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In Arkenstone Publishing 6/29/2010 vellu82: [Solar System] Aggravated Harm and Pool
In tWoN the aggravated Harm isn't associated to any Pool. It don't shake down at the end of the Extended Conflict, but if I heal it by an appropriate Ability…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.
6/17/2010 JackTheOwner: [SS/TWoN] Issues with Motivation Pool
I asked Eero about refreshments of Motivation pool on email, but I think is so awesome and useful, so I'm putting it here.
> I'm starting to use your idea…
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Participants: JackTheOwner, Paolo D..
5/28/2010 Paolo D.: [SS / TWoN] Mechanics questions
After playing at SS (in the Star Wars setting) and TWoN, I've got some questions about the rules:
1) Introduction cost of equipment with imbuements
I must pay the introduction…
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Participants: Paolo D., Eero Tuovinen, Aetius.
5/23/2010 Heikki Hallamaa: [TSoY] Random crunch and snippets of material
Our group has played with the World of Near material for a couple of months now and like every campaign it generates new material and occasional new crunch. So I…
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Participants: Heikki Hallamaa, Eero Tuovinen.
4/23/2010 d.anderson: [Solar System/World of Near] Using Key Elements
I'm posting over at Story Games, as it seems to have higher traffic for casual opinion-collecting, but I wanted to cross-post here, just in case.
I'm running World of Near…
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Participants: d.anderson, Courage75, Paul T, Eero Tuovinen, simonjberger.
4/21/2010 Paolo D.: [Solar System] About Gift Dice
These days, I'm going to play one Solar System and one TWoN campaign. In each of them, we are using the Gift Dice optional rule: in the first group, to…
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Participants: Paolo D., Eero Tuovinen, simonjberger.
4/9/2010 Paul T: TSoY, Solar System, and supporting characters
Eero,
In an Actual Play thread about transitioning from "mission-based play", you wrote:
(Note that you can't do this in all games; TSoY allows this due to the game's traditional…
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Participants: Paul T, Eero Tuovinen.
4/4/2010 WillH: [Zombie Cinema] on Actual People, Actual Play
I thought you might be interested in knowing this. On Episode 14 of my podcast, Actual People, Actual Play, we discuss Zombie Cinema. Check it out at http://apap.libsyn.com/
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Participants: WillH, Eero Tuovinen.
4/1/2010 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY] The coolest magic item ever
So, World of Near - I've been waiting for some new art before we publish a pdf version. Who knows how long that'll be, yet. Meanwhile the paper book has…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, noahtrammell, Heikki Hallamaa.
3/31/2010 elenius: [Solary System] Question on Defensive/opposed/parallel actions
I'm a bit confused by how opposed/parallel/defensive actions are supposed to work.
Page 44 says:
The DEFENSIVE ACTION is a special action
available during the negotiation phase. It is…
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Participants: elenius, Eero Tuovinen.
3/31/2010 vellu82: [Solar System] Secrets and Checks
A little doubt:
- I have a Secret: "Make an Ability check in X against an opponent Passive Ability Y".
This Secret is my turn action in an extended conflict.…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.
3/19/2010 Courage75: [Solar System] Claiming Territory Mechanics for WtF - Part Two
Hi All,
It's been a while since I posted about my attempts to convert my Werewolf: the Forsaken game to Solar System. This is because it is going quite well.…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen.
3/18/2010 CedricP: [Solar System] Discouraged by crunch landscape preparation
I am discouraged by my crunch prep.
My group want to play a campaign with the Solar System and last week we had a good session zero.
I told the…
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Participants: CedricP, d.anderson, Eero Tuovinen.
3/16/2010 CedricP: [Solar System] Cyberware on a primitive world.
Hello.
We are starting a Solar System campaign about a prison ship who crash on a savage primitive world.
(Pitch Black meet Lost)
Our setting is a little bit inspired…
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Participants: CedricP, d.anderson, Eero Tuovinen.
3/16/2010 Nick Pagnucco: TSOY PbP over on RPG.net
I've put up an interest thread for a TSOY Play-by-Post game over at RPG.net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=504421
Here's the OP:
I'm starting this thread to gauge interest in a TSOY game…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Eero Tuovinen.
3/10/2010 dindenver: [Zombie Cinema] Good times
We played again on Monday.
I was a idealistic cop, we had a 10-year old Latchkey kid, a sex addict and an African-American nerd.
We never really explained how the…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen.
3/2/2010 dindenver: [WoN] Inselbeg/Melnibone
Here is what I have so far:
Inselberg factions
Elric faction - Fort-based Faction
Yrkoon faction - Fort-based Faction
Admiralty faction - Fort-based Faction
Vanguard faction - Islet Faction
Rebel…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen.
3/2/2010 vellu82: [SS] Solar KOTOR
Finally I've reached a waypoint in my conversion of Knights of the Old Republic.
Gradually I'll post the focal points. All the material is in Italian (my language). Maybe there…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.
2/27/2010 JTColeman: [Solar System] Overflow dice secrets
Hi Eero,
I was reading TWoN and had a little hesitation concerning secrets that use overflow dice, in particular with Weapon Mastery.
Let's say that I have two "+" as…
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Participants: JTColeman, Eero Tuovinen.
2/25/2010 Eero Tuovinen: [SS] Adapting Exalted
I'm putting some preliminary thoughts on adapting Exalted for Solar System here for Dave's benefit. My perspective on Exalted is from rather early in the game's run - I've read…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, Domon, d.anderson, Klaus_Welten, vellu82.
