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10/10/2002 cynaguan: New to the game.
So, yesterday my copy of tRoS arrivd and I'm about half way done with my first reading. Wonderful stuff, best $35 I've spent in a while! I do think I'll…
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Participants: cynaguan, Jake Norwood, Spartan.

10/9/2002 Bob Richter: TROS and RadCon 3C
So here I am thinking about my upcoming (in four months) local Con, RadCon 3C. This will be one of my first opportunities to show off The Riddle of Steel…
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Participants: Bob Richter, Jake Norwood, Furious D, Thirsty Viking.

10/8/2002 Ian: Character creation question
Something came up while going over character creation rules this weekend; Where gifts are concerned, are the gifts and flaws received based on prioritization of gifts absolute? That is to…
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Participants: Ian, svenlein, Brian Leybourne, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Buzzy Bee.

10/8/2002 Brian Leybourne: We're number one :-)
Nothing serious, more amusement actually. Something I just noticed. The Riddle of Steel forum is now the most posted-to independent forum on the Forge, it's even surpassed the Adept Press…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, svenlein, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Lyrax.

10/8/2002 Brian Leybourne: Prediction?
I had posted this in my interception thread, but thought it deserved it's own thread. So shoot me :-) What about the defender who tries to anticipate an attack (useful…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Thirsty Viking, Lyrax, Bob Richter.

10/8/2002 Brian Leybourne: Interception?
Just something that has been festering in the back of my mind for a while now. The use of armour (you yanks would say armor) in TROS is very passive.…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Spartan, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Valamir, Vanguard, Irmo, svenlein.

10/7/2002 Mokkurkalfe: All dice on offence!
What should a gol grunt NPC do against a PC with more dice(CP 14) and a very good bastard sword(TN's 5) that uses all of his dice on one attack?…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, svenlein, Valamir, Lyrax, Mike Holmes, Vanguard, Thirsty Viking, Holt, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, Brian Leybourne, Michael Tree, Jim DelRosso, Gordon C. Landis.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Grabbing weapons
[quote="Jake"]Therefore if the dagger guy got close in it would make more sense for the pikeman to pull a sword and have a more reasonable range advantage over the dagger…
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Participants: svenlein, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Bob Richter, Thalaxis, Valamir, MrGeneHa.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Dodge Ideas
Jake’s partial evade rule People were suggesting to avoid the pike's high DTN by dodging at a DTN of 7 instead. This is fine, but I would not penalize the…
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Participants: svenlein, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Expulsion
In expulsion it says to refer to beat for an example, should expulsion act more like beat? Ex. I am in a rapier duel with someone else with a rapier.…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood.

10/6/2002 Nick Pagnucco: Unfortunate flame-bait martial arts question
Disclaimer #1: This question has less to do with RPGs than martial arts, but this is (sadly?) the best place I have to ask this. Disclaimer #2: long anecdote for…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Valamir, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Psychopompous, Thalaxis, Lyrax, Sneaky Git.

10/6/2002 Jake Norwood: www.theriddleofsteel.net now up
www.theriddleofsteel.net, the new and hopefully short-term solution to the Russian Porn folks that store our site is now up and running. Many of the links are broken, which we will…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Roger Eberhart, Brian Leybourne.

10/6/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: they say a man can change reality if he wans it bad enough.
Just a fun Idea from one of my campaigns: once a ton of really nasty evil demons from the depths of ... well somewhere really nasty, came at a players…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Mayhem1979, Lyrax.

10/5/2002 Bob Richter: Wizardry...
...so it's a D&D (3rd ed.) distinction, but somehow I don't think everyone who casts spells ought to have been born with magic in their blood. Are there going to…
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Participants: Bob Richter, Jake Norwood.

10/4/2002 svenlein: failed grapple leads to wrestling?
in the newest edition page 62 the last line of Grapple says: "A tie or failure leads to Wrestling, as per the Wrestling Proficiency" Should this just say tie, or…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Buzzy Bee.

10/2/2002 Shadeling: So I am moving to Crestline, CA...
And I can't find any TROS players!!!
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Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, svenlein, allahlav, Sneaky Git.

10/2/2002 Ville: Grabbing/trapping
One question regarding the maneuvers that trap the opponents arm. Can you do it with a weapon in your own hand? I see a lot of martial arts techniques that…
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Participants: Ville, Jake Norwood.

10/2/2002 Jake Norwood: Group Hug...why do we love (and play) TROS?
Hey all. I was sitting looking at TROS next to a few other games on my "office" shelf just now, and I got to thinking (last time I did that…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ville, Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Holt, Durgil, Mokkurkalfe, Janne Halmetoja, Lyrax, Spartan, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Vanguard, Jason L Blair, Ashren Va'Hale, allahlav, Herr Nils, Mike Holmes, Claymore, qirien, Bob Richter, Sykora, qaphsiel.

10/1/2002 Jake Norwood: Problem: www.theriddleofsteel.com
As most of you know our site, www.theriddleofsteel.com has been down for some time. The short version of the story is that my domain server provider (whatever it's called) screwed…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Thirsty Viking, Bogie_71, Brian Leybourne, Claymore, qirien.

10/1/2002 allahlav: Questions on maneuvers and more
Picked up the game at the insistence of a friend last week - awesome! Now I need to stop reading it and start studying, but before i do, some questions...…
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Participants: allahlav, Spartan, Jake Norwood, svenlein.

