The Valley of Forbidden Churches
A downloadable game
A 32-page adventure for the MÖRK BORG tabletop RPG.
- You'll explore a crusader-scourged Forbidden Valley where heretical religions once bloomed like wildflowers. Presented as a hex crawl, a dozen (mostly) abandoned churches still contain relics and treasures, and a few of them hide entrances to the tunnels below the valley.
- The Demonworm Tunnels are a point-crawl where you'll generate features by rolling on (or choosing from) a table. The tunnels are laced with gold and gems, but you risk being eaten alive by the deadly Demon Worm.
- If you're a careful explorer, you may be lucky enough to discover the Silver City, a dreamlike ruin of former beauty. Ancient entities from Hieronymus Bosch's paintings play games which shape the fate of the world. Will you intervene? Will you discover the city's last treasures?
This sandbox-style adventure presents a series of dangerous areas where players could succeed or fail based on their preparation and cleverness. Different forces vye against each other--will you pick a side? You'll need to manage time and risk, planning delves into the valley and then returning to the tavern to recover. The valley is more dangerous after sunset, so plan your trip carefully!
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The Valley of Forbidden Churches is an independent production by Dan Comstock 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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I did a review of the adventure as part of #HallowZine
Feel free to check it out!first off im not sure i will ever get to run this, let alone with Mork Borg as the system yet i totally recommend it. its full of great ideas with an easy to follow layout and structure and yet i can tell is also easy to customize and make your own adding or subtracting whatever you need to make it run for your group.
ive also never even ran a "hex crawl" and im not a fan of pre-made adventures usually, but im a fan of this. it sits comfortably somewhere between micro-setting and mini-campaign and i do hope to someday use it, but find it such a fun read regardless.
Oh man, this module is a lot of fun. It's a great sandbox with a lot of evocative scenes and encounters. The valley itself, while an interesting locale, is just a dressing upon where the real meat of the module takes place: underground.
Through exploring the churches or pursuing travel rumors, the players find themselves seeking a lost city buried deep under the labyrinth warren of the cursed demonworm. The demonworm tunnels was by far one of the best parts of the module; it's both a point-crawl with random encounters that are just as exciting for a GM as for the players- the best encounter was when my players encountered a hostile cult of demonworm worshippers and, through two successful scroll checks, convinced the cult that they were the heralds of the worm which lead to some amazing role-playing.
I liked that this module had a bit more of a gonzo element (a la Hieronymus Bosch) than pure grimdark- it made the encounters more memorable without breaking the core flavor of Mörk Borg. Under all the weirdness in the lost city is some extreme grimness: the end of the world, victims trapped in eternal drug-induced comas by wretched sick nurses, strange denizens that inflict terrible miseries upon anyone they catch. Cool stuff for sure.
The module is great ran as-is or there are great materials you could pull and insert into your other campaigns (again, those demonworm tunnels are great and that's worth the price of the module alone). Areas like the horn tower are incredibly evocative and make for great inspiration. I'd also recommend running this for your grizzled, veteran Mörk Borg players to catch them off guard (it pulled a lot of surprises on both my experienced and new players who played through it). I very much recommend this module.