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Jurassic Park and Mork Borg Meet Enter The Nerdom

It’s here! 65 million years in the making and it all comes down to this! No, not the release of Jurassic World: Rebirth, but something quite different: butchering the memory of Jurassic Park with the over-the-top, end-of-the-world RPG Mork Borg!

Enter The Nerdom‘s hosts Chad, Watson, and Stan are players in this insane romp through what at first might seem like a re-hash of the first (and as we all know, greatest) Jurassic Park movie, but which quickly devolves into a run-for-your-life thrill ride as things take a decidedly Mork Borg-ian approach to the subject matter. This ain’t your daddy’s dinosaurs! This is the end of the world…or at least Isla Nublar.

Check out the full actual play episode at the links below, and if you enjoy it, here’s all my files for the game for you to use as you wish: the rules, character sheets, GM screen, tables, and even rough notes to turn this whole thing into a much longer-running mini-campaign.

And don’t forget to check out Jurassic Park: Edge of Chaos, which served as inspiration and is chock full of maps and other useful lore on the original Jurassic Park!

Big thank you to the Enter The Nerdom team!

Happy gaming!

Mork Park Actual Play and Adventure Coming Soon

Jurassic Park is the best dino-horror-action film of all time, and Mork Borg is the best doom metal apocalyptic RPG of all time. So of course it’s time to mash the two together! And who better to play through it than Enter The Nerdom?

Mork Park is a quick-play rule hack that takes Mork Borg. I streamlined it ever so slightly with inspirations from Death In Space, and might have been guided by a few design choices from Shadowdark. But I really wanted to convey the survival-horror aspect of scrounging gear to make it out alive, so I tacked on inventory usage inspired by Mausritter. The presentation ultimately lands on…

…Mork Borg’s 2-page rules cheat sheet with Mausritter’s usage system built-in, rather than tacked on.

Oh, and I thought of a neat way to bring in a streamlined version of the panic rules from ALIEN The Roleplaying Game. Since we played ALIEN on the podcast before, but kind of got rushed to wrap up the scenario, I thought it would be cool to revisit an element of that in what is sure to be a much more action-oriented scenario.

Enter The Nerdom will be recording the actual play episode soon. As soon as it releases, I’ll follow up with post including everything I used to run the game:

  • Mork Park GM Screen: Inserts for a 3-panel Game Moderator Screen in landscape format, including all the rules (1 page), tables (1 page), and survival gear (1 page) you need to play the scenario.
  • Mork Park –  The Adventure: Character creation, scenario background, introductory text, an adventure outline for a one-shot (with room for loads more adventuring if you wish to include event dice and a point crawling style of play), an optional Doom Clock of various catastrophic events, and a handy encounter tracker for handling initiative order.
  • Mork Park Character Sheet: A single page, landscape format character file custom built for the rules of the game.

Need maps and tons more material for inspiration? Check out the free fan-made Jurassic Park: Edge of Chaos, a full narrative TTRPG for the original Jurassic Park movie complete with character files, loads of maps, and tons of background material. It was a great inspirational tool, but is not necessary to run the scenario.

Check out Enter The Nerdom:

Marvel Heroic Datafiles for Karma and Negasonic Teenage Warhead

I recently started a Marvel Heroic Roleplaying campaign that’s basically a Civil War What If…? where the House of M stuff didn’t drastically sideline the mutants, since my players wanted to play X-Men and X-related characters. Plus we’re from the era of the 1990s X-Men The Animated Series cartoon, so being able to rely on some continuity elements of that wouldn’t be so bad.

One of the things we’re doing is having the X-Men PCs take on New Mutants as apprentices. Since one of the PCs is Colossus, we decided to take a page from the Deadpool movies and place Negasonic Teenage Warhead on the New Mutants roster and become his protégé. It’s a nice call back to Kitty Pryde getting demoted from the X-Men to the New Mutants circa New Mutants Vol. 1 #3 or 4. Meanwhile, the other PC is an original character based on one of our previous non-Marvel superhero campaigns written up on this very site, Monochrome. He’ll be taking Karma under his wing.

You’ll see that I’m not really following canon timelines, because we don’t really care about that sort of thing! Negasonic is basically immediately post-Deadpool & the Mercs for Money, and Karma is more or less at the start of New Mutants Vol. 1.

So without further ado, here are the datafiles for Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Karma.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead datafile front

Negasonic Teenage Warhead datafile front

Negasonic Teenage Warhead datafile back

Negasonic Teenage Warhead datafile back

Negasonic Teenage Warhead – as a PDF

Karma datafile front

Karma datafile front

Karma datafile back

Karma datafile back

Karma – as a PDF

Thoughts? Feedback? Comment below!

Forget D&D – Curse of Strahd is Better with Tales of Xadia

Tales of Xadia: The Dragon Prince Roleplaying Game (TOX) is a hidden gem that deserves more attention. This tabletop game comes with a robust digital toolkit, similar to D&D Beyond, and it’s built on the Cortex system found in Cortex Prime Game Handbook. Despite being tied to a popular TV show, TOX offers a lot to players who aren’t fans. In fact, I believe it’s the perfect system for running Curse of Strahd (COS), even better than D&D itself. Let’s dive in and see why.

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Enter the Romulus – I Join Enter The Nerdom to Talk ALIEN: Romulus

Following our one-shot ALIEN The Roleplaying Game session, I was invited back to Enter The Nerdom to discuss the scenario, talk about the history of the ALIEN franchise in roleplaying games, and then discuss the new film, ALIEN: Romulus!

It’s a spoiler-filled discussion filled with our thoughts on not just Romulus but the entire ALIEN franchise across movies, books, games, and comics. We also touch on a few other recent movies and shows.

If you’re looking for more ALIEN discussion, some behind-the-scenes stuff about our game session, and some general nerdy chat, check out the latest episode of Enter The Nerdom wherever you listen to podcasts! Some of the more popular spots:

Reminder: This is a spoilery discussion, not only about our game session, but also about ALIEN: Romulus and a few other shows and movies.

If you enjoy Enter The Nerdom, follow them on Instagram or your favorite podcasting service to catch more episodes! They feature special guests from all walks of nerdom, including Christine Valada (Photographer, Lawyer, and widow of Len Wein, co-creator of Marvel’s Wolverine), and DJ MacHale (writer, Nickolodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark), they report on conventions (SDCC, D23, various horror and comic conventions), and much, much more!


After all this ALIEN stuff, I’ll be changing gears next week with a post about how Tales of Xadia: The Dragon Prince Roleplaying Game might be the best game system for D&D’s Curse of Strahd campaign. Stay tuned!

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