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2/4/2003 RN3G8 4E: Who Wants to Play?
Well, I've pretty much finished reading the book, and I'm creating a character... but who can I play with? I'm in the Provo, BYU area.
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Participants: RN3G8 4E, Shadeling, Mike Holmes.

2/4/2003 Michael Tree: Making combat less lethal
I havn't bought the Riddle of Steel yet, but I love what I've seen in the quickstart rules and reviews I've read. Duels have always been the form of combat…
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Participants: Michael Tree, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Stephen, Paka, Valamir, Ashren Va'Hale.

2/3/2003 Limbo: Conscience
I was wondering how other people are dealing with the SA of Conscience in their games? Are character's picking this as an SA, does it apply only to "good" characters,…
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Participants: Limbo, Valamir, Jim DelRosso, Clinton R. Nixon, allahlav.

2/2/2003 Limbo: Riddle Roller Die rolling program
I downloaded the Riddle Roller die rolling program available in the download section at the official site. There's a couple of problems with it however: (1) It doesn't calculate probability…
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Participants: Limbo, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

2/2/2003 Brian Leybourne: Jake: Proficiencies question
This is really a question for Jake, but I thought I would put it here so everyone can see the answer and thus benefit from it. When I'm assigning proficiencies…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, 655321, Shadeling, Jaif, toli.

1/31/2003 Ben Lehman: High-Powered RoS, Oriental Styles, etc. (play report)
Hey-- In early december, we converted my friend's D&D3E campaign to Riddle of Steel, which is the system that it always wanted to run under anyway. First off, we had…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, toli, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Calder.

1/31/2003 Heavenlyrock: fumble initiative roll
would it be too harsh to say that a botched intiative roll (the reflexive roll contest for two opponents both attacking) would mean the character doesn't get to go for…
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Participants: Heavenlyrock, Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

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.

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.

1/30/2003 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.

1/29/2003 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.

1/28/2003 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.

1/28/2003 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 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 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 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.

1/25/2003 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.

1/24/2003 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.

1/24/2003 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.

1/23/2003 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.

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2/5/2003 sirjaguar: Weapon advantage transition
In TROS it states that the weapon length advantage switches once the smaller weapon has dealt a damaging blow. Let's say Joe has a dagger and Mike has a spear…
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Participants: sirjaguar, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Irmo, Brian Leybourne.

2/5/2003 Mordacc: What do you think the Riddle is?
What do you think the Riddle of Steel is? I think it is that your mind and you are the most dangerous weapon and that Magic and weapons are only…
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Participants: Mordacc, Jim DelRosso, Stephen, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Ron Edwards, Darth Tang, Fallen_Icarus, John Resotko, Jake Norwood.

2/6/2003 Mordacc: Alternate Advancement Rules
Ever since i switched from DnD to TRoS, all of the flaws of DnD have become more and more apparent to me. Now I cant put down TRoS. However, one…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, szilard, Valamir.

2/6/2003 Mordacc: House Rules
Im new to these forums so sorry about clogging them up with all my posts but Im pretty much in love with TRoS since i picked it up so im…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Michael Tree, Valamir.

2/6/2003 Mordacc: Spiritual Attributes
One question i have about spiritual attributes is what happens when they are spent? Lets say that Bob has 2 Drive, 2 Passion, and 3 Destiny. Over the course of…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Jim DelRosso, Ville, Stephen, Ron Edwards, Ashren Va'Hale, Valamir.

2/7/2003 Paka: SA Question
Okay, the character is about to get into combat with his arch-nemesis who stepped on his puppy and slapped his father around. He spends his Passion - Hatred of vile…
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Participants: Paka, Bankuei, Shadeling, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

2/7/2003 Mordacc: Maryland Players Anywhere?
Well I finished my first mini-campaign as Gm and I have to say it was quite an experience. THere were three players, and they all got very inot the…
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Participants: Mordacc, Michael Tree, Ashren Va'Hale, Shreyas Sampat, wpbarr, Valamir, Thalaxis.

