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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.

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] 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.

5/6/2005 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.

5/5/2005 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.

5/2/2005 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.

5/1/2005 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.

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.

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.

4/29/2005 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.

4/28/2005 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.

4/19/2005 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.

4/17/2005 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.

4/11/2005 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.

4/6/2005 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.

4/2/2005 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.

4/1/2005 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.

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.

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.

3/19/2005 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.

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5/15/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Starting Skills
When we designed characters yesterday, something struck us as odd: Players can then choose all abilities that fall into A-rated categories, 5 abilities that fall into B-rated categories, and 3…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, KingstonC.

5/18/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Shadow Wars!
Yeah, it's not a roleplaying game. It's a war game. But it's from Anvilwerks. See my personal website (http://www.crystalandclinton.com/clinton/) for more details. It's in playtest.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Grover.

5/23/2005 James_Nostack: [TSOY] Why NOT to Bring It?
Question about the design: Is there any reason why a player wouldn't Bring Down the Pain whenever she doesn't get her way? Like, "Oops, I flubbed that roll. Bring the…
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Participants: James_Nostack, KingstonC, pfischer, aplath, Victor Gijsbers.

6/9/2005 Paka: [Paladin] Jedi Summer
The monthly gaming group I meet with is six gamers, three men and three women and 3 games in and we've all really begun to bond. People bring food to…
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Participants: Paka, James_Nostack.

6/10/2005 Bret Gillan: [Paladin] Abilities
Hey folks. I was reading through the free online version of Paladin, and it mentions Abilities and buying up Abilities, but as far as I could see there's no mention…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/16/2005 CodexArcanum: [Chromed] A Shadowrun to Donjon Conversion
The title about says it, but I'll let my introduction say just a bit more. As a college student, I'm blessed with a fair bit of free time,…
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Participants: CodexArcanum, b_bankhead, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/20/2005 Darcy Burgess: [TSOY] 2 parter re: pool refreshes
part the first, aka the "general question": Aren't the pool refresh rules a "gimme"? Since the only requirement is to narrate something, then the only obstacle to overcome is the…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/22/2005 inthisstyle: [Fifth World]
I've been working on my TSOY variant called The Fifth World. It's based on Southwest Native American culture, and it is really starting to take shape. I just finished the…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/24/2005 Darcy Burgess: TSOY goes Orbital
Last night, our group ran a quick playtest of some mods (ok, heavy hacking) I did to TSOY in hopes of getting the basic framework of the system to support…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, rafial.

6/24/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Pools and Refreshment: Instinct vs Vigor
So one of the hard points for me with TSOY is determining the dividing line between Instinct and Vigor for purposes of refreshing pools. Could someone break it down for…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, inthisstyle, ffilz, Negilent.

6/24/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Re-doing Bringing Down the Pain
From this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15779 I keep running into sharp edges that need to be filed in TSOY (especially with my new game I'm running - we've completely re-done…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, inthisstyle, Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, James_Nostack, Vaxalon, bcook1971, dyjoots, Jeffrey Straszheim.

6/24/2005 dyjoots: [TSoY] A few questions after actual play
I fell in love with TSoY after reading the internet version, and I bought the print book. I finally convince my group to try it out for a one shot,…
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Participants: dyjoots, Darcy Burgess, James_Nostack.

6/28/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: TSOY odds generator
If you've ever been curious about how odds work in TSOY, check this out: http://www.anvilwerks.com/cgi-bin/tsoy_dice.rb You can enter two sides of a contest (ability score, bonus/penalty dice) and see what…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, dyjoots.

6/29/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: TSOY owners' survey
Hi, all. Between my recent awesome play of The Shadow of Yesterday and some awesome discussion in the forum, my interest in TSOY has been re-sparked to a great degree.…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, dyjoots, pfischer, joshua neff, Alan, James_Nostack, Jeffrey Straszheim, Trevis Martin, Negilent, bcook1971, KingstonC, Darcy Burgess, Thor Olavsrud, Clay.

7/5/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: The Solar System discussion
So, I finally let the cat slip and posted the link to my working copy of the new TSOY rules. You can find them here: http://www.anvilwerks.com/src/tsoy2/solar_system.html I've been playing with…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, dyjoots, Paul Czege, Bankuei, aplath, Christopher Weeks, bcook1971, Andy Kitkowski, Jasper Polane, pfischer, Thierry Michel, J B Bell, Vaxalon, First Age, Yasha, Andrew Morris, KingOfFarPoint, James_Nostack, demiurgeastaroth, Remko, matthijs.

7/18/2005 TonyLB: TSoY review up at RPG.Net
Just got back from a weekend away and noticed this.  A little on the bland "let me recount the high points of the game without judgment" side, but hey, a…
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Participants: TonyLB.

7/26/2005 inthisstyle: [Fifth World] Game Design Advice
A post in Indie Game Design, for those of you who haven't seen it: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16131.0 Please comment if you can.
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Participants: inthisstyle.

8/2/2005 Miskatonic: TSoY Hardcover
[quote author=Clinton R. Nixon link=topic=16225.msg172779#msg172779 date=1123006356] [b]Anvilwerks[/b] [i]The Shadow of Yesterday[/i] (softcover) $20 [i]The Shadow of Yesterday[/i] (hardcover) $30 [i]Donjon[/i] $10 [/quote] Waitaminute... I must have missed the memo about…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, Gaerik, Jasper Polane, dyjoots, Rob Donoghue, Clay.

8/5/2005 Negilent: Adapting the Solar System v 2005
I've been ranting about TSOY to my group for a while, (and the events surrounding the latest game can be found over at Actual Play) I'd like to share a…
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Participants: Negilent, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/9/2005 Artanis: [Paladin] Detecting Animus question
Hello, Thanks for such a great game! I'm on the brink of starting a mini Paladin campaign using the Warhammer 40k universe (Actual Play should follow). In Detecting Animus, nothing…
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Participants: Artanis, Clinton R. Nixon.

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