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In CRN Games 6/25/2006 Miedvied: One-shot or Mini-campaign TSoY: Player(s) needed (IRC)
I'm putting myself forward to GM a one-shot or mini-campaign of TSoY on #indierpgs. I've dropped a line on the indie rpg mailing list, but I thought it only fair…
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Participants: Miedvied.
6/25/2006 zmook: [TSoY] Proposed rules for sorcery
[quote]In the midst of the table an alembic was working. The lamp's flame -- deep blue, this one -- kept a-boil in the large crystal cucurbit a dark, viscid fluid…
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Participants: zmook, Doyce, Eero Tuovinen.
6/25/2006 xjermx: [TSOY] Key Opposition and Alignment
I played a couple of sessions with a group of characters that were not all created at the same time - we had some players join us late in the…
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Participants: xjermx, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon.
6/25/2006 xjermx: [TSOY] BDtP the only way to get rid of named character?
Regarding BDtP, the revised TSOY book says: "This not only allows her to zoom in the imagined camera on this conflict, but is the only way to permanently injure or…
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Participants: xjermx, Miedvied, Gaerik.
6/25/2006 xjermx: Where does the conflict lie?
I'm trying to figure out how to best phrase this question, even as I write it, so you'll have to pardon me as I try to make this coherent.
Also,…
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Participants: xjermx, r_donato, zmook, Valamir.
6/24/2006 zmook: [TSoY] Secret of Imbuement
The Secret of Imbuement says:
Turn an item into a weapon or armor, using the rules found in the Resolution chapter. You can add one weapon or armor rating to…
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Participants: zmook, Eero Tuovinen, JMendes, Clinton R. Nixon, shadowcourt, Miedvied.
6/23/2006 xjermx: questions regarding Zu
I've had a couple of questions come up in regard to Zu, and I wanted to see if I could get some feedback.
Firstly, I've seen that a character can…
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Participants: xjermx, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt, JMendes, Twobirds.
6/23/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Mighty Blow and How Harm Works
Ahey, :)
This thread made me stop and think about Mighty Blow and then it made me stop a bit more and think about how Harm works.
So, here's me…
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Participants: JMendes, Threlicus, Twobirds, zmook, demiurgeastaroth, Clinton R. Nixon, Doyce, r_donato.
6/22/2006 Myrmidon: [TSOY] Representing massed opponents
I'm playing with an idea of how to represent in TSOY a group or swarm of creatures acting coopoeratively against a single target (e.g. swarm of hornets, pack of rats,…
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Participants: Myrmidon, r_donato.
6/22/2006 Joe Murphy (Broin): The 1/3 and 1/2/5 Keys
What's the difference between keys where the awards are in increments of 1/3 and 1/2/5?
I'm writing up new keys and would like some way to get my head around…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Clinton R. Nixon, Myrmidon, Eero Tuovinen, Glendower, demiurgeastaroth.
6/21/2006 Matthew Glover: [TSOY] Weapons and Armor
I want to make sure I have this right, because the text is a little unclear. This i what I think is intended. Am I right?
quote="what I think the…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, Clinton R. Nixon, JMendes.
6/19/2006 RedPissLegion: Unwanted transcendence
If I got it straight the point of Transcendence is used to cap characters that became to powerfull for the the story to deal with and at the same time…
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Participants: RedPissLegion, Clay, Ralek, Mike Lucas.
6/19/2006 RedPissLegion: Secret of Shattering Vs Troops
It was mentioned that Troops could be used as weapons in a conflict, i think this is a very groovy ideia, however there is no mention in the Secret Of…
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Participants: RedPissLegion, IMAGinES.
6/19/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [TSOY] Starting a new game; asking about BDTP
RedPissLegion wrote:
I get (i think... hope) the idea of BDTP, zoom in on the conflit and get your hands dirty with the bloody mess of the conflict.
What's…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, RedPissLegion, Clay, Thunder_God, Gaerik, John Harper, Frank T.
6/18/2006 Gasten: [Donjon] What is a fact?
[quote author=James_Nostack link=topic=20055.msg210209#msg210209 date=1150210819]
Here's the real question for Donjon, though, and one perhaps best saved for another thread: what on earth is a fact?
[/quote]
A fact is something…
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Participants: Gasten, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon, cpeterso, epweissengruber, Hans, Lxndr, Valamir.
6/12/2006 Sonja: [Donjon] Is it free now?
Clinton has put up a TXT version of Donjon online for free:
http://www.anvilwerks.com/src/donjon/donjon.txt
Does this mean the PDF version (with nicer layout!) is also free now?
What about the Donjon…
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Participants: Sonja, Twobirds.
6/10/2006 Miedvied: [TSoY] The Knights of the Thrice-Bled Lotus
I was generally futzing about for some character thumbnails for a TSoY game I'm instigating on #indierpgs, and a throw-away line came to me as I was flipping through the…
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Participants: Miedvied, James_Nostack.
6/9/2006 Matthew Glover: [TSOY] Swashbucklers
After a long lapse in regular gaming, I roped a group together and laid out all my indie games and threw out a few ideas for what we might play. …
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Participants: Matthew Glover, Clinton R. Nixon.
6/9/2006 Miedvied: [TSoY] Astronomy
Specifically, I never quite grasped what the sky is like in Near. For some reason, I have the feeling that night-time is presided over by the moon, while day-time is…
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Participants: Miedvied, IMAGinES, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.
