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3/27/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Witchiness and crunch
I'm running a Solar System game in a fantasy setting that's not the Shadow of Yesterday. It's much, much closer to Dark Ages/medieval Europe, but with a touch of that…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof.

3/26/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Harmful Stakes... how often?
I ran Solar System for the first time last night, and I found myself really unsure about how often to include Harm in the stakes of failure. I've read advice…
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Participants: Paul T, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, shadowcourt.

3/25/2009 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Adding moiety politics to Khale
For some reason, Khale has always felt a little unfinished for me. Some might argue that I'm into overly-elaborate cultural development for nations on Near, but I've always wanted to…
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Participants: shadowcourt, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, chance.thirteen.

3/24/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Conflicts against nothing?
There is a section in the extended conflict chapter of the booklet that describes going into extended conflict... "against nothing". It refers to p. 40, which describes rolling against the…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen.

3/23/2009 Paul T: Gimme all the Keys in the book! (Play advice)
I'm going to run a TSoY one-shot on Wednesday night, and one of the players told he'd like to spend four of his five starting advances on Keys. That means…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, Eliarhiman6, dindenver.

3/17/2009 oliof: [Solar System] Bending away from TSoY's assumptions, a.k.a Monsters and Stuff
[quote author=shadowcourt link=topic=27723.msg261578#msg261578 date=1237298098] Harald, [quote]I'm actually interested in crunch that bends TSoY's assumptions, as I still struggle with stuff like monsters etc. for Solar System.[/quote] Would you be willing…
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Participants: oliof, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt, Paul T.

3/16/2009 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Near's Pirate Isles: Pere-di-Fey
I confess that I have a fondness for designing new nations in Near to meet the needs of my campaigns, and one that’s been a staple for a number of…
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Participants: shadowcourt, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T.

2/23/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Team Extended Conflict
Hi All, I just want to make sure I understand the rules for Team Extended Conflict. As far as I can tell, this is the procedure: 1. Characters declare themselves…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, Rafu.

2/20/2009 dindenver: [TSOY] Sharing
Hi!   Running two games of TSOY at the same time is hard...   I made a couple of observations: 1) What is the deal with ties? I've only has…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

2/11/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Developing Territory for Werewolf
Sorry to bombard you all with posts, but I am having difficulty coming up with additional crunch for my Werewolf: the Forsaken game which I am running with Solar System…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, chance.thirteen, oliof, JoyWriter.

2/10/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Check-Determined Narrative Authority
I really like the Privilege mechanics from John Wick's Houses of the Blooded and I am thinking of using them in the Solar System when narrating the outcome of non-extended…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver.

2/9/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Penalty Dice Limit?
Hi there, I'm converting my Werewolf: the Forsaken game to Solar System and I am just ironing out some details. If anyone is interested, I can post what I have…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

2/3/2009 oliof: [Solar System] Replacing Fudge Dice with 3d6
Eero mentioned in some other thread he is considering removing Fudge Dice. Here is one way by a friend of mine: – Double Ability scores. – Roll 3d6, using bonus…
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Participants: oliof, Corvus69, Eero Tuovinen.

1/29/2009 Corvus69: New rules for BDTP and Harm
Hello I am trying to make up new rules for BDTP and Harm inspired by Mouse Guard. It changes some of the basic principles, so beware. I am interested in…
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Participants: Corvus69, oliof, dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T.

1/28/2009 agony: [Solar System]Apothecary...Huh?
So the Apothecary/Drug rules seem to be exactly what I'm looking for in our upcoming campaign.  The problem is that the Apothecary section is rather confusing and I'm hoping someone…
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Participants: agony, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T.

1/27/2009 NilsH: Solar and horror?
Hi! I´m soon going to be the gamemaster for a science-fiction/ horror game where the characters are detectives looking for a cultist/ witch with powers to summon demons and psychic…
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Participants: NilsH, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

1/25/2009 Sam!: [Playtest report] War in Khale
So, we took the challenge and decided to try out Eero’s new stuff. It may have something to do with the fact that one of us is Eero’s brother and…
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Participants: Sam!, Eero Tuovinen.

1/24/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombie Cinema] Animallball podcast reviews the game
This here: Animalcast podcast Episode 74 I'd never heard of this podcast, and I don't generally listen to podcasts at all, but I liked it! Of course the topic has…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

1/23/2009 agony: [Solar System] Ongoing Environmental Adversity
If starvation was a very big part of your setting, how would you model crunch to reflect that?  I would like starvation to primarily serve the purpose of spurring the…
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Participants: agony, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

1/17/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Goblin crunch
While reviewing goblins I decided that I don't actually like the Secret of Addiction at all. It is bad on several levels: - Of course counting days is just wacky…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, oliof.

