[Torg] YouTube Torg Video

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
> Smooge writes:
>
>> Wow I have to agree on 5 minutes of Ugh.
>
>> Ugh. It was like... is this every bad GM rolled into one. And why all
>> this.. nobody knows about Tharkholdu? And the ending... I mean the
>> Tharkholdu cuts off your head and then what.. thats not much... waking
>
> I think you've missed the point - the whole thing is exactly how
> the Tharkold sourcebook was written. It's all supposed to be a big
> secret invasion going on beneath the surface, but it's so in your

Oh I had forgotten that.. it made so little sense I just said they are
in your face.. there are no secrets you keep your head down and find
tough people to protect you if you want to live.

> face that you get your head bitten off as soon as you poke your head
> out the door by creatures that are so powerful you don't stand a
> chance against them, especially if you do something stupid like
> pick one of the non-combat templates.
>
> So maybe not "good advertising" so much as satire aimed at one of
> the games' worse settings.
>

His comment about how its one of the better books written made me
wonder about it though.


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"