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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.

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.

5/30/2003 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.

5/30/2003 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.

5/29/2003 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.

5/29/2003 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.

5/28/2003 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.

5/28/2003 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.

5/27/2003 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.

5/27/2003 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.

5/26/2003 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.

5/25/2003 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.

5/25/2003 Jaeger: What Character are you Playing?????
What charactor are you currently playing? I'll start, my PC: made with insight , extra A,A,B, priorities. Alejandro de la Spada, He's a cross between Don Diego de la Vega…
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Participants: Jaeger, Mayhem1979, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, [FHE]dave.

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.

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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.

6/5/2003 Brian Leybourne: So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehn, adieu...
I'm off to travel through Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for six weeks. No talking while I'm gone. I want all conversation to halt until I'm ready to start reading again.…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Spartan, Brassel, Salamander, Poenz, arxhon, Morfedel, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Nick Pagnucco.

6/5/2003 Darth Tang: Its June, and time to ask about OBAM again....
So, one week into June, how long until we see a pdf and hard-copy versions of OBAM? I'm eager to get my campaign started, but I'm hesitant to start without…
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Participants: Darth Tang, Furious D, Jake Norwood, Salamander, toli, deltadave, Poenz, Bogie_71, kenjib, Amy1419, Mainboard, Brian Leybourne.

6/5/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Give me your SAs!
As a new GM, I don't feel I have a handle on SAs yet - what sort of scope or flavour they should have, that kind of thing. One thing…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Overdrive, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, kenjib, arxhon, Agnar, Bob McNamee, Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Ashton, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Tywin Lannister, Spartan, Bomilkar.

6/5/2003 Morfedel: Altnernate Vagary Schemes
While the basic magic system of TRoS is pretty awesome, its not QUITE how I see magic. For me, I'm one of two minds: on the one hand, I see…
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Participants: Morfedel, kenjib, arxhon, prophet118, spunky, demiurgeastaroth.

6/5/2003 arxhon: TRoS Chargen
[quote="Wolfen"]Also, someone (don't remember who, off the top of my head) has a write-up which does a really good job of simplifying character creation, or so most say; I've not…
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Participants: arxhon.

6/6/2003 Malechi: Movement during Combat
Hey there, I just got my book yesterday and I have a quick question regarding movement during combat. I realise this was mentioned here --] http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=3415&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=movement but it didn't answer…
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Participants: Malechi, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Wolfen.

6/6/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Defaults and SA expenditure
Say you have Sword and Shield proficiency at 7, and choose to increase Greatsword which defaults to S&S at -2. So for 5 SA points, you now have Greatsword 6.…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, toli, arxhon, kenjib.

6/6/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Does anyone know the fonts on rossheet_form.pdf?
Does anyone know what the fonts are on the "rossheet_form.pdf" file from the website, and if freeware - where I can get them?
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Poenz.

6/6/2003 Wolfen: Destiny and other SAs in play
New topic derived from the discussion of SAs here It also depends on what you mean by "king". It could turn out he's destined to become king of a group…
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Participants: Wolfen, demiurgeastaroth, Spartan, Morfedel, Jake Norwood.

6/7/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Half-sword questions
Under the half-sword manoeuvre, it says: damage is Thrust +3 v armour, ATN 5 and DTN 6. The Estoc is listed as having a length of half-sword: does the damage…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Alan.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: First Session Experience
Well, we played our intro session today. I took the caravan idea and changed it to: The King of Gelure has just declared himself emperor and attacked Ouestenreich. The players…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: First Session Experience
Well, we played our intro session today. I took the caravan idea and changed it to: The King of Gelure has just declared himself emperor and attacked Ouestenreich. The players…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Morfedel, prophet118.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Use Terrain
When facing more than one opponent and having to deal with slippery/troublesome terrain, do you treat these as separate tasks (allocate CP to both, separately), or do you make just…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Valamir.

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