The Black City
A downloadable game
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.
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Frozen Warlock!!!! Gaaaaah!
There is no limit, go nuts!
Just finished my first run. I'm thinking of moving to a battle mat so I can use miniatures and dry-erase markers :D
My game ended with the Starved Goblin. I exceeded the turn limit and 'succumbed to the goblin curse' which I assumed means my character turned into a goblin? At least that's the way I read it. Was this accurate?
Hi! Thanks for playing :)
Yes, the goblin curse is a thing in the Mörk Borg TTRPG (which The Black City is based on). It basically means that anybody who is hurt by a goblin is doomed to turn into one in a matter of days. There is obviously no cure.
Good idea about the battle mat! Let me know how it goes!
That's cool! I haven't played Mork Borg yet. I really should get a copy.
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.
Ever play the PC Text Adventure Game Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? You die from a falling brick the moment you leave your house.
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
Nice doodling!