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9/3/2003 Church13: TROS: GLADIATORS
a few friends and I are creating some rules, tactics and things on a "Gladiator Arena" type of a thing. Im wondering how many of you out there like the…
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Participants: Church13, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, JESTER, Krammer, Swordmagnet.

9/3/2003 MonkeyWrench: I had an idea: Mass Combat (long!)
I was sitting here wishing TFOB was out already and decided to come up with my own mass combat rules. Seeing as how I have no idea how this sort…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench.

9/3/2003 Church13: Submit NEW WEAPONS!!! anyone?
anyone have some sweet weapons or just ANY weapon for that matter that is not in the CoreRuleBook? stats, name, description please? Thx
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Participants: Church13, MonkeyWrench, Draigh, Swordmagnet, Waiwode, Rico, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Jaeger, Salamander, Ville, Krammer.

9/2/2003 MonkeyWrench: TROS demo in Austin, Texas
In little over a month I'll be running a demo for one of my LGS. I'd like to hear from other people who've ran demos before as this will be…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Theron, casinormal.

9/2/2003 Ville: Simplified Initiative (split)
So any luck with simplified rules for buying initiative? To me it seems to ruin the fast combat so I'd like any alternative ways to handle the situation and comments…
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Participants: Ville, Brian Leybourne.

9/2/2003 Theron: Newbie Armor Questions
(If this has been addressed before in a thread, a pointer would be sufficient.) I've been poring over the rules for the last few days and playing a bit with…
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Participants: Theron, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Swordmagnet, Salamander.

9/2/2003 Brian Leybourne: Forum Rules / Guidelines
[b]Welcome to the Riddle of Steel Forge Forum [/b] This forum is maintained by Driftwood Publishing for the discussion of their game The Riddle of Steel, and other associated Driftwood…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne.

9/2/2003 Brian Leybourne: SA Madness
I'm starting a new TROS campaign shortly. I've been having SA thoughts and am interested in everyone's thoughts. By the way - none of this is in any way official,…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Draigh.

9/1/2003 Ville: Mail order problems
I really would like to order OBAM but the PayPal service keeps bouncing me around... They want me to call their customer service (yeah right, like I'm gonna call internationally…
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Participants: Ville, Brian Leybourne, Draigh, 6inTruder.

9/1/2003 Swordmagnet: How to do Woad
I was thinking about Weyrth's Celtic influences today and started to think about how I would do Woad. To the unenlightened; Woad is the body painting/tatooing that is supposed to…
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Participants: Swordmagnet, MonkeyWrench, Richard_Strey, Rattlehead.

8/31/2003 baumi: Pole-Axe?
HiHo! Just a short question: In the description of the Pole-Axe it is written that it has techniques similar to "half-swording". Does it mean that you can reduce the range…
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Participants: baumi, MonkeyWrench, Ashren Va'Hale, Swordmagnet.

8/30/2003 MonkeyWrench: Going down in flames
My current group bit the dust last night. It's been coming for a long time now but last night was the last night we'll probably play as a group. Oh…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Draigh, Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Swordmagnet, Bankuei, Spartan, Territan.

8/28/2003 Morfedel: Magic Items Revisited
I see that this is the first post since april, so this is a very old thread I'm responding to, heh, but I had an idea, especially in regards to…
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Participants: Morfedel, Brian Leybourne.

8/28/2003 Snikwas: TROS game in London?
A big hello to all of you. I'm new to this forum and The Riddle of Steel game and am looking for a game. I live in North London in…
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Participants: Snikwas, Brian Leybourne, Dan Sellars, Pytorb, Camillus, kiwinick_in_london, Abbs.

8/28/2003 MonkeyWrench: New derived attribute: True Faith?
Here in a few weeks I'm going to be running a RoS game using Planescape as a setting. I want to include priestly "magic" seeing as how it feels right…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, BirdMan, Swordmagnet, Dan Sellars, Rico.

8/28/2003 Dan Sellars: Combat pools
Hello, I was just wondering how often SA's are used to boost CP's in your games? I our game one, encounter may perhaps have one person using SA's to boost…
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Participants: Dan Sellars, MonkeyWrench, Overdrive, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

8/27/2003 Harlequin: System Mod: the 'Press'
Heyo... I posted awhile back about a campaign I was planning, which would use TROS as the engine for a Seventh Sea setting. It's been proceeding quite satisfactorily so far,…
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Participants: Harlequin, Caz, Mike Holmes, spunky, Snikwas, kenjib.

8/26/2003 Nero's Boot: A question about TROS' art
Why is it that art in TROS has to fall prey to the standard ploy of using half-naked women? Why oh why oh why did Mr. Norwood decide that including…
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Participants: Nero's Boot, Valamir, Pvt Kastro, toli, Dan Sellars, Bankuei, Tywin Lannister, Draigh, Rattlehead, Ben, Stephen, Brian Leybourne, mrgrimm, MonkeyWrench.

8/26/2003 MonkeyWrench: Opponents with more than 2 arms
How would you handle an opponent with more than 2 arms, say like your classic 6 armed demoness? They would obviously be deadly in combat. Would they need to make…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, kenjib, Brian Leybourne, Nero's Boot, Valamir, Swordmagnet, Durgil, Draigh, Jeph.

8/25/2003 Charles Smith: First game in San Diego- some Q's
Guys~ I finally found a group to play TROS with here in San Diego and am looking forward to playing for a while. We met yesterday and did a few…
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Participants: Charles Smith, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Spartan.

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9/3/2003 Stephen: A suggestion for Taunting....
We all know in real life that trying to get someone really mad works much better if you know what their weaknesses are and can capitalize on them. So here's…
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Participants: Stephen, Mike Holmes.

