Content Created: July, 1999 / Updated: July 5, 2005
Torg (published by West End Games) is a role-playing game in which the Earth has been changed into something that is demonstrably not Earth. In the spring of 1990, six other realities invade to steal Earth's great store of possibility energy. (The short description of possibility energy is, the more of it you havem the more choices you have open to you.) Many years later, large tracts of Earth are Someplace Else, and the High Lords that lead the invasion seem to be winning.
"Pieces of Eight" is a chain of restaurants in my Near Now. Its claim to fame is that each restaurant boasts artifacts from each of the eight visiting realities. (Sort of like a Hard Rock Cafe, really.) Of course, some of the items aren't real any more, just mockups, so they don't inconveniently transform. Oops. And then there was the restaurant in the Living Land that just totally disappeared...
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Omni Gaming Products, home of the unfortunately abortive attempt to keep the license alive commercially after WEG stopped supporting it (WEG seems to be back now, though)
The Victorian horror reality of the Gaunt Man has landed in Indonesia, and is creeping into both Asia and Australia. The leader of the invasion, the Gaunt Man has tricked the unwitting Victorians into helping the very Horrors they strive against to invade other realities.
Aysle
The high fantasy reality, formerly led by the necromancer Angar Uthorion in the body of Lady Pella Ardinay of the Light, has taken the British Isles and cut a swath eastward all the way into Russia. The Army of the Light, thousands strong, is trapped back in the Aysle cosm and unable to come to Earth's aid.
Living Land
The reality of dinosaurs and primitive lizard men who gain great power from their goddess Lanala landed on the United States, but was hampered by the disappearance of its High Lord, Baruk Kaah. But he's returned, and the U.S. will again fear the dinosaurs.
Cyberpapacy
The Cyberpope Jean Malreaux I overlaid his reality on France. Cyberware is revered as the presence of Christ, and hovertanks of the Cyberchurch now thunder into Spain.
Nile Empire
The mad Pharaoh Mobius captured Egypt, and is slowly but surely bringing his mix of ancient Egyptian mysticism and pulp fiction to all of Africa.
Nippon Tech
3327 brought his reality secretly to cover Japan. His tools of conquest are not as crass as the Nile's or Aysle's. He conquers covertly with trade and the ninjas under his command.
(and later...) Tharkold
Tharkold was repulsed when it invaded with the others. Later, with a new High Lord, it captured Los Angeles, turing the City of Angels into the City of Demons... heavily cybernetic demons.
The Space Gods, who gave rise to the tales of ancient astronauts, have landed their non-invasive reality in South America. They claim they are here to help, but help is not very forthcoming...
Still confused? Take a look at Kansas Jim's "What is Torg?" page!
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