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4/20/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: weapons for peasants
What kind of proficincies would a peasant likely have?
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Ryuuko, arxhon, kanseg, Mokkurkalfe, Mayhem1979, Eamon Voss.

4/18/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: East Coast Cons
with all the talk of Gen Con I began to wonder if there are any gaming convention on the east coast? Preferably middle and North East (North carolina to New…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, prophet118, Eamon Voss, wpbarr, Wolfen, Mayhem1979.

4/16/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: Price of a good wagon and horses... and other stuff
Ok, My current character managed to end up extremely rich after the last campaign and now hes spending his 250 gold. Imperial standard. He's trying to stay low in his…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Farseer415, Valamir, Salamander.

4/14/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: volume target of sculpture
Ok, one of my players wanted to use sculpture to sink a boat so he targeted a plank and made a spell to sculpt a circular slice into the plank…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, prophet118, Valamir, Bob Richter, Mayhem1979, Brian Leybourne.

4/13/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: who is the inquisition?
In your versions of weyrth, how do you imagine the inquisition? Who are they? What do they want? what do people think of them?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Farseer415, Brian Leybourne, arxhon, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Thor Olavsrud.

4/6/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: tales of weyrth
I would be interested in hearing some of your interesting adventures and stories played within the weyrth setting. I was reading through some of the header and introductory stories and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Ron Edwards.

3/10/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: really twisted mean idea
ok, so you do it like his, invite the players over for char generation. Have them create characters and let them know that they should create characters they would want…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Darth Tang, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Noon, Sneaky Git, GreatWolf, Brian Leybourne.

2/17/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: dueling
how did it work, what were the ettiquete rules, what warranted a duel and how were terms of the duel decided? My next campaign takes place in the Xanarium empire…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

2/16/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: villains with SA's continued and dramatic deaths
I remember this debate a while back so I figured I should ressurrect it with a new insight. after my game last saturday I found how fun it was for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

2/16/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: full evade, dual strikes and multiple opponents
now, if my character wants to make a full evade against a mug doing a dual strike with two weapons do I need to make two different rolls, one for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Spartan, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Irmo.

2/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: weapon stats
any ideas for the stats on the the ahlspiel, the flemish gudentag, the large messer and the hammer and spike of the pole axe?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mordacc, Shadeling, Jeffrey Straszheim.

11/1/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: Sa's and trying to kill my character (long)
One of my biggest problems in gaming is that I come up with too many cool character Ideas.... I am currently playing a mad martigan style blade slinger that I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Roger Eberhart, Lyrax.

10/25/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: custom skill packets
I just made a custome set of skill packets that I was intending to post here but I forgot which note book I wrote them in, anyhow it got me…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

10/25/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: SA's-- whats your best?
All the talk of SA's got me wondering, what have been the SA's you found the most enjoyable to play or run in a campaign, adventure, or whatever? Heres one…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Lyrax, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: they say a man can change reality if he wans it bad enough.
Just a fun Idea from one of my campaigns: once a ton of really nasty evil demons from the depths of ... well somewhere really nasty, came at a players…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Mayhem1979, Lyrax.

9/28/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: books and or movies with that TROS feel
Hey, just wondering here, but what books and / or movies strike you guys as having that TROS feel to it? for example, GRR Martins books (Game of thrones etc)…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Shadeling, Vanguard, Apprentice of Steel, Jake Norwood, Chris Passeno, Blake Hutchins, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, qirien, Bankuei, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Mokkurkalfe, Ville, Thalaxis, Irmo, luke, spunky, hix, Adrian Werner, Jon the Bastard, Bob Richter, Wolfen, Amy1419, Jason Kottler, Eamon Voss, tauman, Paka, deltadave, Sneaky Git, arxhon.

8/11/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: demo
The demo today went rather well, only two people showed but one of them was the guy running the store. Anyhow one copy of TROS left the store additional to…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

8/4/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: WOO HOO!!!! Demo Time!
All right, the local RPG store in Falls Church VA finally is carrying TROS! I bugged them and bugged them, now I finally can do a demo! Me and a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Lyrax.

