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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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

12/30/2003 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.

12/30/2003 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.

12/28/2003 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.

12/28/2003 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 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.

12/27/2003 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.

12/26/2003 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.

12/26/2003 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.

12/24/2003 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.

12/24/2003 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 Caz: Firearms stuff
Hey everybody, I've gotten some things accomplished. I've compiled and organized my designs for rules and stats for firearms and other ranged weapons. I've got the rules, a basic list…
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Participants: Caz, Jake Norwood.

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.

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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.

1/4/2004 Wolfen: OMG, what a session!
It started out really slow. I mean.. we wasted half an hour trying to get past my GM's block. The first defining event was when Lx's character got his skull…
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Participants: Wolfen, Ashren Va'Hale, Caz, Lxndr, Ingenious, Alan.

1/4/2004 Durgil: Staff Attack TN's
I was looking over Appendix Two in the main rule book and noticed that the short staff and the quarterstaff had only one Attack TN. Is this type of weapon…
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Participants: Durgil, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

1/4/2004 Lxndr: Flexible Priorities and Insight
Okay, I've searched and haven't found this - I've seen threads with people talking about making priorities more flexible, but I've yet to see anything concrete. So, here's a short…
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Participants: Lxndr, kidar, Draigh, Ashren Va'Hale, Ian Charvill, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Bob McNamee, Tim Alexander.

1/4/2004 Ashren Va'Hale: Magic tweaking
I am trying to make magic a bit more manageable in my campaigns, basically make it so that the magic using player doesn't end up as the solution to all…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jaeger, deltadave, Paka, kenjib, Ingenious, Pyske, Dave Turner.

1/5/2004 Paka: New Vagaries
I'm enjoying tinkering with the TROS system lately, just prodding here and there. I tinker because I love. Tonight I'm thinking about new Vagaries, two sets of four under the…
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Participants: Paka, Ingenious, kenjib, Krammer, AnyaTheBlue.

1/5/2004 ZazielsRephaim: Simple magic question
Just curious because I'm have not come across the answer yet. I assume that to cause say... Water to boil... or something to burst into flames or heat up a…
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Participants: ZazielsRephaim, Ingenious.

1/5/2004 Paka: Summoning Angels
Ideas just keep coming to me. Summoning Angels There are no tomes on summoning the messengers, warriors and right hands of the gods. Their feathery wings keep them from having…
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Participants: Paka.

1/6/2004 toli: war hammer vs bastard sword...?
OK So I died, but I have enough insight to create a new character with AABBCD for priorities. I intend to make a Stahlnish landless knight (B) with A for…
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Participants: toli, Wolfen, Draigh, Ingenious, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

1/6/2004 Brian Leybourne: Spot Poll
Hey guys, I just need a quick "show of hands" from those of you who have used the Character Generator. Was I particularly insulting to Americans? I just had an…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Lxndr, Wolfen, kenjib, deltadave, toli, Salamander, Half-Baked, Mike Holmes, StahlMeister, Ingenious, Valthalion, Valamir.

1/6/2004 kenjib: What if magic only effect to the extent that one believes...
The perception of magic being an overpowering, one-solution-fits-all, kind of delimma led me to this idea. What would magic be like if it existed in some kind of quasi-space between…
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Participants: kenjib, Ingenious, Ashren Va'Hale.

1/6/2004 Sigurth: Harn and Riddle of Steel
We are actually working on a hybrid of HMx (2 or G) and TROS. In playtest it worked really well. CPs derived from skills...initiative using the TROS red/white die. Spiritual…
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Participants: Sigurth, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr, Spartan.

1/6/2004 Prince of Thieves: Got a tRoS game going and have got some RULES questions.
Hey, It's been awhile since I posted but I've finally got a chance to start a RoS campaign. Anyway here are some questions I would like some help with. Armor,…
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Participants: Prince of Thieves, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

1/6/2004 Ian.Plumb: The Circle of Protection
Hi, TRoS doesn't seem to have much detail on the concept of passive defensive magics. In fact the sorcery system doesn't seem to have much detail on defensive magics. The…
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Participants: Ian.Plumb, Ingenious, ZazielsRephaim, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, kenjib, Vanguard.

1/7/2004 Ingenious: The issue of pirates..
Okay, having had a thought or two on skill packets recently... I wondered about different character concepts.. and the skills they should have. For example: a pirate. Granted this would…
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Participants: Ingenious, toli, Caz, November Kilo, Wolfen, Draigh, Merritt Baggett, Mike Holmes, kenjib.

1/7/2004 Mokkurkalfe: Some maneuver and weapon questions.
I got the chance to play a lot during the past week. During this time, I have come up with a few questions. First, how should evasive attack be handled…
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Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Ingenious, Caz, Wolfen, toli, Ashren Va'Hale, Prince of Thieves, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, contracycle, kidar.

1/7/2004 toli: Cost of Land
Mokkurkalfe in another thread brought up the notion of PCs being homless, having spent all their $$ on equipment. This got me thinking about the cost of buying land and…
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Participants: toli, kenjib, Prince of Thieves, Ingenious, Half-Baked, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Hugin.

1/8/2004 Hugin: Multiple opponents (what again?)
I apologise in advance if this has been addressed elsewhere but I've looked and can't find an answer. If a character faces off against two protagonists and, dividing his CP,…
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Participants: Hugin, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

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