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12/7/2003 Ingenious: Drug-cartels anyone?
Okay, here's the low-down on what I want my character's future to be. He's currently, and forever will be most likely... and opium addict. So, he's already gotten people to…
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Participants: Ingenious, Camillus, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Paka, Draigh, Ian.Plumb, Anthony I, ZazielsRephaim.

12/7/2003 ZazielsRephaim: NPC idea Duran Fehin, (minor spoiler for my players)
Ok, not a major spoiler, they have almost all of it figured out. But there are a few details they might have missed. Duran Fehin, a gifted Fey, and a…
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Participants: ZazielsRephaim, Krammer.

12/7/2003 Wolfen: Advice and commentary
Advice: Do not, do NOT go red-red with a Walking Dead, then attack with a thrust. Thrusts do nothing to Walking Dead (with the possible exception of pinning them to…
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Participants: Wolfen, Salamander, Ingenious, ZazielsRephaim, Camillus, Krammer, Brian Leybourne, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Caz, Draigh, Jasper, Valamir, Mike Holmes, MassMartyr.

12/7/2003 Rico: Sorcery Concept
Here is another conceptual question rather than a rule question: When casting a spell do you first think about what your going to do and then release the spell and…
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Participants: Rico, Jasper the Mimbo, Ingenious, Paka, Jake Norwood, Krammer.

12/7/2003 Rico: Combat Concept
I have a petty little question with combat that wouldn't really affect the gameplay but It would answer a lot of questions. When a character uses all their dice it's…
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Participants: Rico, Jasper the Mimbo, Salamander.

12/6/2003 Ian.Plumb: Manoeuver Declarations during Combat
Hi, I am unfamiliar with TRoS and I am trying to gain an understanding of the combat sequence and the design philosophy behind it. I've been playing with the combat…
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Participants: Ian.Plumb, Draigh, Ingenious, Ashren Va'Hale, Anthony I, Salamander, Jake Norwood, StahlMeister, Wolfen, The Flashing Blade, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, Ben Lehman, Camillus, Caz, Bastoche, Ian Charvill.

12/6/2003 chade0: Carrying and drawing long swords
How were long swords (long sword, great sword, bastard sword, doppelhander) carried? Were they in your back? If yes, how could they be drawn (since they're so long)? And was…
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Participants: chade0, ZazielsRephaim, Brian Leybourne, Anthony I, Salamander, Ingenious, Mike Holmes, Richard_Strey, Wolfen.

12/6/2003 chade0: Dodging missile fire
If you are aware of an archer that is just about to shoot you, can you both move erratically (-3mp) and throw REF/tn4 to dodge the arrow. And while engaged…
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Participants: chade0, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Jake Norwood.

12/6/2003 chade0: bigger/smaller targets
What modifiers do you people use in missile combat when trying to hit smaller/bigger targets? F.ex. How difficult is it to hit an apple with a throwing knife? chade
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Participants: chade0, StahlMeister, Ingenious.

12/5/2003 Paka: A Different Aging Effect
In a Fae game, aging becomes a big deal, chipping away at their immortality. It is a cup out of the pool of eternity. Its a big honkin' deal, man.…
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Participants: Paka, Jasper the Mimbo, Jake Norwood, Krammer, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Vanguard, Ingenious, Ian.Plumb, kenjib, Ben Lehman, Caz, Mike Holmes, Stephen.

12/5/2003 ZazielsRephaim: Recap Part II or (I hope my memory is good)
Where did I leave off, (and this time I will try to include more details on uses of SA's and such)? So they took the detailed shipping info to the…
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Participants: ZazielsRephaim.

12/5/2003 Krammer: The Other Side Of Weyrth
Some time ago (about 9 months), some friends and I decided to design another part of weyrth, just for fun. I was wondering if anybody else has attempted anything similar.
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Participants: Krammer, Ingenious, Caz, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Brian Leybourne.

