[Torg] Introduction Sidebars (Core Earth World Laws 2 of 11)

[Jones Jasyn]

Sources and Inspiration

While designing these World Laws, the author drew on a wide variety of “near real-world” action-adventure movies for inspiration, including (but not limited to) the following:

Die Hard, Die Harder, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Under Siege, Executive Decision, Murder at 1600, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Mission Impossible 1, Mission Impossible 2, The Sum of All Fears, Con Air, The Rock, Bad Boys, S.W.A.T., Speed, True Lies, Eraser, Enemy of the State.

Why Give Earth World Laws?

The simplest explanation is that Earth already has them, in the aforementioned Delphi Council Worldbook. Even if we ignored that, Core Earth does have custom rules, unique to itself, and these custom rules are World Laws.

It could be argued that, since Core Earth reflects the real world, and the real world has no genre, Core Earth can’t have a genre. The problem is, Core Earth isn’t the real Earth. It’s a cinematic version of Earth, and “cinematic Earth” accurately encapsulates this. “Cinematic Earth” is what Core Earth is, “Cinematic Earth” is what Core Earth must be in Torg. This is a genre, one intrinsic to the nature of the Core Earth reality.

Core Earth has a genre and it already has World Laws. Given that, the World Laws of Earth ought to match the genre, ought to encourage events and tropes common to the genre. More, the World Laws must also implement and explain the unique powers of Core Earth’s reality. Since the official World Laws don’t achieve this, new World Laws are needed.
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Jasyn Jones
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