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1/14/2003 Heavenlyrock: A few Questions
I am pretty new to this game. I have read the book and I am familiar enough were to find things if I do not recall them. I am also…
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Participants: Heavenlyrock, Spartan, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Aaron, Shadeling, Mokkurkalfe, Durgil, svenlein, Valamir.

1/14/2003 JESTER: TROS at Southern California game conventions?
Greetings all, Any one know if TROS is going to be demoed, or any auctual games ran at any Game conventions in the Southern California area anytime soon? Maybe something…
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Participants: JESTER, Shadeling.

1/14/2003 rikiwarren: Salt Lake Gamers?
Hey, I gather there are a number of TROS gamers in the Provo area, but is anyone closer to Salt Lake? The closer to the University of Utah, the better.…
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Participants: rikiwarren, Jake Norwood, Unsane.

1/13/2003 Shadeling: My campaign and the characters in it...
Ok, so I am running a campaign, in which a powerful Gol warlord is uniting trollspawn, and attempting to destroy man. The Gol worship a powerful demon to boot. That…
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Participants: Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

1/13/2003 Shadeling: When to Roll Languages?
Do any of you think Language skills should be rolled as often as other skills?
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

1/12/2003 Brian Leybourne: SA's
Hey Jake, Is there any chance you can give us an insight into the reasons behind the different mechanisms for the different SA's? Luck: you get the dice once, split…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

1/12/2003 Shadeling: A Fey thought...
Rather than -2 MA to represent their slow learning and unchanging ways...perhaps a +1 SR to skill packets, and MA points costing 2 for 1 for non-language skills at character…
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Participants: Shadeling, Bob Richter.

1/12/2003 Shadeling: Looks like I botched character creation...
When I had my players create characters, I messed it up on the Attributes part. I had always thought the high attribute limited what others could equal or exceed...but now…
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Participants: Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Mokkurkalfe, Akuma.

1/10/2003 svenlein: broken blade was it a fumble?
in the link Jake gave: http://www.thearma.org/Videos/NTCvids/testingbladesandmaterials.htm they broke a sword and a spike. The spikes quality was suspected. The sword came from a reputable company. Was this just a fluke?…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Akuma, MrGeneHa.

1/10/2003 Shadeling: Glamour query...
A Glamour spell could effectively make the illusion of no sound, right? Kind of like the Disappear spell, but in regards to sound. Targets variable only truly comes into play…
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, prophet118.

1/10/2003 Bob Richter: Take a Philosophy...
...and make a character. :) Interesting idea I had. I was working with a character concept, and I came to the philosophy part. I came up with a (what I…
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Participants: Bob Richter, Shadeling, Mokkurkalfe, Ron Edwards, Henry Fitch, spunky.

1/10/2003 Shadeling: T'zaul, Kudara, Shiragi
Will there be anything written about these nations, at all?
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

1/9/2003 Jake Norwood: OT: ARMA seminar in Utah
Okay, so this is only sorta on topic, but bear with me. Driftwood Publishing is helping sponser a hands-on Longsword seminar here in Provo with John Clements, director of the…
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

1/8/2003 feanor: Question About 1st Aid
I just read the rules again caus I am starting a campaing using The Riddle of Steel system and one thing is bothering me...first aid. Rules say that you can…
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Participants: feanor, Bob Richter, Durgil, Jake Norwood, Jasper, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Shadeling, toli.

1/8/2003 Shadeling: Poleaxe with blunt head and spike tip?
The proficiency says Poleaxes are often adorned with a blunt head on the side or spike on top or both. What would these do in terms of damage and what-not...
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Ron Edwards, Henry Fitch, toli.

1/7/2003 toli: Problem viewing pages
Just a quick question... Does anyone else have a problem viewing the posts? I get the index page but often get only blank posts no matter what I do (that…
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Participants: toli, Brian Leybourne, prophet118.

1/7/2003 Shadeling: What type of horse is a Stahlnish Shire Horse?
I was just curious if it was a Charger or Destrier...
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Participants: Shadeling, toli, Jake Norwood, Akuma, Warboss Grock, Wolfen, Draigh, Valamir, Irmo, Farseer415, Mike Holmes, Crusader.

1/7/2003 Brian Leybourne: The riddle of sorceror?
Hmm.. now that's an interesting thought. The Riddle of Steel is a cool game. Sorcerer (the Ron Edwards one; I'm not talking about the White Wolf game) is also a…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, Asaraludu, rikiwarren.

1/7/2003 Shadeling: Talisman Gift...
Does the Talisman give bonus dice to each Sorcery roll or just to the sorcery pool?
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Ace, Brian Leybourne.

1/7/2003 Shadeling: Gelure national modifiers
I was curious about the Geluroise national modifiers in the book. It says gifted recieve +3 proficiency points-these would go into vagaries they buy, correct? It then says anyone with…
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Participants: Shadeling, Bob Richter, prophet118, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch.

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1/17/2003 Spartan: Per, MP et. al.
Since Per is part of a character's Aim attribute, should one recalculate Aim (and hence MP) if one incurs a Per penalty, say from wearing a helm? Or do most…
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Participants: Spartan, Nick Pagnucco, Overdrive, Kalvo, Ville, Jake Norwood.

1/20/2003 Brian Leybourne: Quickstart rules
Finally got around to looking through the quickstart rules. I have to say, they're pretty cool. I like what was done to reduce the complexity of the rules for an…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Stephen, Blake Hutchins, Mokkurkalfe, Spartan, Limbo.

