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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.

10/1/2002 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.

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.

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.

9/15/2002 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.

9/14/2002 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.

9/8/2002 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.

9/1/2002 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.

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.

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.

8/12/2002 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.

8/7/2002 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.

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.

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.

7/29/2002 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: 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.

7/28/2002 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.

7/27/2002 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.

7/26/2002 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.

7/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell
I've got the basic resolution mechanics to Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell worked out and on my site at http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/otherstuff/GodsOfWar.htm take a look. Note that as I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

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10/6/2002 Jake Norwood: www.theriddleofsteel.net now up
www.theriddleofsteel.net, the new and hopefully short-term solution to the Russian Porn folks that store our site is now up and running. Many of the links are broken, which we will…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Roger Eberhart, Brian Leybourne.

10/10/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: FVLMINATA part III
We played the final installment in this story ("Fabula," that is) last night. It was a hum-dinger of an ending, with the entire Imperial Palace going up in a cloud…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, ethan_greer, Bomilkar.

10/15/2002 Jake Norwood: New Game in the works: "Thirst"
Just a heads up but us folks down here at Driftwood have been tinkering with a Vampire game that's tentatively called "Thirst." It won't be too large and we'll probably…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Shadeling, Lyrax.

10/16/2002 Jake Norwood: Lots of folks on the Forge
Just thought I'd point it out, but we hit 900 registered forge people today. That's twice what it was in April, when I wandered in here. Cool. Jake
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Christoffer Lernö, Paul Czege, ethan_greer, Eric J..

10/17/2002 Jake Norwood: THIRST: What do you do?
As an introduction I'm working on the mechanics to THIRST, a vampire RPG. I've always loved this stuff (I was a big Anne Rice fan in the day), and I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jake Norwood, Christoffer Lernö, Matt, Ben Morgan, Jack Spencer Jr, Jared A. Sorensen, lumpley, Le Joueur, Jeremy Cole, Paul Czege, Seth L. Blumberg, Bankuei, Valamir, Bailywolf, C. Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Unsane, Blake Hutchins, Brian Leybourne, kevin671.

10/22/2002 Jake Norwood: Seeking Animal Artist
I need an artist who works fast, has good prices, and is adept at animals and animal anatomy. norwood@theriddleofsteel.net Jake Norwood
In Connections
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Valamir, greyorm.

10/22/2002 Jake Norwood: Looking for Animal Artist
As I mentioned in the Connections forum, I'm trying to find an artist that works quick, reliably, inexpensively, and who is good at animal anatomy for the animal section for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood.

10/22/2002 Jake Norwood: Of Beasts and Men
We're now assembling the art for Of Beasts and Men. We've used a few of the entries sent to us by many of you (I'm not sure which ones currently,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne.

11/1/2002 Jake Norwood: Gearing up for Actual Play: Siehe and the Fey
After playing lots of other stuff for a few months, we're getting ready to play TROS once again (it was all the cool stuff in OBAM that inspired me). The…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Silanthous, Valamir, Irmo, Spartan.

11/3/2002 Jake Norwood: Nations of Weyrth Mini-Supplements
The discussion in the money thread about Odeon and their "teeth" system got me thinking...I would love to see more information on the various nations of Weyrth--history, peoples, stats, etc.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Stephen.

11/5/2002 Jake Norwood: Getting in touch with our inner gamist
Okay, gamism--probably due to the preferences of many Forgites--has the least positive rap around here. But, let's face it...we all have an inner gamist...something within us that wants to win.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Jake Norwood, Alan, Matt, Marco, Valamir, RobMuadib, Seth L. Blumberg, Le Joueur, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Martin, MK Snyder, Rich Forest, C. Edwards.

11/17/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS Quickstart
Okay, we have the finished but unedited TROS quickstart here on my desk. It looks really good, but I want someone who isn't me to look it over and fine-tooth…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

11/21/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS- Legnds of the Fey
I don't really want to make this into a long post, so if I leave out something you want to know, then ask. The last two wednesdays we've been playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne.

11/21/2002 Jake Norwood: The Fey in Actual Play
Go to the Actual Play forum to see some details from our last 2 sessions of Siehe-only TROSing. Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Sneaky Git.

11/26/2002 Jake Norwood: Thanksgiving Break and a Poll
I'm probably going to be absent for the next 4 days, unless I get onto a computer while at Ron's house over thanksgiving. Play nice, play hard, and post lots.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Durgil, Jason, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne.

12/2/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Project Progress Report
Okay, we've got a handful of project currently, and I thought I'd let all you guys know where we're at with each of them. 1) Of Beasts and Men -…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Spooky Fanboy, Irmo, Mokkurkalfe, Rattlehead, Stephen, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, Amy1419, Durgil, Aaron, allahlav, Blake Hutchins, Sneaky Git, Shadeling, Ben, Wolfen, Darth Tang, Nick Pagnucco, Noon, Valamir, Anthony I, Ashren Va'Hale, kakitaryou, kenjib.

12/14/2002 Jake Norwood: New Review
For those of you that read Polish, here's a new (and, as always, positive) review of TROS. http://rpg.gildia.com/systemy/_inne/riddle_of_steel/riddle_of_steel The last paragraph says that the review very strongly reccomends the game…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, prophet118.

12/19/2002 Jake Norwood: Real Names on the Forge
One of the things that really attracted me to the "adultness" of the forge was the use of "real names." Now, there was a firey thread on RPG.net a while…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Matt Wilson, Sidhain, Seth L. Blumberg, Eric J., xiombarg, Le Joueur, ethan_greer, contracycle, wyrdlyng, M. J. Young, quozl, Christopher Kubasik, Jack Spencer Jr, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, greyorm, Valamir, Maurice Forrester, Steve Dustin, Kester Pelagius, kamikaze, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei.

12/21/2002 Jake Norwood: Going out of town
I'll be vacationing (ahh...) until the 2nd, which means I'll be a tad sparse around here. Behave yourselves and have fun. And enjoy the new stuff at www.theriddleofsteel.net/support Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood.

1/9/2003 Jake Norwood: OT: ARMA seminar in Utah
Okay, so this is only sorta on topic, but bear with me. Driftwood Publishing is helping sponser a hands-on Longsword seminar here in Provo with John Clements, director of the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood.

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