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3/14/2004 ZenDog: First game advice
Hello All, I haven’t had TRoS long I’ve read it through once, I’m alright with most of it (bit shaky on sorcery but not planning to have any supernatural elements…
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Participants: ZenDog, Malechi, Bankuei, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, bottleneck.

3/13/2004 daagon: Boromir!!!
I'm about to start a Lord of the Rings campaign using TROS rules, and I was just wondering what sword Boromir used in the movie? Is it a bastard sword?…
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Participants: daagon, Tash, Wolfen.

3/13/2004 Aelios: How to Imprison Spells?
It's not in the book; I've search the forum. I can't find any references. How do I create a one-use spell battery? It uses Imprisoning, it can be activated instantly,…
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Participants: Aelios, nsruf, Brian Leybourne.

3/13/2004 Earl Aubec: Attacking with sword and axe
Leaving aside the question of historical precedence and "realism", it is not uncommon to find wargaming miniatures with a sword in one hand and an axe in the other. Since…
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Participants: Earl Aubec, Wolfen, daagon.

3/13/2004 Earl Aubec: Newbie has combat questions
Hi there. Sorry if these are redundant questions, but I did a Search and did not find the answers I sought. Take it easy on me; I just ran my…
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Participants: Earl Aubec, nsruf, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Jake Norwood.

3/13/2004 nsruf: Improving Attributes
I thought the maximum temporal or mental attribute was 10, but the table for improving attributes on p. 69 lists a cost to raise attribute 10 to the next level…
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Participants: nsruf, Lxndr, bottleneck, Malechi, Jake Norwood, [MKF]Kapten.

3/12/2004 bergh: Chain Shirt w/o sleeves and sleeves
Chain Shirt w/o sleeves and sleeves OK first: how long are sleeves? middel of the upper arm of the the hands? And w/o sleeves, does that means that it dont…
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Participants: bergh, toli, Ingenious, Tash, Brian Leybourne, Edge, Malechi, Richard_Strey, ZenDog.

3/11/2004 bergh: Spear and shield...what fighting style will he use?
Spear and shield...what fighting style will he use? Im asking this for an Greek hoplite style warrior= large round shield, long spear. what fighting style?
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Participants: bergh, Edge, Tash, Jake Norwood, Kaelin, MrGeneHa, nsruf, Thanaeon, bottleneck, Nick Pagnucco, ZenDog.

3/11/2004 coryblack_666: Weapon weights
This may or may not have been addressed already, i dunno if it needs to be. But, i was looking the the apendix at the weight of some of these…
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Participants: coryblack_666, Tash, Salamander.

3/10/2004 Harlequin: Possible solution to Brian's SimB/S issue
This comes from a slightly stale thread, so I'll reopen rather than continuing... Brian raised a point about the simultaneous block/strike, and indeed IMO about all use of attacks in…
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Participants: Harlequin, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Edge, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ben Lehman, Richard_Strey, Valamir, Overdrive, Tash, [MKF]Kapten, Gideon13, kenjib, nsruf, Ingenious.

3/10/2004 [MKF]Kapten: People who knows military tactics, plz look here!
I need someone who knows more about military tactics than me, preferebly ancient tactics. When I created my campaign setting I wanted it to be different from the classic medieval…
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Participants: [MKF]Kapten, Valamir, Bob Goat, MrGeneHa, Mike Holmes, Drifter Bob, Tash, Bankuei, Half-Baked, Dan Sellars, Turin.

3/10/2004 Tash: Abusing SAs?
I was discussing character ideas with one of the guys in my group and he mentioned the idea of having "Drive: Hates to Loose" as an SA. Now on the…
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Participants: Tash, kenjib, Bankuei, Valamir, Alan, Lxndr, Wolfen, Ingenious, Ian.Plumb, timfire.

3/10/2004 thomcat: Serrated edges
Just read about a jagged-edge weapon that would cause extra damage. A disadvantage mentioned was that this weapon catches in the wound, causing difficulty freeing it for the next swing.…
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Participants: thomcat, Malechi, Ingenious, Wolfen, Richard_Strey.

