TORG has been reborn in Corvallis Oregon.below is a note from jeff who is running the game -Ron I have just started up a TORG campaign. My group played the game a lot when it was still being supported, but when WEG let the game slide, we decided to drop it. Now we are back! My players wanted to experience the actual invasion from the beginning, not something that was very possible in the original. So this campaign, which we are calling TORG Reboot, is an invasion of a different Earth by a different alliance of High Lords. We may cross it over into the classic TORG sometime in the future. I am running it by the seat of my pants as my school schedule allows, making up details as needed, but if the membership of this list is willing, I would like to discuss the various cosms that we have and how the war is developing in the Earth of 1997. The invasion started on January 19, 1997 with the invasion of 16 cosms. We only intend to keep about 8 of them, the others being thrown off by the massive possibility energy of Reboot Earth. We have played through the first four days of the invasion, and the players were instrumental in throwing off one cosm already. I wanted them to feel, right off the bat, that the world was very volatile and their actions could make a difference. We want to use as many of the real world events as we can to give the game verisimilitude. We have made a couple of changes in the overall theme, assuming that in a war of reality, not everything will always work the same. Do you think that any of these violate the feel of TORG too much? Stormers arise in times of crisis, typically during Reality Storms, and have to make a committed decision in the process of transcendence. This decision is not necessarily a good versus evil one, especially if the character is not from a cosm with a morality world law. (In play, one character that transcended had to decide between saving a friend or defeating an enemy. But the friend was not necessarily in dire danger, and the enemy may have been able to kill them both if not stopped at that moment.) Stelae and triangle cosms are a common tool of invasion, but there are other ways to make territory yours. These may have other types of areas than Pure, Dominant, and Mixed. High Lords are not necessarily evil. They are obviously imperialistic, but they may be invading in the name of improving the lot of ignorant savages, spreading a religion, whatever. I would hesitate to call the mother of all imperialists, Queen Victoria, evil -Jeff Campbell below is information describing the realms we had invade.
code letter cosm start location notes A Gnomes of Zurich swizerland conspiracy/ corporate B Mu Pacific(hawaii) aquatic, Hawaii underwater city C Paradise Rio nior, magic , future axiomwash D Whimsy onterio Dudley doright, dick dastardly E Dystopia Hong kong, singapore, bejing metropolis, urban hopping F Noctropola South Africa fades in by night G Holocost sidney australia fated, ground zero stelae H Toyland PNW (WA,OR) toys gone Wrong I Facade Mexico City subtle horror J Botanica West africa no metal/stone structures K Cyberlon Near east Assyrians on hover-chariot L Dinotopia India thunder lizards live again M The real living land west south amer., easter island m/s everything lives N Anthroposlove mongolia/ siberia insects O pigs in space (wh40k) england war hammer 40 K
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