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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 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 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.

7/7/2003 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.

7/6/2003 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.

7/6/2003 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.

7/3/2003 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.

7/3/2003 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 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.

7/2/2003 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.

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.

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 Jaeger: Riddle of Steel Players wanted
I'm moving back to Hayward Califonia (Bay Area)this week from Orem Utah and I'm looking for 3-4 players for The Riddle of Steel... I'll Gm the first campaign but if…
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Participants: Jaeger, Mayhem1979, Morfedel, Wolfen, Lxndr, prophet118.

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.

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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.

7/10/2003 Ben Lehman: Additional Race Priorities -- Exemplars
Edit: ***I have merged this thread into Mike's "empty slots" thread*** Please do NOT reply here. When working out race priorities for my China setting, I stumbled upon an interesting…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

7/10/2003 Mike Holmes: Empty Slots
In response to a question about what could fill the racial pref list holes...And I, for one, would LOVE to see those two gaping holes filled. They just bug…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Nick Pagnucco, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

7/11/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Kudara
Hey, Im not sure if there has been a previous post on Kudara, the country/territory south of Tzaul and east of Otamarluk with no description in the book, but have…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

7/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a sad moment in role playing
ok, so im in the campaign as I type this and the company hired a kick ass sell sword with a death wish and a cp of 22 so we…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: playing with major blood lust flaw
I just found out how fun it is to play a character looking for a fight....I have a guy who is seeking revenge against all gelureans and the church of…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Sir Mathodius Black, Ron Edwards.

7/11/2003 Caz: Mordschlag stats
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I made it up after running a few fights in full plate armour in the game. I don't see how…
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Participants: Caz, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Wolfen.

7/11/2003 Caz: Jousting
How do you guys run jousting? The tournament kind. Considering all things equal. Same length lances, both guys of course are attacking at once, giving little or no thought to…
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Participants: Caz, Jake Norwood.

7/12/2003 Ben Lehman: Homebrew Setting (long)
You (by which I mean Mike) asked for it. Please note that this is in the very early design phases. Props go out to John Major's excellent and sadly out…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

7/12/2003 Lxndr: Silly Question
On p. 102, the sorcery pool "FORM" is calculated as "(WT + PER)/2". Now, there's "Wit" (abbreviated Wit) and "Willpower" (abbreviated WP) but there's no "WT" that I've found used…
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Participants: Lxndr, Jake Norwood.

7/12/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Passion Switches
Hey all, what do you think about the idea of instant switches of one passion to another, more specifically along the lines of love to hate. Heres an example: Jehereth's…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Caz, Bankuei, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

7/12/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Art
Hey all, Im looking for sites that have some good fantasy art. Ive already cheked elfwood and i dont like it too much. Some ones ive already looked at and…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, J. Backman.

7/12/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Half-Fey
Just wondering why non-magical half-fey are priority C and magical are priority B. Their bonuses, even with the extended lifespan dont seem to warrent priotity C IMO. I think priority…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Salamander, Jake Norwood.

7/12/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Gift/Flaw List
Hey, I was skimming through the post with links to previously discussed topics and came accross the one about gifts and flaws. Somewhere in that thread the idea of having…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Mokkurkalfe.

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