Torg

This article is about the role-playing game. For the movie robot, see Robot Torg. For the protagonist, Torg, of the long-running webcomic, see Sluggy Freelance.

Torg
The Battle for a Reality-Torn Earth
Box cover by Daniel Horne.
Designers
Publishers
Publication
  • 1990 (original)
  • 1992 (updated rules 1.1)
  • 2005 ("Revised & Expanded" 1.5)
  • 2017 ("Torg: Eternity")
GenresCross-genre
SystemsTORG

Torg[1] is a cinematic cross-genre tabletop role-playing game created by Greg Gorden and Bill Slavicsek, with art by Daniel Horne. It was first published by West End Games (WEG) in 1990. Game resolution uses a single twenty-sided die, drama cards and a logarithmic results table, which later formed the basis for WEG's 1992 sci-fi RPG Shatterzone and 1994 universal RPG Masterbook. WEG produced over fifty supplements, novels and comics for the first edition. A revised and expanded core rule book was produced in 2005,[2] with a single adventure. After WEG closed in 2010, Torg was sold to Ulisses Spiele, who, after a successful crowdfunding campaign, published a new edition called Torg: Eternity in 2018.

Torg is set on Earth during an alien invasion, and players play archetypal heroes from differing genres. The game's title, Torg, refers to an in-game title that individual leaders of the invasion strive to achieve.

  1. ^ Gordon, Greg; Slavicsek, Bill (1990). Torg : roleplaying the possibility wars. cover by Daniel Horne (1 ed.). Honesdale, PA: West End Games. ISBN 978-0874313000. WEG20501.
  2. ^ Gorden, Greg (2005). TORG Revised and Expanded. Cover by Talon Dunning (1.5 ed.). USA: West End Games. ISBN 978-1932867145. WEG20902e.