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.
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.
Nice, I really liked the original but never got the chance to play or run it as much as I would have liked.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Quote from: Omega;848989Heard of Das Schwarze Auge, but never seen.
To my knowledge its only ever been printed in German.
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.
In general I'm not a huge fan of novels based on games, but the original TORG trilogy was pretty good overall. It gave me a lot of inspiration as to how the TORG-verse works.
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.
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.
If you don't mind me asking are you up in Frankenmuth?
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.