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6/13/2002 Brian Leybourne: Duck & Weave
Hey Jake, Any erata on Duck & Weave? Been playing around with the combat sim etc, and it seems to me that TN9 is a pretty steep difficulty for an…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Jaif.

6/12/2002 Bankuei: Setting up the drama...
As our RoS mini-run has come to a close, Clinton let us in on the NPC's various Spiritual attributes. Some included, "Destined to become King", while others had,"Lead a revolt",…
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Participants: Bankuei, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

6/12/2002 Jake Norwood: Extending things a bit...
The little world-destruction magic thread got me thinking of TROS as Tom Clancy (more on the John Clark side of things), more in feel and intensity than setting. Nonetheless I'm…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Bob Richter, The_Fey, Jaif, Furious D, Ace, Ben, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Wolfen, Schatten, Lyrax, Durgil, Spartan.

6/11/2002 Atomic Requiem: Magical Destruction, Nukes, Mad Men and TROS ala Tom Clancy
[quote="Reality Aberrant"] Does the system comes with a standard setting as well? How easy is to take the mechanics and use your own world? What is Magic Like? [/quote] Others…
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Participants: Atomic Requiem, Lyrax, Reality Aberrant, Wolfen, Jaif, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Ace, Bob Richter, Bankuei, Ben.

6/12/2002 Ace: How do I make a body jump spell?
I was reading Anne Rice's Tale of the Body Thief and it got me thinking Since aging cannot be reversed (Sorcerers can speed up entropy not reverse it) after a…
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Participants: Ace, Bob Richter, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Furious D, Brian Leybourne, DaR, Wolfen, Jaif, Lyrax, Ben, J B Bell, Mokkurkalfe, Rick.

6/12/2002 gnarf: Seneschal?
I must say, I'm really looking forward to the release of tROS. From what I've read in this forum and the reviews at rpg.net, both the game mechanics and the…
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Participants: gnarf, Furious D, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Valamir.

6/11/2002 Reality Aberrant: The Other Side of TROS
I have read a lot about the mechanics for combat for TROS and i am very impressed about them, i am looking forward to being able to get the book…
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Participants: Reality Aberrant, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

6/10/2002 Furious D: Question about Mindful Gift
Does the CTN modifier of this gift affect the casting time, as well (lower CTN=lower casting time)? It's somewhat ambiguous, as described.
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Participants: Furious D, Jake Norwood.

6/10/2002 Jake Norwood: Playtesting/Reviewing the QuickStart
Many of you mentioned in the past a willingness to review and playtest the quickstart rules. Well, the first draft is finished and now is your time. For now only…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

6/10/2002 Reality Aberrant: The Green color of Envy!!!!
Yup! I hate and Envy you all! You are all playing this cool game and somehow i got here too late to have been able to order it online... Ahhh...…
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Participants: Reality Aberrant.

6/9/2002 Jaif: Grappling & Wrestling
I've got a few questions about grappling and wrestling. I'm probably just being dense, but: 1) What is grappling to trap? The mechanic is clear, but what are you talking…
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Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Wolfen, Stuart, Brian Leybourne.

6/9/2002 DaR: New Gifts & Flaws
Here are some ideas for additional gifts and flaws, plundered from a variety of sources. Additional Gifts and Flaws for The Riddle of Steel. Debt (minor or major flaw) This…
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Participants: DaR, Ben, Wolfen, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Psychopompous, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Lyrax, Bob Richter.

6/9/2002 Chuckie: Sword work:
Now I`v had a bit of time to look over the riddle of steel. Firstly, I`m not being harsh here to be mean or anything, I`m being harsh because it…
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Participants: Chuckie, Stuart, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Jaif, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead, William Carew.

6/8/2002 Wolfen: Glamour & Ritual Sorcery
Two topics, both involving Sorcery, and both things I noticed after my read-through of the Revised Sorcery Chapter. Maybe it was just that it was laid out better, so I…
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Participants: Wolfen, Jaif.

6/8/2002 Mokkurkalfe: Missile Pool stuff
There is this one little thing I can´t understand. The book says that you can avoid missiles(arrows and stuff) with the Partial Evasion maneuver. But what about those cases where…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood.

6/8/2002 Ariakas: Realism and combat
Greetings, everyone. I have come to address the matter of tRoS's combat system and the realism it seeks to create when in action. Every FRPG I've ever seen has the…
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Participants: Ariakas, Wolfen, Bob Richter, Jaif, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Ace, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Stuart, Valamir.

6/8/2002 Psychopompous: Jedi powers as Spells in tRoS
I started with a Spell I called "Combat Sense", which is largely just ported from Shadowrun but generally reflects the reacting faster because they can see things before they happen…
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Participants: Psychopompous, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Ben, Lyrax.

6/7/2002 Furious D: Question: Talismans and Lightning
As Talismans do not add explicitly to sorcery pool, but instead provide bonus dice to casting a spell, is it safe to say that these dice are not necessarily spent…
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Participants: Furious D, Ace, Wolfen.

6/7/2002 Ace: Ideas for stuff for PDF's only
Just wondering what you all might like to see on Fan Created PDF's. I am not talking about about outtakes from books necessarily but just the assorted rules and varients…
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Participants: Ace, Lyrax, DaR.

6/7/2002 Jake Norwood: New Math, er, Magic
Many of you have the revised edition of TROS sorcery. I'd love to hear what you all think, on a few levels: Clarity Improvements Stuff you're glad to see Stuff…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Furious D, Jaif, Ace, Valamir, Wolfen, Ben.

