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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

To The Point

PLAYER SECTION

Chapter One: Creating a Character

Chapter Two: The Basics

Chapter Three: The Drama Deck

Chapter Four: The Lizard and the Lightning

GAMEMASTER SECTION

Chapter One: On Being a Gamemaster

Chapter Two: The Game System and How to Bend It

Chapter Three: Attributes and Skills

Chapter Four: Using the Drama Deck

Chapter Five: Character Interaction

Chapter Six: Combat and Chases

Chapter Seven: The Possibility Wars and the High Lords

Chapter Eight: Everlaws and Axioms

Chapter Nine: Storm Knights

103

Chapter Ten: Magic

111

Chapter Eleven: Miracles of Faith

123

Chapter Twelve: Equipment

132

Chapter Thirteen: Creating Templates

141

The Torg Design Team

Greg Gorden

Mythos and Game Design

Douglas Kaufman, Bill Slavicsek

Mythos and System Development

Christopher Kubasik,

Ray Winninger, Paul Murphy

Additional Mythos and System Work

Jonatha Ariadne Caspian, Michael Stern, Richard Hawran,

Daniel Scott Palter, Denise Palter, C.J. Tramontana,

Martin Wixted

Concepts and Testing

Dr. Michael A. Fortner, Dr. George Exner

Technical Assistance

The Game Box

Greg Gorden

Rule Book Design

World Book Design

Douglas Kaufman

Rule Book Development and Editing

Bill Slavicsek

Adventure Book Design

and Editing

Paul Murphy

Adventure Book Development, Editing and Additional

Design • Additional World Book Material

Jonatha Ariadne Caspian, Michael Stern

Additional World Book Material

Rosaria J. Baldari, Bernadette G. Cahill, Stephen Crane,

Richard Hawran, Cathleen Hunter, Sharon Wyckoff

Graphics

Daniel Home

Cover Illustration

Timothy Bradstreet, Bob Dvorak, Rick Harris, Francis Mao,

Alan Jude Summa, Valerie Valusek, Tim Wright

Interior Illustrations

Tom Tomita

Logo Design

Paul Jaquays

Storm Illustration

Eric Aldrich, Paul Balsamo, Jeff Brown, Laura Brown,

Tim Brown, Gary Corbin, Troy Faraone, Dr. Michael Fortner,

Mike Landsdaal, Letha Owens, Barbara Schlichting, John White

Playtesting and Advice

World Book Development

Published by

RR 3 Box 2345

Honesdale, PA 18431

Second Printing: January 1992

Version 1.1

Publisher: Daniel Scott Palter • Associate Publisher: Richard Hawran • Assistant Publisher: Denise D. Palter

Editorial Director: Bill Slavicsek • Associate Editors: Greg Gorden, Douglas Kaufman, Paul Murphy

Editors: Jonatha Ariadne Caspian, Michael Stern • Art Director: Stephen Crane

Graphic Artists: Rosaria J. Baldari, Bernadette G. Cahill, Jacqueline M. Evans, Cathleen Hunter, Sharon Wyckoff

Sales Director: Martin Wixted • Sales Manager: Fitzroy Bonterre • Sales Assistants: Tony DeCosmo, Maria Kammeier

Special Projects Manager: Ron Seiden • Treasurer: Janet Riccio

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Introduction

ow it is three months after

the initial invasion of

Earth, and the invaders'

boundaries have stabi-

lized. The Gaunt Man's

land of horror extends across Indone-

sia and Malaysia, though he is no

longer there to maintain it. Kanawa

controls Japan and parts of the Far

East; Mobius holds northern Africa

and the Middle East under the sway of

the New Empire of the Nile. France,

dark and grim, is united by the God-

Net of the Cyberpapacy, and the

United States and Canada struggle

against the shamanistic powers of

Baruk Kaah's Living Land. Only in

Britain and Scandinavia is there a glim-

mer of hope, as the Lady Ardinay has

arisen to replace the evil Lord Uthorion

— though there are rumors that

Uthorion still walks the Earth.

