TROS is in Stores!

[Jake Norwood]

Acutally, I don't know. A thousand? Probably around that many.

Jake

[Aidan Dixon]

I think people may be confusing the retailers etc by talking about the "revised edition," because they'll be looking for those exact words on the cover and not seeing them.

Sounds like I was getting the wrong end of the stick, then.  Nothing new there...

To be very, very sure - look at the afterword, which is quite clear in explaining what the second printing contains.

Thanks (to Jake Norwood as well) for the clarification.  Nipped out and got it earlier this afternoon.  Will read it this weekend.

Cheers,

Aidan
(who can only afford the one copy for now)

[Irmo]

Hey, Jake,

greetings from a fellow ARMA member in Texas. Have you heard of any store in the DFW area carrying TROS?

[Dave Versace]

Acutally, I don't know. A thousand? Probably around that many.

Jake

Make that a thousand and one, Jake. I just picked up my copy at the FLGS here in Canberra in Oz. I've been totally jazzed by all the talk about the game here and at rpg.net over the past few weeks. Looks like just the low-magic gritty fantasy I've been after ever since D&D3E came out...

Dave
dave@otherleg.com

[Lyrax]

Low magic?  Only in terms of quantity, not quality.

:-)

[Nick the Nevermet]

Generally speaking, I think thats what the term usually means; low quantity of magic.

The reason is because of how a lot of people play games like D&D and make sure everyone has a +1 weapon by level 3, +2 by level 6, etc.  Be it table top or computer RPGs, people don't even blink at the rather (for most settings) ludicrous concept of a magic shop.  When a setting that actually can have an economy of magical weapons (nevermind non-lethal items) is the standard or at least something the gaming public is familiar with, TROS will be called low magic, because in comparison, it is.

The other thing that can make an RPG sometimes get the label of 'low-magic setting' is when the magic system does not encourage player characters who are spellcasters.  Pendragon's aging and sleeping rules are pretty unfortunate for the average PC, but that doesn't mean they're weaklings by any stretch.

[Dave Versace]

Yep, I meant it in the sense of magic not being all-pervasive and logically inconsistent, the way it's presented in most fantasy roleplaying settings. I mean, everyone you meet having a weapon with a Pompous Name and a host of funky abilities is kewl and all, but if I wanted that I'd just play Earthdawn (my over-the-top action fantasy game of choice) or a Hero Wars variant.

With TROS, I can finally have characters that are actually afraid of getting into fights because they can't heal their wounds quickly, and I can make them scared of sorcery without having to pile on extra levels of Lightning Bolts or whatever. I'm one of those GM's that likes to instill a sense of mortality without actually killing a bunch of PC's.

Dave

[Jake Norwood]

I'm one of those GM's that likes to instill a sense of mortality without actually killing a bunch of PC's.

Amen to that!

Jake

[Brian Leybourne]

I'm one of those GM's that likes to instill a sense of mortality without actually killing a bunch of PC's.

Amen to that!

Jake

... says the guy who designed the most deadly RPG out there...

Just stirring ;-)

Brian.

[Vanguard]

Regarding getting TROS in the UK.  Forbidden Planet London, near Oxford street carry it (although they stock Buffy the RPG too!).  And they have a mail order department.

Nice work on the systemm, by the way.  Answered the prayers of a DM bored with players decimating whole cultures in search of a next Gold piece or point of XP.

[Lyrax]

(Quoting Jake)
... says the guy who designed the most deadly RPG out there...

I've heard Call of Cthulhu is a somewhat deadly RPG... it might come close.

[Thirsty Viking]

(Quoting Jake)
... says the guy who designed the most deadly RPG out there...

I've heard Call of Cthulhu is a somewhat deadly RPG... it might come close.

As I recall the Highest aspiration in Call of Cuthulu was to Go insane before you were killed,  the mark af a truely successful long term charachter  (if you were lucky enough to avoid rapid onset insanity.