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6/13/2002 Furious D: Implementing Immortality through various magical means
In the previous thread I did some unstructured brainstorming. Here I've stuck together my favorite thoughts and rules (my own and what other people posted) on this potential game balance…
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Participants: Furious D, Ben.

6/13/2002 Bob Richter: Why I'm additcted to tRoS.
It's official. I am now addicted to the Riddle of Steel. I'm playing in two campaigns, Seneschaling another, and character concepts still haunt my dreams. I'm seriously considering making a…
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Participants: Bob Richter, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead, Spartan.

6/13/2002 Jake Norwood: Of Beasts and Men
The official title to the Bestiary/NPC/Seneschal's rescource book is "Of Beasts and Men," (title curtesy of Juergen Mayer, who also bought the first leatherbound edition). I have a pretty fat…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, DaR, Furious D, Ace, Ben, Wolfen, Jürgen Mayer, Atomic Requiem, Lyrax, ReverendCuster187, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, Psychopompous, Jaif.

6/14/2002 Brian Leybourne: Drawing new weapons in combat...?
Hey Jake, Are there formalised rules for drawing a new weapon during a combat? Like if my sword snaps, I'm disarmed, the dagger user gets into range, etc and I…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jaif, Paganini, Ben, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Ace.

6/17/2002 Bankuei: Characters made for RoS
Sometimes you just see a character that simply must exist in RoS... Consider this thread a mix of RoS reading/viewing + characters who fit the RoS world real well... From…
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Participants: Bankuei, jhudsui.

6/17/2002 Brian Leybourne: Starting tonight / skills?
Finally, I'm starting a tRoS campaign tonight. After so much foreplay it's going to be nice to move onto the sex (so to speak). Just a quick question to those…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Lyrax, Jaif, Ben, DaR, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter, contracycle.

6/18/2002 Ace: A great weapons site for TROS
I just found this site on netsword. It has big l JPG's of replica weapons and has a really great comparison tool that allows you to line up different replica…
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Participants: Ace, Wolfen, Ben.

6/19/2002 Ace: A new use for Destiny SA
I thought of a new possible use for the Destiny SA and wondered what you all think Even the most fatebound adventurer can be the subject of a mishap that…
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Participants: Ace, Bob Richter, Clinton R. Nixon, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

6/19/2002 Ace: A question about bleeding
lets say my party member has a serious wound bleeding at a TN of 6 or so. Once combat stops how do I determine I have can apply first aid…
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Participants: Ace, Bob Richter.

6/21/2002 Foltor: Sneaking Around
My crew is starting to get some pretty low Sneak SRs, so combined with a high AG, that means, in game terms at least, that one guy is freakin' invisible.…
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Participants: Foltor, Valamir, Ace, Brian Leybourne, Jaif, Ben, Lyrax, Jake Norwood.

6/23/2002 Nick Pagnucco: hi
Hello all I used to be active in this forum a few months back, and then I disappeared (life kicked my ass) Anyway, I'm back *shrug* Two things though: 1)…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Atomic Requiem.

6/23/2002 Jake Norwood: Calling for submissions!
We need art and text for Of Beasts and Men. Email your entries in the format used in other threads here to norwood@theriddleofsteel.com. Please include your real name with any…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Riddlemaster.

6/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Cover for Sorcery and the Fey now up
The first draft of the cover for Driftwood Publishing's February Release, Sorcery and the Fey, is now up at www.theriddleofsteel.com/news Check it out. Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, contracycle, Brian Leybourne.

6/24/2002 Atomic Requiem: OT: Buying Weapons
Heya... This is a little off topic, but I figure it's not completely out of line to ask here... So I'm interested in buying a replica medieval weapon, and I've…
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Participants: Atomic Requiem, Valamir, Lyrax, Paul Czege, Bob Richter, Ben, Jake Norwood, Ace, Wolfen, Durgil, Bankuei, contracycle.

6/24/2002 Mokkurkalfe: About improving profencies....
It's those defaults that are messing up my head again. If I take sword-and-shield(SAS) 8, then I get mass-weapon-and-shield(MWAS) at 7. If I then improve MWAS by one I get…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen.

6/25/2002 Jaif: Bows vs. Shields
We played again on saturday, and definately had a blast. I like the flexibility of the skill system, in regards to the part where you pick the appropriate attribute. I…
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Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Furious D, Ben, Blake Hutchins, Valamir.

6/25/2002 Ace: A question about proficiences
A quick rules question My combat monster character has Ag7 Wit5 This gives him a base combat pool of six. Does this mean I have effectivly no defualts? According to…
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Participants: Ace, Jaif, Bankuei, Jake Norwood.

6/25/2002 Brian Leybourne: Another win for tRoS!
OK, I was impressed enough with this game, but this takes the cake. I have two roleplaying groups. One of them is amazing, all really good roleplayers and we have…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

6/26/2002 Mokkurkalfe: A tiny little SA problem...
I got a problem here. You see, one of my players doesn't seem to be very fond of the SAs. He really doesn't care about them and is more concerned…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter.

6/28/2002 Brian Leybourne: Pre-emptive attack too good?
Quick opinion poll / thoughts inquiry for those of you who have played TROS yet (or at least mucked about with combat). Situation - two fighters of equal skill both…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Jaif, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Psychopompous, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Ace, Lyrax, Brand_Robins, Furious D.

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