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3/30/2002 Valamir: Riddle of Steel
I was browsing their web site recently and came across some pretty cool items. John Clements (author of a couple of books which are mandatory reads for anyone who wants…
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Participants: Valamir, Misguided Games, Jake Norwood.

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4/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Playing The Riddle of Steel (a little)
Hey there, As I said in this thread, I managed to get in some brief Riddle of Steel play last week. It wasn't much, just a few neat encounters and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Anonymous, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Wolfen, Russell Hoyle, contracycle, Dav, Ace, Rattlehead.

4/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Setting help and inspiration
Hi Jake, So I'm thinking about playing and prepping for play, and it's clear to me that the Seat of the Xanarian Empire would be a snap (Benvenuto Cellini territory,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Jaif.

4/25/2002 Valamir: Some Initial Questions
Ok, I went home and started delving a little deeper into RoS. Came up with some initial questions (not the least of which is how will I ever remember the…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Jürgen Mayer, Wolfen, sirjaguar, Mainboard.

4/25/2002 Jake Norwood: Reviews
A review of the Riddle of Steel is up at www.thegamekeep.com, a retailer in Tennessee carrying our game. It's excellent. Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Clinton R. Nixon, Jaif, edomaur, Brian Leybourne.

4/26/2002 Jake Norwood: Supplement: Sorcery and the Fey
Sorcery and the Fey is nearing completion. We wanted to know of any last-minute requests for its contents. Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Ace.

4/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Supplement: Bestiary Plus
We're just starting up with a Bestiary and Seneschal's rescource book. We want to include NPCs, Beasts, and even some sample floorplans, etc. Instead of going for "quantity" ala D&D…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Rattlehead, Thalaxis, Nick Pagnucco, Brian Leybourne, contracycle.

4/29/2002 Rattlehead: TROS Software?
Hi! Let me start by saying that I only recently purchased The Riddle of Steel. My initial impression is that this is a Great Game! Great job Mr. Norwood! I've…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Rattlehead, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Syphon, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Lyrax, Brand_Robins, contracycle.

4/30/2002 The_Fey: Spells, spells and more spells
Hi guys. I'm Dave, the crazy guy writing Sorcery and the Fey. I'd love to hear any suggestions that you guys have for spells, and if you want to post…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: The_Fey, Ron Edwards, Wolfen.

5/1/2002 Ron Edwards: Further customized and diverse combat rules - Just Say No
Hi folks, The "Playing The Riddle of Steel (a little)" thread has split topics a few times, so I'll start a new thread from one of them. Speaking as both…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ace, Bankuei, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Nick Pagnucco.

5/1/2002 Jaif: Cohesive Groups w/spiritual attributes
Probably nothing new, but... I'm sure we've all either done it or seen it: the GM gives the Player's Guide to the group and says "make you characters", then he…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaif, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Wolfen.

5/1/2002 Jaif: The psychology of combat
My pet peave for a long time is that no game, anywhere, deals with the psychology of combat. For example, during WWII a study was done on soldiers in combat:…
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Participants: Jaif, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Le Joueur, Wolfen, Valamir, Ace, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, contracycle, Shadow, Lyrax, Atomic Requiem.

5/1/2002 Ace: The future of Riddle of Steel. What do you all want
Right now it looks like Jake has enough on his hand to keep him busy for the next year or so. However if TROS catches on (and it has a…
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Participants: Ace, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Bankuei, Rattlehead, Wolfen, Jaif.

5/3/2002 Ace: Played the Riddle of Steel combat yesterday(long)
I had a very intersting experience as Senechal of the Riddle of Steel Senechal yesterday. With a bit a luck I managed to get three of the players in the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Jaif, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Jake Norwood.

5/3/2002 Wolfen: Dueling
I just finished a duel between my character Tiberius, and Rattlehead's character Julianos. I lost due to a bad gamble.. The combatants and battle is posted below. After that are…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Rattlehead, Jaif, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Ron Edwards, Nick Pagnucco, Shadow.

5/5/2002 Henry Fitch: Magic Items
You mentioned in the RPGnet thread that the Sorcery supplement will contain rules for magic items. Can you discuss a little bit how that's going to work? I'm hoping it'll…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Henry Fitch, Nick Pagnucco.

5/5/2002 Jaif: We played last night, and had a blast!
That's the first time my regular group has stayed up to 3am playing an RPG in a long time. We had a blast. I'm not going write up the whole…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaif, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax.

5/6/2002 Nick Pagnucco: weapon schools
I thought of an institution in tROS that I think would 1) exist, 2) would be very relevant to a lot of PCs, and 3) I have no clue about.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead, Bankuei.

5/6/2002 Jake Norwood: Enhanced Reading List
TROS has a suggested reading list on p. 242-243, but it's pretty small (due to paper costs and what not...those of you that have dealt with small printing know what…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, werewolf, Jakob Lightbringer, Skywalker, Rattlehead, Wolfen, malum, Jaif, Steve Danielson.

5/7/2002 Rattlehead: Adventure Ideas
Hi All! The forum seems to have slowed down just a bit in the past couple of days, so I thought I'd toss this out to generate some discussion... Anyone…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Rattlehead, werewolf, Henry Fitch, Nick Pagnucco, Skywalker, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Jaif, Wolfen.

5/7/2002 Jaif: Weryth geography questions
Every year for the week before Memorial Day a bunch of high-school & college buddies of mine go on a vactaion to a cabin in Pennsylvania (some for a week,…
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Participants: Jaif, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Wolfen.

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