6/8/2006 Sonja: Donjon dice odds
I consulted some mathematicians and found the following useful statistics related to dice rolls in Donjon:
When creating a character's attributes and rolling 3d6 and keeping only the median die,…
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Participants: Sonja.
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In CRN Games 6/27/2006 IMAGinES: [TSoY] Timing of Pool Dice
Hi, folks. With any luck, I'll be running my first Shadow of Yesterday game for a couple of friends in a couple of weeks, so I've been poring over the…
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Participants: IMAGinES, Clinton R. Nixon, Threlicus, r_donato, zmook.
6/28/2006 xjermx: [TSOY] weapons and armor, applied to magic
A player posed the following question to me:
"Would it be posible to have a weapon/aparatus that assists in magic? Perhaps a sort of amplifier?
I was thinking of a…
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Participants: xjermx, shadowcourt, zmook.
6/28/2006 xjermx: [TSOY] Using abilities together
Using abilities together (specifically, outside of BDtP)
A player of mine and I began debating the finer points of using two abilities together during a complex conflict resolution, and I…
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Participants: xjermx, r_donato.
6/28/2006 xjermx: [TSOY] using magic systems together
Okay, I promise I'll stop opening threads. Thanks for everybody's patience in answering my many and assorted questions.
My inquisitive player dreams of his Zu magician as being able to…
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Participants: xjermx, shadowcourt, zmook, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon.
6/29/2006 Miedvied: [TSoY] Fanboy Mouth-foam Coolness
I can't really post up an elaborate actual play, because so much of it has totally blurred. I'll try to add high points later, if I can. Anyway, we (I…
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Participants: Miedvied.
7/1/2006 Gaerik: Actual Play Post
I put an Actual Play post up on the Forge General Forums. I didn't want to recreate the whole thing here but I did want to direct some attention to…
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Participants: Gaerik.
7/1/2006 zmook: [TSoY] Ability Check Stakes and Harm outside of Combat
There was a thread on this a while ago, but some questions never got resolved.
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18188.0
(1) The rules say that BDTP is "the only way to permanently injure or…
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Participants: zmook, Eero Tuovinen, Doyce, Miedvied, Tancred, Gaerik, Clinton R. Nixon, RedPissLegion.
7/2/2006 Tensen01: [TSOY 1e] Custom Character Sheet
Okay, my friend was telling me about <i>The Shadow of Yesterday</i> last night, and talking about running it... And I saw the sheet for it... well, I have the tendency…
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Participants: Tensen01, oliof.
7/5/2006 Artanis: [TSoY] How many times do Keys activate? Variant Buyoff?
Hello,
In the revised print edition of Shadow of Yesterday, there's this comment in parenthesis in the description of "Everything Else" Keys on page 69, saying (You can use this…
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Participants: Artanis, Clinton R. Nixon, zmook, Sydney Freedberg, rafial, Threlicus, TonyLB.
7/7/2006 r_donato: [TSOY] "Playing the game"
Hello,
I've been telling some friends about TSOY, trying to convince them to play it. They all come from a traditional-RPG background, with all the assumptions that that entails. So,…
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Participants: r_donato, rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Artanis, zmook.
7/9/2006 Filip Luszczyk: [Donjon] Dice deviations
Now, I know that I may be frowned upon by everyone for creating such a heretical thread, but after yesterday's test I realised how slow, unwieldy and confusing the basic…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Iskander, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.
7/10/2006 oliof: [TSOY] dubious rules fragment
Hello,
I am in the process of translating TSOY to german, and I stumbled about this paragraph in the rules:
The third and final step is actually rolling the…
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Participants: oliof, zmook.
7/11/2006 Hans: [TSOY] Oran and Zu syllables
I thought I had posted these questions before, but now I can't find them. Either I am losing my mind, or Mr. Nixon really HATES me asking these questions and…
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Participants: Hans, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Mark Woodhouse, Sydney Freedberg, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt, Frank T, oliof.
7/12/2006 Sonja: [Donjon] in Toronto!
We are going to play Donjon! Join us if you are in Toronto.
http://roleplayers.meetup.com/261/events/5020606/
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Participants: Sonja, epweissengruber.
7/15/2006 Hans: [Donjon] Selecting abilities for NPC's
This selecting abilities things seems to me like it would be easy, but as I sit here fooling around with different ideas, it turns out to be giving me more…
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Participants: Hans.
7/15/2006 rex monday: Shipping times
I'm not sure where to post a question like this. If this place isn't appropriate, please close or delete this thread.
What are the normal shipping times people have experienced…
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Participants: rex monday, Thunder_God, Clinton R. Nixon.
7/16/2006 Doyce: [TSoY] Key of Glittering Gold, problem
Hey all,
I've run a scenario two times just recently where a character in the group (two different players, two different groups) had Key of Glittering Gold. Actually, it was…
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Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, dindenver, zmook.
7/17/2006 cjnodell: Shaking out harm???
Hi everyone. I would like to start off by saying that I love the system. It seems realy cool and i can not wait to play it. I have been…
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Participants: cjnodell, r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Karasu, cpeterso, TheCzech.
7/20/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: Preorders for The Princes' Kingdom
The Princes' Kingdom is off to press, and man, it looks good! Between that and a big reprint of The Shadow of Yesterday, whew, what a week!
You want to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, Zabieru, coffeestain, joshua neff, oliof.
7/21/2006 shadowcourt: BDTP: Parallel vs Perpendicular
With the caveat that I've been a 1st edition TSOY player for my experiences with the game, I wanted to ask around about 2nd edition's "Parallel vs. Perpendicular" facet to…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Mike Lucas.
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