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3/31/2003 Hannu Hurme: Inspiration: let's break some eggs
Hi all! First let me introduce myself, my name is Hannu Hurme and I’m from Finland. I’ve been lurking here, on and off for some time now and I’ve found…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Hannu Hurme, Spooky Fanboy, Brian Leybourne, Mark Johnson, Jonathan Walton, Shreyas Sampat, ScottM.

3/31/2003 Thor Olavsrud: First tRoS Session -- A Diabolical Scheme
So I ran tRoS for the first time last night, and I hate to sound like a broken record but SAs rock! We decided to play a one-shot because one…
In Actual Play
Participants: Thor Olavsrud.

3/31/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Riptide--where did it go?
Just curious: Did this get put on the back burner? Or did it get put away more permenantly? I remember it being mentioned, and discussed on this list, then it…
In CRN Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/31/2003 Matt Wilson: the order of story elements
This is half baked, but I thought I'd serve it up for thought. There's different orders of resolving fortune, like FitM and so on. What about moving other pieces of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Paul Czege.

3/31/2003 Eamon Voss: TROS black powder guns?
Matchlocks and wheellocks. Any stats for those handy? What about the damage tables? Will this be in the Flower of Battle?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Eamon Voss, Shadeling, Thor Olavsrud, murazor, Valamir, Nick Pagnucco, Sneaky Git, Mike Holmes, arxhon.

3/31/2003 Paganini: Horror Games
So we're playing SQUEAM again over at Indie Net-gaming. So far it's going real well, I learned a lot about how to use it in the last game we did…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Christoffer Lernö, talysman, dragongrace, Bob McNamee, M. J. Young.

3/31/2003 Spooky Fanboy: So, how's it going?
Saw the new web page, looks nicely organized. Definitely gets the feel of the game across. How's the game itself coming along?
In Orbit
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, JSDiamond.

3/31/2003 cruciel: Rules-lite = story? (split from Storyteller Heartbreakers)
[quote="Jack Spencer Jr"]Or basically games that claim a focus on story yet have little if anything in their system to fascilitate the creation of a story.[/quote] I don't get it.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: cruciel, Jack Spencer Jr, Paganini, Lugaru, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Matt.

3/31/2003 prophet118: Combat..
i like the system... really i do... im just thiking about what i can do to stream line things a bit more... (note, that doesnt mean making anything d20 based..lol)...…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: prophet118, Valamir, Alan, Mokkurkalfe, Shadeling, Amy1419, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Eamon Voss, Noon, spunky.

3/31/2003 Ziggy: Ninja Gibbon - mechanics Q
Hi there. I've been browsing here for a while, trying without sucess to get a game running (I may have some mechanics for this game in a few days). Meanwhile,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ziggy, Mike Holmes, Mark Johnson, Thomas Tamblyn.

3/31/2003 [FHE]dave: Fey Statistic
hello, I'm new to TROS and next week we have our first gaming session with chargeneration. So I'd like to know a thing: I want to play a Fey; what…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: [FHE]dave, Wolfen, Valamir, Shadeling.

3/31/2003 anonymouse: [Donjon] Setting: Hyrule.
Been playing a lot of Wind Waker recently, so a Donjon-themed Link was on my mind. As a variant, it'd be interesting to turn an Attributes dial and use -…
In CRN Games
Participants: anonymouse, greyorm, Jason L Blair, Mike Holmes.

3/31/2003 taalyn: Aisling - mechanic review, please? <LONG>
Hey all, Here's my writeup for the Aisling mechanic. Would anyone be willing to critique it? How To Do It Whenever a charactert attempts an action whose outcome is significant…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: taalyn, Wolfen, greyorm.

3/31/2003 RamblingMan: Dice Less Task Resolution
I was just wondering what sorts of things people may have tried for resolving tasks without using as many dice as needed. I don't have very many dice, or an…
In CRN Games
Participants: RamblingMan, anonymouse, Mike Holmes, quozl, Scripty, Dev.

3/31/2003 Dr O: Universalis site down
Hi All, I don't really know where to put this but it is somewhat related to publishing . . . The Universalis website is down, and has been down for…
In Publishing
Participants: Dr O, Valamir.

3/30/2003 Brian Leybourne: Actual Play: A Social Experiment...
A couple of my players couldn't make it to yesterdays game, so I decided to try a bit of a "social experiment" with the 3 who made it. My goals…
In Actual Play
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, arxhon.

3/30/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Storyteller Heartbreakers
This idea recently occured to me. I'll see if I can express it properly. With the fantasy heartbreaker articles, there has been some discussion over whether there are other types…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Lugaru, ThreeGee, Paganini, Rob MacDougall, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Bruce Baugh, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, cruciel, greyorm, szilard, Valamir, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, John Kim.

3/30/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Randomized Character Creation: a good thing for beginners?
It was a long time since I GM:ed a total beginner, and a solo adventure at that. I was running a really old Swedish RPG which had a lot of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Mark Johnson, Jack Spencer Jr, Lugaru, ThreeGee, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards.

3/30/2003 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight!, Part 2
An actual transcript of actual play. Things get ugly. http://thejeffers.dyndns.org/~jjeffers/Games/Sorcerer/Gaslight/ Enjoy!
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards.

3/30/2003 Sneaky Git: The Fate of the Fey
I can't remember which thread it was, but it got me thinking... I went back to the rulebook, flipped through, and then re-read the section detailing the Fey and the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Amy1419, Ashren Va'Hale, Shadeling, PAD the MAD.

