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1/20/2007 The Dragon Master: Alternate Donjon Board?
Does anyone know if there is a more active board for Donjon? Or is this pretty much it?
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Clinton R. Nixon, Ante.

1/18/2007 jasonm: Watership TSoY
Hey friends, I'm going to use TSoY to run a Bunnies and Burrows event at Camp Nerdly One.* Here's a .pdf of the Abilities, Secrets, and Keys I'll be using. …
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Participants: jasonm, segedy, Clinton R. Nixon, crowyhead.

1/17/2007 The Dragon Master: [Donjon] The Hitchhikers Guide to the Donjon...
Once I get my other setting for Donjon finished I plan to start this one. The basic idea is to take Donjon into the world of The Hitchhikers Guide to…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, quozl, Hans.

1/16/2007 The Dragon Master: Adding Actions
I'll be starting my first game in the next week or two and wanted to make sure I understood correctly. When it says in the text that you add the…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/2/2007 The Dragon Master: [Donjon] Character Roll's Cheat Sheet
I am starting a game for my nieces and my nephew using the Hyrule setting that I have posted elsewhere, and realized that to keep them interested I would have…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, WRPIgeek.

12/30/2006 The Dragon Master: [Donjon] Hyrule as a setting...
I was looking through the forums and saw this suggested. I went home last night and found my old Ocarina of Time Players Guide and have started working on it.…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Twobirds.

12/27/2006 xjermx: Shadowrun of Yesterday
Did my title give it away? A gaming friend of mine and I have played shadowrun a few times over the years.. its a really fun game with a pretty…
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Participants: xjermx, Darcy Burgess, shadowcourt, c, Clinton R. Nixon, lev_lafayette, Barlennan, Hans, Brand_Robins, dindenver, r_donato.

12/27/2006 Clay: [TSoY] Hardcover with the new cover?
I'd like to buy a hardcover version of the book, but I'd strongly prefer the new cover with what certainly looks like Jennifer Rodgers' art.  That cover conveys more of…
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Participants: Clay.

12/18/2006 Ludanto: Secret of Knock-Back?
Ok, it knocks an opponent back several yards.  Got that.  But it also ends Bringing Down the Pain "without resolution".  Sooooo, what does that mean?  Do we go back to…
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Participants: Ludanto, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik.

12/13/2006 joewolz: [TSOY] Quick Harm Question.
Can a character be Harmed in a situation in which the Pain was not Brought down?
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Participants: joewolz, Technocrat13, Eero Tuovinen, IMAGinES.

12/13/2006 WRPIgeek: [Donjon] Looking for feedback on a supplement
Howdy everyone. I've been a fan of Donjon for quite a while, and when I looked back into it recently I found out it was on a Creative Commons license.…
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Participants: WRPIgeek, The Dragon Master, Hans.

12/13/2006 thark: [TSOY] Inapplicable Keys
Something that hasn't come up yet in play (three sessions into our first TSOY campaign and lovin' it so far) but which I've realized might and wanted to have an…
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Participants: thark, Twobirds, Eero Tuovinen, r_donato, Alan.

12/11/2006 Invain: Donjon still available from IPR?
I was looking for Donjon on the IPR website today and couldn't find it. Is it still available in print form? Thanks! ~Kevin McD
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Participants: Invain, Trevis Martin.

12/5/2006 AaronDaMommio: [Donjon] Using Donjon as a first RPG
I've been playing Donjon with my 9 year old son. It's my first try at Donjon and his first serious try at an RPG. We've been playing just the two…
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Participants: AaronDaMommio.

11/30/2006 Supplanter: {TPK} The Princes' Kingdom Wiki
Doyce Testerman has generously provided Random Average Wiki space for Princes' Kingdom. Yay! I'd love it if Doyce and Raven and Brennan Taylor and others who have played the game…
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Participants: Supplanter, Caesar_X, HMT.

11/29/2006 Judaicdiablo: [TSOY] Keys - in Business Card Format
Hi All,   I made these a while back for our game and I finally got around to finishing them up.  I hope you like them.  I plan to do…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, forlorn1, oliof, Andy Kitkowski, IMAGinES, ZeOtter.

11/24/2006 Miskatonic: TPK review at RPGnet
New review of The Princes' Kingdom up on RPGnet: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12593.phtml Pretty good review.
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Participants: Miskatonic.

11/13/2006 Frank T: [TSoY] Secret of Mighty Blow
Rules question. I have a Vigor pool of 5+ and the Secret of Mighty Blow. The first time I hit, in a fight, ends the fight, because I can spend…
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Participants: Frank T, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/11/2006 Doyce: Secret of Imbuement & Living Morph
Quick question: Someone wants a furry cloak that, norse-like, lets them change into an animal form.  Okay. Great. Secret of Imbuement with Secret of Living Morph from 3-corner magic.  Falcon-shape…
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Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

11/10/2006 memolith: [Donjon] Many Various Tweaks
First off, I want to say how much I love Donjon. We finished up the sample adventure in the book last night, and it was tremendously fun. One short anecdote:…
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Participants: memolith, The Dragon Master, 1of3.

