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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.

9/11/2003 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.

9/11/2003 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 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.

9/10/2003 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.

9/9/2003 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.

9/8/2003 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.

9/8/2003 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.

9/6/2003 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.

9/6/2003 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.

9/5/2003 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.

9/5/2003 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.

9/4/2003 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.

9/4/2003 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.

9/3/2003 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.

9/3/2003 Raymond Caleatry: Dueling, Skirmishes, and battles, it can take to long!
I am currently adapting TROS for a more heroic setting, which may contain more combat than I have seen in TROS during my usual sessions. I find that for small…
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Participants: Raymond Caleatry, MonkeyWrench, Mike Holmes, Valamir, spunky, Brian Leybourne.

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.

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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.

9/17/2003 Jason Kottler: Maximum Proficiency?
Hello, everyone, I hope you are all well. My question is simple, so I hope it doesn't mean that I am, too, but I can't find an answer in my…
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Participants: Jason Kottler, Shadeling, Mokkurkalfe, Salamander, Ashren Va'Hale, Durgil, Draigh.

9/18/2003 prophet118: The Riddle of the Dark Sun
ok guys, dont shoot me, i know i said id get them sooner, but i just finally got finished moving into my new house, and finally got to the point…
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Participants: prophet118, Brian Leybourne, MonkeyWrench.

9/18/2003 Richard_Strey: Double Actions
Hi, I've tried to look this up in the forum, but to no avail. I remember Jake once saying that he allowed "double actions" in his fights. Pretty much like…
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Participants: Richard_Strey, Brian Leybourne, GreatWolf, MonkeyWrench, Valamir, Salamander.

9/18/2003 Irmo: A weird thought I just had....
I dunno if someone speculated on this before: So....the Fey age when they use magic. The Fey diminish in number, few are born, and many of those that are die.…
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Participants: Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git.

9/19/2003 MonkeyWrench: A quick semi off topic question
Does anyone know where I can find cheap R E Howard Conan stories? I've heard them mentioned on the boards before and if I remember correctly they are mentioned in…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Snikwas, kenjib.

9/19/2003 Dan Sellars: Historical fencing
I'm sorry that this is a bit off topic so I'll try and keep it short. From looking around this forum it seems that a number of you (from different…
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Participants: Dan Sellars, Irmo, Raymond Caleatry, Salamander, Camillus.

9/19/2003 coryblack_666: Initiative
Ok, perhapse a dumb question, just something i was having some trouble enterperting. On page 74 of TROS it says when two people attack at the same time. There is…
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Participants: coryblack_666, Brian Leybourne, Spartan.

9/21/2003 kanseg: Using TROS as a training aid for the study of Combative Art?
I was just wondering if anyone else has considered using TROS as an aid to their studies of Martial Arts (Eastern or Western - I'm not biased, guys!). If you…
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Participants: kanseg, Camillus, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Spartan.

9/22/2003 Brian Leybourne: Heh
You know, TROS never fails to surprise me and make me say "cool". Started a new campaign last night, and used the old "you're guarding a caravan... oops, here comes…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

9/23/2003 The big blue ape: Armor
My character currently has some armor made from dragon scales, what would be a good armor value for it?
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Participants: The big blue ape, Swordmagnet, Brian Leybourne, Caz, StahlMeister, MonkeyWrench, Mike Holmes, Krammer.

9/25/2003 Ville: More movement questions
How have you guys handled combat movement? I have read the previous threads. What I was wondering is the following: It is one crucial tactic in self defense (armed and…
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Participants: Ville, Richard_Strey, Durgil, Salamander, Mike Holmes.

9/27/2003 chade0: which one to choose: the red or the white die?
Hello all. I bought TROS some days ago and I'd like to hear some good tactics in choosing whether to throw a red or a white die in the beginning…
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Participants: chade0, MonkeyWrench, Ashren Va'Hale, Jaeger, Salamander, Ron Edwards, Draigh.

9/28/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a mean combo
tonight my character pulled a great move in a series of fights. In the first he pulled a great defensive duck and weave after rolling for both acrobatics and body…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

9/28/2003 Thierry Michel: Historical RoS
Just found the RoS book in a Parisian game shop, and I'm wondering what experience people have with adaptating TRoS to historical settings (I'm looking for a system to do…
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Participants: Thierry Michel, MonkeyWrench, Salamander, Spartan, ZenDog.

9/28/2003 Tywin Lannister: Question about a combat situation
Two characters engage in combat. Both have red dice, and were in an aggressive stance. A uses Feint-Thrust. B uses Counter. What happens?!?
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Participants: Tywin Lannister, Salamander, Draigh, Richard_Strey, Overdrive, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Valamir.

9/28/2003 chade0: about aiming at unarmored parts of body
Hello, I fought a test duel with two equal knights. Both were wearing a helmet and a full chain suit which covers all zones excepts head and lower legs. Both…
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Participants: chade0, Salamander, Caz, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, Valamir, Snikwas, MonkeyWrench, Jaeger, Richard_Strey, Ashren Va'Hale, Jasper, -Akora-, Camillus, Ville, Overdrive.

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