How to SOLO play MÖRK BORG (Using Sölitary Defilement)

[@DesertDwellerSoloGaming]

Video 9 (6 of 3) of me liking and then commenting on every new upload to beg Papa Man Alone for Mork Borg Gameplay and/or Campaign. I love the @ in the video description lmao. I’m so excited for the content. My copy of Sölitary Defilement arrived recently as well. Thanks to you sharing the secrets.

[@carolinelabbott2451]

😊

[@amanisalone]

Lol you know what I love most about these comments is that they are somewhat polite..."and/or" a campaign. haha thank you for the choice! So many hostage takers never say things like that, i.e. "I want a helicopter and/or ten million dollars!!!"

[@Chaoclypse]

Hell yeah. Mork Borg was my introduction to RPGs, and solo RPGs as well! Really excited to dig into this video. I have 2 seasons (1 finished, 1 unfinished) of playthroughs of Mork Borg using Solitary Defilement on my channel, and I've written a book that supplements Solitary Defilement with a bunch of extra material called Solitary Depths. I just sent over a coupon for a free version of the physical version to your e-mail. Hope you like it! Edit: Love your custom character sheets, I do the same for a lot of my solo RPG sessions! Also, hey, I have those same d2 skull coins, haha.

[@Melvin7727]

Hey nice to see you here. I'm a fan of your channel and the Mork Borg playthrough. And of course, the drawings. Looking forward to cracking into Solitary Depths one of these days.

[@Chaoclypse]

@@Melvin7727 Thank you for the kind words! Solitary Depths currently has a few free community copies remaining on Itch - feel free to grab one!

[@amanisalone]

Can't wait to get this going!

[@macoppy6571]

1:12:59 How to Use Solitary Defilement

[@WeebDweebTCG]

@@macoppy6571 Do you know how to find it? Lol

[@boltfan43]

I have been working on tweaking Solitary Defilement to fit the Pirate Borg theme and feel I'm pretty close. If you would ever like to take a look at it just let me know!

[@vintoks]

Your transparency is what I love best about your videos. And fessing up to your failed dumb lights off experiment and confessing you're wasting [my] time was pure gold! I love it! Thanks for giving some love to Mork Borg and the solo suppliment. You made some great points in countering the "style over substance" arguement, and I agree! Mork Borg has been in my wheelhouse for years now. I play it almost every week! I look forward to more of your videos!

[@amanisalone]

I have no editing capabilities, a $40 mic, a crappy camera, and indigestion. The least I can offer you is my honesty vintoks!!!!

[@joshuadevon7899]

The way I've used containers in solo play -> no bag, you can only carry what you can equip or justify fitting in a pocket. If you have a bag, it has space for x items, up to your encumbrance limit of 8+STR. So whatever is lower of the two numbers is the limit. It just gives a narrative reason for you being able to carry stuff, and a fair detriment if your character doesn't have a bag.

[@AceneDean]

This is an incredible combo that doesn't get enough love. Thank you so much for featuring it and covering it in such a comprehensive, informative, and entertaining way.

[@lone_adventurer]

Mayo spooned directly from the jar sounds like a form of torture...and your deli meats videos will be sorely missed. Looking forward to this series! Bring it on!

[@amanisalone]

Thank you for your bravery in admitting your mayo habit. you are hereby sentenced to life in prison. we cannot allow this behavior in polite society.

[@convicsik]

Solitary defilement, Solitary Depths, Alone in the Crowd and Feratory are the greatest solo RPG books / tools on the market for solo / coop RPGing.

[@WeebDweebTCG]

@@convicsik do you know where you can get Solitary Defilement?

[@chrisdonovan8795]

Is there a table for weak hits? Something like: 1-You lost something in the attempt (theft, breakage, respect, etc.,). 2-Your outcome is half as effective. 3-It's harder than you thought. Abandon the task, or push through (-1 hp). 4-The task takes twice as long. (Treat as 3 in combat.) 5-Your success has made things worse in the near future. 6-Your confidence is shaken. You must try a different approach next time.

[@amanisalone]

I’d say you just made a damn good weak hit table!! No table afaik but they do talk about how to handle those and I’m used to it from ironsworn so I have a good menu of ideas in my mind grapes

[@davidcashin1894]

Spent the mornings of my vacation Solo playing Mork Borg using Solitary Defilement. It was a real treat. Also journaled the game. Note: It really helped that one of my Wretched Royalty's retainers was a SkinWalker.

