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6/27/2003 DaGreatJL: Dormant Spells
First off, wonderful game, I love it. Now, I was wondering about the use of Dormant spells. First of all, how long to they take to 'release'? Is it the…
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Participants: DaGreatJL, Mayhem1979.

6/27/2003 lemmiwinks: Stopping short?
It sais the defender's TN is 7 plus the number of dice the attacker spent using the maneuver. What's to stop the attacker from using 3+ dice raising the TN…
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Participants: lemmiwinks, DaGreatJL, Ben Lehman.

6/27/2003 Jason Kottler: Drinking in The Riddle of Steel
Last night was a great session. For the first time, the PCs actually entered a tavern. One of the PCs was unhappy. She'd just killed someone, and for the first…
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Participants: Jason Kottler, Bankuei.

6/27/2003 Malechi: First TROS "Session" - Actual Play and Comments
Hey there guys, Just thought I'd reflect on my first session of TROS the other day. It was more of an introduction to the game for two of my prospective…
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Participants: Malechi, Overdrive, Morfedel, prophet118.

6/27/2003 lemmiwinks: Shield bash?
As I passed over the combat section I failed to notice any manuevers regarding a shield bash or push. Are there any rules that I missed that regard this issue?
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Participants: lemmiwinks, Malechi, Salamander.

6/26/2003 Salamander: Hey Jake! Good Luck!!!
Just a thread to wish Jake good luck. He is playing for a very important prize this weekend! So how's a bout we cheer him on?
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Participants: Salamander, Wolfen, Claymore, Spartan, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Nick Pagnucco, Morfedel, arxhon, kenjib, Eamon Voss.

6/25/2003 lemmiwinks: Geralt v. Stefan
Forgot to mention, this is main book's combat example in the combat section. In the opening encounter Geralt performs a duck and weave succesfully, which the Seneschal sais takes away…
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Participants: lemmiwinks, Overdrive, Spartan.

6/24/2003 Morfedel: Ars Magica, the TRoS way....
Just to let you know, I've finished a rough draft of a conversion of the Ars Magica magic system to The Riddle of Steel. The mechanics will be quite similar…
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Participants: Morfedel, Eamon Voss, Robert K Beckett, Durgil, Paka, prophet118, tauman, Mainboard, grot, Marc Hameleers, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Darcy Burgess, lemmiwinks, Charles Smith, Malechi, jeff_vandenberg, Rausch.

6/24/2003 Ashton: New proficiency
So there's sword and shield, there's rapier (covering also rapier and cloak, rapier and dagger, rapier and arming glove, and probably rapier and bar wench and rapier and chicken as…
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Participants: Ashton, tauman, Salamander.

6/22/2003 Claymore: The riddle of steel with Burning Wheel
I've make a post over on the Burning Wheel forum about adapting the Riddle of Steel combat and spiritual attribute mechanics to the Burning Wheel RPG. Anyone who has both…
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Participants: Claymore, Durgil, Jake Norwood, abzu, Bracken.

6/20/2003 Ben Morgan: Riddle of the Five Rings?
Okay, I did a search, but I couldn't find anything about the possibility of a Legend of the Five Rings to Riddle of Steel conversion. I thought it had been…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Paka, Jake Norwood, Claymore, Waiwode, Marc Hameleers.

6/20/2003 zeke023: Any Swordsman on this list? SCA? etc?
I started doing SCA heavy weapons combat about a year ago. One of the reasons I was so impressed with TROS was the real research that they did into actual…
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Participants: zeke023, Salamander, Wolfen, Bankuei, Eamon Voss, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Ashton, Thorbrin, Krammer.

6/20/2003 Morfedel: Plateaus: The Taveruun/Otamarluk/Savarastra Border
Ok, perhaps this is a stupid question, but.... It says that there is a plateau protecting Savarastra from Otamarluk (which doesn't matter, as they are paying Otamarluk tribute anyway); I'm…
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Participants: Morfedel, Poenz, Mike Holmes, Gary_Bingham.

6/17/2003 adamsmith: Problem with TROS character generator
I apologise if this has been covered elsewhere, but: the character generator appears to have a glitch whereby it gives 2 free points in each attribute that aren't counted towards…
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Participants: adamsmith, demiurgeastaroth, Brian Leybourne.

6/17/2003 Morfedel: I am Necron, master of the undead!
Except I don't know how to create them. :) In the book, it talks about how sorcerers summon demons, etc. How do they create undead though? Zombies, things like that?
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Participants: Morfedel, Mayhem1979, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne.

6/17/2003 Morfedel: Weapon Defaults, the character generator, etc
Ok... I've been fooling around with the Character generator, and now i'm confused on something. IF I, say, raise Sword and shield, eventually it will trigger the default on mass…
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Participants: Morfedel, demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne.

6/17/2003 Durgil: Does Size Matter?
I've been working at putting together a Middle-earth campaign using my favorite rule system, TRoS, for some time now. A while back I picked up a copy of Decipher's LotR…
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Participants: Durgil, Nick Pagnucco, demiurgeastaroth, Draigh, Mike Holmes, ruusu, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

6/17/2003 Tuomo Aimonen: Which proficiency?
Why is there no proficiency for fighting with spear and shield? Should one just use the Sword & Shileld without the Cut offensive maneuver? Tuomo
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Participants: Tuomo Aimonen, Mayhem1979, toli, Jake Norwood, Gary_Bingham, zeke023, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, prophet118, Anthony I, Bomilkar, Mokkurkalfe, Salamander.

