a vampiric gutter punk urban fantasy RPG by Adam Vass. standalone/compatible with Mork Borg
Latest Updates from Our Project:
More unlocks & free surprise game
5 months ago
– Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:39:57 AM
I'll keep this one short because I'm in the writing zone and excitedly knocking out the solo rules for Blood Borg right now but this is your digest for the final days:
Hellbeast, one of many enemies you'll face on the streets of Scab, illustrated by Mitchell Van Dyke
Stretch Goals Status
Unlock! We hit 25k, so the Blood Bag includes a pad of stylized character sheets.
Unlock! We got 500 backers, so Blood Bag includes an 11x17" poster/city map and a red hypodermic needle pen for funsies.
Unlock! We are about to get to 27.5k, so it's safe to say I'm writing that Artist Statement zine that will also go in the Blood Bag
at 30k, the last goal is a sewer crawl printed on a barf bag, it is within sight if you tell your friends about Blood Borg before this weekend!
As always, the Blood Bag is the way you get physical editions of stretch goals, but digital go to everyone. If you don't want to get the higher-tier exclusive cover, you will be able to add the Blood Bag via the backerkit this summer.
Surprise: enjoy Soul Burner for FREE
Blood Borg isn't my first foray into the Mork Borg system--I made a body horror fatalist fantasy game called Soul Burner a couple years ago where you play as ashen heaps after burning at the stake, shapeshifting as your memories change, and traversing a volcanic wasteland. You can download it for free for being a backer of Blood Borg :)
I also just recently published Rise of the Cult of Bliss, a short zine adventure for Mork Borg that acts as a 2000-year prequel to the events of blood borg. It is pay-what-you-want here: https://worldchampgameco.itch.io/bliss
Both of these are available in print in short supply at worldchamp.io/store as well.
Enjoy Soul Burner, look forward to Blood Borg, and excited to see how we wrap up this campaign in the next couple days! Fingers crossed for a barf bag unlock soon.
-AV
Another Stretch Goal + Character Classes
5 months ago
– Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 09:50:44 AM
Quick News
We hit 23k this week which is immense, passing the 22k goal for me to write a funnel adventure where a bunch of mundane humans compete to be turned which will be super fun to play! We're quickly approaching both the 25k goal to include a pad of character sheets and the 500 backer goal for a double sided map/poster to go into the Blood Bag, hell yeah!
I've had a few folks ask about Blood Borg character classes, so here's a little preview!
There are 8 vampyric classes to pick from, each with unique blood powers, histories, etc:
The Bottom Feeder is our classic 80s punk, equal parts downtrodden and deadly. It's a struggle to get through the day but one you take head on. Comes with a random pet and ability to fuck up your face on command.
The Leech is a weathered vamp who has been around for longer than they care to admit. More prone to magic than melee, the leech is what you get when you have the age of the elders with none of the influence.
Leech art by MVD
New Blood is a vamp who was unborn yesterday, they've been turned more recently and still getting the hang of being undead. What they lack in lore, they make up for by interacting with the modern world more comfortably than the old heads.
The Masochist was bloodthirsty before they were a vamp, now they're even worse. They love violence! and they're good at it!
Masochist art by MVD
The Huntress is an assassin lurking in the shadows. Resourceful, rancid, and ready to rock. They are especially adept at dumpster diving and making useful weapons and items from the trash they collect.
Black Heart is a vamp with very little left to un-live for. They mope in isolation after decades of dissatisfaction and death. Maybe the afterlife isn't all it's cracked up to be. They pass their time with a commiserating familiar.
The Shadow emerges from the underground to a society they never could've imagined. These feral beings were raised away from the development in the city and take on a more bestial look and feel as well as a taste for the flesh of underground creatures that sate them as humans might.
The Thrall isn't quite a vamp yet but they aspire to be. They act in service to someone much stronger but their fragile connections to the land of the living grant them certain sunlit advantages the others lack.