[@liquefiedpork]

I have yet to get neck deep into a Borg/Psalm campaign, but I keep getting supplement books because they (for the most part) are interesting to read and look at. Can't wait for your play.

[@omerfarukyildiz5388]

I love MB btw. My first OSR game - haven't gone back to either Pathfinder or DnD ever since. I don't know why I ever bothered with them in the first place. It just never occurred to me that ttrpg don't have to be about number crunching...

[@amanisalone]

no sometimes it's better to just keep your numbers to single digits and blast some skeletons apart

[@ike_d5402]

Anyone who endure SIX Man Alone videos is an absolute self-hating beast of a nerd. Much respect.

[@amanisalone]

obviously there's a level of derangement there, I have to do the video just as charity for a sad soul like that

[@davidcashin1894]

Note those Crawl sheets etc you were looking for are downloadable from the 1d10+5 page. Love me the 4 ability and really low detail of Mork Borg and Forbidden Psalm. It feels so much more like Vance's the Dying Earth where even the most Brilliant Mage's can only cram 4 spells into their brains. And because Forbidden Psalm is a Solo and or COOP game, and uses the identical rules and stats but bridges the gap to using miniatures and a tabletop I will use Solitary Defilement to enhance play. Seriously I hope you have looked at Forbidden Psalm and Cloth Goblins.

[@dungeonmilitia1609]

Preach about substance my boy - you spoke the true words against… the DMG

[@fenrous]

Crawl sheets were additional pdfs. Love the mini crawl concepts. Also do Not neglect Alone in the Crowd. It introduced a lot of cool ideas, like city chases and City Crawls. As far as condiments spicy mayo.

[@amanisalone]

I found the pdfs!!! Alone in the Crowd...was that part of that or did I miss that?

[@jaymehickey]

Great video as usaual. I have Mork Borg but spending more time on solo Forbidden Psalm, dig miniature painting and playing. Also, picked up the Core Manual & GM Guide for Symbaroum so looking forward to your solo work on Symbaroum.

[@amanisalone]

oh man I am so stoked about symbaroum - finally completed my set with the Advanced Players Guide!

[@leafsneakers3257]

Great stuff as always

[@amanisalone]

(tips hats and winks) just doin my job (rides away on horse, but horse is a donkey and I fall of into a ravine)

[@Mantorp86]

I think Morg Borg is one of the easiest TTRPG to play solo because the rules are one page and they can be so easy modified for custom setting. You don’t nees to play in the Morg Borg universe. The best thing about MB is the player facing rolls which simplifies the game and also the monster stats. HP, damage, motivation is all you need.

[@amanisalone]

COMPLETELY AGREE!

[@whangbar]

Ravi Shankar eats his own flaming eyeballs in an angry fugue of rage in 88th layer of the Abyss at your comment. Then again, he is now Ravishank Mörkar, Bard of Demoborgon. And his sitars bring doom.

[@amanisalone]

This was one of the most interesting comments I ever read, and I read it like six times. I am pretty sure this is a hex? I'm hexed now, right?

[@whangbar]

@@amanisalone lol nah.

[@Sweeperz]

Your vids get me through the brain-numbing slog of a work day. Thank you! Also, honey mustard.

[@amanisalone]

now we're talking - honey mustard by the truckload!!!

[@geoframsay]

Hi, great video! I had a couple questions. For someone interested in Soloing Mork Borg, what books do you recommend getting? Also Where did you get your decision dice (the black yes, yes and, no, maybe, etc) and that cool d4?

[@thicctynine]

video 1 of me liking and then commenting to force Man Alone to actually do a deli meat review video.

[@amanisalone]

lol oh god no please don't do it. I think you might have to do 100 for this

[@thicctynine]

@@amanisalone you're the one depriving yourself of delicious deli meats and the opportunity to solo roleplay them. "Today on Man Alone" - 15 minutes of waffling later - "So anyway, I picked up this stick of Chorizo and I thought, 'I can probably solo this.' It's 15 centimeters long, so we'll be using 2d20 and try to roll under it's length on at least one of the dice." *Waves the chorizo around* "Every time neither die lands under, I fail the roll and I'll have to take a bite out of it, that means the game gets harder as the chorizo gets shorter and shorter. This is like life, where as time goes on you can find yourself trapped in a cycle of failure, but you can never give up the hope of rolling a one and succeeding against all odds."