3/10/2004 bcook1971: Picky, Assumption-Teasing Questions
[list=1][*]Do you fumble a strike (pp. 78-9) by failing the roll and having two or more 1's (a la pp. 7-8) or does [i]any[/i] failure to hit draw the 1/2…
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Participants: bcook1971, Valamir, Malechi, Ingenious, Wolfen, Ian.Plumb.

3/10/2004 Tash: Terrain roll for an evade?
Can a terrain roll (which I think is used to represent any footwork a character has to do while moving) be used to evade an attack, particularly during a charge…
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Participants: Tash, [MKF]Kapten, Wolfen, Malechi, nsruf.

3/9/2004 Shadeling: My TROS games
As some of you may remember, I was running TROS games for sometime. They went well, but I decided to shelve them despite the stories being unfinished. To be honest,…
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Participants: Shadeling, Edge, Malechi, Dain, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Tash, MrGeneHa, Farseer415, Ian.Plumb, casinormal, nsruf, Alan, Valamir, Amy1419, bcook1971, Thanaeon, kanseg, kenjib, Muggins, Jaeger, Ben Lehman, silburnl, Starshadow, Ingenious, Emiricol.

3/9/2004 Bob Goat: Recommendations for First Timer
I convinced my normal group of gamers to start playing once a week on a weeknight outside of our two never ending (my kingdom for a conclusion) campaigns. This has…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Salamander, Edge, Malechi.

3/9/2004 thomcat: The Riddle of Bronze
(yes, I know there will be *something* in TFOB, but I want rules for today...) Are these assumptions completely off base? 1) Bronze armor -- "softer" than Steel, so roughly…
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Participants: thomcat, toli, Caz, Alan, Gideon13, Brian Leybourne, Durgil, Mike Holmes, ZenDog.

3/9/2004 Dain: Main Gauche
I posted this in the Dagger Stats topic, but due to the extended discussion there I'm afraid it's going to get lost in the wash...so I thought I'd start a…
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Participants: Dain, Caz, toli, Salamander.

3/9/2004 O. Rodriguez: Spiritual Attributes - What are they?
Hello everyone, My group just started a tRoS game and after our first session we had a number of questions. After a search of the forums I found the answers…
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Participants: O. Rodriguez, Valamir, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Malechi, Bob McNamee, kenjib, Stephen, Ian.Plumb, bottleneck, Ante, Brian Leybourne.

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3/15/2004 O. Rodriguez: Fleeing Combat
Hello everyone. SA issues were dealt with before session two and now that session two is history, things are starting to move forward really nicely. I'll try to get something…
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Participants: O. Rodriguez, toli, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

3/16/2004 Dain: Why SA's for stat/proficiency developement?
Kindof just a "why did you do it that way" question for Jake. For skills, you made it very logical with regards to real life (in my opinion) by making…
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Participants: Dain, kenjib, Ian.Plumb, Jaeger, Malechi, Ben Lehman, Valamir, bottleneck, Jake Norwood, Alan, Bob McNamee.

3/17/2004 Ognamus: Ogy!... I'm new...
Heh, well, I was bored and sitting in the lobby in OpenRPG, since I dropped out of two lame DnD games. (for the love of god, if I see annother…
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Participants: Ognamus, Edge, Lxndr, ZenDog.

3/17/2004 Alan: SA usage survey
I think it might be interesting to do a survey of SA standards. I'm going to post some questions. Please feel free to answer - but in the interests of…
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Participants: Alan, Malechi, Starshadow, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Lxndr, Wolfen, bcook1971.

3/18/2004 Earl Aubec: Overland Travel Rates
Table 5.1 lists travel times for various terrain types. Yet what if you're traveling through the mountains on a trail or path? Shouldn't trails, paths and roads each modifiy the…
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Participants: Earl Aubec, deltadave, Edge, Valamir, toli, Wolfen, [MKF]Kapten, silburnl.

3/18/2004 Valamir: SA dice by roll or CP
An interesting question came up in the SA survey thread regarding whether groups added dice from SAs into each exchange or into the Combat Pool total. I was astonished by…
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Participants: Valamir, Malechi, Stephen, Ian Charvill, Edge, Ian.Plumb, Alan, Ingenious, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Thanaeon, nsruf, Irmo, thomcat.

