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5/24/2003 Eduardoh: Two Weapon Fighting
Ok...First Question and Hope you understand me. I´ve just finished giving the book a quick read. So... here go my questions: If I am attacking my foe with 2 scimitars…
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Participants: Eduardoh, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Eamon Voss.

5/24/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: new skill- teaching
I found in my game I ran tonight that it would be appropriate for a character and a key npc to be very interested in imparting their knowlege to others,…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne.

5/23/2003 Tywin Lannister: The Flower of Battle
What exactly is going to be in this book? And when will it be released? This is what I hope for: Detailed explanations of the already existing combat rules &…
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Participants: Tywin Lannister, Durgil, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Eamon Voss, Ashren Va'Hale, Irmo, Michael Tree.

5/22/2003 Brian Leybourne: Taveruun
The whole thread on Stahl got me thinking more about my favourite country - Taveruun. Moreso than almost any other country in Weyrth, Taveruun is stragetic. It is both the…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Nick Pagnucco, Gary_Bingham, A.J., Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Morfedel, demiurgeastaroth, Thorsten.

5/22/2003 Jasper the Mimbo: Still more game questions
1) I read on one of the threads here that starting characters get a number of extra skills based on their MA beyond their starting skill packages. I can't find…
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Participants: Jasper the Mimbo, Morfedel.

5/22/2003 Jasper the Mimbo: Cross-platform game support?
Thog use Macintosh. Thog want use combat simulator. Combat simulator no run on Macintosh. THOG RAGE!!! Whoa! Easy big fella! Anyone out there know if the support programs from the…
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Participants: Jasper the Mimbo, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, kenjib, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Ben Lehman, cruciel, prophet118, Mike Holmes.

5/22/2003 Ed Morris: Map of Weyrth
Hello all, I was wondering if a higher resolution map of Weyrth exists. I'm having a hard time reading the place names on both the current downloaded map and the…
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Participants: Ed Morris, Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

5/22/2003 BOAZ: Question for Jake Norwood
Hi Jake, My wife bought me the RoS Rule Book trough you website and paid with pay pal. She got the receipt from pay pal but no confermation from driftwood…
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Participants: BOAZ, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

5/22/2003 gmouser: some info on TROS shields
Please correct me if I'm misinterpreting something: 1) Buckler: a small, usually circular, hand held shield not strapped to the forearm (that is a target or targa shield, uh?) 2)…
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Participants: gmouser, Durgil, Anthony I, sirjaguar, Wolfen, Salamander, Valamir.

5/21/2003 arxhon: Lame question about dodging missile fire
Ok, how does avoiding missile fire work? I figure a full or partial evasion (probably full, since it's easier to pull off) would cover someone who is not blocking an…
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Participants: arxhon, Salamander, Jake Norwood, Jason Kottler, Ashren Va'Hale, Ben, Wolfen, cruciel.

5/21/2003 Balbinus: Reopening guns
Hi all, A little while back there was some discussion about rules for black powder firearms in RoS. Since I would run any RoS game of mine in the real…
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Participants: Balbinus, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Stuart DJ Purdie, gmouser, Amy1419, Ron Edwards, Eamon Voss, Valamir, Mike Holmes, demiurgeastaroth, Waiwode, contracycle, thelibrarian.

5/21/2003 Stuart DJ Purdie: Throwing knives while in a swordfight
Devarre sighed inside. He'd warned Theral that he aught not to get too friendly with that serving wench. Forseeing what was about to occur, he drew his blade and dagger.…
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Participants: Stuart DJ Purdie, Brian Leybourne, Draigh, Jake Norwood, gmouser, Mayhem1979, Wolfen, Prince of Thieves, Salamander.

5/21/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: really really wierd thing happened to my post
I was just reading the thread that was closed and I made a comment on it this morning that only showed up way later this evening and now it looks…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Balbinus.

5/21/2003 Prince of Thieves: Two attackers lead to a few questions...
I can think of no better way to present my questions then to explain the fashion in which they arose in the first place... please bare with me. 2 combatants:…
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Participants: Prince of Thieves, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Overdrive, Salamander, Jake Norwood.

5/20/2003 Morfedel: Armor vs Dice Pools
I was wondering whether everyone thought the tradeoff of wearing armor and losing dice pools was adequate and balanced? I ask because I have been running some sample combats between…
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Participants: Morfedel, Overdrive, Jake Norwood, Durgil, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Valamir.

5/20/2003 Morfedel: Questions on a new owner of the book...
Ok, I have the book, and have been reading it for around a week and a half, and a large number of questions have arisen. I apologize for the great…
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Participants: Morfedel, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Spartan, Thorbrin, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Valamir, kenjib.

5/20/2003 Balbinus: Why should I split my combat pool?
Hi all, A remarkably simple question here, and one I imagine there is a very simple answer to. Let's say I have a 13 dice combat pool, my opponent has…
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Participants: Balbinus, gmouser, toli, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Bomilkar, arxhon, Salamander, Tywin Lannister, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Amy1419, Noon, Overdrive.

5/20/2003 gmouser: OBAM
I've heard a pdf version of OBAM will be available soon. Is it true? And... when? I can't wait anymore!!! :-) Grey Mouser
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Participants: gmouser, Jake Norwood, Darth Tang.

5/20/2003 Brassel: Questions about some Rules
In the topic about the Beat maneuver Salamander and me stated some questions concerning some TROS-Rules. I thought it might be time to present them clearly in a new topic:…
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Participants: Brassel, Salamander, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

5/20/2003 JESTER: GAMEX 2003 May 23rd-26th
Is anyone planning on running anything ROS at the game convention coming up this weekend? Late, Jester
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Participants: JESTER.

