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The various types of arcane knowledges and how they are used are described in Chapter Ten. The full rules for spell creation can be found in the Aysle sourcebook. An abbreviated set of the spell design rules can also be found in the Pixaud’s Practical Grimoire supplement. Orrorshan Corruption Use: Special. Sample specializations: None. Reality: Orrorsh Orrorshan corruption is not really a skill, though it is treated like one. It represents the amount by which the character’s soul has been tainted by one of Orrorsh’s world laws, the Power of Corruption. A character that gains too much corruption will “fall to the dark side” and becomes a follower of the Gaunt Man. If this happens to a player character, he becomes a non-player character under the gamemaster’s control. Characters acquire points of Orrorshan corruption by performing unnecessary acts of evil while in Orrorsh (necessary evils, such as killing a villain in order to save innocents, is okay.) Possibilities may not be spent to gain further points in Orrorshan corruption nor may it be increased over time with training, should any character be crazy enough to want a higher value in the first place! The complete rules concerning Orrorshan corruption can be found in the Orrorsh Sourcebook. Pulp Power Skill* Use: Can only be used by characters that possess a pulp power. Sample limitations: A specific pulp power. Reality: Nile Empire, Terra, Land Below Chapter Three: Attributes and Skills Pulp power skill is not actually an attributeless skill; it just falls under whichever attribute is most appropriate for the use of a particular pulp power. The skill simply represents a character’s ability to use a pulp power whose use is not already covered by another skill or that does not require a skill roll to use. A character with a pulp power does not need the pulp power skill to use his pulp power, it just indicates that she’s skilled at using her power. Most pulp power skills will be based off of Dexterity, though there are several sensory and mental powers that would fall under Perception or Mind. Pulp power skill cannot be taught so any character that wishes to acquire the skill during play will have to pay the self-taught cost. Pulp powers are briefly described in Chapter Twelve of this book and also in the Worldbook. Most of the rules and descriptions of pulp powers are located in the Nile Empire sourcebook and the Terra sourcebook. Pulp powers unique to the Land Below are described in the Land Below supplement. 77
78 Chapter 4: The Rules “Knowledge of the basics may not always save your life, but it certainly enhances your probabilities.” —Dr. Hachi Mara-Two This chapter covers the basic mechanics that make up the Torg roleplaying system. The rules for using the Drama Deck are found in Chapter Five and the special rules for magic, miracles and other “special effects” abilities begin in Chapter Ten. Gamemasters will also need to know the rules in Chapters Seven and Eight but players are better off learning those aspects of the system through gameplay. Some sections of the rules have already been covered or briefly addressed in previous chapters. That material will be expanded upon first and then the new material will be covered. Action and Effect Totals As described in Chapters One and Three, success of an action is determined by comparing an action total the character generates against a difficulty number. If the action total equals or exceeds the difficulty then the action is successful. Sometimes the amount by which the character succeeds is important. When this is the case, the difficulty is subtracted from the action total. The difference is known as the result points of the action and can be used in a variety of ways depending on the type of action. (Negative result points obviously indicate a failure since the action total would be less than the difficulty number.) Example: Magoth is using intimidation on a Nile shocktrooper to try and get some information out of him. The shocktrooper has an intimidation skill of 9. Magoth generates an action total of 15. He has (15 - 9) six result points on the attempt. Some actions will require two totals, the action total to see if the character succeeds and then a second is used to determine exactly how well the character did. This second total is found by adding the same bonus (the die is not rolled again) to a different value. The second total is called an effect total. Effect totals are usually compared to a different difficulty number than the action total. Result points are determined the same way for effect totals as for action totals and are used quite often. Effect totals are sometimes referred to by their specific function; an effect total used to determine damage is a “damage total”, an effect total used for movement during a chase is a “speed total”, and so on. Determining Difficulty Numbers There are two basic types of difficulty numbers and both are used quite often in Torg. The simplest difficulty numbers are opposed actions. With many skills and types of actions, the difficulty is determined by some value of the object or person being affected. For example, the fire combat skill is opposed by the dodge skill. The difficulty of trying to shoot someone with a pistol is equal to his or her dodge skill. Determining damage in combat is also an opposed action. The damage value of an attack is opposed by the Toughness or armor value of the target. If the damage value does not equal or exceed the target’s opposing value, no damage is inflicted even if the attack successfully hit. The second type of difficulty number is used when there isn’t a measurable value opposing the character’s actions. For example, the difficulty of treating an injured character with the first aid skill is based on the extent of their injuries but damage in Torg isn’t expressed in game terms by values. In these situations, the difficulty number is based on how hard the action should be for an average person to successfully perform the task. For the purposes of determining these various difficulty levels, “average” means an ord with no skill adds (unskilled use modifiers are not considered since they vary so much depending on what kind of task is being performed.) Since ords have an average attribute value of 8, an “average” difficulty level is considered to be a difficulty of 8. On the Difficulty Number Scale, the description is a qualitative term for the difficulty level. The difficulty is the action total necessary for the average person to successfully perform a task of that difficulty level. Odds indicates the percentage chance of the average person being able to successfully perform the task and is based on what kind of a die roll is necessary to generate the bonus number needed for the average person to match or exceed the difficulty number. A “-” means that the average ord cannot succeed at that difficulty level unskilled (because ords do not get any rerolls when unskilled +7 is the highest bonus number they can achieve.) The modifier is used by gamemasters when they have a difficulty number already determined by another means but the circumstances are unusual. For example, shooting a target in combat normally uses the target’s dodge skill as the difficulty number. But what if the fight is taking place on the deck of a ship being tossed about by the waves of a fierce storm? Hitting a target under those circumstances should be more difficult than normal. The gamemaster can decide
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