[Torg] aysle a bit lame?

[Dominick Riesland]

I don't see the problem. Aysle in my mind is quite different from most
fantasy worlds, for several reasons:
1. No standard miniature Dex-based thief race
(halfling/hobbit/kender). This means that certain character concepts
are just not possible (or desired, if you are trying to keep the party
somewhat honorable).
2. Dark Aysle vs. Light Aysle. While it's common for a world to have
places where the evil overlords hold sway, it's rare to have rules for
how the world becomes corrupted around powerful evil.
3. The Law of Observation allows for a complete nerfing of traditional
science, (what do you mean, the earth goes around the sun? I observe
the opposite, and whatever is observed is real!) and allows for a
pseudo-technological society built on magic (brownies in a box
toasting your bread, self-propelled carts, Morrigan Steam Cannons,
etc.)
4. Remember also that you have Core Earthers who have transformed, not
just into magicians, but elves, dwarves, and trolls. There are plenty
of stories that can be built around what happens when your brother is
now a centaur, and magic can't change him back.

As for the magic thing, you already have the distinction you want.
Dunad's Gift gave one magic skill and one arcane knowledge at one add
each to every folk, but that's not enough to make a real magician.
That requires training, as my current Realm Runner is learning the
hard way. (Being from Core Earth, he doesn't even get Dunad's Gift!)

Honor and corruption aren't that bad, IMO. Many worlds have alignment,
but here it has tangible consequences.

Cyberpapacy was already trying to influence Brazil, tying into the
Catholic roots of South America. If you want to set them up there,
that's no big deal. As for the Akashans, nothing says you have to have
them, but if you do have them, there already was conflict listed with
the Cyberpapacy. Added intensity may be in order.

Feel free to do what you need to do, but there is a vast wealth of
information given about the background that will make for good
roleplaying if you are willing to look through it.

Dominick Riesland, aka Rabbitball
Creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire
"There are always possibilities, my sergeant told me. But he never had
his possibilities torn away like wings from a fly."



2008/8/29  <Crabshtick at aol.com>:
>
>              hi guys,
>                    im looking into starting up another torg campaign soon
> and i want to make some adjustments to the invading realms.
>                     ive always had a problem with aysle as to my mind its
> just too much like any other fantasy game world. i love all the other
> realms, including the livingland. which i know alot of you dont like that
> much but it was atleast quite different to any other roleplaying worlds. so
> what to do with aysle? ive seen some pirate ideas for it but i still want to
> keep the magic in some form. i'll probably see if i can take magic away from
> the people and give it to the select few. i also have to say im not a huge
> fan of honour/ corruption. any thing that could replace it?
>
>              on a final note i want to shift the cyberpapacy to a less
> restrictive area im thinking possibly brazil? however i want to try and
> retain some link to france by having just 3 stelea around paris. keeps the
> cyber pap source book material quite useful still. do you think any high
> lord would land in 2 areas like that? maybe malraux does this either to
> block or aid a struggeling uthorion? thoughts on this?
>
>                 cheers,mark.
>
>          p.s. if cyberpap is in brazil what would the reaction be to the
> akashans arriving?
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