{"product_id":"torq-rpg-operator-manual","title":"TORQ RPG: Operator Manual **","description":"\u003cp\u003eTORQ is a post-apocalyptic car-PG for 2-5 players, half road warrior tactics, half freeform roleplaying. In TORQ, you are a driver: a traveller with special talents who ventures from community-to-community to help in anyway they can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLicensed to go anywhere, with the grit to handle anything. There's gas in the tank, an X on the map, and miles of blacktop ahead. Race along the open road, collect the pieces of a changed world, and build something new together. Let's hit the road.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTORQ is a blend of two games, interconnected:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoad, a quick tactical game where players drive through a hostile world using a playmat: a modular grid representing the many highways, mountain passes, wide-open canyons, and city streets of TORQ. Powered by a unique tactical system, drivers dodge obstacles, investigate oddities, and thrash those who stand against them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReststop, a character-focused roleplaying game where drivers visit communities, bringing their special talents to those who need it. The reststop is a low-stakes, chill hangout portion of the game where players inhabit different characters in each community, playing scenes and building the world together.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrivers go fast, stay alive, and rule the road. In TORQ, drivers are people with special abilities and skillsets that are in-demand in every community: doctors, librarians, couries, botanists, and more. TORQ has two types of character creation: a randomized arcade mode called HARD CHARGING, and a selection of iconic characters for low-and-slow campaign-play, called the SCENIC ROUTE. As a driver, you ply your trade, whether you're a:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModem, one who brings social media to communities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAggie, the botanist in this weird world that studies the flora and its properties\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArchive, like the frontier librarians before them, a trove\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWose, a zoo on wheels, studying the extranatural things of this world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeakerbox, the master of ceremonies that brings the noise and music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand more!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTORQ’s world exists after a global change. Is that a disaster, an apocalypse, a choice? Create and play vignettes of this weirded-world, a world where people and communities strike a truce with the hostile environment, surviving and thriving in a post-anthropocene world. TORQ’s world is more humanistic than its post-apocalyptic predecessors: this is not a game for prepper-power fantasy, gun nut brinksmanship, or a rehash of feudalism. TORQ’s world is one of many communities living independently and together, tied together by the driver’s who make it from point A to point B, mutual aid, and the weird world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn your game of TORQ, create that world and those places, inhabit the people finding connection and joy in a different world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good Luck Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67732709966011,"sku":"GDL006","price":47.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1704\/1809\/files\/422680.webp?v=1792270916","url":"https:\/\/store.401games.ca\/products\/torq-rpg-operator-manual","provider":"401 Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}