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1/7/2003 Shadeling: Talisman Gift...
Does the Talisman give bonus dice to each Sorcery roll or just to the sorcery pool?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Ace, Brian Leybourne.

1/7/2003 Shadeling: Gelure national modifiers
I was curious about the Geluroise national modifiers in the book. It says gifted recieve +3 proficiency points-these would go into vagaries they buy, correct? It then says anyone with…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Bob Richter, prophet118, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch.

1/5/2003 Shadeling: Seven Vows of the Prophet...
Do they think magic is bad like the Imperial religion? Also, in what ways would the Tataar Horde taint the religion...Any thoughts?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

12/15/2002 Shadeling: Is the Book version going to have more OOMPH!?
What I mean is it going to have more examples and definitions? Like how to incorporate various abilities into a game... Am I being clear?
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Shadeling, Eddy Fate, Spooky Fanboy, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

11/22/2002 Shadeling: Has anyone tried TROS in Modern Settings?
I ask because to me, it seems like it might work quite well for a game of spys/espionage. I mean, proficiencies could represent fighting styles and firearms proficiencies and so…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, MikeSands, Herr Nils, Rattlehead, toli, MrGeneHa, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Psychopompous, prophet118, JSinclair, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

11/11/2002 Shadeling: Should Undead Be Immune to BL, Shock, and Pain?
I was just wondering if Undead type creatures should ignore most BL, Shock and Pain rolls, especially wounds that aren't actually severing their limbs and breaking their bones.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

11/7/2002 Shadeling: Krym-Khanan Sabres...Cut/Thrust, or Sword/Shield?
I mean it lists it under each proficiency, I was just curious for them though? Side note, the long-curved Daggers that Krymeans use...would they just be a Rondel variation?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Irmo, Bob Richter, Jake Norwood, Lyrax.

11/7/2002 Shadeling: Is Kudara-Shiragi supposed to be Krym-Kahnan?
In table 7.3 Currencies, you have Kudara-Shiragi, but no Krym-Kahnan...is this a mistake?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

11/5/2002 Shadeling: Solo Games, would you beef up the PC at all?
I was curious with anyone out there running just one TROS player, if you boost the priorities at all...
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, toli.

10/15/2002 Shadeling: Another RPGnet TROS thread
Check it out: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18099
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

10/2/2002 Shadeling: So I am moving to Crestline, CA...
And I can't find any TROS players!!!
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, svenlein, allahlav, Sneaky Git.

9/17/2002 Shadeling: Anyone playing sologames
Anyone running just one player in Riddle of Steel?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Holt, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Delta1.

9/11/2002 Shadeling: Half swording quandries
Just curious about halfswording. The description lists ATN/DTN that differ from say the Dopplehander's description and +3 Dmg against armor. Also, if you half-sword with a Dopplehander, can you bring…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Jasper.

9/11/2002 Shadeling: Can you counter with a Dopplehander?
I know the maneuver is not listed under the Dopplehander proficiency, but when half-swording, could you use the Counter from another proficiency you know?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Wolfen, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood.

9/1/2002 Shadeling: Simultaneous Attackers-none successful
What happens if Simultaneous Reds are dropped, and both attackers fail in their rolls-do you drop Initiative again?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

8/27/2002 Shadeling: Conscience Spiritual Attribute
Ok, here is my question- Is Conscience always defined as do the right thing, or can it be modified based on characters?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Unsane, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Mokkurkalfe, Nick Pagnucco, Jaif.

8/24/2002 Shadeling: Doubling Up on Skill Packages...
What is the advantage of this? What have any of you done?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Spartan, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Lyrax, Sneaky Git.

8/23/2002 Shadeling: Halflings
Halflings have modifiers in their descriptions. Now would they also gain the mods of their human nation? I was just curious on this.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Lyrax, Sneaky Git, Wolfen, Furious D, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

8/23/2002 Shadeling: Transformers:Armada
At 4:30 PM Pacific Time, on Friday August 23rd on Cartoon Network, You can catch Transformers: Armada. Looks sweet. You can catch a small clip on Cartoon Network's Website. Anyway,…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Shadeling, stormwerks, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate.

8/23/2002 Shadeling: Post-Apocalyptic Game
I think the TROs Combat system could lend itself to a dark, gritty, Post-Apoc genre game very nicely. Whatcha think?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Janne Halmetoja.

