound, 8 for the hawk; the source gives the Royalty's three none.
  • Attack and defense: companion-attack is a d20 against the companion's attack DR, no ability (10 for the hound and the hawk), for its damage (d6, d4); a crit doubles it and the target's worn armor drops a tier. The hawk defends at DR 10, the hound at 12; defend, broken and rest work as for anyone. A companion's sheet shows only its condition, rolls no omens or power uses, can't use powers and doesn't get better.
  • The owner: a link slot per companion (hound, hawk, poltroon, barbarister, hamfund) reading its HP. Picking the feature sets a hidden flag, and while that companion's slot is empty a finished sheet is offered its sheet: an optional derived offer (<slot>-sheet) naming the slot and the companion start with the companion. The app makes the file, runs the start and saves the link, which ends the offer; declining leaves the companion on the flag. Not offered while creating, so a random start finishes.
  • Poltroon: the jester's own sheet projects an aura, capering, on its allies (the owner too) while it has HP above 0: +2 to the tests of attack, defend and the bite, which run test tagged attack or defense. The app puts it on whoever fights beside the jester. Where the aura isn't on a character (no jester sheet, or an app without auras), the owner has the situational choice poltroon and its allies poltroonAlly (the same +2) instead, offered only while no capering entry is held; the owner's poltroon isn't offered while a linked jester is at 0 HP or below either.
  • Barbarister: barbarister lowers a Presence test's DR by 2, offered while the feature is picked, unless a linked horse is at 0 HP or below.
  • Hamfund: Eurekia is cursed: each attack with it rolls a d6, and a 1 sets the linked Hamfund's HP to −1 (dead) and removes Eurekia.
• Decoctions: the Occult Herbmaster's eight, as decoction items whose quantity is the doses.
  • brew (on the class) rolls the day's two decoctions (the d8 table) and d4 doses, asks how many go to the first (half, rounded up, recommended) and adds the copies.
  • use-decoction spends a dose and rolls the decoction's numbers (damage or healing, duration), returned with its resisting Toughness DR and whether it cures infection. The dose's drinker participant (one at most) with a resisting DR tests Toughness on its own sheet (a handoff) and, failing, takes the damage (damage.direct: poison isn't a hit); healing heals it, a cure clears its infection, and Fernor's Philtre and Hyphos' Snuff set its condition.philtre (Presence tests 2 easier) or condition.berserk (defense DR14).
• Character creation: two starts, both random as in the source, and a guided one, run by create-character on a character being created that has no class or companion yet (it adds one, so it can't run twice). The creation actions are kept out of play views (visibility: background).
  • guided (choose: true): the player picks the class, classes.classless included, instead of the d6; everything else is rolled as below, and the feature's draw is the recommendation the player may change. Each item the tables give (weapon, armor, a scroll, the shield, a plain equipment entry) is also offered as a pick among the content of its type, add-on packs' included, with the table's item recommended.
  • classless adds classes.classless, whose character rolls two abilities of the player's choice on 4d6 dropping the lowest (drawn at random in the random start; the guided one recommends the first two), and starts with smaller weapon and armor dice when the equipment tables give it a scroll.
  • class draws the class among the classes offered (random), a d6 over the six core ones in the ruleset's content order, so an add-on pack's class is drawn too, and adds it.
  • Both roll each ability and read the ability table; roll HP (Toughness + hit die, at least 1), omens, powers (Presence + d4) and silver (×10), and save them as input values.
  • They add the starting weapon and armor the rolls pick from the starting lists below (armor 1 is none), equipped, and Presence + 10 arrows or bolts with a bow or crossbow (the weapon's ammo). The Esoteric Hermit (a class whose startingScroll is set) also gets its random scroll: a d2 for the kind, then a d10 on that kind's table in the book's order.
