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7/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Version 2 of Brian's Combat Sim is up
http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/support/ Check it out. Also, Brian, why don't you hop on and tell us what's new. Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Sneaky Git, Durgil, Brian Leybourne.

7/23/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS is in Stores!
TROS got released about a week or two early, it seems, and is allready in stores. From what I hear, it's doing very well. For those of you that haven't…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Matt, ShaneNINE, A.Neill, Anthony I, Brian Leybourne, Fabrice G., Furious D, Durgil, Ron Edwards, hyphz, jamesdbr, Delta1, Aidan Dixon, Grex, Mokkurkalfe, Irmo, Dave Versace, Lyrax, Nick Pagnucco, Vanguard, Thirsty Viking.

7/23/2002 Jake Norwood: GNS Decisions, I think I'm starting to get it enough to talk
The way I see it, GNS is primarily about decisions, and only by extension about games, players, or whatever. So here's a definition in a nutshell: Gamist decision: What will…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Paganini, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

7/18/2002 Jake Norwood: Supplements Big and Small, Good and Bad
I've been thinking a lot about the roll of supplements lately. I've had many conversations with Ron and others about them and "what makes a good supplment" in the past,…
In Publishing
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Le Joueur, xiombarg, Eugene Zee, Matt, Dav, Michael Hopcroft, toshiro.

7/18/2002 Jake Norwood: Bestiary: Print or PDF?
I've been planning to release Of Beasts and Men in print form since the beginning, but I've been wondering if an initial release on PDF wouldn't be wiser...a lot depends…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Skywalker, Jason L Blair, Wolfen, Jürgen Mayer, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jaif, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Ace, Durgil, Lyrax, Janne Halmetoja, Delta1, Thirsty Viking, Scotty, Mokkurkalfe, svenlein, Silanthous, Unsane.

7/17/2002 Jake Norwood: Virus by Email
My computer got the Klez virus (or something like that), an E-mail worm from about 4 sources this morning. It then went to every address in my list, which includes…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

7/15/2002 Jake Norwood: Use of Articles after Publication
Would it be possible to use articles from RPGE on our various websites as free downloads a few weeks/months after their initial publicaiton? jake
In RPGevolution Contributors
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/15/2002 Jake Norwood: Permission to write articles for diverse games
Clinton asked me if I'd let folks write and Publish TROS articles for RPGE, and I said yes. Who else is hopping in on that? Who's going to let their…
In RPGevolution Contributors
Participants: Jake Norwood, Jason L Blair, Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

7/14/2002 Jake Norwood: Confessionals in InSpectres
How often in a single game session should players be using the confessional? Once each? Once each per scene? No rule about it? I ask because when we did it…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jake Norwood, Jason L Blair, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir.

7/11/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS Webpage: What next?
I've got a hankerin' to add to the webpage, so I'm looking for ideas and directions, as well as stuff you all want to submit. I'll put just about anything…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Ace, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead, Mike Holmes.

7/10/2002 Jake Norwood: I'm Back!
Hi ya'll. Origins was a sheer blast. I rand one of the coolest TROS games ever with a bunch of Forge-ites, as well as playing a few other games (such…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ace, Brian Leybourne.

6/30/2002 Jake Norwood: Going to Origins
I'm going to be gone for about 10 days, during which I probably won't be active at all on this here forum, nor will I answer my emails. Just thought…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Christopher Kubasik, Damien, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

6/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Blowing the crap out of stuff
Okay, now I'm into "realistic" games. Sim or whatever, I want m disbelief to be suspended. That's easier on me for some things than for others. TROS, for example, put…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, hardcoremoose, Paganini, Buddha Nature, Bankuei, Zak Arntson, Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, Knight, Demonspahn, Mike Holmes, Valamir, wyrdlyng, TSL.

6/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Cover for Sorcery and the Fey now up
The first draft of the cover for Driftwood Publishing's February Release, Sorcery and the Fey, is now up at www.theriddleofsteel.com/news Check it out. Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, contracycle, Brian Leybourne.

6/23/2002 Jake Norwood: Calling for submissions!
We need art and text for Of Beasts and Men. Email your entries in the format used in other threads here to norwood@theriddleofsteel.com. Please include your real name with any…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Riddlemaster.

6/20/2002 Jake Norwood: Director Stance: Fun, but is there a Challenge?
People play RPGs for different reasons (hence GNS and all that stuff). Most of us alternate or combine from time to time, even within a session. The deal is that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Seth L. Blumberg, Blake Hutchins, Walt Freitag.

6/13/2002 Jake Norwood: Of Beasts and Men
The official title to the Bestiary/NPC/Seneschal's rescource book is "Of Beasts and Men," (title curtesy of Juergen Mayer, who also bought the first leatherbound edition). I have a pretty fat…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, DaR, Furious D, Ace, Ben, Wolfen, Jürgen Mayer, Atomic Requiem, Lyrax, ReverendCuster187, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, Psychopompous, Jaif.

6/12/2002 Jake Norwood: Extending things a bit...
The little world-destruction magic thread got me thinking of TROS as Tom Clancy (more on the John Clark side of things), more in feel and intensity than setting. Nonetheless I'm…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Bob Richter, The_Fey, Jaif, Furious D, Ace, Ben, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Wolfen, Schatten, Lyrax, Durgil, Spartan.

6/10/2002 Jake Norwood: Playtesting/Reviewing the QuickStart
Many of you mentioned in the past a willingness to review and playtest the quickstart rules. Well, the first draft is finished and now is your time. For now only…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

6/9/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: InSpectres
First off, it was Clinton's review that got me to buy the game. It just reeked of fun from the sounds of it. The game was very easy to start…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

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7/26/2002 Jake Norwood: I want it on one page or a pdf
Okay, I'm sick of it. I want to read and get (as in "understand") Scattershot really badly, but I can't get it from a hundred random posts full of inter-line…
In Scattershot
Participants: Jake Norwood, Seth L. Blumberg, Le Joueur, damion.