7/18/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: Looking ahead to september
in september me and my roomate will be needing to join a group playing in the provo utah area. Both of us would like a chance to play rather than…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

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5/17/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: pc's getting injured/killed
I was wondering, how often in your campaigns do your players have charcters get seriously injured or killed? It rarely happens in my games and I tend to be a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Bob Richter, Draigh, Vanguard, Jasper the Mimbo.

5/17/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: Evolution of Weyrth
I was wondering what changes and evolutions have occured in your versions of Weyrth... In mine, savaxen became independent under its own high king, Stahl had a nasty civil war…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mayhem1979.

5/21/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: really really wierd thing happened to my post
I was just reading the thread that was closed and I made a comment on it this morning that only showed up way later this evening and now it looks…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Balbinus.

5/24/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: new skill- teaching
I found in my game I ran tonight that it would be appropriate for a character and a key npc to be very interested in imparting their knowlege to others,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne.

6/1/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: weapon grabbing
How would you mechanicallyaccount for grabbing a weapon? right now I treat it as grappling to trap but you are grappling the weapon but maybe there are som better ideas…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Ashton, Jake Norwood, MrGeneHa.

6/4/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: vagary swap
ok, I decided to do a little vagary swap, basically I FOUND IMPRISONMENT TO BE A LITTLE WEAK AD CONQUER UBER SO I DECIDED THAT FOR IMBEDDING SPELLS YOU NEED…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, kenjib, arxhon.

6/13/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: SEAT OF THE EMPIRE SUP
Ok, heres what I have gone and done, I went and made a supplement for the seat of the empire whe I was bored Lastweek. its mainly justth capital city,…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, demiurgeastaroth, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco.

6/14/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: the virtue of a conman
I love my rad conman from farrenshire with a social of 8. this guy bought a riding horse and then sold it as a courser for about 20 gold. he…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

7/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: stuck on the xanarium empire mini supp
Hey all, I posted a while back (a long time back.. I have been away for a while) that I was working on a mini supp for teh empire and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Lebo77, Nick Pagnucco.

7/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a useful tool
I just bought hans talhoffers manual off of amazon used for dirt cheap and I was planning on using it to study great sword and rondel while away from the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

7/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a sad moment in role playing
ok, so im in the campaign as I type this and the company hired a kick ass sell sword with a death wish and a cp of 22 so we…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: playing with major blood lust flaw
I just found out how fun it is to play a character looking for a fight....I have a guy who is seeking revenge against all gelureans and the church of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Sir Mathodius Black, Ron Edwards.

7/23/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: doing things wrong to get it right
I just now learned that I was fubarring a basic rule for the last year and whatever that I have been playing, and the game was still damn fun and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne.

7/30/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: mass combat
I was wondering what people might think of my current method of dealing with mass combat. First I decide the numerical values of each forces manpower and weapons. I do…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Ben Lehman.

9/28/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a mean combo
tonight my character pulled a great move in a series of fights. In the first he pulled a great defensive duck and weave after rolling for both acrobatics and body…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

10/1/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: slang question
Ok, what does "ymmv" mean? this has been bugging me all day!
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, MonkeyWrench, 6inTruder, Brian Leybourne, dragon_of_colour, Richard_Strey, Camillus.

12/1/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: I need stats for...
a messer.... now that I have played with one in real life I want one for my character but I cant make up my mind on the stats, I was…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Draigh, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, Salamander.

12/4/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: Pc cP's
Whats the max cp you have developed for a pc? Max I built a pc up to is 23 so far, my goal is to reach thehuman max for him.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Draigh, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Krammer, Ingenious.

12/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: anti climactic endings
I have found that what makes a good climactic battle in tros is not thelength but the setting and sa's, the fights themselves tend to be less flashy and moreanti…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Draigh, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Jasper the Mimbo.

12/23/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: new flaw
I was thinking Debt would be a cool flaw. Basically a character owes someone some money. You could vary the amount and to whom with the severity of the flaw.…
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Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Ingenious, Krammer, Jaif, Paka.

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