12/4/2003 Ingenious: Nautical stuff.
Okay, lacking in any area of knowledge about nautical stuff if Wyerth, I need some insight into the ships of this realm. How fast do they go, how much cargo…
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Participants: Ingenious, Brian Leybourne, kenjib, contracycle, Paka, Mike Holmes.

12/4/2003 Krammer: Gotta love the Hef
Recently, someone in my gaming group made a character that was a Hef.... He argued that hem could use it because it was part Gol, which are partially civilized. The…
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Participants: Krammer, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Rico, toli, Ben, Paganini, Mike Holmes.

12/4/2003 Krammer: stats for weapons
The stats for these weapons may have been posted somewhere before, but I cant find them. My first question is on the stats for a Katana. What would they be?…
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Participants: Krammer, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, Ben Lehman, Rico.

12/4/2003 ULO: Archery round time question
If I have a WIT of 6 and MP of 12 and pull an arow from the ground for 0 rds then knock and draw for 2 rds, do I…
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Participants: ULO, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, Wolfen.

12/4/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: Pc cP's
Whats the max cp you have developed for a pc? Max I built a pc up to is 23 so far, my goal is to reach thehuman max for him.
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Draigh, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Krammer, Ingenious.

12/2/2003 feanor: IRC with mIRC - step by step ( TRoS IRC )
Hi ! Some users of this forum may have troubles to join TRoS channel in IRC. Have no fear Feanor is here with step by step guide. http://koti.mbnet.fi/majatalo/stuff/Mirc/ See you…
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Participants: feanor, Durgil, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Ithron.

12/2/2003 Krammer: character idea
So I have been thinking of making a character, but im not sure if it would work, so I would like some feedback on it. The character was just a…
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Participants: Krammer, 6inTruder, Valamir, Rico, Ingenious, Brian Leybourne.

12/2/2003 Jim: 1475ad PbEM - female PC position available
After a six month tour in Western Australia with work, I'm kicking my PbEM in the guts to get it started again now that I'm home again. At present I'm…
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Participants: Jim, Wolfen.

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12/7/2003 Krammer: Looking for people
Out of curiosity, I would like to know if there are any people in the Davis county, Utah area that play TRoS (aside from those I know about) It would…
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Participants: Krammer, Rico.

12/8/2003 Charles Smith: TROS Historical Style
Guys (and gals!)~ I'm not too new here, but I hardly ever post, so technically I'm new at this. Go easy on me :) I've owned the game (TROS) pretty…
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Participants: Charles Smith, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mechavomit, contracycle, Jeda, Sneaky Git, Malechi.

12/8/2003 Shadeling: Hello to All
Hello to all. Been a while since I have posted...been laying low. Of course there was that 2 week period of evacuation due to the california wildfires, but I am…
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Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne.

12/8/2003 Krammer: General Stupidity (split)
Recently, we were on a boat, and one of our characters was in the crows nest. there were some people below the deck coming after us, with the intent of…
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Participants: Krammer, Brian Leybourne, Ithron, Ingenious, Paka, The big blue ape.

12/8/2003 thomcat: Dur Garon's battleaxe
Picked up the game, both books, on strength of reviews and nominations. To demonstrate combat, I pulled "Dur Garon" and "Tiberius Damarisk" from the OBAM "Rouges' Gallery", and they battled…
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Participants: thomcat, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

12/8/2003 Anthony I: Starting New Players
This is split off from Manuver Declarations During Combat thread as it is off-topic for that post. This is in response to: It's a really slick and elegent system,…
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Participants: Anthony I, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

12/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: anti climactic endings
I have found that what makes a good climactic battle in tros is not thelength but the setting and sa's, the fights themselves tend to be less flashy and moreanti…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Draigh, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Jasper the Mimbo.

