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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 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 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.

7/10/2003 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.

7/10/2003 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.

7/9/2003 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.

7/9/2003 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 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.

7/8/2003 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.

7/8/2003 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 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 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 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 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.

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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.

7/13/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: New Methods of Proficiency Increase
Hey, I was going over possible character concepts, and I started thinking about a Gladiator. Everything was sounding good, however that got me to thinking about SA's and proficiency advancement.…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Lxndr, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Morfedel, Lebo77, Valamir, Bankuei, Caz.

7/14/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Modern/Futuristic ROS
What do you all think about the idea of either a modern or futuristic ROS? THe conversions would be pretty simple, and my gaming group and i have done it…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Lebo77, Ashren Va'Hale, Caz, deltadave, Jasper the Mimbo, svenlein, Kaare Berg, Salamander, Brian Leybourne.

7/16/2003 Jason L Blair: TROS-A Diana Jones Award Nominee
http://www.dianajonesaward.com/2003nominees.htm Congratulations, Jake!
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Gary_Bingham, Nick Pagnucco, Morfedel, prophet118, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, deltadave, pete_darby, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead.

7/16/2003 Jake Norwood: And the lucky winners are...
The following people get 1 free copy of OBAM thanks to their having between 1 and three accepted submissions: Lance "Wolfen" Allen Jürgen "Mad Moses" Mayer David "Furious D" May…
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

7/17/2003 Jake Norwood: Of Beasts and Men available for purchase!
Many of you allready know this from another thread, but I thought it deserved it's own thread... Of Beasts and Men, the first official TROS supplement is available for purchase…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Morfedel, Sir Mathodius Black, Lebo77, Draigh, deltadave, Darth Tang, Lxndr, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Salamander, kanseg, Chris Passeno, Michael Tree, LordIvan, Krammer, MonkeyWrench, Jason Kottler, catenwolde, Malechi.

7/17/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Poison
Hey, Are there any rules for Poisons out yet? I didnt see any in the Rulebook, so will there be supplements with pioson rules or have some rules already been…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Salamander, Jake Norwood, Morfedel, Brian Leybourne.

7/17/2003 Chris Passeno: [Seneschal Tips] The paperwork and advice?
I will be starting my first attempt at running TROS this Sunday at my FLGS. It will be our first meeting of a newly assembled group. I believe that I've…
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Participants: Chris Passeno, Jake Norwood, Draigh.

7/17/2003 Jake Norwood: New guy on the Actual Play forum
There's a new guy on the actual play forum asking Riddle quesitons. Somebody go over there and help him out, please. Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

7/18/2003 Draigh: Favorite TRoS art.
I think this might have been done before, but I couldn't find it in the search and there's some more new guys around that might enjoy it. What's your favorite…
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Participants: Draigh, Salamander, Sir Mathodius Black, kenjib, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Ben, prophet118.

7/18/2003 Spof: Hitlocation
At first, i will thank you a lot for creating so a great game-engine. i like the TROS-system very much. at second, please excuse my bad english but i come…
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Participants: Spof, Kaare Berg, Salamander, Jake Norwood, kenjib, Valamir.

7/18/2003 Jake Norwood: OBAM: First Impressions
Okay, so the book is out. Now's the part where Brian and I hold our breath and say "Whaddyathink?" So, what do you think? Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Lebo77, Sir Mathodius Black, Shadeling, Angaros, Brian Leybourne, Darth Tang, Ben Lehman, Valamir, deltadave, Sneaky Git, Brassel, Aaron, Janne Halmetoja, StahlMeister, Overdrive, Tywin Lannister.

7/18/2003 Clint o' the Eastwood: Magical basics?
This may have been covered in this forum already but I havn't found it, and it didnt seem to be covered on their website. Could someone describe the basics of…
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Participants: Clint o' the Eastwood, Sir Mathodius Black, Jake Norwood, Lebo77, kenjib.

7/18/2003 taalyn: multiple combatants
I just can't figure this out - how does stance and initiative work if you have several people involved? For example, if Bob hits Carl, and Doug hits Bob, and…
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Participants: taalyn, Jake Norwood.

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