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4/13/2004 Tigerclaw: Few things. (Everyone, please HELP. esp historical fencers)
First, let me tell you guys how glad I was to find Riddle of Steel game. I was always a big fan of realism and combat, and this game delivers…
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Participants: Tigerclaw, Jake Norwood, Emiricol, tauman.

4/13/2004 ulfhiden: Destiny!
I have a question about Destiny. Do these dice get to be used in situations were the destiny might fail. For instance lets say you have the Destiny become a…
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Participants: ulfhiden, Mike Holmes, Stephen, Valamir, Wolfen, Lxndr.

4/12/2004 jburneko: Small Sorcery Question
Hello, I've owned TROS for some time now and I've read parts of it in bits and pieces but only recently took the plunge and read the entire book cover…
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Participants: jburneko, Edge.

4/12/2004 bergh: New Prioritization table for creating character
i have made a new one. www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/TRoSPri.pdf Rate it and give me a comment.
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Participants: bergh, Ian.Plumb, Bob McNamee, Edge, Lxndr, Stephen, Krammer, Ingenious.

4/12/2004 Sigurth: TROS in an Arthurian Mythos setting
One of my players really loves TROS. We are currently using it for our Hârn game (see sig). He proposed that we use TROS for our very, very sporadic Pendragon…
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Participants: Sigurth, Valamir, ZenDog, Jasper, Edge, Eamon, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 bergh: Why are Footman's pick and the spike on a Warhammer=ATN6?
Why are Footman's pick and the spike on a Warhammer so low an ATN (6), i think this seems wrong, and they are also killers, +2dam and +1 vs armours…
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Participants: bergh, Mokkurkalfe, ZenDog, Andrew Mure, BPetroff93, Irmo, Mike Holmes, Caz, Edge, [MKF]Kapten, Jaeger.

4/11/2004 bergh: on horse and using shield
Anyway, i was thinking that it may have been hard to use a shield when fighting on horse, im thinking on using it activily. if someone strikes you against your…
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Participants: bergh, Caz, Tash, Farseer415, Andrew Mure, Valamir, Wolfen.

4/11/2004 bergh: "may get stuck" weapons how?
"may get stuck" weapons how? Some weapons have the "may get stuck" in there profile? How does this work? And next i wanna ask, my players have found out that…
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Participants: bergh, MonkeyWrench, Kaelin, Salamander, Mokkurkalfe, ZenDog, Turin, Brian Leybourne, Edge.

4/11/2004 Emiricol: TRoS online
I'm saving up to buy TRoS. It will be the first non-D&D, non-D20 game I've bought in... oh... 13 or 14 years. I used to play a lot of non-D&D…
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Participants: Emiricol, ZenDog, Mike Holmes, Ingenious.

4/10/2004 Turin: Danish Axe
Which weapon in the list best represents the 2 handed "danish axe" used by Saxons Danes & Norwegians? The Poleaxe seems a bit long for it and the Hand axe…
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Participants: Turin, Kaelin, ZenDog.

4/10/2004 CPXB: Riddle of Steel Character Generator Question
I was inputting my new TROS character into the generator -- I'm a first time player and loving the game -- and when I was selecting equipment I saw an…
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Participants: CPXB, Brian Leybourne, Emiricol, Jake Norwood.

4/9/2004 Turin: TROS Combat question
I've run the simulator a few times and played the quick start rules, and have a general question about combat. It seems if you have a few more dice (2-3?)…
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Participants: Turin, BPetroff93, Tash, Irmo, Wolfen.

4/8/2004 The Heretic: Questions about Magic.
What is the difference between using Imprisonment to trap a demon inside a person and using Conquer? Personally, I think that imprisoning Spirits, Demons or Spells should always be done…
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Participants: The Heretic, Wolfen.

4/8/2004 Creslin: Using a rapier with sword and shield style?
Hey all, I'm new to TROS, and I only have a mild understanding of the rules. So anyway, I read in the book that you can use something like a…
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Participants: Creslin, Tash, MonkeyWrench, Caz, Wolfen, tauman, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, bergh.

