I made a MÖRK BORG class!

This week I'm here to share some exciting news: as the title says, I made a MÖRK BORG class!


Wimpish Trainer is a Pokémon-inspired class, where you stay away from the front line and let your monster fight for you.

During character creation you roll a d4 to establish the way you tame monsters (from bones of a mesmer to burn marks on your body, including a Zelda reference) and a d4 to find out your starting monster, which are obviously inspired by the first generation starters.

Your monster will not live forever though...it will probably die pretty fast, if you're not careful. What to do next then? Luckily, this class includes a mechanic to tame new monsters (any monster you encounter on your adventures), which becomes easier as the monster's HP decreases. Gotta catch'em...can I even say that?

I've been working on this for a while before deciding it was good enough to publish it (in my opinion, at least), and in the meantime I've run into something that comes from a similar idea, although on a much bigger scale, which you should definitely check out if you like mine: Mörkédex: Bile Yellow, which includes d66 original monsters and a whole island to explore. I'm not at that level (yet!).

I hope you'll check Wimpish Trainer out since it's free (technically it's PWYW, but I don't expect nor ask anyone to give me money for such a simple project); I also added a plain text version, because the original version has a font more in line with the "Borg aesthetics" but can be hard to read for some people, especially on a screen (I made it with the idea of it being printed, but obviously it's up to you, should you decide to download it) and, should you use it in your games, please let me know! I'd love to hear stories and feedback!

This is it for this episode, I hope you enjoyed it! I'll continue in the near future. 
See you next Sunday for my next post!

May your dice never betray you,
Kirhon

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