  • They ask the class's own feature choice over its pending choices, each pick drawn among the class's options (a d6 for the core classes, in table order): two different ones for the Royalty (a picked one isn't offered again, so the second is a d5 over the five left), one now for the Scum. An automatic run takes the draws; a guided one may pick otherwise.
  • Before the weapon and armor, they roll food and the three starting-equipment tables, and add what they give: a waterskin and d4 days of food (a copy's quantity); the d6 table's container, beast or wagon; and the two d12 tables' entries. Entries the pack already has are those copies: a random unclean or sacred scroll (a d10 on its table in the book's order, as the Hermit's), red poison and the life elixir (decoctions.elixir-vitalis) with d4 doses, and the shield (not equipped). The rest are equipment copies, names only, with the tables' numbers: Presence + 4 torches, the lantern's Presence + 6 hours of oil and the medicine chest's Presence + 4 uses (state), d2 monkeys, the bear trap's, bomb's and crowbar's damage, the perfume's price. The action ends by proposing finishCreation; its outcome carries no data.
  • While the character is being created, it needs a class, classes.classless included (creation-class), on a sheet filled in by hand too. It never has more than one class or companion (one-class), created or not: a limit across two types, so a constraint rather than a content type's copies.
• Combat:
  • initiative: d6 + Agility.
  • Crits and fumbles that double damage: the rules' crit-damage doubles every item of a damage roll made after a crit on the action's test (steps.check), and fumble-damage every item of the damage a defense takes (damage.taken) after a fumble. Whatever adds to the roll (Grace for a Sinner's bonus) is doubled with it. This covers attack, companion-attack, the Fanged Deserter's bite and Coward's Jab.
  • attack (weapons): Strength for melee, Presence for ranged. A crit doubles the damage and proposes that the target's worn armor drop a tier (a change aimed at the target's armor copies, which its applyChanges resolves). A fumble marks the weapon broken. Spending an omen on a hit (the maximum choice, asked after the test hits while an omen or a Wizard Teeth charge is left) deals the weapon's maximum damage (maxOf(item.damage)), doubled on a crit, and proposes spending it; a Wizard Teeth charge (tooth) does the same. Rolling is recommended, so the choice only stops a run whose policy pauses on it. A poisoned blade kills when its die shows 1. The choice reads the omens left after the test's (on the DR, omen, or a reroll, fate: the omens left on the proposed sheet). fate and ward read them the same way.
  • defend: an Agility test against the attack. On a failure it proposes the attack's damage (a dice parameter); armor and shield come off when it is applied (below). A fumble doubles the damage and lowers the worn armor a tier; a crit reports a free attack back. The outcome's damage is before armor.
• Armor: each copy tracks the tiers it has lost (damage). Damage reduction follows the current tier; the Agility and defense penalties and the powers limit follow the undamaged tier.
  • Every hit is reduced by the worn armor's die (d2, d4, d6 by its current tier) and an intact shield's 1, never below 0, wherever the damage comes from: defend, another character's attack, or damage the app applies (adjusts tagged damage). They are incoming-change effects: applyChanges rolls the armor die with the app's dice function, or takes the face from the adjust's faces, and returns the changes with the face written in for the app to log.
  • Infection and a failed power's backlash are tagged damage.direct: they aren't hits, so armor and shields don't reduce them.
  • A shield broken on purpose: the character taking a hit may choose the situational choice shieldSacrifice on its damage adjust; the hit does nothing, no armor die is rolled, and one worn shield breaks (the first unbroken one, once per blow, whatever the number of shields worn or changes the hit arrives as).
• Powers: use-power, run from a scroll (unclean or sacred).
  • It spends a use and tests Presence against DR 12. A failure deals d2 damage to the reader; a fumble reports an arcane catastrophe.
  • Powers are unavailable in armor above light (medium for the Priest), with a weapon marked blocksPowers equipped, or for the Fanged Deserter.
