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5/10/2002 Reprisal: [Character Generation] Weapon, Ranged and Combat Pool...
Hey all, I just received my copy of The Riddle of Steel, and I got started almost immediately, but I hit something of a comprehension snag when I got to…
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Participants: Reprisal, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco, Ron Edwards, Jaif, Valamir.

5/10/2002 Bankuei: Manuevers questions
Clinton is starting his ROS campaign next week, and we were making characters today. Since he's taking it full hilt as far as mechanics, I had some questions about the…
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Participants: Bankuei, Rattlehead, Wolfen, Jaif, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, ScarletJester, contracycle.

5/9/2002 Ace: Drat No TROS game
It looks like the TROS campaign I was going to join died on the vine However one of the better roleplayers in the group has my copy of TROS and…
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Participants: Ace, Nick Pagnucco, Rattlehead.

5/9/2002 Brian Leybourne: tRoS Combat simulator
Hi all. I'm working on a new version of the tRoS combat simulator that you may have downloaded from the webpage. It's a prettier windows based simulator and should contain…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco, Skywalker, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Jaif.

5/8/2002 Lyrax: Riddle of... Gold?
Hello folks, I'm the fool doing the Thieves' supplement. Right now, we call it "The Riddle of Gold," but that's not what I want to talk about. I want feedback…
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Participants: Lyrax, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Nick Pagnucco, Ace, Rattlehead, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Bladesinger, Mokkurkalfe.

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.

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…
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Participants: Rattlehead, werewolf, Henry Fitch, Nick Pagnucco, Skywalker, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Jaif, Wolfen.

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.

5/6/2002 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.…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead, Bankuei.

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…
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Participants: Jaif, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax.

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…
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Participants: Henry Fitch, Nick Pagnucco.

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…
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Participants: Wolfen, Rattlehead, Jaif, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Ron Edwards, Nick Pagnucco, Shadow.

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…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Jaif, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Jake Norwood.

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.

5/1/2002 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 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…
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Participants: Jaif, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, 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…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ace, Bankuei, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Nick Pagnucco.

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…
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Participants: The_Fey, Ron Edwards, Wolfen.

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…
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Participants: Rattlehead, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Syphon, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Lyrax, Brand_Robins, contracycle.

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…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Rattlehead, Thalaxis, Nick Pagnucco, Brian Leybourne, contracycle.

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5/10/2002 Ace: A Mini review on Net Sword
I just posted a mini "review" posting on the netsword forum http://www.netsword.com The review doesn't give a lot of information do to space restrictions but it does discuss the ARMA…
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Participants: Ace, Jake Norwood.

5/11/2002 Nick Pagnucco: Gelure
ok, so about the setting... As I've said before, I like the setting, especially the Mainlund part of Wyrth, which I think is a very good psuedo-historical setting (or quasi...…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Jaif, Wolfen, The_Fey, 6inTruder, Morfedel, Anthony I.

5/12/2002 Jake Norwood: Limited Edition Leatherbounds
We've just got the first Limited ed. Leatherbounds in and they are really really really frickin' cool. All leather cover, each one is hand-bound and is done a bit differently,…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

5/14/2002 Jake Norwood: The one true faith
Although the world for TROS, Weyrth, is intentionally broad, we did something special with the religions--something that is pretty uncommon for FRPGs... We left the matter of religion up in…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Wolfen, Ace, Nick Pagnucco, Bankuei, Jaif, Mike Holmes.

5/15/2002 Steve Danielson: Questions about Spiritual Attributes
Having just received the book and quickly read through it I must say I am impressed. There are a few questions that I do have regarding spiritual attributes. There are…
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Participants: Steve Danielson, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco, Rattlehead, Jaif, Ron Edwards, Atomic Requiem, OllyG, Sneaky Git, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Mike Holmes.

