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5/7/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] playing time and handling chargen
Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up my first TSOY game, which I'll be running with my semi-regular Castles and Crusades group. I've done quite a lot of…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Hans, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik.

4/30/2007 lantern314: Venturing out of the [Dojnon]
I just purchased Donjon from Lulu, but haven't had a chance to play it yet. I've had an idea for a war based fantasy campaign in my head for a…
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Participants: lantern314.

4/20/2007 Four Skulls: Pyrokinesis, my attempt at tinkering
It's been awhile since I've posted, but I've started back working on my Sci-Fan game world.  I've been having some difficulty in using secrets/abilities to model concepts, but I think…
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Participants: Four Skulls, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt.

4/20/2007 Eliarhiman6: [TSoY] Refresh: with who?
Hello! I have a couple of question about the rules of The Shadows of Yesterday (I have the second edition with the white cover, I don't know if there are…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Doyce, Eero Tuovinen.

4/19/2007 peccable: [Donjon] Some basic questions
Hi. I've been playing in a TSOY campaign, and recently played The Prince's Kingdom with my niece, so when I found reference to an 'old skool flavored' RPG on the…
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Participants: peccable, The Dragon Master, Ante, Hans.

4/16/2007 okaynowa: [TSOY] Preparing TSOY/Eberron one-off
Long time lurker, first time poster. I recently bought TSOY after falling in love with the descriptions of the Key and BDTP systems. I'm currently running a D&D 3.5 Eberron…
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Participants: okaynowa, Eero Tuovinen.

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.

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.

4/3/2007 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.

4/2/2007 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.

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.

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.

3/13/2007 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.

3/12/2007 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.

3/9/2007 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.

3/5/2007 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.

3/1/2007 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.

3/1/2007 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.

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.

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.

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5/14/2007 Rustin: [TSoY] Need advice
I've managed to play TSoY three times in the past two weeks.  I'm playing it again tonight. TSOY is now my preferred game. I still have two main issues. Stakes…
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Participants: Rustin, Clinton R. Nixon, oliof, Rob Alexander.

5/23/2007 RedPissLegion: [TSoY] IIEE breakdown and stakes
Hi, Initial note: I didn't want to de rail Rustin's thread so I started this one. After reading the link that Rustin posted on this reply a couple of doubts…
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Participants: RedPissLegion, Clinton R. Nixon, oliof.

5/24/2007 oliof: [TSOY] Mystery and Suspense?
Hello, I was asked in another forum how mystery and suspense could ever work in a game where the stakes are set openly and there are no hidden checks whatsoever.…
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Participants: oliof, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt.

5/26/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [TPK] An official Polish website?
Browsing CRN Games site I've found a link to an official Polish website of TPK, here: http://www.crngames.com/the_princes_kingdom/links Only, it links to one news about the game and that's all. Also,…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

5/31/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] several beginner's questions
Hi, Finally ran the game I was talking about in http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23848. I raise some general issues in the AP thread (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24038.0), but I've got a few specific rules questions as…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik.

6/6/2007 Ludanto: [TSoY] Perception in BDtP?
Hi! Here's the situation.  Pick-Tooth the ratkin is sneaking past a guard (Stealth vs. React), but fails, so he Brings Down the Pain.  Now Pick-Tooth continues to try to evade…
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Participants: Ludanto, Gaerik, Eero Tuovinen.

6/7/2007 Rob Alexander: various questions after second session
Hi all, I just ran a second session of TSOY after the one described here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24038.0. Glad to say it seemed to go a lot better this time, despite having…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt.

6/15/2007 thark: [tsoy] Zu...
So, I'm starting a new TSOY campaign, and it's set to potentially feature some Zu in it. Naturally, I'm having dreadful trouble coming up with anything that seems reasonable and…
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Participants: thark, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

6/20/2007 xjermx: Keys that tie in to other players
So I'm thinking about a TSoY game in which some of the players are bound to other players - something like the relationship between Warders and Aes Sedai in Wheel…
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Participants: xjermx, Eero Tuovinen.

6/21/2007 Bret Gillan: [TSOY] Don't Make Me Fuck You Up With My Crane Style
Hey guys. I wanted a game that I could play while I listened to rap, so I tinkered with The Shadow of Yesterday (for its brilliance, tinkerability, and consistently awesome…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, xjermx, Eero Tuovinen.

6/26/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [TSoY Prep] What is in the ancient Zaru capital?
So, in our World of Near, I am using Harald’s interpretation of the geography: The Zaru now live in the Zaru delta, but the peninsula to the north is the…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Rob Alexander, oliof.

6/27/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] PCs can win if they want to?
In another thread, Eero said: For your concerns, I direct you to check out the resource odds the system of TSOY provides for players. There…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, oliof, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen.

7/2/2007 xjermx: [TSOY] commanding NPCs via an ability
This may not be the first time this flavor of question has been asked, but I couldn't locate its twin, so - It occurred to me to have an ability…
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Participants: xjermx, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt, oliof.

7/4/2007 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Goblin Adaptability has never quite sat right with me
This was inspired by a comment I made on another threat about how abilities never really require Secrets to perform as written-- the assumption being that you don't have to…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen, Ludanto.

7/7/2007 oliof: REIGN of TSoY
Inevitably, I had to mash up two of my favorite games. Since I didn't see a simple, non-artificial way to graft keys onto REIGN, I went out and "statted" up…
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Participants: oliof, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/11/2007 Aman the Rejected: Nuts and Bolts Rules Question
I have just a general question that I hope has a simple answer. Can anyone help me speculate on what would happen if Harm was always 1? This hypothetical would…
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Participants: Aman the Rejected, Twobirds, oliof, Gaerik.

7/27/2007 Clay: TSOY Supplements
Clinton, A couple of years back, you mentioned that you were at work on a TSOY supplement, something to do with religious groups and cults in TSOY.  Did that go…
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Participants: Clay, oliof.

7/31/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: What TSoY really needs is a list of Zu syllables
Frankly. I know, the point is “make up your own”, but whenever I’m supposed to make up my own, I’m stuck for at least ten minutes. I toss it out…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

8/2/2007 oliof: [TSOY] Zu Rules question
So, we were discussing syllables for Frank on that german rpg forum. A rules problem popped up. The rules explicitly state: only animate beings can be affected, and a…
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Participants: oliof, Frank Tarcikowski.

8/14/2007 Blessdevil: [TSoY] "painfull" question
I’m mastering a TSoY campaing and I’ve a strange problem. One of the player is an extremely noble and rich Ammenite, very skilled in poison making. He owns and rules…
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Participants: Blessdevil, thark, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt, shadowpriest.

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