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10/13/2002 balthazor: Short damage question.
I'm hoping someone can explain to me exactly how someone could die from fire/electricity/cold/etc. All I see on the chart is Shock and Pain, neither of which appear to be…
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Participants: balthazor, Jake Norwood, Holt, Brian Leybourne, Durgil, Irmo, Lyrax, Thirsty Viking.

10/14/2002 Thirsty Viking: Druids, shamans, and witches oh my
I have a sorcerous Campaign developing as I first told you here last week. 6 players, 5 gifted Here are some House Rules I used on my gifted Party members.…
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Participants: Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne.

10/14/2002 Mokkurkalfe: Seneschal exercise
The thread about offence got me thinking. Let's say you(as the seneschal) were a Gol Captain with some 20 Gols grunts under your command. One day, Evil Villain(TM) orders you…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Vanguard, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, Bankuei, Apprentice of Steel.

10/14/2002 Janne Halmetoja: Ancient Roman Fighting Schools/Arts?
I'm intrested in running campaign in ancient Rome and I'd like to use Riddle because of combat system. I just have one problem, because I don't know anything about Roman…
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Participants: Janne Halmetoja, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

10/14/2002 Spartan: Low CTN spells?
I was wondering if anyone has developed some interesting spells for TROS that are relatively low in CTN... say 5 and lower. With successful gesture and dialogue checks, and formalization,…
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Participants: Spartan, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Lyrax, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bob Richter.

10/15/2002 Shadeling: Another RPGnet TROS thread
Check it out: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18099
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

10/15/2002 Jake Norwood: New Game in the works: "Thirst"
Just a heads up but us folks down here at Driftwood have been tinkering with a Vampire game that's tentatively called "Thirst." It won't be too large and we'll probably…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Shadeling, Lyrax.

10/15/2002 Stephen: Variant sorcery question....
One very clever rules-mechanic for sorcery is the fact that by making the value of directly affecting living targets a 3, the sorcery rules prevent from the get-go any spell…
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Participants: Stephen, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Irmo.

10/15/2002 Rattlehead: I'M BAA-AACK!!!!!!
Hi all!!! Long time no see!! Hope you're all doing good. I've been busy with Real Life (TM) lately, but I'm hoping to come back and be a member of…
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Participants: Rattlehead, Draigh.

10/16/2002 toli: Money question
Hello all. Just picked up ROS and love it. I have a question about $$$ however. The monthly income from "jobs" listed in the Social Class section seem increadibly high…
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Participants: toli, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Irmo, Spartan, Valamir, PosterX, luke, Stephen, Roger Eberhart, Bankuei, Bob Richter, Wolfen.

10/17/2002 Stephen: Another sorcery variation....
One of the things I don't like about TROS sorcery, at least from the point of view of a player, is that even with the extra dice from Spiritual-Attribute-motivated spells…
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Participants: Stephen, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Ashren Va'Hale, Bob Richter, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Mayhem1979, Apprentice of Steel, Irmo.

10/17/2002 Valamir: Stats Suggestion
I've been musing on the RoS attributes for awhile now and have a suggestion that really can't be implemented as a house rule (without making alot of work) but might…
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Participants: Valamir, Ashren Va'Hale, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, toli, Lyrax, MrGeneHa.

10/18/2002 Ace: The Riddle of Power
After OBAM and TFOB and SATF are wrapped up may I suggest the next book The Riddle of Power I will admit to having more than a few simulationist cravings…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco.

10/20/2002 hyphz: Adventures for TROS
Hi, Does anyone know if any web site has sample adventures for TROS? Or does it not work that way? If not, what's the best way of constructing an adventure…
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Participants: hyphz, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Irmo, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter, Holt, Valamir.

10/21/2002 Paul Heinz: Dodging, Armour and Encumbrance?
In the rules on Armour (p86) it states that in addition to Armour Value. armour negatively affects the wearers defensive TN when dodging and/or lessens the wearer's Combat Pool. Now…
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Participants: Paul Heinz, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan.

10/21/2002 Paul Heinz: Variant Attributes for tRoS
I note people have been discussing different ways of increasing or reducing the number of attributes in tRoS, so I thought I'd pitch in with my set. First, as per…
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Participants: Paul Heinz.

10/21/2002 Lucien Black: newbie with some questions.....
Greetings, and on with the inquisition: 1) What is the upper limit a PC can gain for proficiency in a weapon? I assume there is one? 2) How low can…
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Participants: Lucien Black, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Apprentice of Steel.

10/21/2002 Stephen: Questions on SAs
In the Sorcery Variation thread below Ron Edwards gave me some tips on the possible uses of SAs that were quite fascinating. I'd like to follow up with some questions…
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Participants: Stephen, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

10/21/2002 Holt: A Variant on SAs
With all the talk about Spiritual Attributes, I've been thinking about them a lot. While thinking, I thought of a different way that SAa could work...please keep in mind that…
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Participants: Holt, Ron Edwards.

10/22/2002 Jake Norwood: Looking for Animal Artist
As I mentioned in the Connections forum, I'm trying to find an artist that works quick, reliably, inexpensively, and who is good at animal anatomy for the animal section for…
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

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