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2/16/2003 Bankuei: Kudara writeup
And here's a Kudara writeup. I see Kudara as a Warring States China (Romance of the 3 Kingdoms/Heroes of the Water Margin) kinda place. Kudara Geography The Red River that…
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Participants: Bankuei.

2/16/2003 Bankuei: Tzaul writeup
Well, Jake, you thought it'd be interesting to see what people came up with... I see Tzaul sorta like what would happen to an eastern european group, like the Hungarians…
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Participants: Bankuei.

2/16/2003 Mordacc: Campaigns
My friend is going to run his first ROS campaign and he will be GMing me in a solo game. Hes having some trouble with adventure ideas and we were…
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Participants: Mordacc, Jake Norwood, Russell Hoyle, arxhon, Mike Holmes.

2/16/2003 Darth Tang: RoS: When Pets Attack
OK, animal attacks (and non-humaniod monsters, for that matter): what sort of manuvers are you working up for them? Leaping? Dart to hamstring? Or is it simply Jump & Bite?…
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Participants: Darth Tang, Brian Leybourne, b_bankhead, Jake Norwood.

2/16/2003 Paka: Riddle of the Dark Sun
Okay, some day I'd love to run Planescape with the Riddle but right now I am intrigued with Riddling the ole boxed set, Dark Sun. I'll have to tinker with…
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Participants: Paka, prophet118, arxhon, Drew Stevens, Clinton R. Nixon, Michael Tree.

2/16/2003 Vanguard: People's games
This being such a recent game, and having only played a few sessions so far, I'd love to hear how the system has worked for other people - what kinda…
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Participants: Vanguard, arxhon, Darth Tang.

2/15/2003 arxhon: The assorted moons
What are the various colors of the moons? Do they have Imperial names? Or can i just make up my own stuff....e.g. One of each color of the rainbow except…
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Participants: arxhon, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

2/14/2003 Matt Wilson: wound effects
Do wounds affect rolls like reflex tests? We were playing last night and only found evidence that wounds affect combat pools. Seems sensible that a character would be less quick…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Fallen_Icarus, Bankuei, Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

2/14/2003 arxhon: Now that I have it, my thoughts.
Well, I've had the mainbook for a couple of days now, and read it from cover to cover (including acknowledgements and the index). The combat system is all i hoped…
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Participants: arxhon, Valamir, Shadeling, Michael Tree, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

2/14/2003 Jake Norwood: Life, the Universe, and Everything (con)
This weekend at BYU (my local University) there's a Sci-fi/Fantasy Symposium. It's where I ran the second-ever demo of TROS last year with great success. Anyway, our own Seth (Ashren…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, RN3G8 4E.

2/14/2003 Eldrad: Hey new to the game!
Just wanted to say hi! I am very impressed so far by tRoS! I read the back of the book and looked through it a few weeks ago. I could…
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Participants: Eldrad, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Noon, arxhon, Shadeling, Spartan, Rattlehead.

2/14/2003 Darth Tang: War pick
I haven't been able to find an illustration of this in any of my books on period weapons. I'm extremely hesitant to include a weapon for which I've no reliable…
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Participants: Darth Tang, Shadeling, Irmo, Salamander.

2/14/2003 Darth Tang: Weapon images (Pole Arms)
Its important to give players a visual image of what their gear looks like. In my current campaign, I have the Janes pocket books so players can see. One of…
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Participants: Darth Tang, Mike Holmes, Michael Tree, Jake Norwood, Shadeling, arxhon.

2/13/2003 Fallen_Icarus: Glamour as a physical force
On page 107, under the heading of Glamour lvl 2, it mentions that the illusion can be made solid but lacking real sound or tactile componants. In one of my…
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Participants: Fallen_Icarus, Bob Richter, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne.

2/13/2003 Bankuei: Manuever Mods...
Ok, so here's some modified and new manuevers... most have been simplified or are not very different from the book. Bash/Bind/Check/Toss/Weapon Hooking/Expulsion Gamewise, all these things are basically either distracting…
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Participants: Bankuei, Aaron, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

2/13/2003 Ben Lehman: Thoughts on RoS mass combat
I don't know if Brian Gleichman is a dirty name around here (he has said some mean and nasty things about RoS) but I have just been reading his articles…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, toli, Brian Leybourne, Darth Tang, arxhon, Noon, Jake Norwood, Calder, svenlein, Bob Richter, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco.

2/13/2003 Shadeling: There is a Quickstart Review on RPGnet
I just saw it!
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Participants: Shadeling, Stephen, Irmo, Blake Hutchins, wpbarr, arxhon, Noon.

2/13/2003 Mordacc: A Question about damage
Ok, i have some questions on damage. First, in the appendix it will say for some weapons that it has a damage of, say, ST + 2c. Now i take…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Noon, arxhon, Fallen_Icarus, Ashren Va'Hale.

2/13/2003 Aaron: Spoiler?
Any chance or a spoiler on the pack animal rules? I was almost embarresed when I set a couple of war dogs on my guys. Looking at their stats they…
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Participants: Aaron, Brian Leybourne, Valamir.

2/13/2003 Noon: G'day G'day, a few Q's
Heya all, I've run some of these through the search engine here already. Didn't find much so I thought I'd ask. Scuse me if I screw up some terms, just…
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Participants: Noon, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

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2/16/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: full evade, dual strikes and multiple opponents
now, if my character wants to make a full evade against a mug doing a dual strike with two weapons do I need to make two different rolls, one for…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Spartan, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Irmo.

