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2/8/2004 Alan: Shock Bonuses, Half Sword, and Estoc
Hi Jake and Brian, Can you clarify a few things about weapons? 1) Like many Mass Weapons, the Club listing says +x Shock (x=Dam Lvl) I can't find a definition…
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Participants: Alan, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Pytorb, [MKF]Kapten, Mantis, Richard_Strey, Wolfen.

2/8/2004 Jake Norwood: Mini-Supplement Doctrine
Okay, so I've had an idea. I want more (any) TROS mini-supplements--Fan-written books on nations, campains, races, whatever... These would be on-line and the author gets to keep the money…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, greyorm, sirogit, Ingenious, Muggins, Tywin Lannister, Loki, Mike Holmes, kenjib, Edge, thelibrarian, StahlMeister, Bob Richter, Krammer, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Nick Pagnucco, toli, Andrew Mure, Malechi.

2/7/2004 sirogit: Finally starting a Riddle of Steel game.
After much, much delay, I've finally started a Riddle of Steel game. I had the situation starting the game created for the most part by my first player(Before I found…
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Participants: sirogit, Ingenious.

2/7/2004 xechnao: Get Riddle of Steel in Italy
Hi, I live in Italy and want Riddle of Steel but I have had problems ordering as all the UK online sellers I checked out were out of stock. I…
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Participants: xechnao, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

2/6/2004 kenjib: Reach weapons and full evade
If you have a longer reach weapon, and your opponent closes the distance (putting you at disadvantage), is it advantageous to favor a full evade at that point to regain…
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Participants: kenjib, Wolfen, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, toli, Hereward The Wake, Turin, Ben Lehman, Jake Norwood, bergh.

2/6/2004 jeffd: "This Manuever is available at proficiency level....&qu
Several manuevers have a bit of text indicating what proficiency level they become available at. Others do not. For the ones that do not - are they default manuevers? I…
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Participants: jeffd, Jake Norwood.

2/5/2004 Pytorb: Bastard sword and shield
If my character has their bastard sword in one hand and their shield in the other which dice pool (Ref + greatsword or sword&shiled) do they use when attacking or…
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Participants: Pytorb, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Bob Richter, Ingenious, Mokkurkalfe, Muggins, Wolfen, Poleaxe, Drifter Bob, Hereward The Wake, toli, [MKF]Kapten, bottleneck.

2/5/2004 Ingenious: Munchkinism
Well, I initially started this topic in order to seek an answer as to this question: Do you think it is munchkinish to have a character with a TO of…
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Participants: Ingenious, Alan, The big blue ape, Lxndr, Morfedel, Bob Richter, Poleaxe, Silvermane, Anthony I, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, kenjib, bcook1971, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, b_bankhead, Mantis.

2/4/2004 [MKF]Kapten: New gift: High pain threshold --- And new flaw, disease
I have considered adding this ability as a new gift with a major and minor version: High pain threshold A person with the major version of this ability can ignore…
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Participants: [MKF]Kapten, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Lxndr, Ingenious, Bob Richter, Krammer, gregkcubed, timfire.

2/3/2004 gregkcubed: PDF for riddle of steel
We've got a gaming group that some of us are trying to coerce into playing ROS, but its tough going.. I can understand given the tendency to pirate, etc not…
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Participants: gregkcubed, MonkeyWrench, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Malechi, Wolfen.

2/3/2004 Durgil: Mounted Combat
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the rules on Mounted Combat, either in the Main Rulebook or in the Of Beasts and Men supplement stated that one…
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Participants: Durgil, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne.

2/2/2004 Melkor: Question regarding Surprise
Another question in preperation for Wednesday night's game: Did I read correctly that a character that doesn't achieve at least one success on his roll to avoid being surprised can…
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Participants: Melkor, Wolfen, Valamir, Pyske.

2/2/2004 bcook1971: Sometimes You Kick . . .
Last session, one of our players jumped up on a stone pedestal as a clawing, biting skeleton came towards him. He proceeded to kick the thing in the head with…
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Participants: bcook1971, Jake Norwood, sgtnasty, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr.