• Days and rest:
  • new-day rolls omens and power uses, and costs an infected character d6 HP. With fed (whether the character ate) it counts days without food, sets or clears starving, and past two such days costs d4 HP (damage.direct). It also brings back the class features' uses per day and turns summoned scrolls to ash.
  • rest: d4 HP for a short rest, d6 for a night's sleep, nothing while starving or infected.
• Damage and healing by hand, on the HP tile (rolls) and in the hit-points group: take-damage (amount; direct for damage that isn't a hit) adjusts HP tagged damage, so worn armor's die and a shield reduce it and the shield can be sacrificed, or damage.direct, which they ignore; heal (amount) adjusts it tagged healing, up to the maximum. broken and Dodging Death are becomes follow-ups, so they fire from any change to HP, a hand edit too; only armor and shields need the damage tag. Each is stored once and ends with its state: healed above 0 or dead below it, a pending broken roll goes.
• Broken: broken, offered only at exactly 0 HP, rolls the d4 (unconscious, maimed, hemorrhage, dead) and its follow-up dice. Unconscious and maimed characters come back with d4 HP, at most their maximum (so does a scum dodging death). A hemorrhage puts its d2 hours on the sheet (condition.hemorrhage), and death sets HP below 0, which is what Dodging Death's follow-up reads. Reaching 0 HP stores broken as a required follow-up, for the app to run; Escaping Fate and Dodging Death are optional.
• Items: the core starting lists, with prices in silver.
  • Weapons, the d10 starting table in order: femur, staff, shortsword, knife, warhammer, sword, bow, flail, crossbow, zweihänder. Each has its damage die and, where it applies, ranged, two-handed and the ammunition it uses. The zweihänder blocks powers.
  • Armor: light, medium and heavy (tiers 1–3; the starting d4's 1 is no armor). A shield.
  • Ammunition: arrows and bolts, counted by the copy's quantity. A bow or crossbow can attack only while the character has arrows or bolts of its kind left, and each attack spends one, hit or miss, from the first copy with any left. An empty copy stays.
  • Scrolls: the ten unclean and ten sacred scrolls. Each lists its random numbers: targets, an amount (damage, healing, temporary HP, a roll bonus, distance or creatures), duration (some add Presence: the card shows the reader's, a computed durationBonus) and a resisting DR. A successful use-power rolls them and returns them as outcome data; the app applies them to each target, since the source doesn't say whether armor stops a power's damage or how Death's 4d10 is shared. Grace for a Sinner and Metzhuotl Blind Your Eye put their boon (above) on the run's one target participant (the reader names itself to take it), through changes effects on use-power's tagged power.success step.
  • A failed power's backlash, infection and hunger roll their dice tagged damage.direct, as their harm is. It is below damage, so effects on damage rolls (a crit's doubling) still reach them; Grace for a Sinner's damage bonus leaves them out by name.
• Getting better: get-better handles everything in one action.
  • 6d10 against maximum HP for +d6 HP.
  • A d6 per ability, raising it (to +6) or lowering it (to −3; a 1 always lowers).
  • A d6 for what's found: 3d10 silver is added; a scroll is outcome data.
  • A Gutterborn Scum with one specialty rolls its second: a d5 counting on from the first in table order, recommending the option the player confirms or changes. Rerolling them on later advancements is the table's. This is the class's own part: a class whose getsBetter is set has an unlisted get-better-part action, which get-better runs, so a homebrew class can add one too.
• Sheet layout (rules/layout.yaml): display groups for actions (combat, hit points, Broken only at exactly 0 HP or, for a scum with Dodging Death, below it, tests with the class features' tests and Escaping Fate, powers and decoctions, days and rest, getting better, character creation) and the inventory (class, weapons, armor, shields, ammunition, scrolls by unclean and sacred, equipment, decoctions, companions). Content-type hints show dice as dice, armor damage as dots, a broken weapon or shield only when broken, and prices in silver (units.silver); quantity is hidden except where it counts (ammunition, scrolls, weapons).