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3/28/2009 NathanFrund: Just checkin' in.
Hi all, I just wanted to stop in to say hello and to say that I've been doing some Solar System hacking over at my blog: http://platonicsolid.blogspot.com You may or…
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Participants: NathanFrund.

3/28/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Keys and Specificity
Just a quick question about Keys: Some Keys ask you to specify a subject for the Key. For something like the Key of Love, that's pretty obvious. But others are…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

4/10/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Myths of Near
Musing on my TSoY rewrite: While writing about the Skyfire I decided that I'm just going to lift Clinton's original legend of the Skyfire and put it in the book…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, oliof, dindenver.

4/13/2009 Artanis: [Zombie Cinema] Some rules questions
Hi Eero I have a series of questions that cropped up after reading the "new" rules and comparing them to my play according to the "home-made edition" rules. I…
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Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

4/14/2009 Paul T: [Solar System Actual Play] Characters Grow by Trial and Error
We concluded a two-session game of Solar System on Sunday night, and I was surprised by a few things that took place. The game was definitely a success, I think,…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

4/16/2009 oliof: [Solar System] Science Fiction?
I know from the Solar System vignettes that at least one Science Fiction campaign was run using Solar System. Did anybody else do it? Is there crunch available somewhere? My…
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Participants: oliof, Eero Tuovinen, Spoo, Nick Pagnucco, simonjberger.

5/9/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Maps of Near
So, we're doing cartography, and I have difficulty finding all the variant maps that've been created for Near. Could anybody link me to any they know of? For example, I…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Yokiboy, oliof.

5/11/2009 jlarke: [Solar System] Oratory & telecommunications
Hello, Forge. I'm running a Battlestar Galactica campaign using the Solar System rules. My PCs are the officers of the Battlestar Actaeon and the civilian ships that gathered around it,…
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Participants: jlarke, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

5/21/2009 orklord: [Solar System] Rate of Ascension
I was talking about tSoY tonight with someone and the subject of ascension came up. Has anyone ever ascended in a game you've run/played in? If so, how many game…
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Participants: orklord, KCassidy, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

6/3/2009 oliof: [Solar System] The first 3rd party setting for Solar System in german …
… before that is even released in print. The german rpg forum Taneorn ran a setting challenge in the month of may. One of the contestants decided to use the…
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Participants: oliof, Paul Czege, Courage75.

6/11/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Secrets of Resources
Hey All, I'm trying to nail down some Secrets to model tiered levels of wealth (Resources) for my Werewolf game. This is what I have come up with so far:…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen.

6/16/2009 JMendes: [Solar System] The West
Hello, everyone, :) It's been several years since I posted in The Forge, but I figured this was a good a time as any. A few friends and I have…
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Participants: JMendes, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, Ralek.

7/9/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Eyeballs for my text
I'm doing pretty well with my new TSoY book, although I can't quite say if it's going to be finished for Gencon; it'll be tight, certainly. So tight, in fact,…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, JMendes, dindenver, oliof.

7/10/2009 Nick Pagnucco: Sireap Valley: opinions requested
Hey there. I recently started re-reading all the TSOY stuff, and quite unintentionally, an idea started to form.  Unfortunately, I'm between groups, so I couldn't put it into action, but…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

7/20/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] The last crunchy bits
I'm almost finished with my TSoY book. This is good, as I'm supposed to go to print with it next week. However, I have a bit of room in my…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Heikki Hallamaa, dindenver, chance.thirteen.

7/21/2009 JMendes: [Solar System] Rules question: Pool refreshment
Ahey, :) Ok, so, we've had a couple of actual sessions of The West, already, beyond the setting creation and character creation, and we've already hit a couple of snags...…
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Participants: JMendes, Eero Tuovinen, Ralek.

7/21/2009 JMendes: [Solar System] Rules question: spending advances
Ahey, :) As I said in the orher thread, we came across a couple of snags in our play of The West. On page 52, where you're talking about using…
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Participants: JMendes, Eero Tuovinen, Ralek.

7/27/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Solar System] When do rocks fall in the Solar System?
Hi guys, first post, SS rocks, etc. etc. ^_^ I've gout a doubt after reading the PDF: what happens if the Story Guide narrates something like "A slide of rocks…
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Participants: Klaus_Welten, Eero Tuovinen.

7/28/2009 agony: [Solar System] Porting BE's Firefight! Mechanic
I'm looking specifically to run a Mech/Combined Arms Sci-Fi campaign using Solar System.  I recently purchased some Mechwarrior Hero Clix and am looking to use these in the game.  My…
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Participants: agony, Eero Tuovinen.

7/28/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Solar System] What differs from TSoY?
I red the SS first, but then I red TSoY and loved every piece of crunch and most of the fluff. So, in what do the games differ? What rules…
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Participants: Klaus_Welten, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, StefanS.

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