3/18/2004 daagon: Boring players!!
I'm running a game at the moment, set in Middle Earth, and my players always seem to go for strikes to the head... like always! This makes combat (for me…
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Participants: daagon, Mayhem1979, Half-Baked, nsruf, ZenDog, Caz, Edge, Dain, clehrich, kenjib, Blankshield, [MKF]Kapten, Brian Leybourne.

3/18/2004 Mayhem1979: Creative Gifts and Flaws
Hi, I'm working on a supplement / expansion for TROS, which depending on how well it works and if it ends up meeting Jake's approval... may eventually be available as…
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Participants: Mayhem1979, Stephen, [MKF]Kapten, JamesSterrett, Edge, ZenDog, Tash, Lxndr, Andrew Mure, toli.

3/18/2004 ZenDog: Jakes game and Brian's software...
... are an excellent combination. I made a new convert yesterday. After one chargen, and a few goes on the comabt simulator my friend (The player in the one on…
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Participants: ZenDog, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, [MKF]Kapten.

3/18/2004 ulfhiden: Book not here yet!
I ordered my book about 2 1/2 weeks ago and it hasnt arrived is this normal? should i be worried?
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Participants: ulfhiden, Tash, Valamir, Jake Norwood.

3/19/2004 ZenDog: First game done and dusted
Just finished my first game, there was a big chunk of background for the player to read (which works better online than it does face to face) and the action…
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Participants: ZenDog, Wolfen.

3/19/2004 Ingenious: Question on swords and sorcery.
Page 125 says: '..Combat runs regularly, with the sorceror's spell acting as his offense or defense. Any other actions taken use the dice allotted by the Reflex attribute, or any…
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Participants: Ingenious, nsruf, Brian Leybourne.

3/19/2004 bergh: TRoS in Middle Earth and Orcs. (+ stats for Mordor War Orcs)
Hi everybody, First i wanna say that i LOVE TRoS, but we play in a middel earth setting, and the players most often fight orcs where they are now. I…
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Participants: bergh, Stephen, Valamir, silburnl, Brian Leybourne, daagon, Sigurth, Melkor, Dain, bottleneck, Irmo, [MKF]Kapten, ulfhiden.

3/19/2004 Morfedel: A new magic system... again... :D
Hi there. I'm working on a new magic system for my campaign. Not because I am complaining about the old one. But because I have a game world with very…
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Participants: Morfedel, Stephen.

3/19/2004 bergh: New Armour and Shields table, take a look
First i will say thanks for those people helping me finding some good armour pages on the net. Here are my new armour table: www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/Armour.pdf The biggest change i think…
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Participants: bergh, toli, Caz, Valamir, Starshadow, ZenDog, Brian Leybourne.

3/19/2004 Starshadow: Doppelhander
Hi there, just a little quickie here. Are there any strenght requirements to use the doppelahander sword? Or maybe I should ask what strenght is required to use it properly?…
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Participants: Starshadow, bergh, Caz, Salamander, Tash, Mayhem1979, Bob Richter, BPetroff93, Turin, tauman, Richard_Strey, [MKF]Kapten.

3/19/2004 bergh: HELP all my players want or have full plate and helmet!
HELP all my players want ot have full plate and helmet! they got the money, and they think they got a big enough CP to handle it. Alright! my problem…
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Participants: bergh, toli, Valamir, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Tash, Brian Leybourne, Andrew Mure, Sigurth, thamias, ZenDog, Spartan.

3/20/2004 Wolfen: A character
Bored, I decided to make a character that I'd theorized around the time that I met Jake in Utah. Character is below. (btw.. found an easter egg entirely by accident..…
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Participants: Wolfen, bergh.

3/20/2004 bergh: Critical hit system....
HI I my gaming group including myself i think, we like that most idea that you can make a critical hit, ignoring armour or making maximum damage, becouse you by…
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Participants: bergh, Salamander, Tash.

3/20/2004 ZenDog: Fine Weapons
I see in the Chargen Software there is the chance to buy fine weapons, and in the example of combat one of the characters has a ATN 5 sword whichs…
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Participants: ZenDog, Salamander.

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