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12/23/2003 Noon: Okay, I just touch you and...you explode.
Just idling through the TROS book recently and thinking about something which I think is usually off kilter in most 'more successes equals more damage'. And that is that even…
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Participants: Noon, Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Jaif, Deacon Blues, Ingenious, spacedragon, failrate, kenjib, Anthony I, Wolfen.

12/23/2003 AnyaTheBlue: Magic fiddling
Okay. I know the lightspeed rock has come up before, so I'm not going to go back over that again. Suffice it to say that this post is in a…
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Participants: AnyaTheBlue, kenjib, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Deacon Blues.

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.

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 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.

12/22/2003 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.

12/22/2003 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.

12/21/2003 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.

12/19/2003 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.

12/19/2003 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 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 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.

12/17/2003 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.

12/17/2003 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.

12/15/2003 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.

12/15/2003 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 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.

12/14/2003 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.

12/14/2003 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.

12/12/2003 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.

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12/24/2003 sirogit: The Riddle of Death; The development of my rules on Spirits
Here's what I have currently developed as rules for ghosts and other unattached spirits. I'd like to thank everyone in the previous thread for shaping my ideas to a degree.…
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Participants: sirogit, Ingenious, Balbinus, Wolfen, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/24/2003 Brian Leybourne: Wayyy OT
Merry Christmas all. I hope you have a great, and safe holiday. No, I'm not early. It's Christmas here. You're all just behind the times :-) Brian.
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Wolfen, Krammer.

12/26/2003 Crusader: differing types of plate armour
While I suspect that something like this may be covered in TFOB, I keenly feel the need to ask anyway... I notice that the core book mentions on page 203…
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Participants: Crusader, Caz, Ingenious, Jaeger, Salamander, contracycle, Durgil, toli, Poleaxe, Brian Leybourne.

12/26/2003 Feugan: Spies and Spy equipment
Hey all, I will soon be hosting a game with four players and I am putting them through a series of adventures that are basically Tom Clancy covert ops in…
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Participants: Feugan, Ingenious, Bob McNamee, Caz, Salamander.

12/27/2003 sirogit: Spiritual Attribuites for NPCs?
One thing I didn't really get from the book was, do you normally "allow"/make NPCs to have spiritual attribuites? I can see a few reasons against it, such as 1)Spiritual…
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Participants: sirogit, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, StahlMeister.

12/28/2003 Hugin: Magic Swords done right
I've been wondering about those intelligent magic swords once so popular in D&D that never actually really worked because the only way the DM could influence the player was to…
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Participants: Hugin, Ingenious, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, MonkeyWrench, ZazielsRephaim, Wolfen, Jaif, tauman, AnyaTheBlue.

12/28/2003 Ian.Plumb: Demonic Possession
Hi, I'm in the midst of writing a small scenario that involves one of the player characters becoming possessed by a demon. I intend handling this through the character's SAs.…
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Participants: Ian.Plumb, Ingenious, Bob McNamee.

12/28/2003 RexGator: Questions on hit locations
To All Ran my first TROS combat demo yesterday for my friends. I had whipped up some pre-generated characters for the purpose of the demo. I had failed to provide…
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Participants: RexGator, Noon, Jake Norwood.

12/30/2003 Deacon Blues: Another visit to Athas via TRoS
Discussion of a Riddle of Steel conversion for the old D&D setting of Dark Sun got me thinking, so I sat down and hammered out one of my own. Compare…
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Participants: Deacon Blues, Brian Leybourne, Ashren Va'Hale, Poleaxe, Wolfen, johnmarron.

12/30/2003 Poleaxe: Brian, question about attributes…
Brian, question about attributes… To keep it short, If I don’t exactly agree with the attributes you’ve established (Wit comes to mind, as IMO that attribute is imbedded in your…
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Participants: Poleaxe, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne, toli, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, ZazielsRephaim, Ashren Va'Hale, Jaif.

12/31/2003 toli: Weapons and proficiencies
I think this type of question has come up before, but I couldn't find it in the archive section... Can I happily use a cut and thrust sword with my…
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Participants: toli, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

12/31/2003 Balbinus: The Riddle of Supplements
TRoS is essentially two things, a system and a setting. The setting serves well to illustrate some of the system concepts (rarity of the inhuman for example) but the system…
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Participants: Balbinus, Ingenious, toli, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Lxndr.

12/31/2003 chade0: Margin of success and damage
Hi. I realised that with tRoS game mechanics, damage from weapons (any kind) can become very massive if the user of the weapon is skilled. This is ok, but I…
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Participants: chade0, Ian Charvill, Ingenious, Salamander, Jake Norwood, Lxndr, Draigh, Caz, Jaif, Brian Leybourne, sidhe vicious, Poleaxe, Mike Holmes.

1/1/2004 Balbinus: Stahnish atheists
Wolfen posted this on another thread: "Whether or not there are gods is still in doubt, but as their beliefs encompass a stubborn disbelief in anything supernatural, to include sorcerers…
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Participants: Balbinus, Ashren Va'Hale, Ingenious, Clinton R. Nixon, Wolfen.

1/1/2004 Ingenious: Sample character
This being my first sample character, it is also the backup to the one I play now. I made it in anticipation of needing one, as well as wanting to…
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Participants: Ingenious.

1/1/2004 Paganini: Program Problems
So, none of the TROS programs will run because they're hardcoded to look for the installation directory on the "C:" drive, when my main OS is installed on the "D:"…
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Participants: Paganini, Lxndr.

1/1/2004 sidhe vicious: The Riddle of Lace & Steel
Hello everybody (first post here and everything). I recently got TROS and am enjoying the read immensely and this forum is helping my understanding of the game a lot. One…
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Participants: sidhe vicious, Mike Holmes.

1/3/2004 Half-Baked: Online TROS Game at RPOL.net
As previously discussed here http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8946 I am starting a Riddle of Steel game at www.rpol.net. It is based on David Gemmell's books in his Drenai world. They make a good…
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Participants: Half-Baked.

1/3/2004 kidar: all you need is pre-emtive strike
hello, I tried to search for similar topics but did not find good ones.. If I understood correctly, a pre-emptive strike (buying initiative) can be done when: 1) you threw…
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Participants: kidar, Ashren Va'Hale, Richard_Strey, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious.

1/4/2004 Melkor: TROS - First "Read Through" Question
I've had TROS for a while, but I just sat down to read through it this afternoon, after reading about Paka's Midnight campaign over at EN World. I'd like to…
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Participants: Melkor, Wolfen, Ashren Va'Hale, Draigh, November Kilo, Paka, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, toli.

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