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1/8/2003 Shadeling: Poleaxe with blunt head and spike tip?
The proficiency says Poleaxes are often adorned with a blunt head on the side or spike on top or both. What would these do in terms of damage and what-not...
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Ron Edwards, Henry Fitch, toli.

1/10/2003 Shadeling: T'zaul, Kudara, Shiragi
Will there be anything written about these nations, at all?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

1/10/2003 Shadeling: Glamour query...
A Glamour spell could effectively make the illusion of no sound, right? Kind of like the Disappear spell, but in regards to sound. Targets variable only truly comes into play…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, prophet118.

1/12/2003 Shadeling: Looks like I botched character creation...
When I had my players create characters, I messed it up on the Attributes part. I had always thought the high attribute limited what others could equal or exceed...but now…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Mokkurkalfe, Akuma.

1/12/2003 Shadeling: A Fey thought...
Rather than -2 MA to represent their slow learning and unchanging ways...perhaps a +1 SR to skill packets, and MA points costing 2 for 1 for non-language skills at character…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Bob Richter.

1/13/2003 Shadeling: When to Roll Languages?
Do any of you think Language skills should be rolled as often as other skills?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

1/13/2003 Shadeling: My campaign and the characters in it...
Ok, so I am running a campaign, in which a powerful Gol warlord is uniting trollspawn, and attempting to destroy man. The Gol worship a powerful demon to boot. That…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

1/15/2003 Shadeling: A stab or shot at Kozak hand rifle
I was thinking of statting up the Kozak rifle mentioned in the book. I was thinking something like a 6-9 round prep time. Seem accurate? What do you think Jake?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Ashren Va'Hale, Ace, MikeSands.

1/23/2003 Shadeling: How is Dreamspires coming?
How is it coming along?
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Shadeling, Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder.

1/23/2003 Shadeling: Wuxia TROS
Ok, so tell me if this is a lame idea or not. How about a wuxia style game using TROS rules. Movies like Swordman and Crouching Tiger...they have cool fighting…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, ShaneNINE, Ron Edwards, Heavenlyrock, svenlein, Ville, Brian Leybourne.

1/28/2003 Shadeling: Game Awards for 2002
http://www.pen-paper.net/awards.php Just thought we might want to make our votes. ::nods to TROS::
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Ashren Va'Hale, Nacht.

2/10/2003 Shadeling: TROS Supers?
Well I am not insane. While thinking on my Wuxia TROS, this idea hit me like a Dopplehander. TROS Supers. I have always been a fan of the gritty...and a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Mordacc, Clinton R. Nixon, RN3G8 4E.

2/13/2003 Shadeling: There is a Quickstart Review on RPGnet
I just saw it!
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Stephen, Irmo, Blake Hutchins, wpbarr, arxhon, Noon.

3/7/2003 Shadeling: Yet another RPGnet TROS thread
In case any of you wanted to jump on the discussion. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37906
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Noon, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git, Darth Tang, Vanguard, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Stephen, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, Valamir, spunky.

3/21/2003 Shadeling: A setting TROS thread on RPGnet
Lets show our support: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40708
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, arxhon, Darth Tang.

3/28/2003 Shadeling: My estranged game: Fragments of Imagination
Yes it is estranged in some ways... I have been working on an RPG like the rest of us here...not to necessarily publish, but first and foremost for the sheer…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shadeling, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, taalyn, greyorm.

4/3/2003 Shadeling: Simple, Quick Question
Ok, I am having a brain-fart today. If I am using a Longsword 2 Handed, it is the Greatsword/Longsword Proficiency. If I am using it 1 Handed, do I use…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

4/3/2003 Shadeling: Second Quick Question
In running my games this has come up. When using Proficiency, when you have no Proficiency, do you allow the character to use their Reflexes, or Reflexes minus a certain…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

12/8/2003 Shadeling: Hello to All
Hello to all. Been a while since I have posted...been laying low. Of course there was that 2 week period of evacuation due to the california wildfires, but I am…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Brian Leybourne.

3/9/2004 Shadeling: My TROS games
As some of you may remember, I was running TROS games for sometime. They went well, but I decided to shelve them despite the stories being unfinished. To be honest,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Edge, Malechi, Dain, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Tash, MrGeneHa, Farseer415, Ian.Plumb, casinormal, nsruf, Alan, Valamir, Amy1419, bcook1971, Thanaeon, kanseg, kenjib, Muggins, Jaeger, Ben Lehman, silburnl, Starshadow, Ingenious, Emiricol.

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