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In Arkenstone Publishing 7/5/2010 JackTheOwner: [SS/WoN] No Bow?
I asked Eero about lack of aim skill (or similar) in general ability list or any basic five culture list.
And this is his anwser:
Let's see... I remember thinking…
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Participants: JackTheOwner.
8/8/2010 Paolo D.: [SS/TWoN] Mind control
Ok, here's my question of the day :-)
How do we should handle mind control in stakes?
...for example, in TWoN the Three-Corner magic has the Enthrallment ability to "force…
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Participants: Paolo D., Eero Tuovinen.
8/28/2010 Paolo D.: [SS / TWoN] Refreshment and direct antagonism
In this other thread we was talking about refreshment.
Eero, defining a refresh, said:
Clear signs of the refreshing nature of a scene are if it's an empty beat…
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Participants: Paolo D., Eero Tuovinen.
9/1/2010 Lo.Ste.Pelle: SOLAR SYSTEM IN PORTUGUESE!
Hello there!
My name's Stefano Pelletti, and is a pleasure write on this marvellous RPG forum!
Despite Italian, i'm living in Brazil since 2002, and i have to say that…
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Participants: Lo.Ste.Pelle, Paolo D., Eero Tuovinen, jrnmariano.
9/1/2010 Lo.Ste.Pelle: Objects in our CYBERPUNK ambientation...
Hello again people! (in my last topic i've forget to sorry for my elementar english)...
We are playin' a CYBERPUNK ambientation of mine creation, named 2022...
We were stucked with…
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Participants: Lo.Ste.Pelle, Paolo D., P.Jeffries, Eero Tuovinen.
9/1/2010 Lo.Ste.Pelle: Secret of the Bullet Dance [SS/2022]
Hi people!
Me again... eheheh... sorry, but i want to share all new stuffs, and learn more in the process...
Look, i have just created this secret for my Character…
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Participants: Lo.Ste.Pelle, Eero Tuovinen.
9/3/2010 Galwinganoon: Map of Near for a campaign
I'm getting ready to run my first TSoY campaign next week and decided to make a map in preparation for that.
I'm sharing it here in the event that anyone…
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Participants: Galwinganoon, Eero Tuovinen.
9/9/2010 vellu82: A little question about Bonus/Malus Dice
I have a little question about bonus and malus dice.
Let's talk about an example:
I make a check with 1 malus die.
(+) ( ) ( ) (-)
so…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen, Paolo D..
9/15/2010 Courage75: [SS] Ability Ranks Beyond Grandmaster?
Hi All,
For those of you who don't know, I've been running a monthly Werewolf: the Forsaken (W:tF) game using SS for a while now and it is still going…
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Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen.
9/15/2010 Motipha: Review of Zombie Cinema at the Jankcast
Hey all. I'm a host on the jankcast, a gaming podcast where we do mostly discuss things in gaming that we've been thinking about. We occasionally do reviews, and have…
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Participants: Motipha, Eero Tuovinen, toddjank.
9/16/2010 vellu82: [Solar System] Extended Conflict
Hi.
I have a little question about the Extended Conflict.
Here is part of the wiki (with underlined the part of my interest):
There are two reasons for escalating: one…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.
9/20/2010 Artanis: [Zombie Cinema] Idea for slowing down conflicts
Hello Eero and all
Sometimes Zombie Cinema gets heavy on the conflict, people just going into the conflict for conflict's sake. On the one hand, I think it's just a…
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Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.
10/4/2010 epweissengruber: How can a SS-derived system make failure interesting?
Hey Eero,
I was thinking of setting up a game where players were in competition with each other.
When one teams obtains its objectives, I wanted the characters to be…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Eero Tuovinen, Courage75, mreuther.
10/14/2010 Galwinganoon: [[SS/WoN]] Secrets and Training
A note about my experience level: I've just finished my third meeting of the first SS / WoN game I've ever run.
With that in mind, I have some questions…
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Participants: Galwinganoon, mreuther, Eero Tuovinen.
11/1/2010 dindenver: [WoN] Inselbeg/Melnibone
All,
My Inselberg campaign is back on!
I will have players in a week or two, so I need to prep up!
I am going to go…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen.
11/22/2010 vellu82: [Near] A little question
Hi, Eero.
I've read this, in the Sky God Faith Crunch:
Secret of the Axiom
A character with this Secret may gain Blessings. Either he asks for one with PRAY…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen, Mr. Mario.
11/30/2010 vellu82: [SS] - About Secondary Characters
Hi, Eero.
The method you propose for the short creation is not a fixed rule, right?
So can I create a short NPC like this?
NPC 1
Pool: Vigor 3,…
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Participants: vellu82, Courage75, Eero Tuovinen.
12/23/2010 frapast1981: [SS] I need some help with Keys
Hi
my name is Rocco and I have recently bought SS. I'm also waiting for my copy of Near to come to Italy.
I have started a game with my…
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Participants: frapast1981, Eero Tuovinen.
2/14/2011 vellu82: [Solar System] Extended Conflict with teams
Hi Eero. I've just few questions about the teams in extended conflict: how does it work?
Only a team member can make Harm check, while the others make parallel or…
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Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen, Galwinganoon.
2/24/2011 Paolo D.: [SS], [TSoY] and "safety net"
Hi people! :-)
First of all, what do I mean with "safety net"?
I mean a mechanic or a procedure (or more than one of them) of a game, meant…
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Participants: Paolo D., Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, P.Jeffries, Galwinganoon.
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