And the High Lords are in turmoil;

without the Gaunt Man to lead them,

they scrabble for power, for the ulti-

mate power of immortality that ac-

companies the title of Torg.

got-you-first" arguments — because

Let's Pretend has no rules.

Consider roleplaying as Let's Pre-

tend with rules. There is a referee, also

called a gamemaster, who judges dis-

putes. The gamemaster also sets the

scenes and creates the story lines that

the players experience through their

characters. The characters are really the

heart of the roleplaying game.

Each player takes the role of one

character, a participant in the great

story being woven by the gamemas-

ter, who plays the roles of all the other

characters in the story, called game-

master characters. The player charac-

ters' actions will directly affect that

story, often changing the course of

events in significant ways. The back-

and-forth storytelling aspects, the

playing of new and unfamiliar roles,

and the freewheeling format of the

action are what make roleplaying

games so challenging and exciting.

In other roleplaying games, the play-

ers interact with the world created by

the gamemaster — and that's it. In

Torg, West End Games has created the

computer-moderated Infiniverse Inter-

active Campaign Game, a newsletter that

allows your entire gaming group to

interact with other gaming groups

across the country, and with West End

itself, to make the Possibility Wars

progress the way you want!

Getting Started

In this box you will find the Rule

Book (which you're reading now), the

World Book, the Adventure Book, the

Drama Cards, the Infiniverse Interac-

tive Campaign Game, and a 20-sided

die.

After reading this introduction and

the "To the Point" section that follows,

the next thing to do is read the Player

Section of this book. Imagine yourself

as a Storm Knight in the world of Torg,

opposed to the High Lords of the in-

vading realms, dedicated to freeing

Earth and its many reflections from

tyranny.

After that, if you're planning on

just being a player, stop reading. The

game and the world of Torg will be

more exciting for you if you don't

know all the secrets of what's going

on.

If you want to be a gamemaster,

read the World Book next, to get a feel

for the background of Torg. Then you

can come back and read the rules in

the Gamemaster Section of this book.

When you're ready to run an adven-

ture, read the Adventure Book.

Infiniverse: The Interactive Campaign

Game is a newsletter full of useful and

interesting information, but can be read

last, after you're comfortable with the

system.

So, get started with "To the Point,"

and keep reading the Player Section

after that. You'll be ready to play in no

time!

Torg: Roleplaying the

Possibility Wars

Torg is a multi-genre game system

that does what no other game before it

has done. It combines the action of the

pulps, the heroic adventure of fan-

tasy, and the grim situations of future

technology into one all-encompassing

game system with one coherent, com-

pelling story!

There are a lot of roleplaying games

on the market, and most use similar

mechanics to achieve interactive story-

telling. In Torg, we introduce two brand

new concepts.

The first is evident when you open

the box: the Torg interactive drama

cards. These are more than just charac-

ter cards or equipment cards — they

actually help the gamemaster and

players control the flow of action, and

add to the dramatic storytelling by

creating plots and subplots that really

fit into an adventure.

The second innovation concerns the

nature of interactive storytelling itself.

The rules and background in this

box, and the campaign you create with

them, describe one of the many Earths

now reflected throughout the In-

finiverse ... what happens on your

Earth, what direction the Possibility

Wars take on your world, will be very

different from what happens else-

where — but what you and your play-

ers create can and will effect the entire

Infiniverse.

What Is Roleplaying?

Roleplaying is simply another way

of playing games. Most familiar board

games have controlled rules. At the

other end of the spectrum are games

like Cowboys and Indians, otherwise

known as "Let's Pretend." Let's Pre-

tend can be fun, because we get to take

on the role of a hero, and we control the

action and make the game play the

way we want it to. The trouble with

Let's Pretend is the "I-got-you-no-I-

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