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Torg, the Glossary

Index Torg

Torg is a cinematic cross-genre tabletop role-playing game created by Greg Gorden and Bill Slavicsek, with art by Daniel Horne.[1]

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  1. 65 relations: Alien invasion, Ancient Egypt, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Japanese sentiment, Archetype, Aysle, Berlin, Bill Slavicsek, Black Gate (magazine), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002 video game), Cairo, Challenge (game magazine), Chariots of the Gods?, Computer Games Magazine, Creatures of Orrorsh, Crowdfunding, Cyberpunk, D6 System, Daniel Horne, Dragon (magazine), Dungeons & Dragons, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fantasy, Gallicanism, Glossary of video game terms, Greg Gorden, Hellraiser, Hybrid genre, Indiana Jones, Indonesia, Jim Bambra, Kanawa Land Vehicles, Kickstarter, Lost world, Masterbook, Near future in fiction, Non-player character, Pacesetter Ltd, Pellucidar, Player character, Pulp magazine, Rick Swan, RPGnet, Scandinavia, Science fiction, Shadis, Shatterzone, Star Wars, Tabletop role-playing game, Tarzan, ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. Role-playing games introduced in 1990
  3. Science fantasy role-playing games
  4. West End Games games

Alien invasion

Alien invasion or space invasion is a common feature in science fiction stories and films, in which extraterrestrial lifeforms invade Earth to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Anti-Catholicism

Anti-Catholicism, also known as Catholophobia is hostility towards Catholics and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and its adherents.

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Anti-Japanese sentiment

Anti-Japanese sentiment (also called Japanophobia, Nipponophobia and anti-Japanism), a form of racism against Asians, involves the hatred or fear of anything which is Japanese, be it its culture or its people.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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Aysle

Aysle is a supplement published by West End Games in 1990 for the near-future alternate reality role-playing game Torg.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bill Slavicsek

Bill Slavicsek (born October 6, 1971) is an American game designer and writer who served as the Director of Roleplaying Design and Development at Wizards of the Coast.

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Black Gate (magazine)

Black Gate is a fantasy magazine published by New Epoch Press.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002 video game)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an action beat 'em up video game addition to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise, developed by The Collective and co-published by Fox Interactive and Electronic Arts exclusively for the Xbox in 2002.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Challenge (game magazine)

Challenge was a role-playing game magazine published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) between 1986 and 1996.

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Chariots of the Gods?

Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit; in English, Memories of the Future: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past) is a book written in 1968 by Erich von Däniken and translated from the original German by Michael Heron.

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Computer Games Magazine

Computer Games Magazine was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine, founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication Games International.

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Creatures of Orrorsh

Creatures of Orrorsh is a supplement published by West End Games in 1992 for the multi-genre role-playing game Torg.

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.

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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech".

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D6 System

The D6 System is a role-playing game system published by West End Games (WEG) and licensees. Torg and D6 System are West End Games games.

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Daniel Horne

Daniel Horne is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.

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Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, along with Dungeon.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Gallicanism

Gallicanism is the belief that popular secular authority—often represented by the monarch's or the state's authority—over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the pope.

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Glossary of video game terms

This is a non-comprehensive list that includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players.

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Greg Gorden

Greg Gorden is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Hellraiser

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, and produced by Christopher Figg, based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart.

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Hybrid genre

A hybrid genre is a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.

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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels, that depicts the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. (portrayed in all films by Harrison Ford), a fictional professor of archaeology.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Jim Bambra

Jim Bambra (born 1956), Company Check Ltd is a British designer and reviewer of fantasy roleplaying games (RPG), and a former company director.

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Kanawa Land Vehicles

Kanawa Land Vehicles, subtitled "Wheels for the Possibility Wars", is a supplement published by West End Games (WEG) in 1992 for the multi-genre role-playing game Torg.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity.

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Lost world

The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization.

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Masterbook

Masterbook is a generic role-playing game that was published by West End Games (WEG) in 1994. Torg and Masterbook are West End Games games.

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Near future in fiction

The near future has been used as a setting in many works, usually but not limited to the genre of science fiction.

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Non-player character

A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player.

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Pacesetter Ltd

Pacesetter Ltd was a game company based in Delavan, Wisconsin, founded in 1984.

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Pellucidar

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth invented by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.

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Player character

A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Rick Swan

Rick Swan is a game designer and author who worked for TSR.

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RPGnet

RPGnet is a role-playing game website.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shadis

Shadis is an independent gaming magazine that was published in 1990–1998 by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG).

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Shatterzone

Shatterzone is a space opera role-playing game by West End Games. Torg and Shatterzone are Campaign settings and West End Games games.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Tabletop role-playing game

A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a classification for a role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech, and sometimes movements.

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Tarzan

Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

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Terminator (character concept)

In the ''Terminator'' franchise, a Terminator is an autonomous cyborg, typically humanoid, conceived as a virtually indestructible soldier, infiltrator, and assassin.

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The Destiny Map

The Destiny Map is an adventure published by West End Games (WEG) in 1990 for the cross-genre role-playing game Torg.

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The Living Land

The Living Land is a cross-genre tabletop role-playing supplement, written by Christopher Kubasik, with cover art by Daniel Horne and interior illustrations by Jeff Menges, and published by West End Games in 1990.

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The Nile Empire

The Nile Empire is a supplement published by West End Games in 1990 for the cross-genre role-playing game Torg.

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The Possibility Chalice

The Possibility Chalice is the second of three adventures in the Relics of Power trilogy published by West End Games (WEG) in 1990 for the cross-genre role-playing game Torg.

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The Terminator

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, written by Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and produced by Hurd.

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The White Man's Burden

"The White Man's Burden" (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.

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Theocracy

Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs.

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Transhumanism

Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being.

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TSR, Inc.

TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Vampire: The Masquerade

Vampire: The Masquerade is a tabletop role-playing game (tabletop RPG) created by Mark Rein-Hagen and released in 1991 by White Wolf Publishing as the first of several Storyteller System games for its World of Darkness setting line.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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West End Games

West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games.

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White Wolf (magazine)

White Wolf is a game magazine that was published by White Wolf Publishing from 1986 to 1995.

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Yakuza

, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan.

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See also

Role-playing games introduced in 1990

Science fantasy role-playing games

West End Games games

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torg

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