[Torg] Re: A redesigned Possibility War

[Morgan Nash]

On Nov 16, 2007 11:49 AM, Phil Dack <philipdack at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The Stone of Cain, a piece of sharpened flint stained with dried
> blood that throbs with an unnatural pulse.... :)

Precisely :-)  Although I'll probably avoid Cain as it's a little bit
too "Vampire:T.M.".


> DDs need a highlord to be really effective. Is there some reason
> this DD hasn't got one? Is it buried so far out of reach that
> all it can do is subtly manipulate? Or is it a jealous DD that
> has had many highlords but contrived to have them killed before
> they learn to master it?

I think the latter. It uses and discards servants. It's deliberately
using a different tactic to 'Ultimate Domination' from the other DDs.
I wonder where it is physically located? East Africa would be the
"cradle of mankind" but I've got a lot going on in Africa already.


> But I like it. Not sure it's an exact fit with the Torg
> cosmology, but I'm getting lax in my old age, so I'll let it go
> this time ;-)

Yeah, I am indeed playing fast-and-loose with the cosmology but I'm
happy to change such high-brow concepts to fit the game, rather than
change the game to fit the high-brow concepts.

Morgan