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3/14/2006 Frank T: [TSoY] Middle Earth?
I really like the World of Near, and would like to play TSoY in it. Unfortunately, I’ve got a bunch of players that really hate “learning” a new setting. Since…
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Participants: Frank T, Clinton R. Nixon, James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir.

2/17/2006 Brian Newman: [TSOY] Glorantha
Has anyone tasted these two great tastes together?  It seems to me like a perfect match -- Gloranthan cultures already have keys and secrets (just not so formalized), cults obviously…
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Participants: Brian Newman, Paka, newsalor.

2/15/2006 James_Nostack: [Paladin] Reactive/Reactive Combat?
In the rules of Paladin, there's a chart for combat outcomes depending on whether someone is Active or Reactive.  As I understand it, an Active Flesh attribute is utilized whenever…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Artanis.

2/8/2006 yothales: [TSoY] Rules adapted for Degenesis
Hello everybody! I’m playing a German RPG named Degenesis. You can download it here for free. The artwork is terrific and absolutely worth a look. It’s a post-apocalyptic setting in…
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Participants: yothales.

2/3/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [TSOY] Some rules questions
Been playing the game a lot, lately. Like it very much. Some questions: 1) The book states that you cannot declare BDTP without a resisted roll (pg. 35). This means…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, ubergeek2012, Brian Newman.

2/3/2006 Leto II.: [TSOY] Bruised & Bloodied
If too Chars fight each other with abilities that use different Pools, bruised is a real nuisance (giving that penalty die on the next action), but bloodied has no effect…
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Participants: Leto II., Clinton R. Nixon, Paka.

2/3/2006 James_Nostack: [Donjon] Best/Funniest Classes
Inspired by the Ninja! thread, I'd like to see more fun classes for Donjon. Professional Coward * Hide Anywhere Beg to Reconsider Stab Wildly in Terror Run in Dread "Oh…
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Participants: James_Nostack, xjermx, Bret Gillan, ubergeek2012, John Harper, Sonja, Gaerik, 1of3, Blake Hutchins, Iskander.

2/2/2006 xjermx: [Donjon] Ninja!
Let me first apologize that this is not a more informational or somehow helpful post, or even asking a real question. I got my hands on Donjon very recently and…
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Participants: xjermx, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Morgan, Miskatonic.

1/18/2006 Bret Gillan: [TSOY] Buyoff XP Amount
Wouldn't it be better to make a Key's Buyoff equal to two Advances of XP rather than a flat 10 XP? In a 5XP Advance game, buying off a Key…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Clinton R. Nixon, Tancred, Eero Tuovinen.

1/6/2006 Clay: [TSoY] Making Fudge Dice
I recently made a set of dice to give to a friend when I gave him TSoY for Christmas.  I cut them from some scrap ash that I had kicking…
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Participants: Clay, Vaxalon, Twobirds, Paka, Brian Newman, Bankuei, cpeterso, John Harper, Paul Czege.

1/5/2006 Clay: [TSOY] A new character sheet
My regular group isn't overly receptive to new games. We've been burned too many times by the Great New Thing, invested lots of money in books, only to have the…
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Participants: Clay, Tancred, barna284.

1/2/2006 Frank T: [TSoY] Harm outside BDTP
So I'm in my "figuring out" phase for TSoY. I think the rulebook could use some more examples, that'd make it easier. One thing I wonder about: So you can…
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Participants: Frank T, Clinton R. Nixon, Tancred, James_Nostack, Twobirds, Bret Gillan, ubergeek2012.

12/27/2005 Graham Walmsley: [TSoY] Live action
Over Christmas, I was reading The Shadow of Yesterday. And it occurred to me that it would work perfectly as a LARP. Now, I'm suspicious of LARP conversions for tabletop…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, KingstonC.

12/26/2005 Albert of Feh: "Wings of Shadow" - upcoming game
I've managed to con a friend of mine into running a game of tSoY in Winter quarter. One of the things this guy likes to do for his games is…
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Participants: Albert of Feh, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, Bret Gillan, Zaldreon.

12/25/2005 James_Nostack: [TSoy] Shakespeare 101
[b]Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark[/b] Key of the Mission Key of the Coward Secret of Speaking to Ghosts * Freeload 2 * Discern Truth 1 * Etiquette 1 * Duel…
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Participants: James_Nostack, jasonm.

12/19/2005 Barlennan: [TSoY] Confused by the 2nd edition
I recently read the TSoY revised edition Creative Commons version, and I'm afraid I'm finding parts of it hard to follow. I should mention that my only experience with narrativist…
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Participants: Barlennan, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/14/2005 Paka: First Quest: YA Fantasy Keys
After tinkering and playing with some TSoY I've got this idea of how to tinker with it.  The tinkered version is a standard fantasy and it is what I wish…
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Participants: Paka, nikola, joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Bret Gillan, Joe Zeutenhorst, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, SherryNugil, Clay, John Harper.

12/12/2005 Paka: TSoY Tinkering Urges
I played the first half of a Planescape TSoY game tonight; it wasn't meaty enough for an AP thread but it stirred things up in my noggin. This game makes…
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Participants: Paka, John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, Ilmryn.

12/10/2005 James_Nostack: [SOY] Hybrid Harm
While I like most of the changes in Fudgy SOY, I kind of liked the old way of doing Harm.  This is my port of the Old SOY Harm thingy…
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Participants: James_Nostack.