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1/23/2007 oliof: [TSOY] Translation to german in the works
Hello everyone, I am working on the translation of TSOY to german, meekly following the tracks of Eero Tuovinen, the driving force behind the finnish translation of TSOY. Everyone is…
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Participants: oliof.

1/26/2007 Doyce: TSoY Steampunk thoughts
Hi all; quick question before I run off to the airport. I've started up a tsoy steampunk game set in a sort of Italian city state in roughly the era…
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Participants: Doyce, segedy, Eero Tuovinen.

2/1/2007 Russell Hoyle: [TSOY] secrets and abilities
Hi Gentlefolk, Any wise thoughts or guidance on what sorts of things constitute secrets and how one discriminates them from skills or other abilities ? I know breadth is a…
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Participants: Russell Hoyle, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

2/4/2007 Ante: How does Advances really work in TSoY?
I've found a on-line text of a intrguing game, read it through and felt it had to be played. It's TSoY, of course. Now, there's one thing I don't get.…
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Participants: Ante, Twobirds, oliof, r_donato, crowyhead, Hans.

2/13/2007 davidboze: TSOY Tribe - players play tribes
I posted this on rpgnet and someone suggested there might be interest here.  I might run it as a pbem there if anyone is up for it. Tribe This game…
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Participants: davidboze, Hans.

2/20/2007 1of3: [Donjon] Preparations
Hi. My Donjoneers have completed their first adventure (after three sessions) and I noticed something about the basic rules. We know it's pretty simple: 1 success = 1 fact or…
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Participants: 1of3, Hans, Valamir.

2/26/2007 oliof: The Map: placing Oran, small discrepancy
Hello, working on the translation, I tried to find a place for Oran, which led to me taking a closer look at the map. This led me to the conclusion…
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Participants: oliof, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.

2/26/2007 Brand_Robins: Tribe 8 TSOY
I've been working on and off for about a week now on a port of Tribe 8 to TSOY. I got a chunk of it done, have a big chunk…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Wil, Eero Tuovinen.

3/1/2007 oliof: [TSoY] Stealing from the best: Alternative rules for group actions
I am just enjoying the read of the Esoterrorists, and since obviously I have a lot of TSoY on my mind right now, the rules for group actions sprang in…
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Participants: oliof, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.

3/1/2007 1of3: [Donjon] Traps
Hi. Donjon includes very nice rules for creating monsters and foes, but it's a little thin on traps. So which traps have you made up? And what advice would you…
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Participants: 1of3, The Dragon Master, Hans, Thenomain.

3/5/2007 lericson: Keys in World of Darkness
I have adopted the Keys from The Shadow of Yesterday (TSOY) for my White Wolf World of Darkness (WoD]) campaign.  I thought I'd share how I adopted the rules and…
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Participants: lericson, Gaerik, Filip Luszczyk, Warren, Thenomain, xjermx, Simon C, Everspinner, Hans.

3/9/2007 Eliarhiman6: [TSoY] Know Truth: "asked of her"?
Page 136, Divination Secrets, Know Truth: "Your character can know the answer to any question asked of her. The GM will determine the clarity of these answers by your success…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, oliof.

3/12/2007 1of3: [Donjon] Tweaking Skills and Saves
Some more tweaks for Donjon. When my fellow players like these as well (and I'm pretty sure, they will), there's hardly anything left from the original rules. ;) Anyway, I…
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Participants: 1of3, The Dragon Master, Hans.

3/13/2007 John Brown: [ TSOY ] Clarification request: Zu words
I am assuming, though unsure, that the word Zu or Uz can be known by more than one character at a time thus differing from other Zu words of power.…
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Participants: John Brown, Eero Tuovinen.

3/15/2007 Simon C: [Sweet20] Keys to represent character religions.
Hey, I'm messing around with implimenting the Sweet20 experience system (Keys) into another game with a pretty specific celtic/mythological irish flavour.  Think Slaine.  Anyhow, I was thinking that Keys could…
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Participants: Simon C, Ludanto.

3/15/2007 Hans: [TSOY] Finnish multi-participant BDtP rules, some questions
Eero placed a brief summary of his Finnish version of the multi-participant pain rules in this thread.  Multi-party BDtP is a regular and consistently troubling feature for the game I…
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Participants: Hans, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

4/2/2007 Rustin: [tsoy] bonus dice statistical impact?
So with 3dF you have a 3.7% chance of getting a 3, an 11.11% of getting a 2, a 22.22 of getting a 1 and a 62.96% chance of getting …
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Participants: Rustin, Hans.

4/3/2007 LandonSuffered: Raked Over The Coals
Man...I just recommended your game Donjon to a young (age 13) friend of mine, based entirely on what he wanted to play (a stripped-down, narrative D&D) and on the…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, oliof, Clinton R. Nixon, Hans, Eliarhiman6.

4/5/2007 Rustin: [TSoY] Simple Rules questions
[b]If the success level is equal or better than the difficulty, the character has succeeded. [/b] So does that mean in addition to contemplating penalty or bonus dice the GM…
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Participants: Rustin, Clinton R. Nixon, Hans.

4/5/2007 Rustin: [TSoY] Complext Rules Question
I struggled the first time I played with Abilities and how--well, they are sort of open ended and vague. I ended up using Athletics for pretty much everything.  So I…
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Participants: Rustin, Eero Tuovinen.

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