4/7/2004 jeffd: armor penetrating capability of crossbows
I remember a while back (month or two) there was a thread here about the longbow's mythical ability to penetrate full harness armor - basically someone did research and that's…
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Participants: jeffd, Tash, Crusader, Salamander, Dain, Caz, bergh, Eamon.

4/7/2004 MonkeyWrench: Adapting TRoS for a more futuristic setting (long)
I've been a fan of Warhammer 40k for years now and it has always bothered me that there wasn't an RPG out there that captured the dirty, gothic feel of…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Caz, Tash, Trevis Martin.

4/5/2004 thomcat: SA spending - come again?
I am still amazed that I have read the use of SAs incorrectly. It just seems that "every roll" must have a caveat of "once a combat round" or "once…
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Participants: thomcat, kenjib, bergh, Valamir, Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Tash, Wolfen, Alan, Brian Leybourne.

4/5/2004 bergh: TROS Middle Earth: Hobbits
Hi I have made this PDF if you play hobbits in the middle earth universe with TRoS rules www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/Hobbits.pdf
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Participants: bergh, Dain, Andrew Mure, Turin, ZenDog, Edge, casinormal.

4/4/2004 Zhores: Movement in combat & pain & other stuff :)
I'm not sure the book answers these questions.. atleast there's some confusion in our group. How do you handle movement in combat? How long does it take? Do you use…
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Participants: Zhores, Alan, nsruf, bcook1971, kenjib, Richard_Strey.

4/3/2004 bergh: TRoS Middel Earth: Elves as player characters
HI Im making races for my TRoS middle earth campaign, and i wish that elves a simply more Tolkien. so i have made this up: Silvan or Wood Elves -…
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Participants: bergh, Tash, kenjib, Irmo, Turin, ZenDog, Valamir, Andrew Mure, Mike Holmes, Edge, MonkeyWrench.

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4/14/2004 Ingenious: Split upon the alternate priority system for Middle Earth..
Okay.. now that I've sorted out reality at the present time... I can move on to my point, if I ever had one. An alternate priority system as it pertains…
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Participants: Ingenious, bergh, Krammer, Jake Norwood, Kaelin, Tash, bottleneck, GaGrin, Caz, Sneaky Git, Turin.

4/14/2004 Tash: Rapier vs. Chain/Plate?
After our first session of sparring duels my group and I learned some interesting things about the system. One of these is that rapiers are ungodly....ATN5, STR+2 damage (on a…
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Participants: Tash, Caz, Wolfen, [MKF]Kapten, Salamander, tauman, Ashton, Sneaky Git, Richard_Strey, Dain.

4/15/2004 Thagorod Alynsson: Stats for a swordbreaker - anyone?
In our campain I recently bought a swordbreaker (at the GMs permission), but I have some problems figuring out the stats for such a weapon. I use the "cut and…
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Participants: Thagorod Alynsson, bergh, Caz, Salamander, Wolfen, Blankshield, Jake Norwood, ulfhiden.

4/16/2004 GaGrin: Until TFoB gets here - My own ideas for Mass Battles
[b]PCs in combat:[/b] During the chaos of battle, the combatants are assumed to be trying to survive the melee while getting from A to B, searching for a comrade or…
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Participants: GaGrin, Jaeger, Caz, Ian.Plumb, Irmo, Vanguard, Uber_Munchkin, Sneaky Git.

4/18/2004 Emiricol: Highlander TRoS
Going through every scrap of information I can get my hands on regarding TRoS until my book arrives (however long shipping is from when it gets mailed off, Monday according…
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Participants: Emiricol, bergh, Caz, Bob McNamee, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne, Edge.

