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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.

2/19/2003 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.

2/19/2003 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: 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.

2/18/2003 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.

2/18/2003 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 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: 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 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 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.

2/17/2003 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.

2/17/2003 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 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 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.

2/16/2003 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.

2/16/2003 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 Bankuei: Broken Lands-campaign idea
[b]Little Hope Less Time No Peace Unite or Die[/b] The premise is that Tzaul, finally united and still under the chokehold of Otamarluk, seeks to expand its power to the…
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Participants: Bankuei.

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.

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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.

2/22/2003 Mordacc: Insight question
Ok this is a question about spending insight points on a new character. Lets say that bob has 50 insight points and he dies, so the new character fred beginsplay…
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Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Shadeling, Noon, spunky.

2/22/2003 Mordacc: Martial Arts
In TFOB, i assume there will be some coverage of oriental martial arts, however i have some specific questions about the applications of specific types of martial arts to the…
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Participants: Mordacc, Ashren Va'Hale, Bankuei, tauman, arxhon, Drew Stevens, Enoch, Shadeling, GreatWolf, Michael Tree, Brian Leybourne, Jon the Bastard, wpbarr, Thalaxis, Nick Pagnucco, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Mokkurkalfe, Sneaky Git, MrGeneHa, Bob McNamee, svenlein, Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

2/23/2003 Jon the Bastard: Howdy All. New Guy with Some Martial Stuff Experience
I just love TRoS. If only I could convince the D&D players I game with to let me run a game. Or hell, play a game. TRoS really appeals to…
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Participants: Jon the Bastard, Salamander, Spartan.

2/23/2003 Mordacc: Sniper Scopes
WHat would the appropriate adjustment for a primitive sniper score on a crossbow be. This is assuming that it utilizes maybe two crystals that magnify the range. Would making the…
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Participants: Mordacc, Mokkurkalfe.

2/24/2003 arxhon: There's no Research Skill description....
I'm looking through the skill section, and i noticed that while Research is listed in the Academic skill packet, and in the list of skills, there is no such skill…
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Participants: arxhon, Jake Norwood.

2/24/2003 svenlein: shied walls
One idea i had (untill we get flower of battle): when you have 2 lines of people face off, NOTE; assuming hallways or some other reason to be cramped (like…
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Participants: svenlein.

2/24/2003 Durgil: Authentic Thaumaturgy
I went out a few days ago and bought Authentic Thaumaturgy by Isaac Bonewits after it was briefly brought up on a different Forum, and was wondering if anyone else…
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Participants: Durgil, Stephen, tauman, svenlein, contracycle, Irmo.

2/25/2003 Brian Leybourne: Got $35,000 spare for a sword...? :-)
Then check this baby out... http://www.unitedbladeworx.com.au/New_Folder4/maffi_new_page_1.htm Brian.
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Shadeling, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Darth Tang, tauman, Jasper, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Wolfen.

2/26/2003 Aaron: Home Rules
Hi guys. As I've been playing TROS I've been coming up with a few of things to fill the odd gap here or there. I thought I might share a…
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Participants: Aaron.

2/27/2003 arxhon: Am I being a jerk?
I'm just about done the prep for my TROS game. I'm trying to recapture the air of mystery that we all had the first time we played a game of…
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Participants: arxhon, tauman, Mainboard, A.Neill, Ben, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Shadeling.

2/27/2003 Jasper the Mimbo: A question on force weapons and gun blades
In a game I am in a charecter has a force blade that is supposed to be able to cut through most anything with relative ease. We reciently ported our…
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Participants: Jasper the Mimbo, Shadeling, Mike Holmes, arxhon, Ben Lehman, Ashren Va'Hale, Noon, Jake Norwood, svenlein, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

2/28/2003 Ville: Problems with advancement system
I know this has come up before but I still have some problems of character advancement system in TROS. First, the burning of SA's to improve attributes or proficiencies. Some…
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Participants: Ville, Mordacc, Bankuei, Noon, Mokkurkalfe, Valamir, Durgil, Paka, Jake Norwood, toli.

2/28/2003 A.Neill: Defence Dice
Brief rules question – can anyone help? I know this info is bound to be in the rulebook, starring me in the face – but I can’t find it. If,…
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Participants: A.Neill, Spartan, Sneaky Git.

3/1/2003 Sneaky Git: Spears
I've got a quick question concerning the translation of a real-world weapon into TRoS terms. The citizens of Helena (an interesting analog of Classical Greece) fight in close order (a…
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Participants: Sneaky Git, arxhon, Mokkurkalfe, MrGeneHa, svenlein, toli, contracycle, Jake Norwood, Anthony I, Valamir, Drew Stevens.

3/3/2003 tauman: Magic Items
Okay, now don't everyone get excited--I'm not talking about handing out so many that the characters all glow like Christmas trees... Many of the fantasy novels that have inspired me…
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Participants: tauman, Valamir, Drew Stevens, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Salamander, Durgil, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, TAROT, Bob McNamee, Ashren Va'Hale, Paka, Bob Richter, contracycle, Jason Kottler, Daredevil.

3/4/2003 svenlein: interesting musket article
People have talked before about getting Muskets for flower of battle. Here is a nice article about it. Check the sources let us know if you feel they are untrustworthy.…
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Participants: svenlein.

3/5/2003 Aaron: When pets go bad
Now I know that the "official" rules for Pack animals will be coming out in OBAM but for anyone interested in using these kind of animals, dogs wolves, lions etc,…
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Participants: Aaron.

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