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New Torg RPG coming out?

Started by Omega, August 03, 2015, 04:29:48 AM

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Omega

August 03, 2015, 04:29:48 AM
This was posted over on RPGG

QuoteAnd yet another old game is making a comeback: Torg is getting new edition, produced by german game publisher Ulisses Spiele. In a first for that company the game, called Torg: Eternity, will be published in english rather than in german. Torg co-creator Greg Gorden is somehow involved as well, but it seems he's not doing the actual game design. In the US the new edition is helmed by Shane Lacy Hensley of Pinnacle Entertainment Group fame. Thanks to Bruce for pointing this one out.

Interesting that there is a resurgance of attention to Torg in the last year or so.

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August 03, 2015, 07:11:19 PM
I'm interested! Honestly, I would be happy with a standalone RPG just featuring the Nile Empire. I don't care about the rest of the setting.
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August 03, 2015, 07:26:04 PM
Nice, I really liked the original but never got the chance to play or run it as much as I would have liked.
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August 04, 2015, 03:49:10 PM
There was another thread on this a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=32811

I gather that there was supposed to be some sort of announcement or launch with GenCon, but I haven't heard anything recently about it.

I love the concept of TORG a lot more than the rules set.
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August 06, 2015, 12:20:00 AM
I love TORG but it's a pretty weird setting, and it's hard to have people get into it, in my experience.  Maybe I'd do better at it now.
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August 06, 2015, 03:51:37 AM
I wish they had done more with the genre mashup motif. Nile Empire, Cyberpapacy and later Darkhold. Asyle, Orrorsh, Living Land and Nippon Tech seemed too, one-themed?

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August 15, 2015, 04:49:34 AM
Update from the RPGG newsfeed.

QuoteAfter the new Torg edition from a few weeks ago Ulisses Spiele had another announcement to make: the new edition of german fantasy mainstay Das Schwarze Auge (a.k.a. The Dark Eye) is currently being translated by Shane Lacy Hensley and will get an english release in 2016. Thank you to wusselpompf for bringing this to my attention.

Heard of Das Schwarze Auge, but never seen.

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August 15, 2015, 05:45:17 PM
Quote from: Omega;848989Heard of Das Schwarze Auge, but never seen.
To my knowledge its only ever been printed in German.
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August 15, 2015, 06:17:01 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;846883I love TORG but it's a pretty weird setting, and it's hard to have people get into it, in my experience.  Maybe I'd do better at it now.
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August 15, 2015, 11:19:36 PM
Quote from: Ronin;849068To my knowledge its only ever been printed in German.

My hometown had a fair amount of Germanic speaking members so when it first came out there was talk of it briefly. Then nothing. It never hit the table at the local gaming group. Or of it did, it did so while I was not present. Drakar och Demoner was the other one. Swedish in that case.

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August 15, 2015, 11:26:13 PM
Quote from: Omega;849121My hometown had a fair amount of Germanic speaking members so when it first came out there was talk of it briefly. Then nothing. It never hit the table at the local gaming group. Or of it did, it did so while I was not present. Drakar och Demoner was the other one. Swedish in that case.

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#11
August 16, 2015, 02:52:26 AM
Ohio. The local Ahmish spoke German too. Or at least what sounded like. All the store names were German as are some of my family names.

Frankenmuth is about 217 klm east of where I am now. And about 150klm north of the Kanar LARP been wanting to attend.
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