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11/24/2002 Hel-Yin: Two questions on combat
I have two questions on combat manoeuvers. The first one is on grappling. In the book, it says you can do two things using a grapple: either toss your opponent…
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Participants: Hel-Yin, Jake Norwood, ShaneNINE, Mokkurkalfe.

11/23/2002 MrGeneHa: Naming "using terrain against mult. opponents..."
Hey all, I'm writing up some "cheat cards" (3x5) to help new players with actions in combat. Examples are "Beat", "Thrust", "Taunt", and "Steal Initiative". But I need a nice…
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Participants: MrGeneHa, Herr Nils, Sneaky Git, Wolfen, Daredevil, Lucien Black, Jake Norwood.

11/22/2002 Shadeling: Has anyone tried TROS in Modern Settings?
I ask because to me, it seems like it might work quite well for a game of spys/espionage. I mean, proficiencies could represent fighting styles and firearms proficiencies and so…
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Participants: Shadeling, MikeSands, Herr Nils, Rattlehead, toli, MrGeneHa, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Psychopompous, prophet118, JSinclair, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

11/22/2002 ShaneNINE: Dark Ages: Mage / Exalted
[puts on flame proof bunny suit] Do you think it's feasable to convert Dark Ages: Mages spells and/or Exalted charms and sorcery for use with TROS? Just wondering since they…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Sneaky Git.

11/22/2002 ShaneNINE: Great Taste, Less Deadly
Ok, no denying TROS is way super keen. Haven't had a chance to play it yet, but we've run a few mock combats and stuff. Very cool. Lots of fun…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Sneaky Git, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, toli, Lucien Black, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Rattlehead.

11/21/2002 Jake Norwood: The Fey in Actual Play
Go to the Actual Play forum to see some details from our last 2 sessions of Siehe-only TROSing. Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Sneaky Git.

11/21/2002 Lucien Black: bit of a rant....
Honesty: what in all the possible worlds happened to it???? I accidently left my copy of TROS in one of the study rooms in my university's library at closing time…
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Participants: Lucien Black, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe, Lyrax, Mask-of-Winters, Bogie_71.

11/20/2002 Brian Leybourne: Signing off..
I'm off to the sunny shores of Sydney, Australia in a few hours (it had BETTER be sunny) for a long weekend, back next Wednesday sometime. I'll be investigating the…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Ryuuko, Lyrax, Rattlehead.

11/19/2002 Sneaky Git: Weapon Proficiencies
I will preface by stating that I don't have TRoS sitting in front of me.. this question ocurred to me on my way to work this morning. Weapon proficiencies. What…
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Participants: Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Ace.

11/17/2002 Sneaky Git: Japanese Armor
Just a quick question about Japanese armor. From what I understand, on the protection vs. mobility scale, Japanese armor was designed more on the mobility side of the equation. This…
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Participants: Sneaky Git, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, toli, Valamir.

11/17/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS Quickstart
Okay, we have the finished but unedited TROS quickstart here on my desk. It looks really good, but I want someone who isn't me to look it over and fine-tooth…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

11/15/2002 Jaif: Errata?
I have the first edition, I'm wondering if there's any errata available since the second edition printing. I have the new sorcery chapter, and the new beat and...forget, another manuever…
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Participants: Jaif, Spartan.

11/13/2002 Wolfen: You're dead. But you get to choose HOW.
I was playing with the Combat simulator today on lunch because I could not get online, and I was doing my damnedest to defeat a Gol Captain one on one,…
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Participants: Wolfen, Stephen, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Psychopompous, spunky.

11/13/2002 Stephen: Yet ANOTHER sorcery variation....
One idea I had for a possible direction for the development of sorcerers in TROS runs as follows: The aging effect of magic comes, so it's been explained, from the…
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Participants: Stephen, Wolfen, Spartan.

11/12/2002 toli: Barsoom, John Carter of Mars--alternate TROS worlds
Ever once and a while, some one seems notes that TROS rules would be good for a certain setting or that a particular movie has a TROS feel. I've always…
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Participants: toli, spunky, Durgil, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Blake Hutchins, Sneaky Git.

11/11/2002 Valamir: Winged Hussars
For those interested in seeing what the really cool Winged Hussar armor from the 17th century looked like check the link below. If you have an extra 3 grand lieing…
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Participants: Valamir, Irmo, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Lyrax.

11/11/2002 Shadeling: Should Undead Be Immune to BL, Shock, and Pain?
I was just wondering if Undead type creatures should ignore most BL, Shock and Pain rolls, especially wounds that aren't actually severing their limbs and breaking their bones.
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

11/11/2002 Brian Leybourne: Need a quick favor...
Hey guys, I'm trying to get a file to Jake. The problem is that it's over a meg (1.6, actually) and I can't email it from any of my email…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jason.

11/10/2002 hyphz: Some other niggly little questions
Thanks for everyone's help here.. I just was wondering about a few other things: - On the Master Screen, which three sheets are supposed to face the players? - When…
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Participants: hyphz, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Wolfen, Jaif.

11/9/2002 Mask-of-Winters: Combat simulators?
Hiya gang. Just tried to download the combat simulator programs offered on theriddleofsteel.net and both the links are broken. Is there another site I can find these nifty-sounding utilities? Also...…
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Participants: Mask-of-Winters, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

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11/25/2002 ShaneNINE: Cloak?
The book mentions a weapon called a cloak? What is that?
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Participants: ShaneNINE, ethan_greer, MrGeneHa, Mike Holmes, Lyrax, Jake Norwood.