Add-on packs

A pack that depends on mork-borg-core can add content of its types, and it joins the core's:

• Classes: the random class start draws among every class offered (a d6 with the core six) and the guided one lists them; a class's feature choice is drawn among its options, its features' weapons go through features.weapons, a class with startingScroll gets the random scroll, one with getsBetter runs its own get-better-part, and one with brews shows the decoctions group.
• Gear: the guided start offers each item the tables give as a pick among its type's content, add-on gear included; a picked weapon with ammo is followed by a pick among the ammunition of that kind (Presence + 10 of it). The random starts keep the book's tables. An added weapon's, armor's or shield's effects count only while it is equipped, and a shield's only while it is unbroken (the types' effectsWhen).
• Open enums (values in the add-on's rules' extendEnums, named in its text under the core's key): mork-borg-core:types.weapon.fields.ammo and mork-borg-core:types.ammo.fields.kind (a new kind of ammunition, added to both), and mork-borg-core:types.scroll.fields.kind (a new kind of scroll; the sheet sections scrolls by kind, and the book's tables, the Hermit's scroll and the Invisible College keep to unclean and sacred).
• Extendable choices: each core class's feature takes inline options from the add-on's extendChoices ('mork-borg-core:classes.fanged-deserter': { feature: { options: [...] } }), drawn with the class's own (a d7 with one added).
• Naming what an add-on adds: it names each added value, option or key in its own text, under the key this pack would use, and createText finds it there when the app passes the ruleset's enumOrigins, optionOrigins and familyOrigins. For example, profane added to mork-borg-core:types.scroll.fields.kind is types.scroll.fields.kind.values.profane.name: Profane (through enumOrigins), and a Fanged Deserter feature option rusted-hook is classes.fanged-deserter.choices.feature.options.rusted-hook.name: Rusted Hook (through optionOrigins).
• Tagged creation steps of create-character, for an add-on's rules-level option effects: creation.class, creation.abilities (the classless best abilities), creation.weapon, creation.armor, creation.scroll, creation.equipment, creation.shield, creation.ammo and creation.features; for its changes effects: creation.scores (saving the rolls) and creation.gear (adding the starting gear).
• Plain die rolls that are neither tests nor damage (a weapon's doom or curse d6, the bite's exposure, rattled wizard teeth, a gob's blindness, an omen's ward d6) are tagged chance, so an add-on's effects on attack, defense or test don't reach them.

Still closed: a scroll's and a decoction's amountKind, durationUnit and a decoction's state, which the core's actions read.

Rule readings

Where the book leaves a rule open, the pack reads it this way:

• Broken and dead: the broken roll happens only at exactly 0 HP; damage that skips past 0 kills outright.
• Omens on a hit: an omen spent for maximum damage (on an attack or Coward's Jab) counts only if one is left after any the test spent.
• Decoctions: a dose is one drinker's. Whether the day's two decoctions may be the same isn't settled; two copies of one are allowed.
• The Esoteric Hermit's random scroll: a d2 for the kind (1 unclean, 2 sacred), then a d10 on that kind's table in the book's order. The Invisible College's d4 picks sacred on 1–2, unclean on 3–4.
• The Gutterborn Scum's second specialty, rolled the first time it gets better: a d5 counting on from the first in table order, as the Royalty's second starting item does. Later rerolls are the table's.
• The Stolen Mitre is read as worn: defense DR10.
• Starting equipment: the tables are rolled before the weapon and armor, so a classless character knows whether it has a scroll. The donkey, the wagon, the dog and the monkeys don't count toward load (load: false); the containers don't raise it. What the dog and monkeys do in a fight is the GM's.

Limitations

The sheet and the core rules are modeled. What's missing is left to the app or the table, or left out:

