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In CRN Games 12/28/2007 sabbatregent: [TSoY] A silly question about araka
So, the people in Qek have this cool drink called araka. Araka is supposed to be a distilled poison. But Distill Herbs is something only Ammenites know how to do...…
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Participants: sabbatregent, Clinton R. Nixon.
12/16/2007 akfu: [TSoY] Out of stock?
So after much lurking I finally decided to pick up a print copy of TSoY from Indie Press Revolution and to my horror they're out of stock! Any idea when…
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Participants: akfu, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, iago, sabbatregent.
12/4/2007 Greis: [TSOY] Passion Dice and A Gift from the Future
Hi
One of the neat things about TSoY er The Gift of Dice, however I can't help experimenting a bit with this resource. Recently Troels and I have begun playing…
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Participants: Greis, Eero Tuovinen, Troels.
11/30/2007 oliof: [TSOY] Return to Oran
What follows is a back translation of my current vision of Oran, inspired by Clinton and Eero elsewhere on this forum. Onno Tasler helped a lot with making this Oran,…
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Participants: oliof, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt.
11/29/2007 Troels: [TSoY] Shadows of Other Settings
I think I'm getting the hang of it now.
I had been a bit worried that TSoY would be cool in Near, and not-so-cool elsewhere, because setting and system are…
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Participants: Troels, Ron Edwards, oliof, shadowcourt, Greis.
11/21/2007 Paul T: [TSoY] Number of advances and Keys
I'm posting here as someone who wasn't played TSoY yet, in hopes of getting some basic advice.
I may be playing with RPG newbies, and I want to simplify the…
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Participants: Paul T, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.
11/19/2007 pells: [TSOY] - dealing with large groups
Context : I'm preparing a game with a couple of friends to play Avalanche using TSOY and I did come across some problems ...
I've got mainly two situations that…
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Participants: pells, Eero Tuovinen.
11/8/2007 Melinglor: Felexibility of Key Buyoffs?
I'm preparing to run Shadow of Yesterday and I've been thinking about Key Buyoffs. I love the wholeidea,but it nags at me that the stated Buyoffs for some of the…
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Participants: Melinglor, Filip Luszczyk, Eero Tuovinen.
11/3/2007 Uruush: [TSoY] Discern Truth
Is this a Reason or Instinct Ability?
In my copy, it's listed as an Instinct Ability in the Ability section, but the example goblin character has "Discern Truth (R)".
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Participants: Uruush, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.
10/28/2007 anders_larsen: [TSoY] Mass combat
Normally when I run games I try to keep away from mass combat - no matter what system I use - because I have a hard time handle them well,…
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Participants: anders_larsen, Eero Tuovinen, James_Nostack, shadowcourt.
10/20/2007 Paul T: [TSoY] Help me poison my lover
Hello.
I'm hoping to run a game of TSoY in the near future. I've been reading over the text that's just been put up on the CRN wikipage, and everything…
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Participants: Paul T, Clinton R. Nixon, oliof, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen.
10/18/2007 Troels: [TSoY] Curses and necromancy
Hi
A question and an idea I'm rather proud of.
Question: Here's an idea for a Secret: Cursing. It's sort of Blessing in reverse. The idea is, you make an…
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Participants: Troels, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, lucky.
10/9/2007 Aman the Rejected: [TSOY] The Shadow of the Abyss
On Saturday I ran a game for Eric and Lisa Provost and a new member of our local area, Eric Lofgren. It was intended to be a Conspiracy of Shadows…
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Participants: Aman the Rejected, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.
10/3/2007 Myrmidon: Keys of Motivation vs Keys of Everything Else
Can anyone assist me achieve a better understanding of the how 1/2/5 keys (Motivation) differ from 1/3 keys (Everything else)?
For example:
Key of Conscience
Your character has…
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Participants: Myrmidon, Clinton R. Nixon.
9/28/2007 Lexonus: [TSOY] healing question
So I am going through the rules in anticipation of introducing a few friends to the game and I am puzzled by the healing rules. The rules say:
Healing works…
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Participants: Lexonus, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, shadowcourt.
9/24/2007 Yokiboy: [TSoY] Lambert's Quest for Redemption
Hello,
I am posting an actual play report from our 1-on-1 game called Lambert's Quest for Redemption. The game is played with me as the Story Guide, and one of…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T.
9/23/2007 Corvus69: [TSoY] parallel action priority, task difficulty and other confusing things
hello this is my first post here. I actually registered just to ask these questions.
I study TSoY and I really like it. But there are things that really confuse…
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Participants: Corvus69, oliof, Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen.
9/22/2007 Rob Alexander: two new keys - doubts
I've got a couple of idea for keys, one for the game I'm talking about here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24910.0 and one for another I'm planning.
This is for a spoilt-rich princess and…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Eero Tuovinen.
9/22/2007 Rob Alexander: Alternatives to BDTP, and some key trouble
I'm going to be running TSOY at a convention here in the UK (Furnace 2007, Sheffield, 20-21 October - link is here: http://www.rpgfurnace.com/) and I'm looking for advice on a…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen.
9/19/2007 Troels: Converting campaign to TSoY
Hi there
I was planning a TSoY campaign set in Near, but then something happened. My group got so fed up with the lack of dice in our Mortal Coil…
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Participants: Troels, Eero Tuovinen, Greis.