11/25/2002 ShaneNINE: Initiative
Just want to make sure I got this right: when you roll initiative the number rolled doesn't actually come into play. The only thing that matters is whether the die…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Valamir, Jake Norwood.

11/25/2002 ShaneNINE: Initiative question
My understanding of TROS initiative (corrections, please: 1. Combatants declare offense or defense. 2. Combatants who are attacking get a turn in reverse order of Reflex. How, if at all,…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, Valamir, Bob Richter, Wolfen.

11/26/2002 toli: ARMOR
Any suggestions for armor value, CP and Move Modifiers for the following: Norman style hauberk (covering upper leg and upper arm) Roman type lamellar armor ???
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Participants: toli, Jake Norwood, ShaneNINE, Jason, Aaron.

11/26/2002 Jake Norwood: Thanksgiving Break and a Poll
I'm probably going to be absent for the next 4 days, unless I get onto a computer while at Ron's house over thanksgiving. Play nice, play hard, and post lots.…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Durgil, Jason, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne.

11/26/2002 Brian Leybourne: Sydney Gaming Stores
Jeez man, I never thought I would envy an Australian for anything, but Sydney gaming stores are damn cool (particularly Games Paradise and Tin Soldier, for those of you who…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, ShaneNINE, Mike Holmes, allahlav, Mokkurkalfe.

11/26/2002 prophet118: Vagaries...
they tend to be a bit...vague on some things... i hope im not rehashing old info, but i searcged and didnt find a definate answer... so maybe im just over…
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Participants: prophet118, Brian Leybourne.

11/26/2002 Rattlehead: The Riddle Of Time Management?
Hi all, I'm afraid I have some bad news. As some of you know, I was working on a character generator for TRoS. I was going to call it the…
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Participants: Rattlehead, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Bob Richter.

11/29/2002 Drew South: Query - Rulebook
Hello all :-) I've only recently managed to get a copy of the rulebook down here in NZ, and was wondering (having seen an earlier post) whether there was any…
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Participants: Drew South, Spartan, MrGeneHa, Jake Norwood.

12/1/2002 Ben Lehman: The Magic of Sacrifice
Hey all-- New to the fora and the game. Bought it a couple of weeks ago, am generally impressed, and am in the process of changing bits and pieces so…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Wolfen.

12/1/2002 Rattlehead: Off Topic Announcement
Hi all! I know this is way off topic, but I wanted to announce the birth of my daughter, Allena Jolann. She was born on Friday, November 29 at 1:46…
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Participants: Rattlehead, Mike Holmes, spunky, Brian Leybourne, Ace, Vanguard.

12/2/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Project Progress Report
Okay, we've got a handful of project currently, and I thought I'd let all you guys know where we're at with each of them. 1) Of Beasts and Men -…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Spooky Fanboy, Irmo, Mokkurkalfe, Rattlehead, Stephen, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, Amy1419, Durgil, Aaron, allahlav, Blake Hutchins, Sneaky Git, Shadeling, Ben, Wolfen, Darth Tang, Nick Pagnucco, Noon, Valamir, Anthony I, Ashren Va'Hale, kakitaryou, kenjib.

12/3/2002 Spooky Fanboy: Yet more queries about mystic sh*t
Hi. Just got The Riddle of Steel. Loved it. Need to wrap my brain around the tactics in battle, but ate up the sorcery system. Nummy! Have some questions: 1)…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Ron Edwards, Stephen, Brian Leybourne, Valamir.

12/4/2002 Enoch: Tribe 8 to The Riddle of Steel
Well I just finished converting Silhoutte (will never be able to spell it right) to The Riddle of Steel rules. It wasn't all that difficult. If anyone is interested check…
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Participants: Enoch, Shadeling, Lyrax, Mike Holmes.

12/4/2002 MrGeneHa: Hand damage and dropping stuff
I'm afraid that I'm once more missing a chart or paragraph, but: When the damage tables for a hand wound indicate you might drop anything held, how do you figure…
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Participants: MrGeneHa, Lyrax.

12/4/2002 spunky: Sorcerous Limitations...
I've been playing with the idea of using Limitations on Sorcery to help give magic using characters a personal approach to their craft (similar to the "Affinities" used in Ars…
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Participants: spunky, Jake Norwood, prophet118, Bankuei, ShaneNINE, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Vanguard, Lucien Black, Wolfen, Silanthous.

12/4/2002 Ben Lehman: The Doomed Hero
(don't have my book right now, as it's on loan, so if this is covered in the book I apologize) So something that came up in making a character with…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Brian Leybourne, MrGeneHa.

12/6/2002 ShaneNINE: House Rule Question
Will a house rule like the following screw up the game? If you have x amount of dice in your pool (this isn't for combat, btw, but other skills) you…
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Participants: ShaneNINE, prophet118, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, MrGeneHa.

12/6/2002 ShaneNINE: Missile Pool
Do I have this straight? The more dice you have in your missile pool the longer it takes to get to your full potential? That doesn't seem right.
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Participants: ShaneNINE, prophet118, Jake Norwood.

12/6/2002 Bankuei: Unstated bits of TROS
TROS, like any good fighter, is sneaky. It looks pretty straightforward, then folks starting finding out a lot of the rules and ideas in it are just a feint, counter…
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Participants: Bankuei, prophet118, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, ShaneNINE, Brian Leybourne, LordIvan, Ben Lehman, Salamander, Jason Kottler, MattFW, Kaare Berg, Jasper the Mimbo, Valamir, Lxndr, Overdrive, Paka, Ron Edwards, Morfedel, Lebo77, Spartan, Ashren Va'Hale.

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