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2/9/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Interview with Clinton R. Nixon
I got interviewed over at Primeval Press. If you're interested it's at: http://www.primevalpress.com/articles/interviews/nixon.html Feel free to discuss here.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, GaryTP, Bob Goat, Matt Snyder, Bankuei, sirogit, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes.

2/8/2005 sirogit: "Pumpkin-Fantasy"
I wanted to comment on this term: I find it ncrediblyi usefull as a description for both the atomsphere I'm most intereasted in and typically use as an non-roleplaying author(Outside…
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Participants: sirogit, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/8/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Paladin 2e: A peek behind the design
In Paladin 2e, I'm changing character creation a lot. One of the big differences is I'm genericizing the attributes and putting a lot more into skill type things. Characters will…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, gains, Paganini, James_Nostack, Wolfen, Bankuei, Tony Irwin.

2/8/2005 anonymouse: TSOY: dungeon crawling?
Clinton, Since TSOY was originally designed as a heartbreaker, I was curious if you've run it through ye olde dungeon crawlin' and what it looked like in play.
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Participants: anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon, Paka, James_Nostack.

2/7/2005 thurak: Ascendancy; Thoughts and questions
Greetings, I'm gearing up to begin development on my own campaign setting, which will use the TSOY game mechanics. I've been looking at ascendancy, and I wonder, since the game…
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Participants: thurak, timfire, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei.

2/3/2005 DrAwkward: Permanent possessions and wealth in Donjon
I'm not quite sure if I've got this straight, so bear with me. I just got Donjon, and was reading through the section on wealth and items, and found two…
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Participants: DrAwkward, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/31/2005 abies: Polish translation of character sheet
In some games I just stay with english character sheets for people, because it is too hard to switch mind constantly between two languages when reading books and looking at…
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Participants: abies, Ben Morgan.

1/29/2005 Roger Eberhart: [TSOY] Question regarding Secret of Mighty Blow
From the text, it's hard to say exactly how this Secret works. Do you spend Vigor pool for bonus dice for your attack ability or are you adding directly to…
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Participants: Roger Eberhart, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/28/2005 sirogit: My TSOY game - Khalien Moons
"Hey, is that a green thing, a tree, David Bowie?" - Wino from the liquor store. Here's my Pre-First-Meeting prep for my TSOY game: Khalien Moons. Taking the scenario "The…
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Participants: sirogit, Clinton R. Nixon, Paka, Victor Gijsbers, James_Nostack, Roger Eberhart, DaGreatJL.

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.

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.

1/24/2005 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.

1/24/2005 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.

1/22/2005 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.

1/21/2005 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.

1/19/2005 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.

1/17/2005 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.

1/11/2005 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.

1/11/2005 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.

1/10/2005 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.

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2/13/2005 Andy Kitkowski: TSOY: Another Character Sheet
I wanted a sheet where the basic abilities were listed (my players have a hard time with the loosely defined stuff, so it's a good stepping stone for them to…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

2/15/2005 pfischer: Solar System 2012
I can only find evidence that TSoY's system is called Solar System on Anvilwerks' front webpage, but if it is still so, I think it should be promoted more. It…
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Participants: pfischer, sirogit, James_Nostack, Christopher Weeks.

2/16/2005 anonymouse: For Near: Presenting.. Moontan Clan!
These would be a tribe of ratkin (or wererats in a traditional D&D-type setting) living in the sewers of maybe a Maldor or Ammeni city (or as close as the…
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Participants: anonymouse, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/18/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Who is planning on publishing their TSOY worlds?
Next week I begin running TSOY for my group. The campiagn world is one of those things where I wrote it years ago for D&D, brushing the dust off of…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, urbwar, Valamir, inthisstyle.

2/19/2005 anonymouse: TSOY: beastie stats?
I didn't see any either on the wiki, or in the online rules. I'm trying to get a feel for what constitutes strong vs weak beasts, as far as their…
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Participants: anonymouse, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon, sirogit.

2/19/2005 Roger Eberhart: Bonus dice & key scenes questions
The rules state you cannot add bonus dice to a roll made with penalty dice. What if the player first cancels the penalty dice using dice from his pool or…
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Participants: Roger Eberhart, timfire, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/22/2005 chris_moore: Urge - actual play
My friends Jason, Kelli and I played Urge last weekend, and we had a blast! Jason played the Urge-infested character, a Juggernaut/Protector with a vaguely Native-American mystical origin for his…
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Participants: chris_moore, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

2/24/2005 James_Nostack: [Paladin] Enlightenment setting thread
In the Masonic Snipers thread, Joshua and I were beginning to thrash out a setting, but I didn't want to clog up Actual Play with stuff that, properly…
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Participants: James_Nostack, b_bankhead, Joshua Tompkins, xenopulse, Zubon-do.

2/24/2005 Matt Wilson: prep questions
So the game is tonight, and despite the fact that two players haven't given me much info about their characters, I'm prepping away. And that means I probably need to…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Roger Eberhart, Andy Kitkowski.

2/25/2005 abies: Alternative donjon dice resolution
I know that this subject was beaten to death already, but my mathematical self could not stop before I found something similar in result to normal d20 pool resolution, without…
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Participants: abies.

2/26/2005 James_Nostack: [TSoY] Culture/Species Crunch: Exclusive?
Can people who aren't from a particular culture or species take the crunchy bits from those groups if it fits the character concept? Like, in the World of Near, Boating…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/28/2005 Matt Wilson: TSOY layout
So in the magical print edition, there's this nice touch where the top margin of every page has a blurb summarizing the page's contents, in Clinton's own way of describing…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Bankuei.

3/1/2005 James_Nostack: [Paladin] Writing a Code?
Does anyone have any advice on how to write a satisfying Code for this game? We're trying to figure out how to this. It sounds like the Code has to…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Joshua Tompkins, b_bankhead, Thierry Michel.

3/1/2005 Joshua Tompkins: [Paladin] The Paladin Enlightened: Setting, Characters, Code
We (Myself, James Nostack, and Zubon-do, whose name unfortunately escapes me) had our second prep session of Paladin last night. For those following along at home, this is a continuation…
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Participants: Joshua Tompkins, James_Nostack, Zubon-do.

3/3/2005 James_Nostack: [Paladin] Math
During a dull moment at work I tried to calculate how Paladin's dice mechanics work. Essentially each dice in a pool has an expected value of 0.5. You can spend…
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Participants: James_Nostack.

3/4/2005 Matt Wilson: TSOY - BDTP situation
So here's something I could use some examples for, so that I can tell a player how a cliffhanger situation might be resolved next game session. There's this goblin in…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Thierry Michel, Clinton R. Nixon, DaGreatJL, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, J B Bell, Bankuei.

3/4/2005 Sammael99: [Paladin]Holy France setting
I'm running a one-shot game of Paladin on Saturday and I could use a bit of an idea ping-pong on the creative process for the setting and Paladin order, especially…
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Participants: Sammael99.

3/4/2005 Doyce: Crunchy chargen questions, mostly Zu-ish.
Just a few. I'm working on an introductory test-run of TSoY with one of my player groups, cuz we've been pussyfooting around for awhile and haven't really decided what we…
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Participants: Doyce, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/5/2005 eric12345: SOY questions
in the worldbook of near has khale and Maldor exporting things to goren but never says where/what goren is? Is it listed somewhere that I cant find? Also on a…
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Participants: eric12345.

3/10/2005 inthisstyle: [TSOY] Game Starting
After starting IPR, I ended up with a lot of games that I want to play and that I need to demo at conventions. To help familiarize myself, I am…
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Participants: inthisstyle, ScottM, James_Nostack.

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