(and while not included in the core 8, the recently unlocked funnel adventure stretch goal will come with a simple depowered Human class with the potential for you to turn them in ritual)
In addition to classes and powers, there's a ton of starting weapons and trinkets, tables for who turned you, what you were before you were turned, physical eccentricities, and more to make every vamp PC unique and freaky. Let me know in the comments the vamp type you're most excited to embody!
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Have a good weekend and stay out of the sun if you need to. I'll send another update next week, I've got a cool surprise for y'all coming. PEACE.
-AV
So many goals unlocked in such little time!
5 months ago
– Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 12:44:41 PM
It has been a huge week in camp Blood Borg, let's hit you with the updates:
Since we announced stretch goals on thursday, we have unlocked the first three. I was definitely not anticipating that kind of speed but it is so cool! Chris Bissette, Maxwell Lander, and Lett Morrison are all making adventures that will be compiled in the BLOOD BORG SUCKS zine. Techincally, we are $40 away from Lett's goal at the time of writing this, but screw it that's close enough and I want to play in their world.
Up next to unlock is my human funnel adventure, which will close out the Sucks zine as we move on to character sheets, tattoo flash, and more cool junk.
As mentioned previously, physical editions of stretch goals are exclusive for now to the BLOOD BAG add-on, but if you are holding out on higher pledge levels, know that it'll still be available in the backerkit this summer if you change your mind.
In the meantime, I'm writing a ton (the book just went from d20 spells and d12 curses to d36 of each) and feeling really good about the progress being made. Mitch is making more art every day that looks incredible. I had a couple requests for more info on our vampyric character classes, so I'm going to hound Mitch for some character art to share alongside that reveal and post it in an update later this week.
Thanks so much for your continued support, please keep talking about BLOOD BORG as it's clearly working and bringing new losers to our humble squat and unlocking tons of cool stuff that will let everyone have even more fun with this game.
-AV
Stretch Goals are here!
5 months ago
– Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 09:29:50 AM
Good morning blood suckers, I've got exciting things to share! After the first 48 hours, we are 175% funded, that kicks ass. I don't have to painstakingly promote this campaign all hours of everyday for the next two weeks, I can focus more on writing and art stuff, the dream.
But that's not to say we're done here, so here are the promised hidden stretch goals now revealed. Digital will go to everyone, Physical/print stuff is exclusive to the BLOOD BAG. High tiers come with the blood bag, you can upgrade your pledge now to get it or add it on later in Backerkit:
18.5k brings Maxwell Lander to the rich dark of night with another adventure!
20k unlocks Lett with an adventure of their own, I love what they did with their zine Cy_Ops and can't wait to see how they wreak havoc in SCAB.
at 22k, I'll throw in another adventure of my own, a FUNNEL where you play as a handful of doomed humans fighting to be made into vamps by the end.
(Each of the above will be in print as a collected adventure zine called BLOOD BORG SUCKS).
25k gives you a paper pad of character sheets (it's a Borg, after all, and these are nice and handy)
Hitting 27.5k will let me write my artist statement essay as a separate zine, talking about the themes and goals of the game and why things are the way they are. If that's too boring for you, I'm also throwin in some vampire-inspired tattoo flash at this level (either in the artist statement zine or as a mini print, tbd).
30k will have you hurling your vamps into the sewers and plugging your noses from the filthy smell with a mini point crawl adventure printed on a BARF BAG.
and money-aside, if we hit 500 backers, each Blood Bag will include a folded up poster map of the city Scab with some rad MVD art on the b-side, plus a hypodermic needle ball point pen to extract blood to your notes during play.
There are only two weeks left in the campaign (short & sweet) so tell your friends to get to bloodborg.com and let's unlock some of these suckers! THANK YOU!
-AV
Funded Day One!
5 months ago
– Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 08:13:21 AM
Thanks to you midnight freaks, we hit our initial funding goal in ten hours and BLOOD BORG is coming to un-life. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
We're gonna aim to keep this momentum and reveal our hidden stretch goals tomorrow (thursday), so stay tuned, there's a lot more blood to be spilled. I'd love your continued help and support by spreading the news of this project to your undead friends, tell them to go to bloodborg.com to check it out.
