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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 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 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 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.

11/25/2002 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.

11/25/2002 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: 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 hyphz: (was) TROS, Narrativism and Illusionism
Ok, since I have lots of questions to ask, and the thread has turned out not to be related to -isms at all, and is more close to me working…
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Participants: hyphz, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

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.

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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.

12/6/2002 prophet118: Insight Question
ok... when you get enough to have extra priorities with characters... like say you had 3 extra A's, would you get: A,A,A,A,E,F or A,A,A,A,B,C,D,E,F i think its the first one,…
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Participants: prophet118, Mokkurkalfe, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

12/6/2002 toli: Char Gen, Priorities, Randomness
The discussion RE insight got me thinking about this subject. I was curious why you (Jake) decided to for a deterministic as opposed to random form of character generation. I've…
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Participants: toli, prophet118, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter.

12/7/2002 Ben Lehman: TN 11 -- does it cause a problem?
So, one of the quirks of the TROS system is that TN 11 and TN 10 are functionally the same (if you open-end on a 10, then you must at…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, prophet118, Mask-of-Winters, Bob Richter, MrGeneHa, toli, MikeSands, Lyrax, Warboss Grock, Durgil, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, Brian Leybourne.

12/7/2002 prophet118: website is down
uhhh well the title really says it all, when i go to www.theriddleofsteel.net, i get the dotregister page
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Participants: prophet118, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Irmo.

12/8/2002 prophet118: Question on Different Types of Magic
ok... so how would i go about using elemental magic, shielding magic....i think thats the only two i need to know about
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Participants: prophet118, Jake Norwood, Enoch, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Lucien Black, Stephen, Lyrax, Vanguard, spunky, Bob Richter, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2002 Lucien Black: thoughts for optional attribute designation...
I was thinking about the idea of character appearance and how attributes factor into that, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for generating stats based on appearance, as…
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Participants: Lucien Black, prophet118, Wolfen.

12/9/2002 Mask-of-Winters: Armor of Air
Hiya gang-- Just wondering if this is going to be an errata issue or not. The Duration component of the Armor of Air spell is listed as 1, which I…
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Participants: Mask-of-Winters, spunky.

12/9/2002 MrGeneHa: Spike, arrow, and rapier damage
Hey all, this is just my take on weapon damage. Disclaimer: I don't modern fence, historical sword fight, SCA, and haven't made any special study of wounds and penetration. Anyhoo,…
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Participants: MrGeneHa, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, Bob McNamee, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, toli.

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