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10/24/2002 Paul Heinz: Buying Initiative Alternative
I confess I find the 'buy initiative' rules a little complex. I've been thinking about ways to streamline them whilst still keeping the tradeoff. My current take is the following:…
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Participants: Paul Heinz, Jake Norwood, Warboss Grock.

10/23/2002 Stephen: Questions on embedded spells
1) Is there any limit to the number or power of spells that can be embedded in a particular person or thing? 2) Can you embed spells in substances which…
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Participants: Stephen, Ron Edwards, Shdwjack, Bob Richter, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Silanthous, Rick, Wolfen, Lucien Black, Irmo, Surga.

10/23/2002 Paul Heinz: Partial Evasion Initiative Question
The rules for Exchanges of Blows (p76-77) state that the winner of the contest (usually an attack vs a defense) can take the initiative (i.e. attack) on the following exchange.…
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Participants: Paul Heinz, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Irmo.

10/23/2002 toli: Logistics and Flower of Battle
A thought and question. The blub in the back of TROS says that the Flower of Battle will have mass combat rules. Will these rules include something about the logistics…
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Participants: toli, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Bankuei, Lyrax, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

10/22/2002 Jake Norwood: Of Beasts and Men
We're now assembling the art for Of Beasts and Men. We've used a few of the entries sent to us by many of you (I'm not sure which ones currently,…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne.

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.

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.

10/21/2002 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 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 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 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.

10/20/2002 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.

10/18/2002 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.

10/17/2002 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.

10/17/2002 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.

10/16/2002 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.

10/15/2002 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.

10/15/2002 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 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 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.

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10/25/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: SA's-- whats your best?
All the talk of SA's got me wondering, what have been the SA's you found the most enjoyable to play or run in a campaign, adventure, or whatever? Heres one…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Lyrax, Ron Edwards.

10/25/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: custom skill packets
I just made a custome set of skill packets that I was intending to post here but I forgot which note book I wrote them in, anyhow it got me…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

10/25/2002 druski: Battle Program & website broken links
I would really like a copy of Brian's battle sim program but the websites links to it are broken. As they are to all of the program file downloads. I…
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Participants: druski, Jake Norwood.

10/26/2002 Vhal: Online?
I've had my eyes locked on RoS for some time, only problem is that I know absolutly no one near where I live that A)plays that kind of game B)knows…
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Participants: Vhal, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee.

10/26/2002 Wolfen: As McArthur the Phillipines...
...I have returned. Life has gotten in the way, and I've felt an absolute apathy toward anything to do with discussing gaming in quite some time. Hell, I've not even…
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Participants: Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

10/27/2002 Mokkurkalfe: Just a question...
Let's say I make a rule that says that any level 1 wound on an armoured person will be a bludgeoning wound. This will of course be narrated so that…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood.

10/28/2002 MikeSands: A question after first play with the combat rules...
One question that came up in our first play with the rules... if a blow lands, is a 0-level wound the minimum result, or can it have no effect at…
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Participants: MikeSands, Brian Leybourne, JSinclair, Jake Norwood.

10/29/2002 hyphz: Rules confusions (long!)
- The text says that Destiny SA dice "refresh every round", that Luck ones "may refresh every session". How often do the other types of SA Dice refresh? Many of…
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Participants: hyphz, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax.

10/29/2002 JSinclair: Question about breaking weapons
Greetings All... I'm pretty new to TROS and this is my first post, so please excuse me if this topic has already been covered or if my understanding of the…
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Participants: JSinclair, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ashren Va'Hale, Niggle, svenlein, Lyrax, MrGeneHa, Valamir, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes.

10/30/2002 Thirsty Viking: Hi all, still Alive, Campaign Update
3rd Job and New Campaign have eaten up most of my former posting time, Heres the news from my first two campaign sessions. 6 mages and a Bishop of the…
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Participants: Thirsty Viking.

10/31/2002 Sam Witt: Demo Game Needed
Is there a demo game (with pregenerated characters and all that) available for TROS? I have the chance to run this game this weekend for a few groups of people,…
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Participants: Sam Witt.

10/31/2002 Brian Leybourne: TROS finds its way to backwards crap end of planet!!
An Auckland gaming store has TROS on it's shelves. How cool is that (and it only took many months of nagging). I know you don't care, but this forum has…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Skywalker, Thor Olavsrud, J. Backman, Spartan, MikeSands, Mokkurkalfe, Silanthous, Jürgen Mayer, gnarf, Vanguard, Wolfen, Mask-of-Winters, Irmo.

11/1/2002 Jake Norwood: Gearing up for Actual Play: Siehe and the Fey
After playing lots of other stuff for a few months, we're getting ready to play TROS once again (it was all the cool stuff in OBAM that inspired me). The…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Silanthous, Valamir, Irmo, Spartan.

11/1/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: Sa's and trying to kill my character (long)
One of my biggest problems in gaming is that I come up with too many cool character Ideas.... I am currently playing a mad martigan style blade slinger that I…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Roger Eberhart, Lyrax.

11/2/2002 C. Edwards: Applause
[b]Jake Norwood wrote[/b]: [quote]You have your own Uglub now. [/quote] Yes I do! Got my copy of TRoS yesterday and I am jazzed. I haven't been this exicited about an…
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Participants: C. Edwards, Jake Norwood.

11/3/2002 Jason: Just got the game, first impressions.
I just got the game a few days ago, and got my small group to roll up characters last night. (my group= one friend, son,and wife). I was confused myself…
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Participants: Jason, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter.

11/3/2002 Jake Norwood: Nations of Weyrth Mini-Supplements
The discussion in the money thread about Odeon and their "teeth" system got me thinking...I would love to see more information on the various nations of Weyrth--history, peoples, stats, etc.…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Stephen.

11/4/2002 Brian Leybourne: [Disney]It's a small world after all...[/Disney]
So, this guy at my work, who I barely know (have seen once or twice but never talked to before) comes up to me yesterday and we have this conversation:…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead.

11/5/2002 Brian Leybourne: RPG Tactics article
There's an article on "Elements of Tactics" in RPG's up at rpg.net. Although it's not about TROS, it does refer to it a couple of times. Interesting read. http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/elements01nov02.html Brian.
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Irmo, Mike Holmes, Lyrax, Andrew Martin, Valamir, OriginalFlash, Roger Eberhart, spunky, svenlein, Jaif.

11/5/2002 Shadeling: Solo Games, would you beef up the PC at all?
I was curious with anyone out there running just one TROS player, if you boost the priorities at all...
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Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, toli.

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