2/2/2004 Melkor: Evasion - Partial Evasion question
On P.84 of the rulebook, it states on table 4.4 that a Partial Evasion (TN 7) allows you to take the Initiative in the next Exchange by paying 2 CP…
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Participants: Melkor, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Poleaxe, Ingenious.

2/1/2004 Melkor: Of Beasts and Men - Simple Question
Being of the school of thought that there are no stupid questions (only stupid people that ask them)....I was flipping through "Of Beasts and Men" trying to prepare for our…
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Participants: Melkor, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Tywin Lannister.

2/1/2004 EricAlexander: Question about wrestling
When two characters are wrestling, and one doesn't want to be, how does that character escape the situation? Or can he at all?
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Participants: EricAlexander, Jake Norwood.

2/1/2004 EricAlexander: Fighting with a cloak and sword
One of my players asked if his character could fight with a rapier in one hand and a cloak in the other. I suppose the cloak would be ok at…
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Participants: EricAlexander, Hereward The Wake, Jake Norwood, Harlequin.

2/1/2004 EricAlexander: How can I make my NPC's dumber?
Hey, everyone. I'm trying to come up with some good dumb mistakes for my npc's to make in combat that they can make without being obvious about it. I want…
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Participants: EricAlexander, Paganini, Bankuei, Wolfen, [MKF]Kapten, Pyske, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood.

2/1/2004 Malechi: Ars Magica for TROS..
Hey there, We've decided to use the Ars Magica rules as converted for TROS as the magic system for our new campaign (See Actual Play post for details if you're…
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Participants: Malechi, toli, November Kilo, Brian Leybourne, Morfedel.

2/1/2004 Valamir: Riddle of Prydain
On the topic of interesting settings for use with TRoS, I hit upon the idea of a journey to Prydain last night. Seems well suited. Fairly low magic loads of…
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Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Half-Baked.

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2/10/2004 Ingenious: Alternative magic system
Appologies for length/ranting/non-coherent thinking below. Regarding an alternate magic system.. I came up with a brain storm that might have been tried before. Regarding the sorcery pool in particular.. the…
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Participants: Ingenious.

2/10/2004 johnmarron: TRoS for Icelandic Sagas?
As I drove in to work this morning past the fjord (we actually have one where I live in Maine), the early morning sun reflecting off the boats in the…
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Participants: johnmarron, Hereward The Wake, Valamir, Salamander, Negilent, Hugin, Sigurth.

2/11/2004 Ingenious: Defaulted proficiencies/chargen question.
In the book it states on page 50, book 3 'training': "Defaulted proficiencies may never exceed 6 without formal training (after which its no longer a defaulted proficiency)." At this…
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Participants: Ingenious, bottleneck, Valamir, Lxndr, toli, Edge, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, John Harper.

2/12/2004 Egi: Uncharted areas
In the map of Weyrth, there seems to be uncharted areas; islands or part of a continent in the north-east and just barely visible land mass in the north-west corner…
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Participants: Egi, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, toli, Jake Norwood.

2/12/2004 Edge: Gifts/Flaws
Hey guys I've read a post with a heap of alternate flaws and gifts in it and there was mention of it being put on the website. Does anyone know…
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Participants: Edge, Ingenious.

2/12/2004 Silvermane: TROS out of print?
Greetings! I just tried ordering TROS and OBAM through Leisuregames in London, UK, with little success. They wrote that they're out of TROS, as well as their distributors. Is this…
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Participants: Silvermane, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Edge, ethan_greer, A.Neill, BirdMan, Muggins, Wolfen, Richard_Strey, Brian Leybourne.

2/12/2004 Thanaeon: Ranged weapons and dodging
I'm sorry, I must have missed an answer to this question somewhere. But tonight, the question came up of whether characters can try to dodge thrown/shot weapons. The way I…
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Participants: Thanaeon, Salamander, Jake Norwood, Richard_Strey, Hereward The Wake, Durgil, Caz, Wolfen, Ingenious, silburnl, Muggins, Mike Holmes, Mokkurkalfe.

