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12/2/2004 Andy Kitkowski: SoY: First Impressions thread
Damn, been wanting to start this thread since Monday, but it's been one Hell of a busy week for me. Anyway, SoY was waiting for me on Friday, I was…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, ScottM, John Harper, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon, Paka, Bob Goat, joshua neff, inthisstyle, Rorimack, Thierry Michel, Ron Edwards, Roger.

11/22/2004 Bob Goat: Crazy Awesome Artwork
Hey, Just wanted to say that I was checking out Andrew Navaro's artwork for TSOY and it is crazy awesome. This piece in particular really blows my mind cause it…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Navaro, Simon W.

11/20/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Anvilwerks News Thread
[url=http://www.anvilwerks.com/tsoy/]The Shadow of Yesterday[/url] is complete! I've posted a sample adventure for the game, "Rat Moon Rising," at the website.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

11/18/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Clinton's Fourth Axiom of Game Design
[i]Any good RPG can, with a minimum of effort, be used to play Jedi[/i]. I thought of this yesterday after sending the following e-mail to a friend: [quote] Dude, I…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, inky, rafial, Matt Snyder, hix, Blankshield, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Michael S. Miller, John Harper, dunlaing, jknevitt, Vagabond, apparition13, pete_darby, Bob Goat, Roger, DrAwkward.

11/15/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: The Shadow of Yesterday is done!
Printing begins on the book today at 5pm. Layout was done this morning at 5:30am. This game took three years, approximately. I re-wrote it twice. I ended up performing all…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bob Goat, GaryTP, Andrew Navaro, Matt Wilson.

10/27/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: The Shadow of Yesterday pre-orders
The Shadow of Yesterday nears completion, as most of my art is in and the text is nearly finished. This is a Good Thing, as it's supposed to be out…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, rafial, Andy Kitkowski, timfire, Bob Goat, GaryTP, friartuck, ScottM.

10/27/2004 Andrew Navaro: The Shadow of Yesterday - Maldor Artwork
Hello, everyone. I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to check out the illustrations I recently finished for Clinton's way-cool, post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, The Shadow of Yesterday. My task (a…
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Participants: Andrew Navaro, Matt Wilson, Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Simon W.

10/12/2004 Lougar01: Gamma Donjon Powers
Hi All, I just started a Gamma Donjon Campaign. Got all Pure-Strain Humans so far. Which is just as well, since I haven't got any good ideas on how to…
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Participants: Lougar01.

10/5/2004 Poleaxe: Donjon - fixed damage anyone?
I personally always hated the fact that Dnd uses a random damage roll to follow up the attack roll in Combat. That's yet another reason I now prefer systems that…
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Participants: Poleaxe, Lougar01.

9/29/2004 Lougar01: Social Skills vs. Physical
Another Curious Incident. One of the playes took the ability, "Talk You To Death" (based on Bill from the "Kill Bill" Movie), used with their Sociality. Then, when one of…
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Participants: Lougar01, Jason.

9/29/2004 Lougar01: Breaking Things in Donjon
Had an interesting situation in the game recently. Player had a BAS (Big Ass Sword), and used it to chop open a door to make a big entrance into the…
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Participants: Lougar01, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

9/27/2004 Lougar01: Donjon & Slow Acting Poison
I love Donjon, and plan to run it with an Ironclaw-like game this month. Can't wait to see how the character turn out. They will be creating the template for…
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Participants: Lougar01, Clinton R. Nixon, Henri.

8/26/2004 Manxome: [Donjon] Material Enchantment
Is there anything stopping a player from doing the following? Should there be? A character's primary ability is an arcane magic called Material Enchantment (words: hard, light, crumble, mend). The…
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Participants: Manxome, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/8/2004 tk421: Possessions and Super Heroic Donjon
Hiya, folks. I convinced (read: forced) my normal gaming group to give Donjon a try. I'm excited and they're excited. I took a poll of the players to see what…
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Participants: tk421, Manxome, Clinton R. Nixon, galex.

7/15/2004 timfire: Mechanical issues w/ Donjon?
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=128247#128247]Somewhere else,[/url] Mike Holmes said: [quote="Mike Holmes"]there are some mechanical problems in Dunjon. Many of which Clinton has addressed on his forum.[/quote] As I'm new to Donjon (I own the…
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Participants: timfire, Mike Holmes, JamesSterrett, aplath, tk421, Dev.

7/6/2004 The Goat: Donjon: Clarification on determining successes.
Ran my first session last night, it did however prompt this clarification. If a player rolls 9 dice, and I am rolling 3, we compare and they beat all of…
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Participants: The Goat, Luke Sineath, Christopher Weeks, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes.

6/28/2004 Morfedel: Where be my donjon?
I ordered Donjon as a pdf and paid via paypal... I'm waiting for either some kind of confirmation or instructions on downloading it or something.... so far, nothing. Where be…
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Participants: Morfedel, kamawell, Christopher Weeks, 8bitjunkie, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

6/27/2004 Luke Sineath: Easy Uncontested Actions and Gathering Magic Power
The DM rolls 0 dice in an Easy Uncontested action. This means that all of the player's dice will be successes. Therefore, a character with a Cerebrality of 4 and…
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Participants: Luke Sineath, Jason, Wulf, Dev, jdagna.

6/18/2004 Christopher Weeks: Wiki Error?
Hi all, I PMed Clinton earlier, but I thought I'd put this into public light in case anyone else knows anything. If you look at the recent changes for the…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks.

