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7/27/2006 Andrew Craig: [TSOY] How do I run a con-style short demo?
Hey folks, I understand that TSOY gets the twenty-minute demo treatment at cons, and since it seems like a much more efficient and effective way of encouraging people to play…
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Participants: Andrew Craig, Gaerik, Clinton R. Nixon, r_donato, Eero Tuovinen.

7/26/2006 Ben Cassidy: TSOY Steampunk
Hey all, this is my first post on the forum. I have read the rules to TSOY, and think they are both clever and innovative. If I can get my…
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Participants: Ben Cassidy, Glendower, xjermx, Matthew Glover, Valamir, shadowcourt.

7/25/2006 joewolz: [tSoY] Call me ignorant, but I have a question.
This is a question for the man himself (Mr. Nixon): Your game is avvailable as open or creative commons.  I was wondering what the parameters are for publishing derivitive work? …
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Participants: joewolz.

7/22/2006 epweissengruber: [Donjon] Dice Probabilities
One of the members of IndieRPG Toronto has done a good job of breaking down the dice probabilities of Donjon.  I, Erik Weissengruber, Lord Grand Pooh Bah of Indie RPG…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Hans, Sonja.

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.

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.

7/17/2006 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.

7/16/2006 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.

7/15/2006 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.

7/15/2006 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.

7/12/2006 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.

7/11/2006 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.

7/10/2006 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.

7/9/2006 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.

7/7/2006 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.

7/5/2006 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.

7/2/2006 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.

7/1/2006 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.

7/1/2006 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.

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.

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7/28/2006 cpeterso: [TSOY] distilled vs undistilled poison?
How do distilled poisons differ from undistilled? TSOY pages 171-173 describe the poisons' effects with different verbiage, but I don't see a significant difference. thanks, chris
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Participants: cpeterso, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/31/2006 r_donato: [TSOY] Rules question re: BDTP with multiple opponents
I have some questions regarding standard (non-gestalt) BDTP with multiple opponents. Let's suppose we have three characters: A, B, and C. (I thought long and hard about those names.) Question…
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Participants: r_donato, Twobirds, Gaerik.

8/2/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Kingdom question.
I've got a LOT of nieces, nephews, and cousins.  Many are of around the target age for this game. My extended family is very, very Christian, and *will* read anything…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/3/2006 Matthew Glover: [TSOY] Broken, cannot act, so forced out of BDTP?
This happened in our game last night.  I just want to make sure I handled it in a manner consistent with the rules as written. Bobby and Jake's characters, having…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, Eero Tuovinen.

8/5/2006 JMendes: [TSOY] (June Retreat) Situation - A Not So Civil War
Hey, all, :) Here's a starting situation I used for our June RPG Retreat. Like Rat Moon Rising, it is in Maldor. Here's the thing, though. It's in Maldor because…
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Participants: JMendes, Everspinner.

8/7/2006 Eliarhiman6: [TSoY] Changing the Past
I searched for an answer to this question in the rules and in this forum, but I didn't find anything: A Khale traveling in the Green World could go in…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Twobirds, Gaerik, John Harper, joshua neff, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/9/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] (June Retreat) Five Keys in need of Feedback
Ahey, :) A'ight, then, here's a bunch of Keys that came up during this play session, which stemmed from this initial situation. I'm gonna post these on the wiki, eventually,…
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Participants: JMendes, Twobirds.

8/17/2006 dunlaing: [TPK] I Got to Play TPK With Actual Kids
I had a very interesting experience playing TPK (nice acronym) with actual kids. You can read more here: http://www.20by20room.com/2006/08/the_adventures_.html It was very interesting to me how little I missed Escalation.…
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Participants: dunlaing.

8/18/2006 Hans: Just in case, some Donjon wiki space
In case anyone is ever looking for any, Doyce Testerman was kind enough to add a Donjon section to the Random Wiki.  I've started putting some stuff there already.  http://random.average-bear.com/Donjon/HomePage
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Participants: Hans.

8/18/2006 Matthew Glover: [TSOY][New Key] Cursed!
In our swashbuckling pirates game last Wednesday, the crew was attempting to salvage a shipwreck and were somewhat startled to discover a huge sea serpent had taken up residence in…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, xjermx, John Harper, JMendes.

8/19/2006 Twobirds: [TSOY] Cults and secret societies
Clinton has mentioned that he's worked on a supplement for The Shadow of Yesterday called "Yesterday's Heresies."  He's linked the doc-in-progress before, so I think it's okay if I throw…
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Participants: Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.

8/21/2006 whytcrow: [TSOY] Long term campaigns
We're just finishing up a medium-ish long campaign of TSOY, and I really like the way the system works.  However, we've really hit the keys for all their worth, as…
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Participants: whytcrow, Gaerik, cpeterso, oliof, shadowcourt, Doyce, japrufrock, Paka, Frank T.

8/24/2006 tonyd: [TSOY] Bringing Down the Dungeon
In our last week's TSOY game, I came up with an interesting tactic for bringing down the pain. The group had made their desire for some dangerous underground archaeology in…
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Participants: tonyd, Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper.

8/25/2006 BobbyKearan: [TSOY] Martial Artist ?
Just brainstorming on how to accomplish something... Dirty : Scrapping Secret of Speciality - Scrapping : Unarmed Combat (or "ninjitsu", etc) Use Athletics to assist scrapping for cool moves. Secret…
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Participants: BobbyKearan, Frank T.

8/25/2006 forlorn1: Firefly-esque TSOY? culture interaction etc..
Anyone ever thought of combining these two great tastes?  I seem to have a vague memory that Clinton posted something about TSOY really shinning when it came to the interaction…
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Participants: forlorn1, Twobirds, Doyce.

8/26/2006 BWA: [Sweet20] d20 Keys
Clinton, My D&D group is just getting back together this week after a long hiatus, and we were all super excited to use the version of Keys you worked out…
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Participants: BWA, Clinton R. Nixon, cpeterso, ffilz.

8/26/2006 Doyce: A *THIRD* Cover?
Okay, before I bitch that I ordered a revised edition copy of TSoY (apparently) about month too early and got the one cover I flat out do not like at…
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Participants: Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, Squeeze, Skywalker, Brand_Robins, coffeestain, Clay.

8/28/2006 cpeterso: Cheap and Cheesy Adventure Generator?
Does the Cheap and Cheesy Adventure Generator still exist? The old anvilwerks.com URL http://www.anvilwerks.com/c_and_c.php is currently 404. And http://www.crngames.com/c_and_c.php too. thanks, chris
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Participants: cpeterso, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/28/2006 IMAGinES: TSoy BDtP Rules Quibble
Hi, Clinton, Something I wanted to check with you. Over in the Actual Play forum, you wrote: Parallel vs Perpendicular…
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Participants: IMAGinES, Eero Tuovinen, Daermon, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/29/2006 Myrmidon: Is TSOY no longer available online for free?
Clinton et al.,   On the old anvilwerks site there was access to the full text of TSOY (both original and revised).  But on the new site, I don't see…
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Participants: Myrmidon, Clinton R. Nixon, Twobirds, droog, r_donato, Clay.

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