6/17/2003 adamsmith: Newbie battleaxe question
One of my players (we're just starting up a new game) wanted to have a battleaxe. Is this the same as a poleaxe, or is the battleaxe a 'made up'…
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Participants: adamsmith, Durgil, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, Salamander, Wolfen, Ashton, prophet118, Mike Holmes, Malechi.

6/17/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Gaining Reach
The rulebook says that you gain the Reach advantage if you score a "damaging" hit on your opponent. Does this mean you have to penetrate armour, or just score a…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Durgil, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco.

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6/29/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Hey Everyone!
Hey all, I just registered here so you have one more ROS player among your ranks now. Ive been playing ROS since the demo versions and since it came out…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Spartan, Nick Pagnucco, arxhon.

6/29/2003 lemmiwinks: Feinting
In the errata it says extra cost for Feint doesn't make sense. Rapiers supposedly have a cost of 1, and other weapon choices have a VARIABLE. In the description it…
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Participants: lemmiwinks, Overdrive, Wolfen, MrGeneHa, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Durgil.

7/2/2003 Malechi: Katanapunk! ...blood, honour, steel...attitude!(LONG)
Last night I kicked off an idea that has been stewing around in my head since I first saw TROS. Based off the Blade of the Immortal manga series, Kurosawa…
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Participants: Malechi, Wolfen, Valamir, Jake Norwood, 6inTruder, Mike Holmes, Paka, cruciel, Ben Lehman, Thorsten, Waiwode, Vanguard.

7/3/2003 Jake Norwood: New web page look
The first few pages of the new official TROS web page are up. So far I've updated the Market page and the home/news page. The content is mostly the same,…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashton, ethan_greer, deltadave, Wolfen, Bracken, Jason Kottler, Nick Pagnucco.

7/3/2003 Lebo77: Combat sim Question
Just wondering why plate armor is giveing Max Steele a 14 chest armor. I thought the right number was 6. Or am I reaing the rules wrong somewhere?
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Participants: Lebo77, Ashton.

7/3/2003 Ben Lehman: Anyone know Chinese weaponry?
Hey-- I'm working on a pet setting for Riddle of Steel, which heavily features a China analouge. And I have realized that my knowledge of Chinese weapons and fighting tactics…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Paganini, MrGeneHa, Eamon Voss, Morfedel, Bankuei, abzu.

7/6/2003 Michael Tree: Fading Suns Energy Shields
I'm going to try running a Fading Suns game with the tRoS rules soon. Most of the conversion is pretty easy, a matter of creating new skills, improvising new skill…
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Participants: Michael Tree, Wolfen, Salamander.

7/6/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Map Q's
Hey, First off, i was wondering if a legend will ever come out for the Weyrth Map, im having some trouble making out where certain boundries are and such. I…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

7/7/2003 Lebo77: SA "completed"
Maybe I may have missed this, but wht happens when you SATISFY one of your SA? When your swashbuckling Cut&Thruster, Mr. Montoya actualy tracks down the six-fingered man and runs…
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Participants: Lebo77, Morfedel, Ron Edwards, Wolfen.

7/8/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: The Riddle
I know this question has probably been asked to death around here, but ill ask it anyway since i didnt find it on Brians links to previous descussions. This is…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Draigh, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, kenjib, Kaare Berg, Morfedel, Rick.

7/8/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Fan Fiction
Just a thought Jake, but what do you think about the idea of possibly putting a section on to the site sometime dedicated to fan fiction, where people could submit…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

7/8/2003 Lebo77: Half-swording and chain mail
OK, half-swording give you a +3 damage against hard armors, right?Chain-mail gives you 4 points of armor right? (Effectively reduceing the armor to a 1) Now leather (not hard) gives…
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Participants: Lebo77, Mike Holmes, Morfedel, Ashton, Jake Norwood, spunky, Caz, Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Salamander, Draigh.

7/8/2003 Jake Norwood: What haven't we talked about?
What haven't we talked about from the game lately? There's a lot of stuff, but I wonder what we haven't covered recently. Ideas? Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Sir Mathodius Black, Eamon Voss, Bankuei, Jasper the Mimbo, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Caz, Kaare Berg, Blake Hutchins, Brian Leybourne.

7/8/2003 deltadave: Open gamimg and TRoS
Jake, Has Driftwood considered putting out TRoS as open gaming content? A system reference document would be pretty cool and allow the rest of us to develop RoS based content…
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Participants: deltadave, Lxndr, Jake Norwood.

7/8/2003 spunky: All Hail TROS
One great thing about TROS is how it has benefited my OTHER RPGs. Just running a few combats educates players who previously knew little about "real" combat, and had previously…
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Participants: spunky, Sir Mathodius Black, Mike Holmes, Spartan, Jasper the Mimbo.

7/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: stuck on the xanarium empire mini supp
Hey all, I posted a while back (a long time back.. I have been away for a while) that I was working on a mini supp for teh empire and…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Lebo77, Nick Pagnucco.

7/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a useful tool
I just bought hans talhoffers manual off of amazon used for dirt cheap and I was planning on using it to study great sword and rondel while away from the…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

7/9/2003 svenlein: Terrain rolls
What Terrain roll have you given players? What was the difficulty / activation cost / did they need more than one success? I am looking for guidelines on what difficulty…
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Participants: svenlein, Ashren Va'Hale, Ashton, Morfedel, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, HMT, Mike Holmes.

7/9/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Problem with the Char Gen Installation
Hey, I dont know if this has been covered yet in another topic, but when I try to install the Character Generator, it asks me to put in Install Disk…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Brian Leybourne.

7/9/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Elves
I was wondering why elves start with only 4 SA's to begin with. It doesnt make much sense to me, and i would even argue that because of their age…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Wolfen, spunky, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Morfedel, Jasper the Mimbo, Irmo.

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