{"id":9816,"date":"2025-03-10T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:46:19","slug":"getting-borg-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/getting-borg-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting BORG-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Check out the Kickstarter Campaign for this game, it&#8217;s a&nbsp;collection of four separate&nbsp;<strong><em>Borg<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;adventures!&nbsp;<em><strong>M\u00f6rk Borg<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;apocalyptic&nbsp;fantasy role-playing game&nbsp;published by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_League_Publishing\">Fria Ligan<\/a>. It&#8217;s inspired by&nbsp;heavy metal music and its&nbsp;popularity has resulted in a variety of expansions, supplements and adventures created by the fan community. I have a&nbsp;personal affection for role playing games, but have no time to engage in such activities myself. Those I game with are board-gamers who grew quickly bored each time we tried D&amp;D and\/pathfinder. A few other rule sets were acquired but no games where scheduled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still,\u00a0I have an appreciation for role-playing games and have been enjoying the recent boom in the variety of types and styles of games available. There&#8217;s always the thought of some sort of a\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/aTigersTale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tiger&#8217;s Tale<\/a><\/em>\u00a0themed game module. But at the moment it exists as a set of vague rules for a custom deck of cards.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"317\" data-attachment-id=\"9817\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/getting-borg-ed\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original-png\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?fit=680%2C317&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"680,317\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?fit=680%2C317&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?resize=680%2C317&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?w=680&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?resize=300%2C140&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?resize=230%2C107&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?resize=350%2C163&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/14b8c1e3fc7055cae731ca9fee516f0b_original.png.webp?resize=480%2C224&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Kickstarter for this game is being run by a backer of both my <em><strong>A Tiger&#8217;s Tale<\/strong><\/em> campaigns and has not only been one of my comics mentors, he also resides with-in the Martial Arts Community I sometimes refer to as the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/atigerstale.com\/wulin-the-martial-forest\/\">Wulin<\/a><\/em>. Mauricio Cordero is currently an Instructional Designer\/Lecturer at MIT Cambridge and a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University in Chicago. He produced the <a href=\"https:\/\/border-x.com\">BORDERx<\/a> anthology and has created zines, comics and cartoons. He published his first Zine in the late 80\u2019s in a town just south of hell on I-95 with contributions from members of GWAR, other cool bands and Charles Bukowski\u2019s final submission. He then got lost in the heady aroma of the contemporary art world, running the education department at the ICA Boston, collaborating with the Boston Center For The Arts, and eventually owning a gallery in Tours, France, before returning to the US and to his first loves- comics, RPG\u2019s and zines. He is also an expert cat wrangler, DM, and a Tacomancer with a +3 spatula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joining him on this mission are \u2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h:Adam-Dahlheim\">Adam Dahlheim<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam is secretly a crab in a human suit. He has saved universes, destroyed cities, brought gods to heel, been one-shotted by goblins, hatched botched plans that created mayhem and destruction, and been crushed under stalactites and dwarven coffins. He has edited a number of TTRPG goodies, including&nbsp;<em>Elminster\u2019s Excellent Establishments<\/em>, Vendors of the Veil,&nbsp;<em>Through the Veil: Monsters of the Feywild, Nimble 5E, Alchemy &amp; Poisoncraft<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Anime 5E<\/em>, and various titles from both Studio Agate (FateForge, Esteren, Draconis, 7th Sea, Tainted Grail, and Vermin) and Grim Press.&nbsp; He\u2019s contributed his writing to compilations from the Storytelling Collective (<em>Collective Encounters Vol. 1<\/em>) and Critical Lit (<em>Rock \u2018n Roll Vol. 4<\/em>). During the day, he works in IT as a Project Manager and keeps the hydrants and water infrastructure running. At night, he tells glorious stories to his children and secretly plots global control with his crustacean kin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h:Rob-Knaack\">Rob Knaack<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob spent his formative years as a Game Designer, Programmer, and Technology Innovator working with Sega, Disney, Sony, EA, and others, making pixels do things they weren\u2019t meant to do.&nbsp; After pushing boundaries on using real-time game engine tools for animated movies (well before this was the norm), he transitioned to working in the film industry for DreamWorks Animation.&nbsp; More f*cking pixels.&nbsp; He now pursues his passion of storytelling and innovative game design through tabletop and video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h:Xris-Parsell\">Xris Parsell<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Xris is a seasoned Product\/UX Designer who has transitioned his passion the dynamic worlds of game and product design. With a diverse background that includes crafting online games for IBM, MTV, Comedy Central, and USA Today, Xris has been a driving force in leveraging emerging technologies to shape innovative user interactions. Xris has shifted his focus to narrative game design, particularly in Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs). His expertise lies in weaving compelling narratives and immersive experiences that transcend conventional gaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">This Campaign Has <strong>11 Days<\/strong> Left.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1226562513\/borged-again-the-collection\/description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\">See More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the Kickstarter Campaign for this game, it&#8217;s a\u00a0collection of four separate\u00a0Borg\u00a0adventures!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6d6d5701bd0d0d4cc60d081d6786976a_original.png.webp?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-2yk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9923,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/lets-go-a-kids-comics-studio-anthology-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9816,"position":0},"title":"Let&#8217;s Go! 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