[Torg] Tharkold and Kadandra

[Phil Dack]

I like the idea of a closer link between the two, but could you
not go with a middle ground. I'm currently reading KJ's rewrite
of the reality chapters, and it talks about differing strength
of divide between Core and Fringe realities. Could another
planetary intelligence just be a very, very close fringe reality
that needs FTL travel to break the boundary? If so, then any far
away planet could in theory be a fringe reality and thus exist
with its own world laws?

As an aside, I finally secured a hardcopy of TRE. Eric will no
doubt be delighted. I popped into a FLGS after my company Xmas
Party in Sheffield. The helpful geek assistant kindly told me
that he knew they had a copy of TRE, because he'd only just
stocked it himself that week after they sold the previous copy.
When the bamboozled assistant couldn't find it, he discovered
that that copy too had been sold just the previous week. Which
means, with my trip to my usual FLGS in the northern edge of
London Village, Torg Revised & Expanded has sold at least 3
copies in the UK in the past 2 weeks. Not bad for a dead game
;-)

Also, a member of my gaming group has just run an intro Torg
scenario for his regular D&D group, and it went down very well.
Now might be a good time for a relaunch :)

Phil


--- Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2008 5:30 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
> > Smooge writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Hmmm I like it, but as you point out later how do you deal
> with World
> > > Laws.. There is also that old sort of thing where a cosms
> life was
> > > centered in one spot (eg there is no other life in the
> entire Core
> > > Earth cosm...)
> >
> > It's not a problem for the Star Sphere so other cosms should
> be
> > able to have multiple populated solar systems. The Tharkold/
> 
> Well the cosm was engineered to be accepting to all other
> world-laws.
> It seemed to be specifically made so that you could plop in a
> world
> and it would be 'ok man' until enough generations had occurred
> that it
> would just accept the norm, maann.
> 
> > Kadandra cosm could have lots of other populated systems in
> them
> > that neither race knows about. (Which might let me go back
> to an
> > idea from a while back of merging the concept of Kadandra
> with the
> > Space Gods.)
> >
> > > 1) Use them as World Laws. Lets just say that World Laws
> don't go
> > > through out a Universe but are somehow 'centered' around a
> world.
> >
> > Well, the Land Below worked that way so there's precedent.
> But it's
> > a precedent that I'd prefer to ignore. :)
> >
> 
> Why... it makes it easier on the GM to have multiple worlds in
> a cosm
> just have the world laws different. I would say it fits
> Occam's razor.
> On the other hand we won't get much conversation out of it..
> 
> 
> > [...]
> >
> > > 3) They are the mirror universes of each other.  So they
> are similar
> > > as they can get.. only a left/right handed universe spin.
> >
> > So there's an evil Mara on Tharkold with a goatee!
> >
> 
> Actually I figure evil Mara is the lady who becomes high lord
> later
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
> How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good
> deed
> in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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