Профиль

yep

mork borg continues to be a perfectly good osr game made by lovely swedes. you will, however, notice that various Big Names - a dnd youtuber, a washed up actor working with wotc - keep trying to make Dark Edgy D&D in a way that very much feels like they're just trying to horn in on mork borg's turf.

according to ed greenwood, it's minty. at least, it is for drow.

they really are trying to gentrify mork borg huh

i mean, if that's what you want your game to be like, there are games that actually mechanically cater to it, and more power to 'em

Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》

maybe he married into the Scrooge family

some old V//C art that doesn't quite work with the current version of the game? still kinda like it.

friend of eggbug u _ u

there's not even any edge!

that's kinda it, isn't it. it's not meant to be *sexy*, just to gesture symbolically towards straight guy pandering.

it has been over 30 years since white wolf released Clanbook Tzimisce, which literally had to be sold in a brown paper bag because of the giant fanged vagina-monster on the cover.

right? they understand that frazetta's art is popular and iconic, but don't actually share his deep love of the human body, so its just... simulacra again

I look at it, and if I feel nothing.

so instead deathbringer presents a fascimile of edge, something the same shape, making the same gestures, but without that countercultural core its a mere simulacrum devoid of actual heft.

Deathbringer wants all the buzz of a LotFP but lacks the guts to print that art of a lady fighter being gruesomely eaten by a shoggoth.

say what you will about lotfp, it was at least authentic and unfiltered. james raggi had a vision for what he wanted that game to be and - for better or worse - that's what it was, warts and all.

but real edginess has something to say and is confrontational and a bit uncomfortable, and can be off-putting and alienating and if you're like that you risk losing customers so a product like deathbringer cannot *actually* be confrontational

this isn't edgy dark fantasy. this is the hollow fascimile you get when a marketing department asks gemini to make edgy dark fantasy. it wants the empty aesthetic signifiers of being shocking (skulls, tits, big shoulder pads and tentacles) without including anything that might actually shock.