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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 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.

12/8/2003 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.

12/8/2003 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 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 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 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 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.

12/7/2003 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.

12/7/2003 Paka: Introducing Players to TROS
I've gone over the threads in the sticky at the top of the forum. They are tremendously helpful and led to an epiphany concerning Sorcerery. What I would like in…
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Participants: Paka, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

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.

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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.

12/19/2003 Paka: Fiddling around with Priority choices for Social Class
I am thinking of running a bloody and tragic high fantasy with Fey as PC's. I am thinking of how to fiddle with the Social Class and Priorities. THe A…
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Participants: Paka.

12/19/2003 Ingenious: TROS in WW1
It was the war to end all wars. I think. *shrug* Anyways, I bought this topic up becase A. nobody's done a WW1 post before I dont think, unless my…
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Participants: Ingenious, Caz, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

12/19/2003 sirogit: Looking for an live-online game of TROS
As my plans to gm a face-to-face game in the near future have been derailed, I was thinking that it would be a good expiereince to be a player in…
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Participants: sirogit, Half-Baked.

12/19/2003 Rico: New way of caulculating damage
This problem first came up when I was seneschal for a dwarf with a hammer. The dwarf was using the puncture side of his hammer and attacked a guy at…
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Participants: Rico, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, demiurgeastaroth, Ashren Va'Hale.

12/21/2003 chade0: about Brian's Damage Table Program
Brian, Thanks for this very useful and handy program you've coded! It really makes Senechal's work easier (assuming you have a laptop). Now, a question and suggestion, have you ever…
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Participants: chade0, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne.

12/22/2003 Malechi: Katanapunk! Website
Hey there, Some of you may remember a project I started working on called Katanapunk! Its been a while but thanks to my 12 week uni holiday which started a…
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Participants: Malechi.

12/22/2003 Stephen: Towards a hypothetical 2nd (3rd?) Edition....
Strictly speaking, the big brown hardback shipped to stores in '02 is the Second Edition, but for most of us it was the first one we saw. So I'm not…
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Participants: Stephen, Jaeger, Wolfen, Ashren Va'Hale, Ingenious, Krammer, contracycle, Paka, Poleaxe, Tywin Lannister, Thanaeon, bcook1971, Jake Norwood, kenjib, Deacon Blues.

12/23/2003 Jaeger: Monsters in TROS = UFO's in real world...
The way I and an associate have taken to running our games we tend to make human antagonists the main bad guys, with little to no magic in our campaigns.…
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Participants: Jaeger, Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, kenjib, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Lxndr, Ingenious, contracycle, Crusader, Ian Charvill, Salamander.

12/23/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: new flaw
I was thinking Debt would be a cool flaw. Basically a character owes someone some money. You could vary the amount and to whom with the severity of the flaw.…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Ingenious, Krammer, Jaif, Paka.

12/23/2003 Alan: Evasion, Attack, and Sorcery
Somewhere I got the idea that it was possible to allocate dice to Duck & Weave or Dodge even when you're attacking. Is this true? Also, can you cast an…
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Participants: Alan, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne.

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