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3/31/2003 bladamson: Mirima Tyalie core system
Hi. We've been working on a system for a few months. It's almost finished, and I was hoping we might be able to get some constructive criticism on the game.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: bladamson, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Kester Pelagius, ThreeGee, Mark Johnson, greyorm, Garbanzo, Valamir, Thomas Tamblyn.

3/31/2003 Ron Edwards: Local forum policy questions
Hi Jake, Seems as if some concerns have arisen regarding TROS forum policies. Since, as Shadeling rightly points out, all moderation here is yours, and since this forum is the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood.

3/31/2003 Simon W: DisasterQuakeFireFlood
Disaster movies are a poular draw at the cinema. Role-playing games often try to emulate the movies. However, I am not sure that I have seen any disaster based role-playing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Shreyas Sampat, talysman, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Maurice Forrester.

3/31/2003 Brian Leybourne: Forge Software capabilities?
Is there any way to set up my account (or the Forge itself) so that every time I visit a thread, it resets the "new since last login" for that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Clinton R. Nixon, Stuart DJ Purdie.

3/31/2003 Bleys: Experience Freelance Illustrator
Hello! My name is A. Bleys Ingram, and I am an experienced freelance illustrator who is always in the market to work on cool RPGs. I generally do fairly stark…
In Connections
Participants: Bleys, Valamir, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

4/1/2003 Rekar: Mechanics
I am currently throwing around ideas for a future based RPG. It will not contain any classes, but skills that would be part of a class. This eliminates the fustration…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Rekar, Mark Johnson, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

4/1/2003 taalyn: Difficulty levels
How do you folks determine difficulties? How do you decide what's a reasonable difficulty for any given task? Do you use probabilities at all, i.e. figure out what the average…
In RPG Theory
Participants: taalyn, Mark Johnson, bladamson, Wolfen, RobMuadib, Thomas Tamblyn, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bruce Baugh.

4/1/2003 ethan_greer: Forge Bookshelf
Hi there, site admins. Why isn't there a link to the Forge Bookshelf from the Forge? It's my feeling there should be. Just a thought... P.S. If it does exist…
In Site Discussion
Participants: ethan_greer.

4/1/2003 Jonathan Walton: Microfiction-Style Roleplaying
Hopefully, most of you are familiar with the relatively recent writing form known as "microfiction." I don't mean the stuff that's just really brief short stories, but the stuff that's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Jack Spencer Jr, Stuart DJ Purdie, szilard, Bob McNamee, ScottM, talysman, Mike Holmes, Paganini, Ron Edwards, ThreeGee.

4/1/2003 Michael Hopcroft: CAH for Slayers?
I'll know more when I have access to the book again (it's a long story, involviong moving, an overzealous housecleaning and a massive collapse of an entire book collection stacked…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Spooky Fanboy, Eddy Fate, Wulf, Slant, Derek Devlin.

4/1/2003 Ziggy: 1001.indie-rpgs.com
-none of the links are working. Just a note, Ziggy
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ziggy, Jonathan Walton.

4/1/2003 Thierry Michel: Character Generation and Literary Portrait
I'm aware of a few systems (for instance HeroWars or the Pool) that allow players to write a short portrait of their character and use it to derive traits and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Thierry Michel, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Paganini, Bruce Baugh, Mike Holmes, szilard, M. J. Young, bladamson.

4/1/2003 Eamon Voss: A few questions about TROS
I picked up the full version of the game on sunday. So far I think it great! I am planning to run a test game set in 'Generica', a French…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Eamon Voss, Ryuuko, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Noon.

4/1/2003 Matt Wilson: The Shadow of Yesterday
Never mind that my character spent a good half hour of the game wearing only a shirt. And never mind that during that time he was bitten in the nether…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial.

4/1/2003 deltadave: TRoS combat
What is the rationale for using the weapon to determine the attack TN as opposed to using an AC type system? As an example, in my (heavily modified) D20 game…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: deltadave, Eamon Voss, Sneaky Git, Mokkurkalfe, prophet118, Valamir, Ashren Va'Hale, Thor Olavsrud.

4/1/2003 Eddy Fate: Online Ordering!
I'm sure Cindi will put up a full announcement (since I'm not an administrator, I can't), but online ordering is active! Here's the direct link to buy it online: http://www.shadowfist.com/html/store_CAH.htm
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Eddy Fate, Shadeling, Valamir, The Spoken Name.

4/1/2003 szilard: User profiles
I don't know how easy (or desireable) this would be, but would it be possible to expand the user profiles to include "Games Designed" and/or "Current Projects" blurbs? Would this…
In Site Discussion
Participants: szilard, Jack Spencer Jr, Thomas Tamblyn.

4/1/2003 Green: creating a game about "real" fae?
I've been a fan of Storyteller games for a while, and recently I've been deeply interested in modern fantasy. After reading Emma Bull's War for the Oaks and Terry Pratchett's…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Sidhain, John Kim, taalyn, clehrich.

4/1/2003 Nathan: New EAK Site: EAK Revised Is Imminent (Seriously)
Howdy, The new site is up, although I will still be adding and modifying things for the next couple of days. When EAK revised is ready (which it already sort…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

4/2/2003 Jake Norwood: Forum Rules (Draft)
Okay, guys, here's the draft of the TROS board rules. Any commentary comes *now,* 'cause when they're offical, that's it. Jake __________________ Welcome to the Riddle of Steel Forge Forum…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Durgil, Eamon Voss, ethan_greer, Stephen, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, arxhon, Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco, Sneaky Git.

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