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In CRN Games 1/7/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Vulfen species design
I've decided to post this seperately from the "Near's Frozen South" thread, even though the ideas are fairly interrelated. Nonetheless, a species splat just popping up in the middle of…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen, sabbatregent, dindenver, Troels, oliof.
1/8/2008 Valvorik: Accidental Outcomes?
Can a Player Character end up killing someone when they weren't trying to?
E.G., You're trying to beat your opponent in duel to teach him a lesson, the chaotic nature…
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Participants: Valvorik, rafial, shadowcourt.
1/12/2008 Adral: [TSoY] Doubts about using keys
Hello everyone,
I am thinking on running a TSoY campaign soon enough, but I really cannot understand properly a certain section of the rules regarding the Keys.
The section in…
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Participants: Adral, Clinton R. Nixon.
1/18/2008 oliof: Non re-entrance of BDTP and the Quickening of in-Game effects
Eero made the following remark on the Vulfen Species design thread:
On the other hand, what if the wizard's goal was to get past this other character, and he…
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Participants: oliof, sabbatregent, Troels, Eero Tuovinen, apoptosis.
1/23/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Dwarven species design
So, I'm at it again. Loving, as I do, all things Near, I wanted to take a crack at the dwarves and Goren setting which are talked about in the…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Clinton R. Nixon, Troels, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, Adrian F., Rich F.
1/29/2008 sabbatregent: [TSOY] Large scale BtDP (aka Bring Down the Birthright)
In another thread Eero said:
(On the other hand, I'm waiting expectantly for somebody to take Birthright's premise and run a Solar System game focused…
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Participants: sabbatregent, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, Gaerik.
1/29/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] new Maldorite Cultural crunch
As promised in another thread, here's a bevy of Maldor Cultural stuff.
We use Cultural Abilities in a slightly different manner than either 1st edition or 2nd edition TSOY does.…
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Participants: shadowcourt.
1/29/2008 dindenver: Clarifications
Hi!
I am getting ready to start a pretty serious SoY (Revised) campaign soon and I want to get it right the first time if possible (before now I…
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Participants: dindenver, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, Frank Tarcikowski, shadowcourt, apoptosis.
1/30/2008 dindenver: [TSOY] Settign question
Hi!
Sometimes I miss settings details, so I just want to double check (and I know you said do what you want with the setting, but I like to…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, shadowcourt.
1/31/2008 Rich F: Soul Mate
I've been playing around with a TSOY variation, and came up with this Species Secret for Humans.
I'd be interested in peoples ideas on it as while I like the…
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Participants: Rich F, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen.
2/1/2008 Yokiboy: [TSoY] Ability Checks and IIEE
Hello,
We played our six session of TSoY the other night, and had a blast as always. However, we had a break of three months prior to the session, and…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Eero Tuovinen.
2/4/2008 Rich F: (TSOY) The Shadow of Eberron
I'm working on a version of TSOY that draws from D&D's Eberron campaign setting, and I'm hitting something of a creative block at the moment. I'm hoping some discussion here…
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Participants: Rich F, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen.
2/4/2008 Adrian F.: [TSoY] Some Zu Secrets
I added some Zu Secrets to the wiki,dealing with a ZU user who owns the Zu word for himself
http://tsoy.crngames.com/Secret_of_Zuname
http://tsoy.crngames.com/Secret_of_Uzname
http://tsoy.crngames.com/Secret_of_the_Stolen_Name%28specific_Name%29
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Participants: Adrian F., oliof.
2/4/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Near's Frozen South 2: Goren (and its new magical system)
Hey, everyone,
Wanted to pick people's brains and solicit comments about a nation and magic system I'm tinkering with. This is all part of my greater project to develop the…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, apoptosis, oliof, Troels, Adrian F..
2/6/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Near-Definite Setting Compendium
I was skiing yesterday, and a publishing project came to me. For those who don't know, I'm much more accomplished as an indie publisher than as an indie game designer;…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, shadowcourt, Troels, sabbatregent, Frank Tarcikowski, oliof.
2/8/2008 dindenver: [SoY] More noobie questions
Hi!
OK, here they come, please be gentle:
1) Where does bonus dice fall in IIEE? My guess is in the second "I"
2) I have a misunderstanding, when…
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Participants: dindenver, shadowcourt, oliof, Clinton R. Nixon.
2/11/2008 dindenver: [TSoY] Life Path System, whadya think?
Hi!
http://tsoy.crngames.com/Dave%27s_Life_Path_System
What do you guys think?
Some of the verbage is still sloppy, but the keys, secrets and abilities are near final...
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Participants: dindenver, oliof, Rich F.
3/3/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Giant species design
So, this is part 3 of the whole "populating the cold southern reaches of Near" series. Hopefully, it'll provoke similar interest to the vulfen and dwarf threads which have been…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Troels, Eero Tuovinen, Rich F, oliof.
3/9/2008 oliof: [TSOY] Goblin Species Redux
Since all these threads about species in the south kept popping up, I wanted to turn my eye towards the one species I felt a bit disregarded by most people:…
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Participants: oliof, shadowcourt, Rich F, Eero Tuovinen.
4/5/2008 droog: [TPK] Black Island
Hello! This is my first attempt at an island of the Kingdom, and I'd like to submit it for comments. It is for a game with my wife and daughter.…
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Participants: droog.
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