7/27/2002 Jake Norwood: Bladeslingers
Most of you have read (or should have read) Ron Edward's Review of TROS here at the forge (www.indie-rpgs.com/reviews/). In it he refers to the seemingly out-of-place role of the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Blake Hutchins, Bob Richter, Rattlehead, Sneaky Git, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Mokkurkalfe, Gordon C. Landis, Silanthous, Roy, Chade.

7/28/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Mini-Con: [b]Three games![/b] (long)
Yesterday I managed to take a day off work and put together a gaming group for a really mini mini game convention. We played from 3pm until 2am, with a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson.

7/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Paladin, Angels, Demons
I was actually reading Paladin all the way through today and I got an idea. See, I love the idea of the struggle between heaven and hell being carried out…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jake Norwood, Jason L Blair, Jürgen Mayer, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

7/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Paladin settings as articles
I was thinking that since many Paladin settings are going to be small ones (2-3 pages, although I think my Heaven and Hell one might be longer) that RPGevolution would…
In RPGevolution Contributors
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Cover art for Of Beasts and Men now up!
Jeremy McHugh's excellent cover art work for Of Beasts and Men in its near-final form is now availble for your oggling at http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/news/ Click on the image for a bigger…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Lyrax, Wolfen, Samus75.

7/31/2002 Jake Norwood: I want your soul...er, Character Sheet
I want all the stats and jiggy-with-it stories that go with your favorite and most interesting PCs. Fact is, you don't even have to have played them, but we want…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Lyrax, Ace, Bob Richter, Rattlehead, Furious D, Wolfen, Silanthous, Brian Leybourne.

8/7/2002 Jake Norwood: Going to GenCon
Okay, we're off to GenCon, so ol' Jake Norwood won't be around for a while. Be nice and kill each other cleanly. Keep the good threads up--when I came back…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Lyrax, Mike Holmes, Bogie_71.

8/12/2002 Jake Norwood: WWGS...what does it mean...
For those of you that aren't familiar, you HAVE to check out this site: http://www.father-ramos.com it has slow loading times, but is worth a visit. Particularly check out the sermons…
In Publishing
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, mahoux, Ron Edwards, WhistlinFiend, Matt Gwinn, Mytholder, Seth L. Blumberg, Clay, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, Heraldic Game Design, contracycle, Paganini, Christopher Kubasik, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Michael Hopcroft.

8/14/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: octaNe
Well, we just played octaNe. It rocked. Ben More played "the Great Muchacho," or something like that, a smartcar with a mashed potato dispenser in the cab and machine guns…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood.

8/17/2002 Jake Norwood: Going out of Town and the Ultimate Question
I'll be out of town for about 2 weeks. Ben Moore will be around here, though, so he might be on occasionally to answer questions and what not. I'll also…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Rick, Lyrax, Nick Pagnucco, Gordon C. Landis.

9/1/2002 Jake Norwood: I'm Baaa-aack!
Uh, hey, I'm back. There are a lot of questions, probably. I think I've read up on everything, but I'm not sure. Be patient as I move stuff around, and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Sneaky Git.

9/8/2002 Jake Norwood: Another store carrying Sorcerer
the Game Keep in Nashville, TN. www.thegamekeep.com and, just FYI, they're carrying 2 or 3 copies, and entirely on my reccomendation (aw...). Jake
In Adept Press
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards.

9/14/2002 Jake Norwood: Anti-Combat Bias (kinda long)
Something I'm noticing here and there is an "anti-combat bias." Now, before everyone's breeches start bunching up I want to preface by saying that I both understand and agree that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jake Norwood, Andrew Martin, deadpanbob, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur, contracycle, Clinton R. Nixon, kevin671, Marco, damion, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, marknau, Blake Hutchins, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young.

9/15/2002 Jake Norwood: Submission Deadline?
Is today still the submission deadline? How tardy can I be on this one? Jake
In RPGevolution Contributors
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder.

9/26/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: FVLMINATA and Kickers
Tonight we played FVLMINATA, the number one game I've been itching to play since we returned home from Gen-Con. I think it counts as "indie" as well, though I confess…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng.

9/27/2002 Jake Norwood: Setting the Mood
In our discussion of FVLMINATA in actual play wyrdling identified the use of Tali dice and Latin names for game elements as sample reasons that led him to believe that…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Jake Norwood, deadpanbob, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng, contracycle.

10/1/2002 Jake Norwood: Problem: www.theriddleofsteel.com
As most of you know our site, www.theriddleofsteel.com has been down for some time. The short version of the story is that my domain server provider (whatever it's called) screwed…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Thirsty Viking, Bogie_71, Brian Leybourne, Claymore, qirien.

10/2/2002 Jake Norwood: Group Hug...why do we love (and play) TROS?
Hey all. I was sitting looking at TROS next to a few other games on my "office" shelf just now, and I got to thinking (last time I did that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ville, Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Holt, Durgil, Mokkurkalfe, Janne Halmetoja, Lyrax, Spartan, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Vanguard, Jason L Blair, Ashren Va'Hale, allahlav, Herr Nils, Mike Holmes, Claymore, qirien, Bob Richter, Sykora, qaphsiel.

10/3/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: FVLMINATA part II
We played FVLMINATA again tonight. The intrigue is getting very very thick, but I'm handling it smoothly. So far I've pulled this off by trying to constantly tie everything into…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, contracycle, Paka, Michael S. Miller, Jeffrey Miller, Ron Edwards.

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