[Torg] Living Land

[Kansas Jim]

On 2/4/2010 2:07 PM, Jasyn wrote:

[what if the Living Land was high Social rather than low Social?]

> Suddenly, Kaah isn't a fool, he's a canny political manipulator, better than 3327, an expert in tactics and persuasion. He's so adept at persuasion, that he snuck in a major revision of his religion, rewriting its tenets, then persuaded all (or nearly all) eidenos to convert.
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> His cosm invades other worlds, convinces locals of the validity and supremacy of Lanala, and carries these alien species along with him as worshippers.
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> Social 27, R&E: "Social structures are advanced enough to incorporate factions and societies of a completely alien nature."
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> It's hard to find more alien beings in Torg than the benthe and stalengers, so how did Baruk Kaah add them to his society? Oh, yeah, a high Social axiom.
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> Especially as the Akashans aren't so high Social, in actuality, what if the LL had a higher Social than the Star Sphere?
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> I'm not saying I'd do this, but it sounds like an interesting concept.

The other day I was having some thoughts along these lines, though I 
hadn't reached the point of thinking about the Social axiom angle.

One of the many complaints people have about the Living Land is a lack 
of variety. There's what, like two edeinos templates and two stalenger 
templates for LL reality characters and stalengers are so weird hardly 
anyone will play them. Well, what if there were more races? Surely if 
stalengers and benthe could become jakatts there must be races from 
other cosms Kaah's conquered who also joined up. Perhaps the Living 
Land, not the Star Sphere, is the realm which is populated by all kinds 
of strange alien species brought together under a common banner? Heck, 
races in the Space Gods book like the Larendi and Gudasko are portrayed 
as technologically primitive to begin with, they could be transplanted 
to the Living Land with only minor tweaks!

The alienness of what high Social could be like would also be an 
interesting match to the rest of the alienness of the Living Land, 
moreso than the still very human Akashans portrayed in the sourcebook.

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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