[Torg] Re: YouTube Torg Video

[deranged fungi]

Dave wrote:
>Five minutes of that?  As soon as they said Tharkold, I know what was going to happen.  >Still, not bad "advertising."
>
>I have to ask, because the video made me think of it, how badly is the Living Land hated?
>
>I read the first Torg novel hot off the press, as a someone living in New York at the time, I >cheered when Shea Stadium got crunched and New York City
was pretty tore up.  I played >once or twice in 1991.  Cost of college
kept me from getting any products until early 1992, >when I started with
the Basic Set, Living Land Book, and Infiniverse Volume One (at that
>point I was the GM).
>
>Although weak on the power levels, I rather
enjoyed the Living Land.  I "borrow" druid spells >from AD&D and
Nature spells from GURPS to enhance the power level, so the Living Land
>could live up to the Spirit Axiom.  I always enjoyed the Living Land.
>
>From reading various things about Torg for years, Living Land seems to be universially >panned by most fans.
>
>I could've done without the Space Gods, but that doesn't mean I hate it.
>
>Just my two coppers.

I'd like to say that many of my players have a hard time wrapping their minds around one concept in the game in general and the Living Land embodies it the stongest.

That concept is 'science might be a local affect and not work the same every where'.

A good primer to playing the lower tech realms are the Amber novels by Roger Zelazny.  
My players that had read them seemed to grasp the concepts of fluid world laws better than those that that started Torg with me trying to explain 'why' their guns can't work there.

I find that once ppl can wrap their minds around that concept LL become a lot more of an exciting and challenging adventure than just a huge pain for everyone to work around.

Of course there is one point I've always ignored in play and NEVER pointed out to my players. I mean if some place as scocially advanced (shudder) as CE doesn't have a high enough scocial axiom to support a single world leader how can a single leader take control of a place where tribes are pushing the limit for all practical purposes.

 Dale Krause




      
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