2/7/2003 Michael Tree: TROS Star Wars
I've had an urge to run a mostly-Jedi star wars campaign for a while now, and I'm coming to believe that TROS may just be the best system for it,…
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Participants: Michael Tree, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, RN3G8 4E, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Stephen, szilard, Matt Wilson, Bob Richter.

2/8/2003 Jaeger: Harder than it looks????
Based on what was said in the recent SA thread I felt an exchange of ideas of what one considers adequate preparation for running a TROS campaign. Personally, I like…
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Participants: Jaeger, prophet118, Bankuei, arxhon.

2/9/2003 Mordacc: Possible TRoS Campaign Worlds
Id like to compile a list of either fictional worlds or real world themes for a ROS campaign setting. FIctional ones would be things like Conan, based in a complete…
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Participants: Mordacc, Mokkurkalfe, werewolf, TAROT, JESTER, Enoch, spunky, toli, murazor, Brian Leybourne, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Paka, Vanguard, jafuli, Shadeling, tauman, John Resotko.

2/10/2003 Irmo: THE 2002 INDIE RPG AWARDS
Jake, I can't see TROS among the registered games. Any reason other than you not getting to do it?
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Participants: Irmo, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

2/10/2003 Mordacc: Statistics for Guns
Im thinking about a mordern campaign for TRoS and im wondering if these statistics for a few guns are realistic/workable. Pistols .45 4 rounds prep time. Refresh begins once one…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Shadeling, prophet118, Ace.

2/10/2003 murazor: Armour piercing (and another thing)
Hello all. I have now bought, read and digested The Riddle of Steel, though I have yet to test it. Nevertheless, I have a few questions. What is the advantage…
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Participants: murazor, Paka, Valamir, toli, Jake Norwood, Irmo, Aaron.

2/10/2003 Shadeling: TROS Supers?
Well I am not insane. While thinking on my Wuxia TROS, this idea hit me like a Dopplehander. TROS Supers. I have always been a fan of the gritty...and a…
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Participants: Shadeling, Mordacc, Clinton R. Nixon, RN3G8 4E.

2/8/2003 Thorsten: How long will it take to Germany?
How long will it take to get TROS to Germany? My FNLGS awaits it march at best or april?
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Participants: Thorsten, Jake Norwood, Jürgen Mayer.

2/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: weapon stats
any ideas for the stats on the the ahlspiel, the flemish gudentag, the large messer and the hammer and spike of the pole axe?
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mordacc, Shadeling, Jeffrey Straszheim.

2/11/2003 arxhon: Retired gamer brought back to the fray! Thanks, Mr. Norwood!
I have been out of general circulation for rpg's pretty much since White Wolf released Mage, except for a few months here and there playing WFRP, and a few rather…
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Participants: arxhon, Jake Norwood, GreatWolf, OriginalFlash, Spartan.

2/11/2003 Darth Tang: Combat query: combined arms
I'm planning on using the RoS game system in the War Hammer background. Now, the group I'm with has, through bitter experience with my games, gotten well accustomed to 'combined…
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Participants: Darth Tang, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Shadeling, Aaron, Ashren Va'Hale, Bob Richter, allahlav.

2/12/2003 Darth Tang: Fighting nets
Still working on my application of RoS to the War Hammer world. Now, the Goblins, among others, use nets. Good idea, think it'll prove interesting. Problem is, how to apply…
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Participants: Darth Tang, Jake Norwood, Shadeling, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne.

2/12/2003 Fallen_Icarus: Lefthandedness
Excuse me if this has been covered in a previous thread. As you can see I am new to the forum. I've been playing a very by the book adventure…
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Participants: Fallen_Icarus, Shadeling, TAROT, Mike Holmes, deltadave, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, arxhon, Bob McNamee, prophet118, spunky.

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