Portals of Torsh
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Portals of Torsh is a supplement for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1980.
Portals of Torsh is a campaign setting supplement intended for mid-level player characters, set in the prehistoric fantasy world of Torsh that uses magic portals for travel. The supplement provides a short summary of the world (along with wilderness encounters), along with details on a human town and a lizardman town, as well as a short scenario that takes place in the tower of a lizard-wizard.[1]
Portals of Torsh is a supplement that describes the small continent of Torsh which is mainly populated with lizard-men and prehistoric reptiles, with another plateau community populated by humans. The adventure includes encounters for dungeon, ruins, and wilderness environments. Teleportation portals, which were constructed by a lost race, have been scattered across the continent; one or more may be connected to the campaign world of the Dungeon Master to allow characters to travel to and from there.[2]
Portals of Torsh is a module approved for use with AD&D that presents a world in which is an ancient race built a series of portals to connect their world to other worlds before that race died out. The supplement lists the various types and specifics of the portals along with tables so more portals can be generated for use in a campaign. The adventure involves a human colony that lives on a plateau of another world. Only lizards evolved on the world of Torsh, so Lizardmen are the dominant species, and native plants are a poisonous to humans. One plateau was settled by a group of humans that fled through another portal has been made habitable for their descendants.[3]
Publication history
Portals of Torsh was written by Rudy Kraft, with a cover by Jennell Jaquays[a], and was published by Judges Guild in 1980 as a 48-page book.[1]
Portals of Torsh is the first supplement released for the Portals series, depicting adventure sites which have been connected to each other through a series of interplanetary or interdimensional portals for teleportation.[4]