1/20/2003 svenlein: Clarification of half-swording
Are these calculations correct? All examples are used 2 handed (half-sworded for the swords) with damage calculated against heavy armor. weapon.......hands.length..Range.....ATN....DTN........dam bastard.......2..........48.........s/m......5........6..........ST+3 (or ST+5?) dopple.........2.........72.........l...........6.........6.........+2 estoc...........2.........48.........s/m......5.........6.........+3 (or ST+5?) great...........2.........55.........s/m......5.........6.........+3 (or…
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Participants: svenlein, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Durgil, Thalaxis, Bob Richter.

1/20/2003 Brian Leybourne: New to the forum? Look here first.
Hi! Welcome to the TROS Forum. Below you will find links to some topic threads that you might find interesting to read through if you have any questions, to avoid…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Nick Pagnucco, Rattlehead, Ace, Paka.

1/21/2003 prophet118: Aging
ok... so is aging an instant aging, IE if someone ages 7 months, do they have to deal with 7 months of hair growth, and all the nasty stuff that…
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Participants: prophet118, Durgil, Shadeling, Stephen, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Ashren Va'Hale, Balbinus, Aaron, Shreyas Sampat, RN3G8 4E, Irmo.

1/22/2003 Limbo: Armor
I've been playing around with the combat simulator a bit and my impression is that armor may not be such a good thing. The problem seems to be that fully…
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Participants: Limbo, Shadeling, toli, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, 655321, Jake Norwood, Vanguard, Aaron, Mokkurkalfe, Ace, TAROT.

1/23/2003 Paka: Riddle of Steel at RPG.net
Just some links to some RPG.net discussions going on right now: The word is out and the word is good. ROS, How's it playing? http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30499&perpage=20&pagenumber=1 George RR Martin: A Song…
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Participants: Paka, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Ashren Va'Hale.

1/23/2003 Shadeling: Wuxia TROS
Ok, so tell me if this is a lame idea or not. How about a wuxia style game using TROS rules. Movies like Swordman and Crouching Tiger...they have cool fighting…
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Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, ShaneNINE, Ron Edwards, Heavenlyrock, svenlein, Ville, Brian Leybourne.

1/24/2003 svenlein: Missile Accuracy
Thought on things that effect missile accuracy: These are just thought, some effects are below the granularity of TROS. Taking a shot: with your senses collect data about all the…
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Participants: svenlein.

1/24/2003 Wizdoc: The world map I'm going to use...
While I'm waiting for my ordered copy of TROS to arrive, I've been starting to put together preliminary campaign notes - including player handouts (everybody loves 'em). But the map…
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Participants: Wizdoc, Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Shadeling.

1/25/2003 Valamir: Errata item?
Or am I just confused. Combat Example Question 1. Page 88. Geralt successfully performs a Duck and Weave and Stefan loses 3CP as a result, because Stefan's attack had been…
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Participants: Valamir, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, tauman.

1/28/2003 Shadeling: Game Awards for 2002
http://www.pen-paper.net/awards.php Just thought we might want to make our votes. ::nods to TROS::
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Participants: Shadeling, Ashren Va'Hale, Nacht.

1/28/2003 Aaron: Combat Sim query
Is it a mistake in the combat sim that if both fighter throw red dice for initiative it resolves that phase and goes straight back to throwing for initiative and…
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Participants: Aaron, Brian Leybourne, Wizdoc, Irmo, 655321.

1/28/2003 svenlein: Fighting Indoors
How do people handle players fighting indoors. I would guess many Terraign rolls with higher difficulties for people based on the lenght of their weapon.
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Participants: svenlein, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe.

1/28/2003 tauman: alternative magic systems
Okay, I hope this isn't blasphemy, but I've been thinking about ways to incorporate other magic systems into TROS. Don't get me wrong, I really like the current magic system,…
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Participants: tauman, Jaif, Henry Fitch, Jake Norwood, Draygen, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, John Resotko, Unsane.

1/28/2003 Jake Norwood: What is a blade slinger
Gareth brought up an interesting point in this thread, which I have taken completely out of context as a springboard for this discussion. The attempt to posit some sort of…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Spartan, Shadeling, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, prophet118, allahlav, Ashren Va'Hale, Jim DelRosso, Ville, Bob Richter, Jaif, Vanguard, Ace, Irmo, 655321, Bankuei, spunky.

1/29/2003 Paka: Marsui
[i]If and when I get to run TROS:[/i] In our ancestors’ days there was a fine pantheon. They worshipped a fatherly Sun Deity, a mysterious Moon Goddess, a cunning Trickster,…
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Participants: Paka, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Jim DelRosso, Brian Leybourne.

1/30/2003 Heavenlyrock: Animals
I have a quick question(s)… If a horse succeeds at evading an attack, while the rider tries to attack, do we nullify the attack because the horse would probably force…
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Participants: Heavenlyrock, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne.

1/31/2003 Balbinus: Base spiritual attributes
Hi, I started creating a couple of sample characters with the game last night, and got to the spiritual attributes. They seem strongly geared towards heroic characters. My first attempt…
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Participants: Balbinus, Jim DelRosso, Shadeling, Ron Edwards, Stephen, Mokkurkalfe.

1/31/2003 Jaif: What world do you run or play in? Weyrth, or your own?
I'm just curious how many here use TRoS in the given world, versus one of their own. I'm using my own - LotR, the world of men, 250 years after…
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Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Shadeling, Paka, Salamander, Clinton R. Nixon, Darth Tang, Fallen_Icarus, Mike Holmes, arxhon, RN3G8 4E, Ashren Va'Hale.

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