[@pacoes1974]

The first thing I do when I get a PDF is copy all the text as art is fluff and gets in the way of finding information.

[@DestroyerHivePro]

Wow, just what I was looking for!

[@WeebDweebTCG]

Why is Solitary Defilement out of print everywhere? Everyone says to use it but I can’t find a printed copy anywhere. Is it available in PDF somewhere?

[@RancorRips]

I got my copy on Max Moon like a week ago

[@devolutr]

The crawlsheets are included with the PDF. It’s a wierd concept.

[@amanisalone]

I found them from my oooooold download from itch.io but I do think they're free now?

[@GrayArmyGaming]

I love how the authors are trolling us all by expecting nobody to pronounce the “ö” in Mörk Borg, yet then they go in to add a “ö” to solitary. Brilliant. 😎

[@arheru]

Sadly, different authors...

[@GrayArmyGaming]

@@arheru Oh, darn… 😔

[@amanisalone]

"SYOLEATARY DEFYLEMUNT"

[@whangbar]

As of today, this video was posted 7 months ago. It seems like only yesterday that it was 7 months ago. And yet, it has taken me 7 months to watch it. I am chagrined.

[@whangbar]

PS: the only way to read the Anti-Oedipus is on the drugs the authors were on when they wrote it.

[@crapphone7744]

You need to give every single person who participated in the "I can solo that" contest a trophy because they participated.

[@amanisalone]

no participation trophies! There will be winners and then everyone else must do a walk of shame to Vimeo

[@omerfarukyildiz5388]

Oh man, I can never play a game of DnD without my "ring with a brain on it". Classic DnD! Mörk Borg can't even compete...

[@amanisalone]

HAHAHA yeah I just calls it like I sees it!

[@JonFromWA]

Children:"One Two, Freddy's Coming For You."

[@donc7664]

*listens to video* *looks at Mork Borg on shelf collecting dust* *looks at box of Pathfinder core books that just arrived* ....*looks longingly back at Mork Borg*

[@amanisalone]

Just ignore it...don't look over at your shelf...you love your Pathfinder books...you don't wake up in the night in cold sweats thinking about the 88 page MB book...

[@donc7664]

@amanisalone i dunno man, i mean these books just came in... In all seriousness, so stoked for this playthru. Would love for you to do vids on running included adventures (like rot black sludge) if you get time. Im always too intimidated to try a premade campaign because I don't know how to retain any surprise.

[@brigzbee2303]

I love your endless sarcasm 🤣

[@RPGDAD1980]

There is a bare bones pdf of Mork Borg out there. I like the art but it drives me nuts trying to read the book lol.

[@michaelk.2907]

Either I have a different version of Mörk Borg or this is some sort of Mandela Effect but you don't go down the dice ladder for the calendar... I recently heard multiple KZbinrs mentioning this but it definitly isn't in my book... I just checked. I read the rule as you choose this before the start of the game and stick with it... Thus a d100 is some miserable years

[@matthewrawls1184]

You are entirely correct. There is no rule in the rules as written that the die size must be degraded with each new Misery - the die size listing is simply to give an idea of how long a campaign would tend to last (measured in game days) based on the die size chosen by the GM and players when initiating the campaign.

[@MrTrollMedic]

Jumped to the comments after that part of the video to see if I'm just tripping, I was like "have I been doing it wrong this whole time?"

[@horacioaugustofilho6487]

If you want to pronounce Mork Borg, listen to the Swedish Chef singing.

[@aaronwyrd]

Every time you said mork bork I think Disckworld. I now want a game played in (Ankh-)Morkpork

[@amanisalone]

HAHAHAHA I was repeating "Ankh Mork Pork" for an hour while making my dinner yesterday and I couldn't figure out why, and then I realized it's because I saw your notification and it wormed into my head. Okay at least I'm not totally losing it...yet

[@YouTubdotCub]

jalapeno relish is my answer to the bonus question but plz do more borgy morky defiling!!!

[@Utreshimon]

Thanks for the in-depth explanation, I've seen it mentioned in a lot of places without knowing what it was. I don't mind the gist of the setting but it looks and sounds like something I'd actually hate to GM for others or play solo. And I would drink spicy mayo from the jar.

