Mörk Borg - Wretched Royalty

 

Hey all ! So just a quick one today (always ice to have a bot of a palette cleanser in between bigger projects).
If you've been paying attention lately, there's been a great interest over a small RPG named Mörk Borg. It's set in a very grim, macabre yet somehow grotesque and fun setting with a very strong visual identity. The rules themselves are very light and sandboxy which I absolutely love and over the past month one of my gaming buddies has had the kindness to run an online series of games for us to test the game.

If you haven't seen this yet then the rock you've been hiding under was very efficient !

There's been an absolutely insane amount of publication around that game (way too much for me to even consider keeping track of) and gaming material from official and fan sources.

But what's the very first step in playing a game ?

Rolling a character, that's what, and my is this a fun process with this one. Following my friend Sho3box"s example (check his stuff out), I rolled my character using SCVMBIRTHER, an online random character roller. The process was pretty simple, knowing what classes my friends would likely have, I opted for the wretched royalty and rolled until I didn't have too many followers (one roll went up to having the main charater, a jester, a servant, 4 monkeys and a pony...).

So here's how Kratar was born !

Looking at this and the general mood of the game, I knew exactly the kind of guy I wanted so went for a quick conversion based on a model from the excellent Andrew May and his 2nd Kickstarter.

The first iteration was somehow promising but lacking something...

I shared it with Sho3box and realised something : "Who the fuck was I kidding turning it up to ten ?"

And so I pushed things to 11 as you do :

Painting wise, I went for a very restricted palette with loads of earthly colours, I decided to paint little parchments on Kratar's clothes, they're surely pages from his mother's diary with pages showing he loves her and some showing he hates her. So far he's been a very fun individual t play especially with his unfortunate comrade Niduk : 

Check Niduk's backstory

I'm really eager to follow his adventures although I'm fully prepared to him meeting an untimely gruesome death because that's how this game plays ! If he does, then I'm just a fresh roll and new model away from having fun with the lads !