12/9/2003 JSB: problems with TROS software
In general, I like them and they are useful. However, I found some problems. They didn't install correctly. I use a double partition, with winME and win2k. I attempted to…
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Participants: JSB, Brian Leybourne, Richard_Strey, kenjib, Mike Holmes, Thanaeon.

12/9/2003 Mikaboshi: Online TROS game.
Hey first post to this forum but have been lurking and reading it for a week or two now. First off I would like to thank Jake for writing the…
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Participants: Mikaboshi, kenjib, Paka, Trevis Martin, Wolfen, November Kilo, Half-Baked, Krammer.

12/9/2003 MachMoth: TROS: Tanks, Guns, and Giant Robots.
Split from TROS mechanic (split): http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8950 Yeah, I get off track way too easily. Anyways, everyone's talkin' about making TROS in space, and I was wondering how capable it would…
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Participants: MachMoth, LordSmerf, Wolfen, Caz, Draigh, Krammer, Ingenious, Harlequin, Mechavomit, Melkor.

12/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Slightly OT: Jake in New Orleans
The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts is holding a massive event in New Orleans Feb 28 and 29, and I'll be there to teach a class or three. It's an…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Salamander, Valamir.

12/11/2003 sirogit: "Soul"s attached to spiritual attribuites
An idea I had for how to treat "souls" in TROS, espicially with an eastern setting, would be that spiritual attribuites are tied to them, I.E, if a person is…
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Participants: sirogit, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Krammer, Jasper the Mimbo, Wolfen.

12/12/2003 Paka: Chat Room Gaming the Riddle
As my gaming buddies become more and more scattered around the globe we have begun to look into ways to continue gaming together. I've downloaded the free software off of…
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Participants: Paka, Wolfen, Mikaboshi.

12/14/2003 Ian.Plumb: Compulsory SAs for Characters
Hi, SAs are an interesting idea that really do have the capacity to reinforce role-playing through in-game benefits. A really great design idea. I have a couple of questions that…
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Participants: Ian.Plumb, Ingenious, ZazielsRephaim, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

12/14/2003 Paka: Unlock the Wordhoard - New Gift
[u][b]Unlock the Wordhoard (Major and Minor)[/b][/u] Characters with this Gift are able to stand before men and women before a conflict and rouse them with words, stirring them to new…
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Participants: Paka, StahlMeister, Caz, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, toli.

12/15/2003 Dev: Using TROS in CRPGs
Watching my friend play the new CRPG Disgaea (for, like, 12 straight hours), I realized yet again that most CRPGs use a whole lot of D&D baggage - i.e. levels,…
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Participants: Dev, sirogit, MachMoth, Jake Norwood, Caz, kenjib, Mokkurkalfe, Krammer, GaGrin, Ingenious, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Thanaeon, Noon.

12/15/2003 Gary_Bingham: Riddle Of The Spice
Guys, I am preparing to run a game for my regular group set in Frank Herbert's Dune background. I love this background and I would not be the first person…
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Participants: Gary_Bingham, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Lxndr, Paka, Caz, GaGrin, Valamir, contracycle, Vanguard, Alan.

12/15/2003 johnmarron: TRoS for Middle Earth anyone actually done it?
Hi all, I'm sure this has come up in the forum before, but I wasn't able to locate any discussion of it using the search function. Has anyone actually run…
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Participants: johnmarron, Durgil, Bogie_71, Mike Holmes, Bastoche, kenjib, BirdMan, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Gary_Bingham, Ingenious, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Farlon.

12/17/2003 Malechi: TFOB
I can't seem to find any reference to an updated release date for TFoB anywhere. Any clues on its whereabouts? Jason
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Participants: Malechi, Draigh, Brian Leybourne.

12/17/2003 Caz: Rapid fire
This is for interested in modern/futuristic ballistic firearms in TROS. I've been doing it differently, but I tried this recently for rapid fire rules and I'd like to know what…
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Participants: Caz, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, LordSmerf, Brian Leybourne, deltadave, Wolfen.

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