9/4/2003 kenjib: Thoughts and an example of high toughness...
There has been ample discussion of toughness in the past. I just read something in Stephen Pressfield's great book Gates of Fire though, that brought this topic to mind: "'I…
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Participants: kenjib, Caz, Pvt Kastro, Mike Holmes.

9/4/2003 Brian Leybourne: Forum Directory (useful for Newbies)
[b]Hi! Welcome to the Riddle of Steel forum.[/b] Below you will find links to some past topic threads that you might find interesting to read through if you have any…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, MonkeyWrench.

9/5/2003 Brian Leybourne: OBAM Second Printing
We've suffered a few delays with the printers etc, but I'm happy to announce that I have recived notification that the second printing of OBAM has shipped from the printer…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, 6inTruder, Janne Halmetoja, kanseg, Snikwas, MonkeyWrench, Jake Norwood, Spartan, Claymore, kenjib, Valamir, Salamander, AnyaTheBlue.

9/5/2003 Raymond Caleatry: Magic System Conversion
As I have said in an earlier thread, i am trying to convert TROS for use with a more heroic setting. This setting is "Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time". As…
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Participants: Raymond Caleatry, Brian Leybourne, MonkeyWrench.

9/6/2003 kenjib: Question about OBAM errata
Hi there, the OBAM errata posted on the site looks like it's for the second printing. Will there be any list of the errata made for the first printing that…
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Participants: kenjib, Brian Leybourne.

9/6/2003 Amy1419: Sorcery-Changing things using scultpure
My friend wants to make a rock dwarf who makes swords with a combination of his craft skills and his sorcery. He wants to use Scultpture3 and Vision 3 with…
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Participants: Amy1419, MonkeyWrench, Salamander, Draigh, Camillus, Church13, Captain Bizarre, Rico, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Rick.

9/8/2003 Camillus: The Riddle of the Sands
I know that using TRoS to run games in the Dune universe has come up a few times. I was just wondering if anyone had got anywhere with an adaptation?…
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Participants: Camillus, lemmiwinks, prophet118, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne, Snikwas.

9/8/2003 kenjib: Suggestions for TROS play-by-post or email?
Can anyone recommend a place to find a TROS game via play-by-post or email? Thanks in advance!
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Participants: kenjib, Enoch, mrgrimm.

9/9/2003 Kad Aradan: Riddle of Steel artist with some New Stuff.
Hello all. I was a contributing artist and writer in the TRoS handbook. I have been working hard over the past year and wanted to let Jake and others know…
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Participants: Kad Aradan, Brian Leybourne.

9/10/2003 Bloodstryke: The Riddle of Kushiel (long)
This isn't exactly my first post, but it is my first topic here at the Forge. (I've been lurking for a while) I got my book about a week ago,…
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Participants: Bloodstryke, toli, casinormal, Brian Leybourne, kenjib, Stephen.

9/11/2003 Amy1419: Blindness
I was looking at amputee and saw the effects that happen when missing a leg, arm, hand, etc.. But what about a blind character or rather a character that has…
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Participants: Amy1419, Brian Leybourne, Shadeling, Caz, Raymond Caleatry, Lxndr, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Pvt Kastro, Swordmagnet.

9/11/2003 Bloodstryke: Social Combat Redeux
Upon reading this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5276 I decided that I just have to ask? Why wasn't this continued? I think it would have made a great mini-supplement. Imagine, social interaction as…
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Participants: Bloodstryke, Lxndr, Aaron, Swordmagnet, Dan Sellars, Drew Stevens.

9/11/2003 Bloodstryke: Easter Eggs
So, who has found all of the Easter eggs in Brian's wonderful Character Generator? I've found all of them I think, but I want to be sure. To anyone who…
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Participants: Bloodstryke, Richard_Strey, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, Salamander.

9/13/2003 ULO: Toughness question
What if instead of toughness acting like armor it reduced the shock and pain of a wound but left the bleeding and damaging effects? Sorry if its already been talked…
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Participants: ULO, Ashren Va'Hale, MonkeyWrench, Brian Leybourne, Pvt Kastro, Durgil, Jaeger, Rico, Spartan, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, toli, Dan Sellars, Mike Holmes, Ville.

9/14/2003 Raymond Caleatry: Wheel of time Magic System conversion (This is long)
Finally i have finished typing up the first draft of the magic system, just so you guys can question it to pieces. Please rip it to shreds, the more problems…
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Participants: Raymond Caleatry, Sneaky Git.

9/14/2003 Irmo: Demo one-shot
If you intend to participate at the TROS game at RPG.net's Dutch Tangency Meeting, this is where you stop reading...... If not, I'd like to ask for comments and additional…
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Participants: Irmo, Mike Holmes, Valamir, MonkeyWrench.

9/16/2003 Brian Leybourne: Kali and Sinbad.
I watched The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad the other day. Man, that had me itching to do a Sinbad themed TROS game. The cool…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, kenjib.

9/17/2003 StahlMeister: Suggestions for new races stats
Hi! First I wanna say, that TROS is the best RPG I've played since 17 years!!!! But I want the (real) Halflings to be played by my group, gnomes, Orcs…
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Participants: StahlMeister, Raymond Caleatry, Brian Leybourne, kenjib, MonkeyWrench.

9/17/2003 zeke023: The Research Skill
I can't believe that this hasn't come up before, but I have yet to find it in another thread - if this has already been answered, if you could point…
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Participants: zeke023, Jason Kottler, Brian Leybourne, MonkeyWrench.

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