TORG - discussion

[cybersavant]

Anyone here play or familiar with TORG? Either the original or Eternity. Or even MasterBook or Shatterzone?

I have a topic for discussion, if there is interest.

[Scott308]

My Tuesday group played original Torg for a while. The DM had several of the setting books, so we had a wide range of characters. It was fun, although it was kind of a strange game. I played Eternity at Gary Con a few years before playing the original, so I don't recall much about it other than we didn't really get the hang of the cards.

[cybersavant]

the cards are pretty straight forward, at least in original - i haven't actually played Eternity in person yet - online game lasted a short while, but GM pretty much oversaw the cards

i was hoping to discuss cosms - or alternatives actually
with 7 main main cosms, only 3 were genre mashups - i always wondered why

recently, in thinking about the game again, i was wondering what the invasion would look like with all cosms being mashups of different genres
original Nile - pulp/supers/ancient egypt
original orrorsh - victorian horror
original cyberpapacy - inquisition / cyberpunk

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new cosm ideas ??

[cybersavant]

it's probably my favorite game. First time i played it was at a convention, then i found a local game when i was at university. A few years after that game ended i got into another local game - replayed some of the same stuff with a different character, group make-up made it less of a rehash.

i like the multigenre nature of it. Cosms are basically just alternate realities that have co-merged with 'our' reality. Basically genre versions of earth - fantasy, lost land, etc. A few were combinations of two genres mashed together. I like that idea and was hoping to garner a discussion of what other combos would be interesting to game in

[Rex]

I have never played it, but the idea seems similar to Rifts ion some ways. Rifts had horrible rules, but the setting was fun. How are the rules?

[Scott308]

I think an Arthurian setting could be interesting.

[cybersavant]

the rules are pretty good - better than Paladium. Like i mentioned, i haven't really tried the new rules yet.
There is an official fantasy realm - but mostly polarized good/bad by honor/corruption. So they have elves, dwarves, vikings and such. Arthurian is interesting in that it is old gaelic welsh mixed with french romanticism.

[Rex]

I sounds interesting. When I have some free time I will look into it some.