[Torg] Tharkold and Kadandra

[Kansas Jim]

Phil writes:

> 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?

People have proposed that the Star Sphere (and even Core Earth)
could/should be built like that, but I don't care for it myself.
Fringe realities usually differ from the main reality in more than
just their WLs, yet disconnection is typically not seen in most
interstellar sci-fi settings, much less the behavioral changes that
would result from operating under the different WLs.

> 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
> ;-)

Yay! My FLGS has had a copy sitting on the shelf for a few months but
I don't know if it's been the same one or if they've been restocking
it. I suspect it's the former though. :(

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