2/16/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: villains with SA's continued and dramatic deaths
I remember this debate a while back so I figured I should ressurrect it with a new insight. after my game last saturday I found how fun it was for…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

2/17/2003 Jaeger: Multiple opponents & rule Questions...
According to the rules when you want to face only 1 opponent out of 2 if you make your maneuver role out of your combat pool and succed your opponent…
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Participants: Jaeger, Jake Norwood, Darth Tang.

2/17/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: dueling
how did it work, what were the ettiquete rules, what warranted a duel and how were terms of the duel decided? My next campaign takes place in the Xanarium empire…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

2/17/2003 Drew Stevens: Dagger Damage?
First, I'm sold. *copy ordered* Second, I'm confused. So, I've been reading the QuickStart rules, and I noticed that some fairly blunt, usally non-lethal weapons (Quarterstaff, Kick) seemed to be…
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Participants: Drew Stevens, Mokkurkalfe, Jim DelRosso, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Stephen.

2/17/2003 arxhon: Names in settings
Over the years i've noticed that the hardest thing for players to come up with are names for their characters (for some reason). I've also noticed that the quickest way…
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Participants: arxhon, Mike Holmes, Sneaky Git, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, Salamander.

2/18/2003 Chris Passeno: Driftwood at Origins?
Just curious if Jake and Company will be at Origins this year?
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Participants: Chris Passeno, Jake Norwood, spunky, Durgil, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, JESTER.

2/18/2003 arxhon: Offensive Grappling Q?
OK, I'm a little confused by the offensive grappling rules. The maneuver cost is 2 or 4 (except for wrestling, which is 1 or 3). Why the 2 different costs?…
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Participants: arxhon, Jake Norwood, Alan.

2/18/2003 Mordacc: Supplements
Ok, two thing i was wondering. First, Besides the core rule book, TFOB, and the monster book, what other supplements or books or whatever will be coming out sometime in…
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Participants: Mordacc, Jake Norwood, RN3G8 4E, Michael Tree, Brian Leybourne.

2/18/2003 Drew Stevens: Shipping alerts?
So, just out of my morbid sense of curiousity, but do ya send out an email with a shipping alert when you post out the games on Monday? :) Oh,…
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Participants: Drew Stevens, Jake Norwood.

2/18/2003 Mordacc: Buying a 6th SA
I was wondering the mechanics for buying a 6th Spiritual Attribute. After all, it is possible for someone to have all of those qualities at once. Any ideas on how/whether…
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Participants: Mordacc, Shadeling, Spartan, Noon, Jake Norwood, spunky, arxhon, Brian Leybourne.

2/18/2003 toli: Buying Gifts
Does anyone have any thoughts on buying gifts? One can buyoff flaws, so it might be reasonable to buy gifts as well. Obviously there has to be some logic involved.…
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Participants: toli, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

2/19/2003 Drew Stevens: Shock...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how it's meant to work, or maybe the Quickstart rules don't explain it right, but Shock seemed to be Really Brutal, and Brawn seemed to make a…
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Participants: Drew Stevens, Valamir, Stephen, Mike Holmes, Noon, Bankuei.

2/19/2003 Valamir: Stop Short
Ok, In my first few times threw Stop Short was one of those moves that I skipped because it made my head hurt trying to figure it out. Now that…
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Participants: Valamir, Spartan, Fallen_Icarus, Jake Norwood, Noon, John Resotko, Sneaky Git, Damascus, Wolfen.

2/19/2003 Drew Stevens: Social Combat
*paces while waiting for his full copy of Riddle* I was pondering recently, specifically about social intrigue and such- given the deadlier nature of combat in Riddle, I rather expect…
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Participants: Drew Stevens, toli, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Brian Leybourne, Noon, Mainboard, Mike Holmes, Durgil, svenlein, Fallen_Icarus, arxhon, Ryuuko, John Resotko.

2/20/2003 Mainboard: Is this a good idea to make combat a little easier?
To make comabt less deadly take their AGL + PRS divided by 2 to create a Body (BDY) stat. Body give the characters a few extra "levels" to absorb damage.…
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Participants: Mainboard, Spartan, spunky, Jake Norwood, Noon, Paka, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Aaron, Michael Tree, Mokkurkalfe.

2/20/2003 Ryuuko: Questions...Go figure!
Hello all! I've been trying to keep up with this forum (because this game and you guys are so darn cool) but it has been quite hard because of all…
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Participants: Ryuuko, Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Aaron, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, Ashren Va'Hale, Damascus, Sneaky Git, arxhon, toli, Salamander, Valamir.

2/20/2003 Stephen: Something wrong with the website?
I've been trying to get onto www.theriddleofsteel.net all day and I can't, and now the Web can't even find the site. Nothing wrong, I hope?
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Participants: Stephen, Jake Norwood.

2/21/2003 Mordacc: Thoughts on d20/DnD
Ok, since im assuming im not the only one who has..."evolved" shal we say, from d20 or DND to TROS, im curious as to your reasons for switching systems. My…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Bankuei, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe, cresotko, Mike Holmes, spunky, arxhon, Jim DelRosso, Vanguard, Jake Norwood, Noon, contracycle.

2/21/2003 Paka: Riddle Adventure Trailers
I posted this thing on RPG.net and since the Riddle is on my mind lately many of my adventure seeds have concered this game. A campaign trailer is what I…
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Participants: Paka, arxhon, Drew Stevens, Jake Norwood, Vanguard, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git, Bankuei, Wolfen, Morfedel, Kaare Berg, Jasper the Mimbo, Draigh, Mayhem1979, Caz, Ashren Va'Hale.

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