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12/11/2002 Jabberwocky: Clarification of combat with multiple opponants...
As is, the rules just say 'split the CP between the opponents'. How exactly does this work... does it mean that if you are the aggressor you may take two…
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Participants: Jabberwocky, prophet118, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Shadeling, Warboss Grock.

12/9/2002 Wolfen: An idea for the forum
I just had a thought that might reduce the amount of redundant discussions, and threads shot down when someone points out that it's been discussed before. Jake, you could have…
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Participants: Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

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.

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 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.

12/8/2002 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.

12/7/2002 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.

12/7/2002 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.

12/6/2002 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.

12/6/2002 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 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 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 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.

12/4/2002 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.

12/4/2002 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 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 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.

12/3/2002 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.

12/2/2002 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.

12/1/2002 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.

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12/12/2002 Brian Leybourne: Combat Sim update
In a burst of enthusiasm born from boredom at work I started doing some extra development on the combat sim. So far, I have fixed Dual Rapiers not being able…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Bob Richter, svenlein, Mokkurkalfe, Aaron, toli, Lucien Black, Valamir, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

12/13/2002 contracycle: finally got it
So, I FINALLY got a copy of TROS. Just thought I'd share my opinion now that I can see the real beast. I've not read all of it yet. I…
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Participants: contracycle, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe.

12/13/2002 Durgil: Thoughts on Fatigue
I had an idea today at work about the Fatigue rules in TRoS that I want to share with everyone on the list. This is just an outline of my…
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Participants: Durgil, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen.

12/14/2002 Jake Norwood: New Review
For those of you that read Polish, here's a new (and, as always, positive) review of TROS. http://rpg.gildia.com/systemy/_inne/riddle_of_steel/riddle_of_steel The last paragraph says that the review very strongly reccomends the game…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, prophet118.

12/14/2002 Bob Richter: Defensive Grappling.
Anyone else ever notice how crazy this is? I toss a 2-die probing attack. My opponent tosses a 10-die defensive grapple. He wins, of course, and puts me down hard,…
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Participants: Bob Richter, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Aaron, MrGeneHa, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Wolfen, Vanguard.

12/16/2002 Durgil: Spiritual Attribute Adjustment
I was wondering if it made sense to anyone to add dice to a pool because of a character's Spiritual Attribute, but to only take the highest x number of…
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Participants: Durgil, Ron Edwards, Mokkurkalfe, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, Bankuei, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Warboss Grock, Ashren Va'Hale.

12/16/2002 Mokkurkalfe: A few things...
Played this weekend and a few things came me up. * What's the best defence(s) against an evasive attack, if someone uses it instead of defending himself? * What's the…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Warboss Grock.

12/17/2002 vegasthroat: Conquest on the History Channel
Tonight's Episode of Conquest on The History Channel (MON DEC 16th) was a great little primer on medieval weapons and armor. With the narrator actually using the weapons and piercing…
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Participants: vegasthroat, Lyrax.

12/19/2002 Merritt Baggett: Combat Sim Discussion (Split from previous thread)
That said, I may have missed it earlier in this thread or elsewhere, but is the combat sim going to eventually be Flower of Battle compatible, or kept to just…
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Participants: Merritt Baggett, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Aaron, Jake Norwood.

12/20/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Looking for the right location on Weryth
I'm thinking of running another game of The Riddle of Steel, but am having problems finding a location that fits what I'm looking for. I'm trying to find a large…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Ville, MrGeneHa, Lyrax.

12/20/2002 rikiwarren: Confusion about the world
The book makes references to Otamarluk/Dardanet conflicts, yet when I look at the map there appears to be a large land mass between them (Taveruun). I read through the description…
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Participants: rikiwarren, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Bob Richter.

12/21/2002 Jake Norwood: Going out of town
I'll be vacationing (ahh...) until the 2nd, which means I'll be a tad sparse around here. Behave yourselves and have fun. And enjoy the new stuff at www.theriddleofsteel.net/support Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

12/21/2002 Aaron: TheThingsTheySay
I found something one of my players said tonight at the conclusion of our TROS session pretty funny and felt the urge to share it with everyone. With any luck…
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Participants: Aaron, allahlav.

12/21/2002 Ville: Healing times
Bear with me here... I have always loved one thing about WOTC/TSR products: The Drow and their culture. It actually provided a chance for intrigue and roleplay besides the hack…
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Participants: Ville, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Psychopompous.

12/23/2002 prophet118: First Game, and Thoughts Thereof
well, ran my first real game of TROS last night, i wont bore you with details of the game itself, but fr the most part i avoided combat last night...…
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Participants: prophet118, Irmo, Bob Richter, Jabberwocky, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Lyrax, Mokkurkalfe, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, contracycle, svenlein, Durgil, Valamir, Jasper, Ashren Va'Hale.

12/23/2002 rikiwarren: Random thoughts on magic...
While I'm still rather new to TROS (I've made characters, and I'm dying to try it out, but I haven't played it yet. Mostly due to a lack of good…
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Participants: rikiwarren, Wolfen, Bob Richter, prophet118, Henry Fitch, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Brian Leybourne.

12/24/2002 Brian Leybourne: Merry Christmas
Well, it's probably still xmas eve for most of you, but it's a beautiful sunny christmas morning here, and we're off to the beach for a swim. Merry Christmas all,…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne.

12/26/2002 Limbo: Thinking of buying -- two concerns about combat
I'm an old time player of AD&D and GURPS and haven't played for almost 15 years now. My son is getting old enough to play now though and I thought…
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Participants: Limbo, Brian Leybourne, ShaneNINE, Aaron, samspectre, Alan, Ron Edwards, toli, Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Michael Tree.

12/28/2002 Henry Fitch: The book is sweet! I have a bunch of questions!
So, I finally got the book a few days ago. It rocks. Really, really hard. But now I have a bunch of questions. Some of these have probably been answered…
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Participants: Henry Fitch, Wolfen, Bob Richter, Jake Norwood.

12/30/2002 Ron Edwards: Asoka
What a weird movie. I mean, you have ... - This hard-core, operatic, empire-toppling plot going on. Grim and horrific and blood-stained, broken hearts everywhere. Marriages to the wrong people,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne, wraeththu, Jake Norwood, Bankuei.

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