[@Axxon_N.47]

Youve just killed umlauts for me forever 😂 Googly eyes 🤣

[@_Pauper_]

Any feelings about MorkBorg Ronin?

[@nicabar]

I could live my life near drowning in honey.

[@amanisalone]

okay this is true I have 100% just squirted honey onto a spoon and gulped it and put it back on the shelf

[@arheru]

Tzatziki! Fresh as all frick!

[@amanisalone]

Love it on a gyro, but plain? Well I guess it's just yogurt with garlic and dill, right? I mean I eat strawberry yogurt so why am I prejudiced against garlic and dill?

[@arheru]

@@amanisalone Never had it with dill. I think the Orthodoxy of Sauce commands it to contain cucumber instead, which makes it supremely fresh.

[@crapphone7744]

Not sure if it counts as a condiment but that Greek sauce made with yogurt and cucumber and garlic. I would main line it if I could.

[@amanisalone]

you're the second to mention Tzatziki!

[@crapphone7744]

@@amanisalone thank you I could not freaking remember what it was called for all I was worth. As far as I can tell the only difference between tzatziki and heroin is that tzatziki is legal.

[@Matthew.thirtyseven]

Old Bay Street from the bottle

[@CornishCrusade]

1. Great video 2. Not quite a condiment, but I would drink malt vinegar by the bottle if it was socially permissible. Unfortunately, we live in a society

[@AceneDean]

Don't bow to the fools, you drink from that bottle if you want to! ❤

[@CornishCrusade]

@@AceneDean Thank you king, may your ketchup always be Heinz

[@amanisalone]

oh my gosh I love it on Fridays but wouldn't drinking it straight evaporate my stomach lining? Or I guess maybe it neutralizes acid so would it just BASE my stomach to nothing?

[@CornishCrusade]

@@amanisalone you gotta get on that malted grindset, turn that stomach acid i to stomach alkaline!

[@CornishCrusade]

@@amanisalone on a serious note I recently discovered your channel and I'm enjoying it. You've sold me on Mork Borg and I'm tempted to play it, albeit with some aesthetic changes (I find a lot of the 80's anti-Christian vibe to be a bit cringe tbh, but that's just me). The apocalyptic calendar function looks perfect for 1:1 time, #BroSR style

[@Joshuazx]

I've heard the name pronounced as Myerk Bory

[@MrDowntemp0]

Horseradish sauce. Revenge upon my accursed sinuses.

[@amanisalone]

how could you do that to yourself

[@ethanlowe1845]

Ranch

[@adub_from_253]

THOUSAND ISLAND! 🤣

[@AceneDean]

BALSAMIC VINEGAR

[@amanisalone]

WHAT IT'S JUST OIL AND VINEGAR, RIGHT???

[@AceneDean]

@@amanisalone ONE GLASS OF OIL AND VINEGAR, NEAT, PLEASE.

[@arheru]

Mörk Borg is a strange beast: I've had one of the best sessions in my life GMing it, but some of the products are laughable. Have you seen the new pamphlet by Johan Nohr and his son? Have you seen what it costs? The _pamphlet_?!

[@amanisalone]

I know...however I think (THINK!) that I saw on twitter yesterday that he is drawing a picture and writing a personal message in every single one of those pamphlets? That's wild.

[@arheru]

@@amanisalone Fair, I guess (?). Sort of like a collectible. It's just... Compared to something like Trilemma adventures, which is a book of superb one-page dungeons at a similar cost, it gives off a cash-grabby vibe.

[@amanisalone]

@@arheru yeah I feel you on that, I think that it might be one of those things where the value is determined by the price which sets expectations of value which allows for a higher price (and so on). I love MB but I’m not gonna be in for that much…

[@GooberMcSnorford]

Fancy sauce, you know ketchup and mayonnaise together

[@amanisalone]

hahaha one time I brought fancy sausage with miniature sausage winers to a party and only later realized it was supposed to be a "classy" party. I was like...uhhh...it's called "fancy" sauce???

[@GrayArmyGaming]

Worcestershire sauce!

[@amanisalone]

no this cannot be real...how do your inner cheeks survive?

[@GrayArmyGaming]

@@amanisalone 😂😂😂

[@arkanewizdom9363]

BBQ sauce

[@DesertDwellerSoloGaming]

Chick-Fil-A Sauce.