• Left to the app or the table on purpose:
  • Creating a companion's sheet and linking it; the pack offers it.
  • The clock beyond turns: when timed states end (a hemorrhage's hours, Fernor's Philtre, berserk, a decoction spoiling after 24 hours), the first two rounds of Poltroon's capering, Eurekia's once per combat and Gob Lobber's d2 spits a fight. The app runs turn-boundary at each turn change; what lasts rounds counts down there.
  • Who is where: who drinks a decoction, who witnesses a gob, who is inside the jester's capering.
  • Enemy stats and morale (the Crumpled Monster Mask, the Crucifix).
• Items beyond the starting lists. Gear from the price list beyond the starting-equipment tables is left out, and so are the weapons beyond the d10 starting table: battle axe, mace, handaxe, club, whip, shortbow and sling. Arrow and bolt prices are left out because the sources' bundle sizes disagree. The tablets from the supplements are left out too.
• Scroll effects in words: what a scroll does besides its numbers (confusion, invisibility, questions to the dead, …) is text.
• What class features do, beyond their numbers: a book's slayers fighting, a mask or crucifix scaring creatures, hallucinations, a crook sparing the faithless, the Blade of Your Ancestors turning on a disappointing owner (when is the GM's), Excretal Stealth (the other side's DR16 test) and the Bard's +d4 on reaction rolls (the GM's roll). The Stolen Mitre's stealth test names no ability, so it isn't an action. The origin tables are left out too.
• The Occult Herbmaster's first brew isn't part of creation: the herbmaster runs brew.
• Tables: arcane catastrophes, terrible traits, broken bodies, bad habits. The actions return the rolls for the app to look up.
• Behavior decided at the table or by the app:
  • Being dizzy for an hour after a failed power.
  • Hirelings and followers other than the class companions.
  • What companions do beyond their numbers: the hound's nose and frenzy, the hawk's scouting, and when Barbarister cares to help.
• Miseries. The end of the world is campaign state, not a character's.
• Supplement classes (Feretory and others).

Sources

The mechanics were checked against the free MÖRK BORG Bare Bones edition and against several independent community sources (the Foundry VTT system's data, open-source character generators and reference sheets). Where they disagree, this pack takes the majority:

• Fanged Deserter HP: Toughness + d10 (one source has d8).
• Classless omens: d2 (one source has d4).
• Smaller dice with a scroll: weapon d6 and armor d2, classless only. One source also applies this to classes.
• Wretched Royalty armor: d3, the same as the book's d4 with heavy armor rerolled.
• Powers and heavy weapons: the book names the zweihänder; a reference sheet says any d10 weapon. Here it's a weapon field (blocksPowers).
• Gutterborn Scum: the easier Agility tests don't apply to defense, matching the Deserter's harder Agility tests, which the sources say don't. This one is unsettled.
• Natural 20 and 1: a crit always succeeds and a fumble always fails here. The book describes their effects on attack and defense but doesn't say this outright.
• Item data: the weapon, armor, shield and scroll lists and their prices come from the Foundry VTT system's compendium. The one other source (scvmgrinder) copies it, and the item lists weren't checked against the Bare Bones PDF. Two scroll prices (Eyelid Blinds the Mind and False Dawn/Night's Chariot, 20s against 50s for the rest) and the femur's 0s are Foundry's alone. An audit (2026-10-14) checked every class, feature, companion, weapon, armor, scroll, decoction and table here against that system's 2.6.2 data again.
• Scroll tables: the d10 order of each kind's table (the Invisible College, the Hermit's scroll) is Foundry's random tables'. Its unclean table lists nine; Foul Psychopomp, the tenth unclean scroll, is 10.
• Companions: the hound's and the hawk's numbers are in the class text the Foundry VTT system quotes. Foundry also gives Poltroon and Hamfund 1 HP, Barbarister 8 and every follower morale 7, which the class text doesn't; they're left out.
• Scroll names: the license allows the names of the game world's entities and forbids reusing the books' text. Scroll names are kept and nothing else of the books' wording.
• Class features and decoctions in numbers: from the class text the Foundry VTT system (2.6.2) quotes, numbers only. The pack's readings where the text is loose:
  • a "1 in 6 chance" is a d6 of 1, and a "50% chance" a d2 of 1;
  • a feature's stated DR (Fingersmith's DR8, the stones' DR10) is the base DR, so the class's and armor's DR changes still apply;
  • "light one-handed weapon" (Coward's Jab) is any weapon that is neither two-handed nor ranged;
  • the brew's doses split as the herbmaster likes, since the text gives only the total;
  • the stones fall silent until the next new-day (the text says until sunset);
  • starvation (d4 HP a day after two days without food) follows the earlier sources; whether a decoction's unstated test (Southern Frog Stew, Ezumiels Vapor) is Toughness is the pack's reading.