6/16/2004 Luke Sineath: The biggest problem with Donjon
Where am I supposed to get all those d20s? One group would probably need 100 of them! (that's just my estimate, based on reading the rules and Actual Play threads.)…
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Participants: Luke Sineath, Paganini, ethan_greer, aplath, Trevis Martin.

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12/11/2004 Doyce: TSOY: quick errata check.
Okay. Got the game today. Game kicks butt. Still reading. Still loving. Quick clarification question: Page 65, top: talking about building Punks and Pogues, the text talks about whether or…
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Participants: Doyce, Roger Eberhart, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/13/2004 James_Nostack: TSOY: Bringing Down the Pain Question
Every second my boss is away, I've been reading my way through the HTML rulebook. It's so cool, and I can't wait to play! But I have a question about…
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Participants: James_Nostack, rafial, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/21/2004 Doyce: Albino Ratkin crunchy bits?
In the First impressions thread: I remember my impression to playtesting it. I got the albino ratkin magician (Whitey) and as I was polishing him up with Keys, I…
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Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Bob Goat, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/24/2004 James_Nostack: [TSoY] Resolution "scale"?
I don't know the proper RPG Theory Mumbo-Jumbo to ask this question efficiently, but here goes: You're playing some Conan the Barbarian rip-off. The storyguide throws a bunch of thugs…
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Participants: James_Nostack, rafial, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/27/2004 Squeeze: [TSOY] Some clarifications needed...
Hi, First I'd like to thank Clinton for his amazing work on Anvilwerks games : those games are enlightening ! (They are my first experience into indie games, and so…
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Participants: Squeeze, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire.

12/31/2004 Michael S. Miller: Donjon reviewed at RPG.net
[url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10943.phtml]The review is available here[/url] All in all, the reviewer understands the game and mostly what it's about (although he glosses over the "screw your friends" factor). He's rather harsh…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Roger.

1/5/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Small tidbit as to why SoY appeals to me as a GM
...Or as a player, acutally, but since I'm the one who GMs most for my group: The rules have bite to them- They take a bit of rehersal and practice…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/7/2005 James_Nostack: TSoY Reviewed at RPG.Net
I wrote a brief playtest review of the HTML version of The Shadow of Yesterday at RPG.Net. I hope it results in increased sales/hits. The review is quite favorable, but…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Andy Kitkowski.

1/8/2005 Roger: [TSoY] Yet More Questions
I've read through The Shadow of Yesterday a couple of times, and I have the following questions and comments on the Main Rulebook. 1. "Players can always spend one point…
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Participants: Roger, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/10/2005 DaGreatJL: [TSoY] Can goblins adapt their greatest weakness?
Okay, here's my question: With the Secret of the Addiction, is there any circumstance under which the goblin can change what their addiction is? They are in most other ways…
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Participants: DaGreatJL, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/11/2005 Eero Tuovinen: He Delivers Us
I had skimmed TSoY when Clinton first put it up, but hadn't otherwise taken time for Anvilwerks yet. I also knew that Clinton had plans to do Creative Commons with…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

1/11/2005 worldeater: Map of Near
Clinton, Is there a map of Near available for download anywhere or is that only in the print version? Alan
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Participants: worldeater, Hogscape, Tim Gray, anonymouse.

1/17/2005 sirogit: New Secrets
While at first I was thinking about posting all of these to the Wiki, I thought I'd allow people to take a look at them and give me any early…
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Participants: sirogit.

1/19/2005 Thierry Michel: Resisted Ability Check with unrelated abilities
In a discussion (about extended contests in HeroQuest but it also applies to Bringing Down the Pain in TSOY), it was mentioned that the biggest obstacle when learning the system…
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Participants: Thierry Michel, Clinton R. Nixon, kallisti_dk, Mike Holmes, Roger Eberhart.

1/21/2005 James_Nostack: [TSOY] Optional BDP Rules, posted 1/19/05
For anyone who missed it: optional rules on Bringing Down the Pain have been posted to the Shadow of Yesterday Wiki. I already have a question: according to the optional…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/22/2005 James_Nostack: [Donjon] Framing the Question
As I understand it, players in Donjon can say, "I roll to do x," and if they roll well, not only do they succeed in the task but they get…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon, Grover, timfire.

1/24/2005 Thierry Michel: [TSOY] Uz magic
I'm creating my first NPC, an Ammeni slave-catcher with some magical abilities (Secret of Uz). To make sure I understand things correctly, my NPC's sheet should display: * the Secret…
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Participants: Thierry Michel, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/24/2005 ejh: BoingBoing Plug
[a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/22/another_rpg_publishe.html"]Nice plug[/a] on BoingBoing. Sadly, they seem not to have bothered to post a plug I submitted for the Forge Bookshelf in general. But good to see indie games…
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Participants: ejh, joshua neff.

1/26/2005 sirogit: Miscleanous questions & Terminology
1. When a description of a Secret says "in combat"(Mighty Blow,Secret of Shattering), does that mean in actual -fighting-, or could it mean any use of Bringing Down the Pain?…
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Participants: sirogit, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/27/2005 Stephen: [TSOY] Transcendence (split from First Impressions)
[quote="Clinton R. Nixon"][quote="Andy Kitkowski"] * I LOVE the idea behind Character Endgame (sorry, the book's in another room: "Transcendence", is it called?). Very cool idea, saves the game from being…
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Participants: Stephen, Clinton R. Nixon, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Paka, John Burdick, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy, GaryTP, Bob Goat, sirogit, DaGreatJL, RedPissLegion.

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