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2/24/2003 svenlein: shied walls
One idea i had (untill we get flower of battle): when you have 2 lines of people face off, NOTE; assuming hallways or some other reason to be cramped (like…
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Participants: svenlein.

1/28/2003 svenlein: Fighting Indoors
How do people handle players fighting indoors. I would guess many Terraign rolls with higher difficulties for people based on the lenght of their weapon.
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Participants: svenlein, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe.

1/24/2003 svenlein: Missile Accuracy
Thought on things that effect missile accuracy: These are just thought, some effects are below the granularity of TROS. Taking a shot: with your senses collect data about all the…
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Participants: svenlein.

1/20/2003 svenlein: Clarification of half-swording
Are these calculations correct? All examples are used 2 handed (half-sworded for the swords) with damage calculated against heavy armor. weapon.......hands.length..Range.....ATN....DTN........dam bastard.......2..........48.........s/m......5........6..........ST+3 (or ST+5?) dopple.........2.........72.........l...........6.........6.........+2 estoc...........2.........48.........s/m......5.........6.........+3 (or ST+5?) great...........2.........55.........s/m......5.........6.........+3 (or…
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Participants: svenlein, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Durgil, Thalaxis, Bob Richter.

1/10/2003 svenlein: broken blade was it a fumble?
in the link Jake gave: http://www.thearma.org/Videos/NTCvids/testingbladesandmaterials.htm they broke a sword and a spike. The spikes quality was suspected. The sword came from a reputable company. Was this just a fluke?…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Akuma, MrGeneHa.

10/11/2002 svenlein: Source material
Other than Silver what are other book that mention trade-offs between differnt weapons (other than katana vs longsword vs rapier)? Scott
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Bankuei.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Grabbing weapons
[quote="Jake"]Therefore if the dagger guy got close in it would make more sense for the pikeman to pull a sword and have a more reasonable range advantage over the dagger…
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Participants: svenlein, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Bob Richter, Thalaxis, Valamir, MrGeneHa.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Dodge Ideas
Jake’s partial evade rule People were suggesting to avoid the pike's high DTN by dodging at a DTN of 7 instead. This is fine, but I would not penalize the…
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Participants: svenlein, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Expulsion
In expulsion it says to refer to beat for an example, should expulsion act more like beat? Ex. I am in a rapier duel with someone else with a rapier.…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood.

10/4/2002 svenlein: failed grapple leads to wrestling?
in the newest edition page 62 the last line of Grapple says: "A tie or failure leads to Wrestling, as per the Wrestling Proficiency" Should this just say tie, or…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Buzzy Bee.

9/27/2002 svenlein: freakout flaw
This is a flaw common in people who haven't seen combat: Major Flaw : Freakout When arrows start flying, or other combat breaks out, you stand dumbfounded for 8 -…
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Participants: svenlein, Lyrax, Mike Holmes.

9/27/2002 svenlein: weapon lenght after bash
Lets say i'm fighting someone with a greatsword, I bash it successfully, does his weapon lenght become 0? Scott
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Participants: svenlein, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Vanguard, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Brian Leybourne.

9/24/2002 svenlein: Archery supplement
I'm working on an archery supplement because it seem to me (but i may be wrong) that the archery rules for tRoS don't have the same level of depth as…
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Participants: svenlein, Holt, Durgil, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Lyrax, Mike Holmes.

9/20/2002 svenlein: Axeing a sheild
Another idea last night: If you are fighting someone with a wooden sheild (even one with a metal rim), and are using an axe (ok pick maybe too), you can…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Thirsty Viking, Mike Holmes, Apprentice of Steel, Wolfen.

9/20/2002 svenlein: shield walls idea
Here is an idea i had last night: Each person next to you that is in a defensive stance and has a heater sheild gives you a +1 die to…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Herr Nils, Thirsty Viking, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Lyrax, Spartan, Mokkurkalfe.

9/17/2002 svenlein: half-poling
Swords have 2 grips (in TROS): regular and half-swording, Should Pole weapons (spears, staves, pole arms) also have more than one grip? Or are pole weapons only optimally effective at…
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Participants: svenlein, Shadeling, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Thirsty Viking, Jaif, Durgil, Nick Pagnucco, Lyrax, Gordon C. Landis, Valamir.

9/13/2002 svenlein: House Rules Web Page
http://www.geocities.com/sgalthof/houserules.html Comments? Scott
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Participants: svenlein, Mike Holmes, Wolfen.

9/11/2002 svenlein: movement while fighting
Here is something I've been thinking about, it is intensely simulationist: Movement while fighting: randomly determine distance, direction, and new orientation. forward and backward would be more likely than side…
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Participants: svenlein, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood.

9/6/2002 svenlein: compilation of house rules
A while back Jake said he was going to put up all the house rules that have been developed on this list, I am really looking forward to this. If…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, viktor_haag, Mike Holmes, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax.

9/5/2002 svenlein: Parrying a punch with a sword
This is a question I asked earlier but the thread died Guy tries to punch me. I parry with my sword. As an added bonus to him not hitting me,…
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Participants: svenlein, Valamir, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking.

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3/28/2003 svenlein: Idea for selling next book
Would this be possible for an option to buy the next book? I give you some money. You give me the pdf of the book. Then when the book comes…
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Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Shadeling, Ron Edwards, Cynthia Celeste Miller, prophet118, Darth Tang.

4/24/2003 svenlein: mass combat
Occasionally people bring up wanting to do mass combat. I?m not sure if this is true for most people, but if you are like I was you probably have only…
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7/9/2003 svenlein: Terrain rolls
What Terrain roll have you given players? What was the difficulty / activation cost / did they need more than one success? I am looking for guidelines on what difficulty…
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