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5/25/2003 ashampine: multiple opponent question
I just picked up the rule book and am grinding through it. I don't understand how the multiple opponent rules work. I get the dice splitting mechanic (although -- if…
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Participants: ashampine, Salamander, Wolfen.

5/26/2003 Anthony I: TROS in Las Vegas
If there are any folks from Las Vegas that frequent this forum, I'll be starting a TROS game here in Vegas in the second week in June. The game will…
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Participants: Anthony I, Salamander.

5/27/2003 Eamon Voss: Wuxia and TROS
So we were watching Fist of Legend last night and I started thinking TROS is perfect for Wuxia style combat. With that in mind, I put down the following concepts:…
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Participants: Eamon Voss, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Amy1419, Ashren Va'Hale, Valamir, Bladesinger.

5/27/2003 Amy1419: Zapo/ Their Firearms
I did a search and did not find anything of use and I had replied to another topic but it isn't really about what I would like to know. I…
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Participants: Amy1419, Salamander.

5/28/2003 Slave_Labourer: Sorcerous Grimoire
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone had given any thought to starting up a spell-thread listing all manners of complete RoS writeups for home brewed spells that people had…
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Participants: Slave_Labourer, Salamander, Spartan.

5/28/2003 kenjib: Slings and whirling...
Hello, has there been a discussion on slings yet? I couldn't find one searching. I notice in the rulebook that part of the prep time is getting the sling whirling,…
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Participants: kenjib, Valamir, Eamon Voss, toli, Mike Holmes.

5/29/2003 gmouser: Some questions about fighting
hi all, I have some questions I can't answer reading the book, so here I am again. 1) what's the penalty you apply for fighting with the wrong arm? 2)…
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Participants: gmouser, Spartan, Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Valamir.

5/29/2003 Brian Leybourne: Luck as an SA
This is just something that has been festering at the back of my head for a while, and I'm wondering what you guys think of it. The SA system in…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ashton, cruciel, toli, Clinton R. Nixon, Salamander, Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, ashampine, Bankuei, Valamir, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Prince of Thieves, kenjib, Poenz.

5/30/2003 Waiwode: Non-PC but certainly common.
Torture. We all think it's icky, but whether a Trial by Ordeal or an attempt to gather information from a captive it was fairly common in our time period, so…
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Participants: Waiwode, Brian Leybourne, Nick Pagnucco, Bankuei, Wolfen, Salamander, Jake Norwood.

5/30/2003 Agnar: Questions on TROS and a long story.
Ok, the story first. I've been DM of a D&D 3e game for 2 years (and have been playing for 11 years... damn). My style of roleplaying (having developed in…
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Participants: Agnar, Bankuei, Nick Pagnucco, Eamon Voss, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Jake Norwood, Mayhem1979, Morfedel, SheWolf, Brian Leybourne.

5/31/2003 Ashton: Duels
I apologize in advance if this has been brought up before but: Duels- a formal agreement to do bodily harm between two parties. May be for judicial or social reasons.…
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Participants: Ashton.

5/31/2003 kenjib: Curses as anti-spiritual attributes
I was thinking about curses and a handy mechanic came to mind. Curses could be negative spiritual attributes that are forced upon a character. When you are cursed, you acquire…
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Participants: kenjib, Ashren Va'Hale, Rattlehead, Prince of Thieves, Morfedel, Bankuei.

6/1/2003 wpbarr: Burn Me As A Heretic, but ...
Wouldn't a TROS card game help bring more players into the game and even be helpful as a game tool with regards to running combat?
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Participants: wpbarr, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

6/1/2003 Morfedel: A Halfling of Stahl
I was just thinking... if I made a halfling, that says I have one human parent. Would it be reasonable to say the halfling also gets the advantages of their…
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Participants: Morfedel, Nick Pagnucco.

6/1/2003 kenjib: unlanded noble sorcerer
A sorcerer is race pick B. Unlanded gentry is also pick B. What do I do when a character's concept is unlanded gentry that dabbles in the arts -- the…
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Participants: kenjib, Shreyas Sampat, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Mayhem1979.

6/1/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: weapon grabbing
How would you mechanicallyaccount for grabbing a weapon? right now I treat it as grappling to trap but you are grappling the weapon but maybe there are som better ideas…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Ashton, Jake Norwood, MrGeneHa.

6/3/2003 Morfedel: My RPG Review
Ok, my review is up on RPG.NET. It wasn't overly positive, and in one area I may have been a bit too harsh, but don't flame me, because overall I…
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Participants: Morfedel, Brian Leybourne, Claymore, Noon, prophet118, arxhon.

6/4/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Fiddling About with Stats (long)
First - I don't know if the following is of any interest to anyone else. But I can hope :) I've read about the problems some people have with STR…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, gmouser, Morfedel, Wolfen, Noon.

6/4/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Help: New Game Advice
It's my first TROS game next Sunday. Can anyone offer advice on the best way to introduce the system to the players? I'm planning to get them to design characters…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, ethan_greer, Salamander, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne.

6/4/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: vagary swap
ok, I decided to do a little vagary swap, basically I FOUND IMPRISONMENT TO BE A LITTLE WEAK AD CONQUER UBER SO I DECIDED THAT FOR IMBEDDING SPELLS YOU NEED…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, kenjib, arxhon.

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