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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 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.

1/23/2008 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.

1/18/2008 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.

1/12/2008 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.

1/8/2008 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.

1/7/2008 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.

1/3/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Near's Frozen South
Hey, all, I've been kicking around ideas for my next game of TSOY. Having played in both Maldor and Ammeni, and not wanting to quite dive into the steaming jungles…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, oliof, Troels, Rich F.

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.

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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.

4/7/2008 dindenver: [CRN] Ack! What?
Clinton, Anyone?   Why is this in Inactive Forums?
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Participants: dindenver, Troels.

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