2/13/2004 Melkor: Couple of additional TRoS questions
How does one stop blood loss in TRoS (please point me to the page in the book where it mentions this - healing seems to only cover 'Pain' - or…
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Participants: Melkor, Ingenious, Andrew Mure, toli, Wolfen.

2/13/2004 Tywin Lannister: Do you have some art lying around?
Hullo everyone. I am working on a mini-supplement for TROS and had originally planned to do all the artwork myself. Then a small demon appeared on my right shoulder, and…
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Participants: Tywin Lannister.

2/13/2004 kenjib: Ships of Weyrth
I've been doing some work on ships for a homebrew. I think the tech level is quite compatible with Weyrth. Weyrth is on the cusp of having a gunpowder revolution,…
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Participants: kenjib, Andrew Mure, Edge.

2/13/2004 John Harper: House Rule: Arm Hits
I'm interested in a house rule that will result in more hits to the arms. In my experience in Kendo and Aikido, the arms tend to be in the way…
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Participants: John Harper, Lxndr, toli, Jake Norwood, timfire, gregkcubed, Ingenious, Salamander, Jaeger, Gideon13, Edge, kenjib, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Poleaxe.

2/15/2004 Pseudoephedrine: Magic, the Hyborian Age, and RoS
I've been thinking of a RoS / Conan crossover since I bought the game a few weeks ago. Everything's been pretty gravy so far, until I came to the magic…
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Participants: Pseudoephedrine, Spartan, Valamir, Sneaky Git, Jaeger, Lithos, Pyske, Stephen, Sigurth, Ilvarin.

2/15/2004 kanseg: TROS in the Warhammer World
I've recently decided to run 'The Enemy Within' campaign set in the Warhammer World with my gaming group. The idea of using a pre-written campaign appeals to me, especially one…
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Participants: kanseg, Ian.Plumb, Baron Guthwulf, Dan Sellars, cegorach.

2/15/2004 Lithos: Just finished reading Of Beasts and Men..
Just finished reading Of Beasts and Men.. I love it - a little heavy on the rape/forced impregnation themes, but overall an excellent supplement to TRoS. A lot less preachy…
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Participants: Lithos, Brian Leybourne, bergh, Wolfen, sirogit.

2/16/2004 Valamir: swings vs thrusts
Take a weapon like an Arming Sword or Long Sword. Both of these weapons are designed to both cut and thrust. They are better at cutting (which is why they…
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Participants: Valamir, Ingenious, Caz, Brian Leybourne, Richard_Strey, Muggins, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Edge, Malechi, Overdrive, Salamander, bergh, Turin, Ben Lehman, lokdu, Tash.

2/16/2004 sirogit: Eastern MArtial Arts?
Have their been many house rules for many Eastern Martial Arts in Tros? An idea that just hit me that I thought would be great, would be the inner martial…
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Participants: sirogit, Jake Norwood.

2/16/2004 Jaeger: An excellent notion.
I found this in a review of the new conan rpg. It is the best way I have seen of dealing with the "kill them and take thier stuff" mentality…
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Participants: Jaeger, Jake Norwood, kanseg, kenjib, Ingenious, Edge, Mike Holmes, Mokkurkalfe, [MKF]Kapten, Wolfen, silburnl.

2/16/2004 Winters: Alternative skill system...
While the current skill system works satisfactorialy I have made a way to turn it into a die pool system. Now I'm not saying that it is a better way…
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Participants: Winters, silburnl.

2/17/2004 sirogit: Choosing a demonic weapon.
So, after some talks with a player, I wanted to include a demonic, stormbringer inspired weapon into my game as a possible plot device. Except it's done to death with…
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Participants: sirogit, kenjib, Ingenious, Salamander.

2/17/2004 Malechi: Midnight to TROS Conversion
For those that are interested I'm currently compiling a conversion of Midnight for TROS. Its mixed up with the Character Generation Quick Reference sheet that was floating around a while…
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Participants: Malechi, Edge, Melkor, Lithos, Morfedel.

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