Galgenbeck: Sacrifice | A Mörk Borg Adventure
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Sacrifice
A mini-campaign set in Galgenbeck.
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This is a PDF adventure with about 80 pages of content for Mörk Borg. If you're searching for a preview, head on over to DTRPG.
>> Now also included: a 48-page slim edition, the basis for a zine version.
Galgenbeck: Sacrifice is a Mörk Bork adventure by Christian Eichhorn (christian.eichhorn.dmg@gmail.com; @squirrelgolem), with editing by John Parker.
The sun vanished behind a black disk months or years ago—who could tell. Now, a comet plows across the sky, leaving behind a trail of bloody pieces. The Galgenbecker people are confused, incited, whipped into a frenzy. So many innocent dangle from the trees. The stank lures in the ravens and worse. Half of Galgenbeck's population is gone. Most have fallen to Josilfa's scythe. The city seems eerily empty, but nobody notices the citizens' absence. Galgenbeck was always half empty. All is as it should be.
Galgenbeck: Sacrifice—a multi-session adventure about ritualistic, human sacrifice. To stave off destruction and appease Nechrubel, who rides a comet across the sky, Josilfa beheads the unwanted. Since the sacrifices not only vanish from the world but also from the memories of those who are left behind, the characters may forget about their mission and themselves.
The adventure additionally includes:
- A minimalist map of Galgenbeck showing places of import and city districts, including an outline of these new locations.
- Odds and ends like an overview of important NPCs, rumors, and Galgenbeck dialect.
- A few quest seeds on notice boards!
- 100 disturbing encounters in Galgenbeck and 12 heretics to hunt.
Galgenbeck: Sacrifice is an independent production by Christian Eichhorn 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.
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Eichorn is one of my favorite borg designers and this might be the top of my list as to why. There is just SO MUCH in here to play with, creeps to fight, maps to get lost on, rumors and jobs to ignore until they bite you in the ass, and its all excellently laid out clearly but with a heavy heavy dose of style. I'm inspired everytime I read one of Christian's projects but this one stands alone.
Thanks mate, very much appreciated! :D
Christian, how do you use the sewer exploration table to locate the Worm Sorcerer? Just keep rolling a d8 (and dealing with any encounters it presents) until you get an 8, or do you follow the lines that connect the numbers?
Hey tikitang!
It's basically your choice. The map (lines) was just a fun little idea, not intended to be taken too seriously. My recommendation would be to just roll for a few encounters, maybe three, and if the 8 doesn't come up, it is the next one :)
Thanks! That's what I suspected. I'll probably keep rolling until I roll the same number twice, in which case, I'll make it that one!
I would highly recommend any and all of Christian Eichhorn's Mörk Borg supplements - they all have fantastic layout and art, creative content that adds new systems and creative twists on existing ones, and capture the brutal and beautiful feel of the core book.
Galgenbeck Sacrifice is a great pick-up if you're looking for a sprawling, in depth campaign through Galgenbeck - story, systems, hooks, encounters, dungeons, and enemies included (. Sacrifice also includes plenty of fun to bring to your own sessions, such as rumours and quests, NPCs / enemies, and a D100 encounter table.
Enjoy Galgenbeck Sacrifice? Check out Bergen Chrypt, which also provides a huge campaign through the the Wästland. Want something to complement Sacrifice? Check out Purgatory or Apocrypha for more general gameplay supplements/additions.
Galgenbeck Sacrifice is is an adventure for Mork Borg that adds a lot more flesh to its titular region.
The PDF is 67 pages, with a layout style that perfectly matches the core book. The art is vibrant, splashy, detailed, and evocative. The layout breaks conventions in intentional ways, and pages that are dense with information are contrasted against pages with a lot of whitespace, giving the reader room to breathe.
Sacrifice's writing also perfectly mirrors the core book. It's punchy and short, but dense with information. Some information in the core book is recontextualized by Sacrifice (mostly concerning Josilfa Migol,) but the feeling is far more of a sequel than of a fan work.
Contents-wise, there's information about the atmosphere in Galgenbeck, local places to visit, rumors, encounters, and some fun NPCs, but the meat of the book is the adventure. It starts with a compelling hook, has a recurring superboss, and explores an interesting premise---an avatar of Nechrubel is harvesting citizens, erasing them from living memory.
It's somewhat easy for players to fall off of the intended track of the adventure, and the GM might need to do some creative freewheeling if they fall off but keep pursuing it, however in general the atmosphere is strong, the stakes are high, and there's a great sense of pacing. This is an adventure that matters for the setting, and will fit very well with groups that like a gloomy but still heroic tone.
Overall, Galgenbeck Sacrifice feels less like a standalone supplement and more like an extension of the core book. It's packed with content. It interacts with the central plot. It does a stellar job of bringing Galgenbeck and its strange inhabitants to life. If you like Mork Borg core, it feels safe to call this a must buy.
And also thanks for this review! Very happy you like it :D