5/16/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Why Riddle of Steel
Hi everybody, Christopher here, recently lurking, but now too curious to hold back. I've plowed through the RPG.net Thread. I've read everything here. (Except, perhaps, Ron's review? I thought he…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Rattlehead, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Shadow, Le Joueur, Bob Richter, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax.

5/16/2002 malum: insight rewards
when you have bonus priorities for insight rewards, do the extra priorities cancell out lower priorities (for example instead of abcdef, you have abcdee) or do you get bonus points…
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Participants: malum, Rattlehead, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

5/16/2002 Jürgen Mayer: Why Riddle of Steel - the title
I was wondering why the game has the title "The Riddle of Steel" If this was mentioned somewhere in a thread, I must have missed it...
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Nick Pagnucco.

5/16/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS Contests
I'd love to run some contests on the forum at some point, rewarding folks for particularly insightful or meaningful posts and threads. Any ideas on how?
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

5/16/2002 malum: siehe characters
i am a little confused about how to make individual siehe characters. the book gives them all the same bonuses, but it mentions there being many different kinds of seelie…
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Participants: malum, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood.

5/16/2002 malum: riddle masters and attributes
two questions, and sorry if i ask something already posted, or in the book somewhere, for i havent got to read every word of it yet. first, if a character…
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Participants: malum, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Rattlehead.

5/17/2002 Atomic Requiem: Balance
Hi there. I guess I'm committing an horrible breach of etiquette or else jumping into the midst of things, depending on how you look at it, by starting a new…
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Participants: Atomic Requiem, Rattlehead, Bankuei, contracycle.

5/17/2002 Rattlehead: Getting together online
This might be bad form, but here goes... Lance (Wolfen) and I have been using OpenRPG, a free program, to stage duels, chat, and spread the word about TROS. Others…
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Participants: Rattlehead, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Draigh, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, Lyrax.

5/17/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS T-Shirts
We've had growing interest in TROS t-shirts (hell, we want 'em). So here's my question... What should it look like? How much would you pay for them (so I can…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Ace, Bankuei, Brian Leybourne, Henry Fitch, Wolfen, Casey Goddard, Rattlehead, Jhilahd, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Shadow.

5/17/2002 Ace: Learning to play and Run the riddle (and a humorous bit)
[quote="contracycle"]I agree with the above - when weapons are actually dangerous, much of the positive feedback powergamers seek vanishes.[/quote] That quote above got me to thinking how hard it is…
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Participants: Ace, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Jaif, jburneko, Wolfen, Rattlehead, contracycle.

5/17/2002 Brian Leybourne: Quick question.. moons?
So, assuming the gods are not really real (yes, it's up to the individual Seneschals to decide)... ... where did the five new moons come from? Ideas? Theories? etc...
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, malum, Rattlehead, Valamir, OllyG, Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, J B Bell, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax.

5/18/2002 Jaif: Defending against Sorcery
Ok, I mentioned this in another thread, so I'd like to pose a question to the viewing audience. 1) How do sorcerers defend themselves from other sorcerers? Let's be clear,…
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Participants: Jaif, Rattlehead, Wolfen, Ian O'Rourke, Shadow, Christopher Kubasik, Atomic Requiem, The_Fey, Jake Norwood, Lyrax.

5/18/2002 Jake Norwood: Who's gonna be at some Cons this summer?
I'm going to be at Origins and GenCon, as well as some smaller Con down in Phoenix at the end of July...any chance I'll get to see some of you…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir.

5/18/2002 Shadow: TROS Weapon Statistics (ATN, DTN, & Damage)
(*Long post, mainly focused on damage rating of the rapier) From my reading of the game rules, I find that TROS uses a (very impressive) combat system in which the…
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Participants: Shadow, Jake Norwood, Casey Goddard, Jaif, Rattlehead, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2002 Jhilahd: When is the site coming back up and...
is there any other sites on the web that sell RoS? Or how about fan sites. After reading all of the goodies on this forum and then all the thread…
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Participants: Jhilahd, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, ReverendCuster187, Ian Cooper, Rattlehead.

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