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A print and play solo city-crawler inspired by Dark Fort, Basilisk! and Mörk Borg. 

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At the northern edge of the world, overlooking the Endless Sea, lies the black spire-city of Alliáns. Far and wide is it known that its terrible regent, the Blood-Countess Anthelia, will reward with eternal youth whomsoever delivers into her hands the six lost magical artefacts of the Creton order. 

Will you brave the danger of the dead streets of Alliáns? Or will the biting winds of Kergüs forever sing of your cowardice?

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FEATURES

  • A procedurally dice-generated city of Alliáns for a different experience each game;
  • 12 dangerous Monsters to fight (or attempt to flee);
  • Modular difficulty: light your Torch to avoid traps and improve your healing capabilities, but the fights will get harder;
  • 20 wonderful Items to scavenge, use, or trade;
  • 6 Magical Artifacts to (hopefully) improve your chances of survival;
  • And much more!

Materials required : the Rules, the Player Sheet, a pencil, an eraser and set of 7 standard polyhedral dice.

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The Black City is an independent production by Neverwhisper Games 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.

StatusIn development
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Authorneverwhispergames
TagsDungeon Crawler, mork-borg, roll-and-write, Singleplayer, Solo RPG

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

The Black City (Rules & Player Sheet) 3 MB
The Black City (Crop Marks) 3 MB

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I enjoyed this one, though having now twice died to "Open Sewer" without any means of dealing with it ever appearing it did have a bit of a memey "Rocks Fall Everyone Died" experience, which especially hurt on my second run because it was going so well.

Just played my first game, and pretty much my first solo city crawler. It was pretty great, and brutal. It went more or less like this:
Fought off a frozen warlock (barely) on my second tile, after that I found a hidden passage at what appeared to be a dead end. There stood a crazy soothsayer, but as I had already lots (4) scrolls on me I refused to barter. He apparently took offense and somehow managed to summon a windborne wraith which I managed to beat to death with a stake somehow. Feeling pretty good about myself I stumbled upon a crazed warmth seeking mob and got pretty much eaten alive by them. Mork borg style 10/10. 

Rules are nicely and clearly written, and it's coming from someone who never played solo games like this before. I also doodled in ps some of the stuff that happened while all this was going on which I found immersive and fun as hell :D