Oh joy of joys, ever since the American Eagle sale began, I've been waiting for some product from my favorite 2nd edition campaign setting, Birthright.
TORG rocks!
TORG does rock; excellent game; love the action cards; hehe love hearing the "Heroes are UP" hehe and the others are great too; bit like RIFTS on a smaller scale; more personal with threads to our 20th-21st century life; like a really cool what if story. I really like the idea that you are a small reality engine and take your reality with you. A very cool well thought out system and storyline. Excellent, with variety of character types for any style role player.
Fighting evil one triangle at a time.
TORG does rock; excellent game; love the action cards; hehe love hearing the "Heroes are UP" hehe and the others are great too; bit like RIFTS on a smaller scale; more personal with threads to our 20th-21st century life; like a really cool what if story. I really like the idea that you are a small reality engine and take your reality with you. A very cool well thought out system and storyline. Excellent, with variety of character types for any style role player.
I had a TORG campaign that lasted through the entire 90s -- from 1990 to 1999, with only a one year break in the middle. That game really marked my "formative years" as a GM and shaped how I run games today, even Pathfinder: Cinematic style, emphasis on action and creativity, arranging sessions and adventures into dramatic sections, etc.
Taking a closer look at the rules through the lens of all the game design theory I've absorbes since then, I see it as a patchwork that is elegant in some places and inelegant in others. So I ended up converting it to Savage Worlds instead. Made a document you can find at http://getsavaged.blogspot.com/ if you are interested. With that document I ran a successful Savage Torg campaign a few years ago and I'm about to start another.
I keep wishing Pinnacle would purchase TORG, or at least the new German owners put out a new, updated, streamlined, awesome version. A game that good doesn't deserve what its publishers did to it! :)