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Torque Borg: A Wasteland RPG

Created by Matthew DeMino

A radioactive, sandblasted, rules light, art heavy wasteland TTRPG. Based on MÖRK BORG.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Update #19 - 1.0 Release!
1 day ago – Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 12:39:36 PM

☢️Wasters! 1.0 Release is here!☢️

As you can likely tell from the title of this update - today is a very exciting day to be us! Torque Borg is officially being released as a completed thing! It's done! 

By the time you read this message, it's likely that you have also received a Backerkit email informing you of new files for you to access. (Note: I removed access for the beta versions of the core book, both adventures, and the character sheets - just to try and prevent confusion of current versions. If you get a notification of removed files, it was those!) 

Dropping today in 1.0 are the following:
- Torque Borg 
- Echo of Steel
- Corpse Road to the Cranklands
- Waste of Water
- 8 Character Pregens - Both in full color and Printer friendly versions
- The GM Screen
- Character and Vehicle sheets - Form fallible and printer friendly verions included
- Digital Asset Pack - This includes 120+ assets: 8 maps, both grid and gridless, player and enemy tokens, vehicle tokens, and a full color map of the WASTE.

☢️What's next ☢️

Over the coming days I'll be releasing Torque Borg on DrivethruRPG, Itch.io and RPGTrader. I would really appreciate reviews of Torque Borg on those respective sites to help give it a launch boost! 

It's now live on Itch.io, and will take a few days for Drivethru to greenlight it and for me to set up an RPGTrader account.

Speaking of Digital Marketplaces:

To not overwhelm everyone with a hundred messages, I'm going to let the initial burst of emails get past us and then I will be seeing about setting up free claim keys on both Itch.io and DrivethruRPG for those of you who wish to keep your Borgs in a unified library! So keep your eyes peeled for that!

If you are keeping track:

I still owe everyone the mini-scenario pack stretch goal! This one has been on my backburner as it's a digital-only reward and would not impact printing the way the other three adventures could. Now that all the physical rewards are complete, I'll be pivoting to this over the next few months, and hope to have it in your hands before you get your physical rewards. 

Print times:

I don't have locked in print dates as of yet, but have no fear - I am in active conversation with my printing partners working with them on setting up these shiny new 1.0 files for a print run. I'll be sharing any physical proofs that come my way and keeping you informed on each step of the process. 
I hope to have everything in motion by the end of August and fully printing/shipping by October at the latest, but I will keep you all informed as we move forward on the next part of this project. 

I guess that's it! It's finally here and I feel like I need to catch my breath. I hope you all enjoy the WASTE and the horrible shit it throws at you. As always....

Join us on Discord!

Don't forget that Torque Borg is on Discord!  Come hang out and chat! While I'll keep you up to date month to month here, the Discord is a great way to pop in and ask any lingering questions you may have, or if you just want to chat! 

Thank you!

Thank you all for your support!
Ride Eternal! Fire and Steel!
Matt

Update #18 - June - 1.0 is Near!
about 1 month ago – Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 01:00:59 PM

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Update #17 - The Corpse Road is open
2 months ago – Tue, May 19, 2026 at 09:34:16 PM

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Update #16 - May
3 months ago – Sat, May 09, 2026 at 10:42:07 AM

Hey Wasters! 

Another short update this month!

Between my day job and a short vacation I didn't get as much done as I wanted to in April. I did however start working on several of the digital rewards - GM screen, character pregens, etc, while continuing on the core book.

I have updated Beta PDFs for both the core book and Echo of Steel. These are both very minor updates, covered below. If you are planning on playing, or are already playing, I recommend re-downloading the version on Backerkit. 

BETA updates:

  • Fixed several more small errors, erroneous entries, descriptions, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. 
  • Added and updated several spreads of art. The Scavvs and the 'Cropolis now have full page art! 
  • Minor tweaks to of Echo of Steel. Mostly erroneous descriptions/rules that popped up from early drafts of the adventure.

As a reminder there are two google forms for anyone who wants to provide feedback, or report errors/bugs to do so. These forms are also accessible on the page 3 of the Beta PDF. 
While not required, I would be grateful for your opinions, sharp eyes and kind words! 

FEEDBACK
BUG REPORTING

Corpse Road to the Cranklands:

I started work on Corpse Road to the Cranklands this month - while still very early in it's process I am feeling pretty good at its overall idea and scope. I hope to get a very rough version of this adventure out sometime before the end of the month, as I anticipate it will need heavy testing. It will be very rough, and include no art - and possibly omit some of the more flowery descriptions as the rules and encounters get hammered out. 

I wanted to once again thank everyone who has jumped into the Beta of the core book and Echo of Steel and provided invaluable feedback! The reception has been more than I could have hoped for and really lit a fire under me to keep making cool stuff!

Join us on Discord!

Don't forget that Torque Borg is on Discord!  Come hang out and chat! While I'll keep you up to date month to month here, the Discord is a great way to pop in and ask any lingering questions you may have, or if you just want to chat! 

Thank you!

Thank you all for your support!
Ride Eternal! Fire and Steel!
Matt

Update #15 - April
4 months ago – Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 10:08:50 PM

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