[@SaintSolo]

emotional blackmail

[@amanisalone]

no no "ENCOURAGEMENT" meaning "FORCEFUL ENCOURAGEMENT"

[@wbbartlett]

Almost ANY book looks good compared to 5e, though I did enjoy that brutal take down of the DMG. Mork Borg has some good stuff and is interesting to look at (like a messy car crash), but for actually using it, I'll stick to the plain text versions.

[@xeltanni8999]

In my humble opinion, 5e's greatest failure is that it is fine. It's like playing tee ball or putting bumpers in the lane before you bowl. It is a solid C, maybe even a C+ of a game. There are issues and there are positives but over all it is the most beige of the RPGs.

[@jonathana6298]

Still waiting for the Borg Borg Star Trek hack. 😢

[@amanisalone]

lol damn every time you write this I think...hmmm...I think I *could* do that

[@derrickmuntner4895]

Yum Yum sauce. LOL

[@agincourt_archer]

Marmite. I would not need to be forced.

[@amanisalone]

you and my girlfriend!!! How do you brits eat that stuff is like yeast jelly that looks like poo poo!

[@agincourt_archer]

@@amanisalone Something deep in our DNA that means we need to be constantly atoning for unknown things in our past!

[@crapphone7744]

Is that dark fört or dark färt? The difference would be eschatological as opposed to scatalogical. That matters. One deals with a deep dark philosophical set of concepts and the other is, well, biology. 🤣

[@amanisalone]

lol I knew where the joke was going five words In, but I went ahead and read the rest of the comment anyway

[@crapphone7744]

@@amanisalone I congratulate you on your intestinal fortitude. Just because I cannot resist sophomoric jokes, doesn't mean anyone should be forced to read them.

[@crapphone7744]

Because the glow-in-the-dark demo didn't work, this is where you start a patreon not so you can make money but so you can get money to get a better camera and improve the channel..... At least that's what everybody else seems to say on KZbin it's not cuz I want the money it's cuz I want to improve the channel. Well my channel is going to continue to suck. Setting up a patreon or some account where people can send me money is too much work. BTW, the substance of Mork Borg is its style. Hate is way too strong a word for a game, but I'm sure not interested in playing it.

[@amanisalone]

I will only start a patreon when I have enough followers to quit my day job!!! I don't need the money yet - but I might if/when I get canned!

[@ben3521]

Still waiting for you to solo an OSR Technics turntable with a salami

[@amanisalone]

Okay serious question if you carved the little lines into a flat salami, will it play a song just like a vinyl?

[@nairobie755]

So one book filled with tools, items, enemies, options, etc good. Other books with the same things bad. Not that im a fan of dnd either but gives off some man shouts at clouds vibes.

[@amanisalone]

Over-description bad. Let me create the world, not be spoon fed a bunch of needless description. But hey different strokes for different folks

[@evandierker2272]

I feel like merely the amount of pages in mork borg really illustrates the difference between the two. There are rules for everything in d&d. Whats the point of my DM? Simple OSR games are toolsets that allow way more creativity and take maybe an hour to read the whole rulebook a few times. 5e is thick, it still feels simple, theres all sorts of rules that piss me off (sorry you gotta drop that shield to cast a spell or take a feat) and on top of that, most of the subclasses are hyper specific archtypes that dont really fit all vibes. I got what man alone was saying. Im a 5e vet and i used to love it... before i looked into other rules light systems

[@svunnig]

Watched 20 minutes, did not talk about how to play.

[@SimpleRoad]

You're obviously new here. 😂 Concise information must be found elsewhere...

[@micah_raygun_]

47:50 easy jealousy unsub

[@amanisalone]

not only do I understand an envious unsubscribe, I encourage it. Having jealousy in my inner court of subscribers will only lead to backstabbing!!!

[@crapphone7744]

You should not give into cyberstalkers. I'll just continue to encourage you to play other solo games. This will spiral out of control into a psychotic depressive state where you are driven by random texts in your comment section and no longer have any self-control. 😊

[@rowanash5378]

Soy sauce, 100%

[@nanashimumei8392]

Does a pat of butter count? 🧇🧇 Speaking of food, I need to stop listening to your videos while I'm eating because one of these days one of your surprise attack sardonic statements is going to make me aspirate my Cream of Wheat.

[@amanisalone]

hahahahah PLEASE DO NO ASPIRATE CREAM OF WHEAT. What a horrible messy expiration. Also - judges? - DING yes! A pad of butter DOES count!