12/9/2005 Matt Snyder: [TSoY] Ability categories 1st vs. revised
In the first edition, Clinton organized abilities into categories (for example, the Craft Abilities category, which included Haggling, Fine Crafts, Rough Crafts, and Complex Crafts). Players prioritized these catgories, and…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon.

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3/15/2006 bts: [TSOY] Newbie running Rat Moon Rising
I'm psyched to try out TSOY with my group.  I'm hoping to start with Rat Moon Rising, but using the revised rules.  It seems pretty clear how to convert abilities,…
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Participants: bts, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/17/2006 Willow: [TSOY] Confused about Changing Intentions
Hey there.  Recently picked up TSOY.  It's a pretty cool read, but I have problems wrapping my head around a couple of the concepts.  (And no, I'm not talking about…
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Participants: Willow, coffeestain, Eero Tuovinen.

3/22/2006 Twobirds: A couple SoY questions
It seems like there are lot of people into The Shadow of Yesterday, but not many people discussing it.  So I figured I would throw out a couple thoughts I…
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Participants: Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.

3/24/2006 Mike Lucas: [TSOY] rolling Fudge dice in OpenRPG / other programs
If anyone out there uses OpenRPG (www.openrpg.com), I've figured out how to do the weird TSOY fudge dice. I originally thought I was going to have to write a custom…
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Participants: Mike Lucas.

3/27/2006 lee-anne: Key Loss
Can anyone suggest a general buyout condition for this key? Key of Grief Your character has lost someone or something precious. Gain 1XP every time something reminds you of the…
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Participants: lee-anne, rafial, JMendes, Twobirds.

3/29/2006 rafial: Ability Advance Costs: comment
So the question came up in play last night as to whether the costs to increase abilities from the chart on page 18 from TSOY 2nd edition are simple or…
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Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/30/2006 Tog: [Donjon] Provisions get used up?
Hey, just downloaded Donjon last night and read it through this morning... looks like a seriously cool game (being the 25+ year gamer I am... ;)) (and may I say…
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Participants: Tog, coffeestain.

4/4/2006 ColinC: Findplay Down?
I hope this is the right place to post this.  Just wanted to mention that Findplay seems to be down.
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Participants: ColinC, demiurgeastaroth, Clinton R. Nixon, Rayston, Graham Walmsley, Gaerik.

4/12/2006 donbaloo: Regarding Intent
Hi all, Chris here.  I've got a few questions regarding intent within TSoY after our first test drive of the game and some reading of various threads here. 1)  I…
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Participants: donbaloo, rafial.

4/12/2006 donbaloo: Scene framing and narrative authority.
This is an issue that I've split out of my AP here, as I thought maybe it would be more relevant as a TSoY specific question.  We're still trying to…
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Participants: donbaloo, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper.

4/12/2006 donbaloo: Ability (or lack there of) Checks and BDTP
Just want to clarify whether we were playing the system correctly.  It is acceptable to use an ability in which you are Unskilled (0), so long as its not an…
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Participants: donbaloo, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/13/2006 donbaloo: Mandatory or required Secrets
Are these secrets free or does the player pay advances for them like any others?
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Participants: donbaloo, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/14/2006 JeePee: What kind of dice...
Hello I Have a little question about Donjon. What kind of dice are used in this game? d20's ???
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Participants: JeePee, Zamiel, Michael S. Miller.

4/19/2006 Paul Czege: anyone interested in a small Keys project?
So, a few months ago I ran across the Skyknights RPG. And dang if the game's motivations wouldn't be an interesting fit if converted to TSOY Keys: http://www.skyknightsrpg.com/Ver2/motivation.htm Anyway, my…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Niko, Eero Tuovinen.

4/21/2006 Belinda K.: Exalted --> TSoY Conversion
I’d like to convert my Exalted game to TSoY, to suit my light GMing style better and to make things 'flow' more. I've looked at Exalted --> Wushu, but really…
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Participants: Belinda K., James_Nostack, cpeterso, Filip Luszczyk, Andy Kitkowski.

4/22/2006 ( o Y o ): [TSoY] Confusion about unopposed ability check
"The third and final step is actually rolling the dice. If the success level is equal or better than the difficulty, the character has succeeded." (quote page 31) Huh???? What…
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Participants: ( o Y o ), Clinton R. Nixon.

4/22/2006 r_donato: [TSoY] Newbie here
Hi, all, Long-time lurker at the Forge, first post. I recently discovered The Shadow of Yesterday. It looks really exciting, because it seems to provide a lot of what I've…
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Participants: r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, James_Nostack, rafial, Twobirds.

4/24/2006 Belinda K.: [TSoY] BDTP Questions
I'm stuck on some of the wording... After the free-and-clear stage, everyone rolls ability checks for their action. If this is the first action in Bringing Down the Pain, the…
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Participants: Belinda K., rafial, demiurgeastaroth.

4/24/2006 ObLaDan: BDTP explanation
This is a step-by-step explanation of Brining Down the Pain that I came up with for my group, after lurking on this forum for a while.  Maybe it'll be helpful…
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Participants: ObLaDan, r_donato.

4/24/2006 Belinda K.: [TSoY] - The Shadow of D&D
Warrgh, the computer ate the latest draft of my 'Shadow of Exalted' conversion document. More on that later. But - I've also finished a quick D&D conversion, over here: http://random.average-bear.com/TSOY/TheShadowOfDungeonsAndDragons…
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Participants: Belinda K., Clinton R. Nixon, Paka.

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