4/18/2004 Mokkurkalfe: Spear = Lance ?
Hello. I was wondering if you could use your spear as a lance when mounted. My current solution is that you cannot charge with the horse's strength using a spear,…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Muggins, Caz, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

4/19/2004 Kcasar: Arming Glove?
first off, lemme just say hello to everyone, i'm new to the Forge, but should be bouncing through from time to time. okay, maybe i'm just missing something. I've looked…
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Participants: Kcasar, bcook1971, Brian Leybourne, bergh, Salamander, Wolfen, Caz, Jake Norwood, Edge.

4/19/2004 Kcasar: extra blood loss...?
okay second silly question for the night: the extra blood loss granted from weapons like the morningstar... does that require the wound to have blood loss? like level 1 wounds…
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Participants: Kcasar, Jake Norwood, bottleneck, toli, nsruf.

4/19/2004 Muggins: Finally!
A box finally arrived in Oslo with my TRoS stuff. Of course, after ordering it from two places, it finally arrived from Warehouse 23 the day after I left South…
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Participants: Muggins.

4/19/2004 Krammer: claws
Has anybody made stats for a Claw type of weapon? Not like animal claws, but more like wolverines, only not built into your hands. I guess what I am thinking…
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Participants: Krammer, Caz, Salamander, kenjib, Tash.

4/20/2004 tauman: Magic Items (Again)
As I was trying to fall to sleep last night, I got to thinking about magic items (swords in particular). One thing that seems to happen in many FRPGs is…
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Participants: tauman, Emiricol, kenjib, Uber_Munchkin, Muggins, Tash, Jake Norwood, Kcasar.

4/20/2004 BPetroff93: Tinkering with TROS
Tinkering for “Realism” I’ve noticed a lot of posts over the concept of tinkering with TROS rules in order to correct perceived faults. I’m not after anyone in particular, just…
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Participants: BPetroff93, Stephen, Emiricol, Vanguard, Tash, Muggins, nsruf, Turin, Jake Norwood, bcook1971, Ingenious, Wolfen.

4/20/2004 bergh: Shield Bash!
Shield Bashing....... this arent in the rules ? anyway how do you think a shield bash should be? as pure damaging weapon, i think its not as usefull-.. is there…
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Participants: bergh, Jake Norwood, Turin.

4/21/2004 Uber_Munchkin: A Sorcery Question - Sorry if it's been covered before
Ok I've tried searching the board for this but I can't find anything on it. I'm going to be running my first TROS game within the next few weeks, my…
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Participants: Uber_Munchkin, Stephen.

4/22/2004 The big blue ape: Combat question that has probably been covered before
The other day I was doing a campaign, and incedentaly we had to duel with some big man super magic dude. My traveling companion rushed into combat, using spiritual points…
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Participants: The big blue ape, Spartan, nsruf, Ashren Va'Hale.

4/22/2004 coryblack_666: extra attack power
I thought i read this somewhere in the book, but when i looked for it i couldnt find it. You know how when you do a test for a skill…
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Participants: coryblack_666, Spartan, Tash, Edge, bergh, Wolfen, Zhores.

4/22/2004 Starshadow: About the Morning Star
The mace has a shock rating of +(Dam Lvl+1), the morning star has a shock rating of +(Dam Lvl-1). Why is this? Isn't a morning star basically a mace with…
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Participants: Starshadow, Mokkurkalfe, Muggins, Tash, bergh, Jake Norwood.

4/22/2004 Tash: Yet another question about flails
OK, so we all know flails are some kind of blunt weight attached to a chain and a haft. You swing, the weight swings around, hits someone, hurts. They do…
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Participants: Tash, Mokkurkalfe, Caz, Salamander, Overdrive, Wolfen, Turin.

4/22/2004 Emiricol: How long to receive book?
I ordered the TRoS book on the 12th. I noted on the website the order ships on the Monday after the order is received, which would have been the 19th.…
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Participants: Emiricol, Valamir, Tash, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

4/23/2004 sirogit: The end of my campaign and Armor/Blood Loss tokens
My Riddle of Steel campaign is coming to an end after next session. It was a satisfying if bumpy ride. The parts where the game faltered I learned alot about…
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Participants: sirogit, Kcasar, Tash, Emiricol.

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