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3/15/2005 Deacon Blues: [TSOY] Activating Secrets
[b]Obligatory Opening Praise[/b]: I actually spent a couple of months trying to find a way to combine the best aspects of [i]Heroquest[/i] and [i] Riddle of Steel[/i] to my liking.…
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Participants: Deacon Blues, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/14/2005 Sean: [tSoY] How do these three rules interact?
1. Only players can call for bringing down the pain. 2. In conflict resolution, you specify what happens if you win. 3. You can't permanently remove a 'special' GMC from…
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Participants: Sean, dyjoots, inthisstyle, Clinton R. Nixon, Rod Anderson.

3/13/2005 hive_mind: Couple of Key questions
1. Can a character buy out their last Key, leaving them with none? 2. Are most people playing with a finite number of Keys in their games, or are they…
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Participants: hive_mind, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

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.

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.

3/4/2005 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.

3/4/2005 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 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.

3/3/2005 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.

3/1/2005 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.

3/1/2005 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.

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.

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.

2/25/2005 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.

2/24/2005 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.

2/24/2005 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.

2/22/2005 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.

2/19/2005 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.

2/19/2005 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.

2/18/2005 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.

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3/19/2005 scorpio rising: [TSOY] Crimson Sands
Just thought I'd share: I put together an alternate setting for TSOY - a pulpish sword'n'sorcery world named Crimson Sands. A draft setting document (meant to server in place of…
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Participants: scorpio rising, Andy Kitkowski, Paka, James_Nostack, Andrew Norris, Valamir.

3/24/2005 James_Nostack: [TSOY] Secret of the Berserker?
How would one model a berzerker rage type of ability in TSOY? I figure whatever it was, would either convert your Reason points to bonus dice for fightin', or else…
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Participants: James_Nostack, sirogit, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

3/24/2005 Andy Kitkowski: A few new Secrets available...
Over at the WIKI: http://random.average-bear.com/TSOY/OpenSecrets I'm trying to think of a name other than "Secret of Expansive Military Training" for the combat-related one (I'm satisfied with the other names). Can…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Clay.

4/1/2005 Chris Geisel: [TSOY] Main rulebook clarifications
During character creation for an IRC game of TSOY last night, some questions regarding the wording of some of the rules came up. From Character Creation: Abilities Players…
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Participants: Chris Geisel, Victor Gijsbers, Bifi, rafial, Clay.

4/2/2005 elgorade: Donjon -- first try and questions
Nice game Clinton! The group I play in had a free month since one of the main characters in our usual game was out of the country. So I filled…
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Participants: elgorade, The_Tim, James_Nostack.

4/6/2005 ffilz: [Sweet20] (and [TSOY] also I guess) question on keys
I've been reading Sweet20:Experience and TSOY. Many of the keys mention things per adventure. What is the definition of adventure? Looking at the Wiki, I see per session (and maybe…
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Participants: ffilz, Chris Geisel, Yokiboy, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/11/2005 furashgf: Kill Your Darlings
I was hoping I could get some tips on simplifying the Donjon mechanics even further without doing violence to the spirit of the game. I've already tried the D2 approach,…
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Participants: furashgf.

4/17/2005 hix: A simple Gift of Dice question
Hey there, just finished first session of a TSoY game (set in WW's Changeling universe). The Gift of Dice is fantastic ... but one question I just wanted to ask:…
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Participants: hix, rafial.

4/19/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Bringing Down the Pain... Against Inanimate Objects?
You are the GM. You've put the player character in a dangerous situation. Say, the character has an option of trying to leap a chasm for whatever reason. You set…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, James_Nostack, Alan, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/28/2005 James_Nostack: [TSOY] Three-Corner Magic Questions
I have some questions about the Day focus of Three-Corner magic: Creation, Enhancement, and Divination. 1. Creation - "the character can create a small amount of one of the four…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Clay, Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon.

4/29/2005 KingstonC: [TSOY] cheat sheets
I have written two cheat sheets (or rules summaries) for The Shadow of Yesterday, one for character creation and the other for conflict resolution. They are designed for quick reference…
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Participants: KingstonC, Vaxalon, James_Nostack, pfischer, Victor Gijsbers.

4/29/2005 Vaxalon: NPCs and Keys
I have read the rules and searched the forum, and I can't find the answer to this... Do NPC's get keys? Do they gain experience? Do they advance?
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Participants: Vaxalon, Gaerik, KingstonC, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/30/2005 Troy_Costisick: Broken Link
Heya, I'm trying to get to Anvilwerks site, but the links on this site as well as a couple other sites are broken. Has the site moved? Peace, -Troy
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/1/2005 Vaxalon: [TSOY] Character Creation - Abilities.
Let me see if I have the steps for character creation straight. 1> Rate the categories 1a> "Innate" is A 1b> Make one other A 1c> Make three others B…
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Participants: Vaxalon, KingstonC.

5/2/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] Examples of Play?
Did I read correctly that there are transcripts of online play? If so, where are they?
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Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack.

5/5/2005 aplath: [TSOY] Troops
Hello all, I was discussing TSOY with a friend and we came up with an interpretation of the rules that we think is cool but we'd like to have a…
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Participants: aplath, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, Bob Goat, Clay, James_Nostack, RedPissLegion.

5/6/2005 James_Nostack: [Donjon] Streamlining Combat for IRC?
Three characters fight three monsters. Let's assume that for each of these 6 characters, their (Level + Discernment + initiative abilities) give 6 actions per flurry. For each of these…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Selene Tan.

5/10/2005 Vaxalon: [TSOY] Streamlining Bring Down the Pain for IRC?
I had a conflict running for two fairly inept combatants. They both could muster +2's at best, for the situation at hand. It was going slooooow. Is it supposed to…
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Participants: Vaxalon, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/10/2005 KingstonC: [TSOY] multiple NPC's in Bringing down the pain.
ok, so I ran "rat moon rising" last weekend, and the game climaxed with an all out battle between the PC's who were escoring the wounded troups out of the…
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Participants: KingstonC, Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon, aplath.

5/10/2005 Vaxalon: TSOY print vs. web versions
How much material is there in the print version that isn't in the web version?
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Participants: Vaxalon, Trevis Martin, Bob Goat, Victor Gijsbers, inthisstyle.

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