Well go with what feels fun to play!

I am playing a cyberpapacy talker/buffer. Both magical and miracle buffs.

I'll be playing an ex-paratrooper that had latent psychic powers which awaken with the invasion. Ben is a Core-Earther and has a strong motivation to kick the Pharaoh back to Terra.

Sapphire: Aylse. MagicUser/Cleric
Be. Altman:      Core Earther. Paratrooper with Psi
Grognard:        Cyberpapacy talker/buffer
Jason Keller:    Realm Runner
Jalia            Aylse Barbarian
Utsukushi:       unknown

Looks a good combination so far! Can any of us do any healing at the moment (I am selecting miracles/spells).
This message was last edited by the player at 16:41, Sat 13 June 2020.

You forgot Jalia the Aylse barbarian

Thanks :) One day I will learn how to count.

You don't need to count when you can cast spells to count for you :)

I need to count how much damage the spells do to me...

In reply to Sapphire (msg # 20):

My guy can heal, but is not very good at it.

Uhh Jason is a Realm Runner. I'd pick a better name for someone from Nippon Tech cosm.

I misread this. I thought you were changing. Good!

In reply to Sapphire (msg # 27):

Yea, no, lol. I meant if/when Jason dies, and by then who knows what I'll want to play next. But I've been on a samurai movie watching kick lately.

Since I've only ever played TORG once and that was decades ago, I am going with something simple. No magic, no psionics, Core Earth.

I don't know if i'd call a Realm Runner simple, especially in oTORG.. I mean, if any of us are going to end up wielding a gizmo in one hand and magic in the other while running a megacorporation that worships Lanala, that'll be Jason.

But I guess they start simple. grin

uhhh.....wait, can you LEARN magic later on? I'm not looking to, at least not now, but just curious.

Yes you can. Especially if you have a teacher (preens). But it is a little expensive (it's expensive at character creation time too :) A great spell is bullet, another is floater. Bullet will fire a coin or piece of metal at high speed towards a target. Floater will lift a platform and you can fly, or carry objects around. Those spells work in core earth. The second is a really usefull utility spell. The first is great when you can't carry a gun (guns are better)

What you need is someone like me to make you a magic wand, and then all you need is to have the skill apportation to use it. That would cost you 5xp to get level one, at which point you could use those two wands.... It might cost me a couple of possibilities to make the wands (it's hard but that's what possibilities are for).

You could also do the same with buffing spells: again I can make the wand, and you can use it. That would be the alteration skill. Buffing spells don't work unless the magical axiom is 10, but that's quite a lot of places...

(It doesn't have to be a wand: rings/broaches/...anything suitable)

You can also learn miracles, and some of the core earth ones are pretty good. Faith is a skill that everyone wants (even athiests) because it is a defensive skill like toughness. So a few xp get you focus. You would get a miracle free, and then you can get more through xp

My advice to you strongly is to start with Martial Arts. It's 'Great' with a capital G. It will mean that you will shine in combat in a way that people without will struggle. It is a tiny cost: you loose 1 skill add... but as I say it is Great.

Oh... you can also learn psionics... especially with a psionic in the party to teach you


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So if we get say 20xp, there is no reason you can't be flying in through the window on a spell you cast yourself, calling down the wrath of god with a miracle, while blasting away with a blaster rifle.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:28, Sat 13 June 2020.

Neither Faith/Focus nor Martial Arts are on the Realm Runner template.

Well that's easily fixed: talk to the GM and say 'can I have martial arts'.

Yeah, Torg: Eternity has a lot of limits (though they're softening them a bit) on cross-Cosm contamination in a single character.  Old Torg... really didn't, and Realm Runners are the best at it, over time.  To be fair to the new dev team, Eternity made that choice because it led to a lot of silliness.

Though I think you lose 2 Skill Points to take Martial Arts - the first add costs 3 points.

If you haven't noticed; Character Sheets are uploaded.

I am going through RTJ threads checking for Character Names I have missed. If I haven't correctly updated you, please let me know.

I'd argue martial arts is a core earth thing too. It's not like psionics or miracles or spells.

I do martial arts in the real world core earth. It's great: It's good for my mind and body. I teach it and have lots of friends through that teaching. There really are martial art secrets: turns out if you spend  thousands of hours practicing this stuff, and have really good teachers, you can do quite a lot of the things that described in the martial arts rules.

Not the cinematic stuff of course, just things like 'simultaneous block and strike' and 'you hurt yourself if you try and hit me and fail' and 'more damage than you would expect'. My main teacher (lives in Hong Kong, so I have to go there every year, and he comes to the UK once a year) is a non-stereotypical chinese man in his 60s. He hits like a truck. He's spent about 50 years learning from other awesome teachers how to coordinate mind and body. He practices martial arts between 30 and 40 hours every week for the last 20 years, and maybe20 to 30 a week for many years before that.  He has hardly any muscle (very low strength... maybe 6/7 on Torg) because muscle slows you down and his way of doing damage is about coordinating body weight with hand/foot movement and speed of delivery. As an example he can't use Escrima sticks any more because they break every time he hits things with them.


@Character Sheets
Thank you they look good: especially with the die reminder at the bottom.

Can you give us permission to edit them? You can do it for everyone at one go using the following:

• GM Menu
• Edit Character Descriptions
• Lastly, you can toggle whether the character sheets are editable (click the highlighted text)
• Down at the bottom (you need to scroll) is
• Alternatively, you can set them: All ON or All OFF

If someone else joins you would need to do it for them: this doesn't change defaults, just does it all in one go

After a chat with GM I have changed back stories. I've updated the portrait and description in line with the new story.

Thank you.

If there are any other technical tricks to this site's GMing, please share.

I wish I knew others :) That one is just useful though

I am almost complete. Name, backstory,  allegiences... How about the rest of you?

Do we have an ETA for when we want to start?

And do we already have a relationship in anyway? Are we going to be thrown together by the Winds of Fate, or is there an organisation that is going to direct us to do Great And Heroic thing?

I didn't get any feedback on my character's stats yet. But I think i'm rady.
It would be easy to build a relationship between our characters, since Jalia is now an Ayslian girl ! :)

Another Alyse person is good! That means all my buffs things will work. I might not be much good in combat but I hope to be able to make you better

I hope we have compatible religions: I am a priestess of God of Honour. That allows rather cool goodness to occur if you are (my miracles will work without any conflict).

I'm currently working in a close alliance with House Tancred. (That's the politically correct way of describing the situation in which 'they say frog and I jump'). If you have any links with them, we would probably have met as Storm Knights are quite rare