Editing Mörk Borg (section)

== Mörk Borg and /tg/==
{{topquote|I hate you and everything you stand for.|Anon, probably}}

Mörk Borg... Isn't popular on /tg/. At all.

Well, okay. Maybe just a little bit. You have to understand that /tg/ is very much a board full of [[Dwarfs|grudge-bearers]]. And thus, the average [[Grognard|grognard]] swears alliegance to his preffered flavor of [[D&D]] (mostly 3.5) or [[Pathfinder]]. Mörk Borg is a ball-busting game with a new and young fanbase with super edgy aesthetics that wildly differ from the High Fantasy adventures you'd expect to find in settings like the Forgotten Realms. Mörk Borg is gritty and dark, and you might be thinking "Well, so is Warhammer!", but that would be forgetting the decade-long relationship and constant evolution both the /tg/ community and WHFR went through. That, plus the fact that [[OSRs]] are pretty niche. Not super-extra-niche like everywhere else on the internet, but /tg/ has a dedicated general for OSRs (/OSRG/) made specifically ''because'' any threads about specific OSR games have only a trickle of replies.

That does not mean Mörk Borg has no admirers of course. Some peeps actually do play it and request homebrews and handbooks. A lot of people are actually praising the absolute horror that is the setting, how grimdark it gets with time, and how much the gameplay is reminiscent of OSRs while managing to be its own thing. Which is why it is often called a "nu-OSR". The sheer brutality of the game and its universe is, to these people, '''the''' selling point of Mörk Borg. The constant grind and the ever-increasing difficulty may be a hard sell for some players who only wish to have a comfy time with their friends, or those who value roleplay just as much as gameplay. As a result of the difficulty it's also quite a frustrating game to [[metagame]] or [[powergame]] in, meaning that duplicitous players or players who exclusively play to win aren't encouraged to play Mörk Borg.

So, needless to say that [[skub|both sides get to arguing]] quite often.

Detractors will call out fans by stating that because Mörk Borg has a consistent fanbase on websites like Tumblr or Reddit, the entire game is riddled with not very subtle "political messages". They're mostly referencing the official devs saying that they do not endorse any form of discrimination (which is, as we know, a very bold and extremely political stance to have these days). That, of course, was enough to write multiple copypastas about it. While most detractors are pointing out the sheer edginess of the setting and the general grimdarkness of it, no one really speaks of the gameplay itself. Curious, don't you think? :^)

Some came to appreciate Mörk Borg ''because'' of how butthurt some people get over it. Which is, somehow, a rather unexpected way to attract new players and simultaneously a [[trolling|very predicable way to attract attention]].