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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 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.

2/13/2004 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.

2/13/2004 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 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 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.

2/12/2004 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.

2/12/2004 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 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 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.

2/11/2004 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.

2/10/2004 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.

2/10/2004 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.

2/9/2004 Drifter Bob: Breaking weapons
Is there any means within the TROS rules for one weapon to break another, during a parry say, or for a weapon to break a shield? JR
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Participants: Drifter Bob, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Hereward The Wake, Caz, Ingenious, Richard_Strey.

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.

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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.

2/17/2004 Jaeger: Addiction...
OK, here's something to lighten the mood... Lets say I create a Duellist PC, and lets say that I have to give him a disadvantage. Here's my idea- Addiction: Killing…
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Participants: Jaeger, Ingenious, Richard_Strey, Wolfen, Ian.Plumb, Loki.

2/17/2004 Caz: TROS Psionics
Here's sort of a rough draft for an idea for a psionics system. I'm desperately trying to keep it very simple. Race priority B as usual. If someone is psionic,…
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Participants: Caz, Ingenious.

2/17/2004 Stephen: A variant sorcery system (with recognizeable influence....)
A suggested alternate magic system for worlds with a slightly different flavour – ones where magic can be more visible and more chaotic, though just as deadly and dangerous. This…
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Participants: Stephen, Thanaeon, BirdMan, Lxndr, kanseg, The Heretic.

2/17/2004 Drifter Bob: The Free City
Can anyone tell me anything about the Free City shown on the map between the Seat and Fauth...? I was wondering if it was meant to be anything like Venice...?…
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Participants: Drifter Bob, StahlMeister, Lxndr.

2/18/2004 Malechi: Magical Item - Covenant Item rules
hey there, while converting the Midnight setting for TROS I came across their Covenant Items which I thought were pretty nifty, even for d20. Basically its a magic item that…
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Participants: Malechi, Ingenious.

2/18/2004 bergh: Are bows and crossbows to weak?
Generaly I think that Long bows and crossbows are to weak, in real life, a longbow would go through a full plate armour and kill the person inside it, somehow…
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Participants: bergh, Salamander, Valamir, Andrew Mure, Muggins, Poleaxe, [MKF]Kapten, Hereward The Wake, Crusader, Drifter Bob.

2/18/2004 bergh: Realism in TROS
Hi Thanks for a great game. I think the combat is highly realistic, and fun, i hate D&D bashing and hitpoints. This is what i see all to often in…
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Participants: bergh, ZazielsRephaim, Muggins, Brian Leybourne, [MKF]Kapten, Salamander, Poleaxe, Jake Norwood, Crusader, Ben Lehman, Ingenious.

2/18/2004 bergh: half-swording and doppelhander question
Q: Why are there fixed ATN & DTN for halfswording? , somehow a longsword and a Doppelhander, is now equal in hitting, but the doppelhander just gives more damage. weird......…
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Participants: bergh, Jake Norwood, Muggins.

2/18/2004 [MKF]Kapten: A thought about bow damage
I have considered switching out a lot of damage from the bows to armor piercing instead of damage. The reason is that when I looked at the longbow I saw…
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Participants: [MKF]Kapten, Poleaxe, Hereward The Wake, deltadave, Drifter Bob, Bob Richter.

2/18/2004 daagon: What about Chinese!?
Don't get me wrong cos I love Japanese history and all about samurais and all that... but what about chinese weaponry? I understand that a Japan sourcebook will be coming…
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Participants: daagon, kenjib, Malechi, Jake Norwood, Edge, Bankuei, Brian Leybourne, Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton, Wolfen, MrGeneHa, Kaelin, clehrich.

2/19/2004 Edge: Weyrth Specific Supplements??
Hey Just a quick question. I know there is TFOB coming out and the Japan sourcebook, but are there any Weyrth specific supplements planned or is anyone looking at doing…
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Participants: Edge, Tywin Lannister.

2/19/2004 bergh: MasterScreen and TROS
Hi everyone, i can see that TROS homepage has ALOT downloaded for this masterScreen thingy! but the page: http://www.citizengames.com/ is closed, and i can see that this where the masterscreen…
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Participants: bergh, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

2/19/2004 johnmarron: Why 39?
This is something that bugs me every time I read through the TRoS book. What was the design rationale behind the numbers of attribute points gained at each priority level…
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Participants: johnmarron, Mokkurkalfe, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Jake Norwood, Ingenious.

2/20/2004 Malechi: Supplements...TTC
Hey there guys, With the recent thread on Mini-supplements I became curious again about the state of the official supplements. After going over some (very) old threads I found discussion…
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Participants: Malechi, Edge, Brian Leybourne, Lithos, Jake Norwood.

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