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2/17/2004 Malechi: Midnight to TROS Conversion
For those that are interested I'm currently compiling a conversion of Midnight for TROS. Its mixed up with the Character Generation Quick Reference sheet that was floating around a while…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Edge, Melkor, Lithos, Morfedel.

2/1/2004 Malechi: Ars Magica for TROS..
Hey there, We've decided to use the Ars Magica rules as converted for TROS as the magic system for our new campaign (See Actual Play post for details if you're…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, toli, November Kilo, Brian Leybourne, Morfedel.

2/1/2004 Malechi: [TROS]Azuraloka - The Land of Avatars (longish..sorry)
Well finally we managed to have what seems to be the first of many promising sessions. After almost reaching homicidal rage for all the cancelled sessions of TROS, Armageddon:2089 etc…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi.

1/30/2004 Malechi: New ORBIT review at RPG.net
Not that I'd heard of this game before today, but after reading the review and a few posts I'm damn near close to shelling out the clams for it... http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10058.phtml…
In Orbit
Participants: Malechi, Jason L Blair, JSDiamond.

1/29/2004 Malechi: Weapon Stats
Hi there, I'm currently working on a campaign setting for TROS that revolves around a kind of Babylonian/Assyrian/Akkadian theme and wanted to introduce some different flavoured weapons. Firstly the Falcata…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi.

12/22/2003 Malechi: Katanapunk! Website
Hey there, Some of you may remember a project I started working on called Katanapunk! Its been a while but thanks to my 12 week uni holiday which started a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi.

12/17/2003 Malechi: TFOB
I can't seem to find any reference to an updated release date for TFoB anywhere. Any clues on its whereabouts? Jason
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Draigh, Brian Leybourne.

7/9/2003 Malechi: Artists needed for TROS Mini-Supplement
I am currently seeking budding amateur or professional artists to provide concept and final publication artwork for an up-and-coming sourcebook for the Riddle of Steel system. Entitled Katanapunk!, this alternate…
In Connections
Participants: Malechi.

7/2/2003 Malechi: Katanapunk! ...blood, honour, steel...attitude!(LONG)
Last night I kicked off an idea that has been stewing around in my head since I first saw TROS. Based off the Blade of the Immortal manga series, Kurosawa…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Wolfen, Valamir, Jake Norwood, 6inTruder, Mike Holmes, Paka, cruciel, Ben Lehman, Thorsten, Waiwode, Vanguard.

6/27/2003 Malechi: First TROS "Session" - Actual Play and Comments
Hey there guys, Just thought I'd reflect on my first session of TROS the other day. It was more of an introduction to the game for two of my prospective…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Overdrive, Morfedel, prophet118.

6/2/2003 Malechi: Profiling June 2003
Three Most Recent: 1) D&D3e 2) CoC 3) The End d20 Best: 1) CoC 2) The End d20 3) Spycraft Most Wanted: 1) The Riddle of Steel 2) Nobilis (own…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi, Dr. Velocity, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, wyrm.

6/6/2003 Malechi: Movement during Combat
Hey there, I just got my book yesterday and I have a quick question regarding movement during combat. I realise this was mentioned here --] http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=3415&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=movement but it didn't answer…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Wolfen.

5/28/2003 Malechi: Plodding away with 3e... why? (WARNING: LONG!)
Hi there, This is my first Forge post, so please be gentle. I think I get *how* I'm supposed to post here (after reading a rather amusing blurtting post by…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Valamir, hardcoremoose.

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2/20/2004 Malechi: Supplements...TTC
Hey there guys, With the recent thread on Mini-supplements I became curious again about the state of the official supplements. After going over some (very) old threads I found discussion…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Edge, Brian Leybourne, Lithos, Jake Norwood.

2/20/2004 Malechi: Dice, exploding...
No not that kind of exploding...and in fact I'm not sure if thats the right word. Something came up last session regarding dice rolling and its been annoying me ever…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, [MKF]Kapten, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen.

2/23/2004 Malechi: Characters not on the map...
Alrighty then, whats the story? I need help connecting my player characters to the current game we've started. We're playing Midnight converted to TROS. Ok, I decided to run the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Valamir, jdagna, Andrew Norris, Bankuei, John Kim.

2/24/2004 Malechi: [OT] PC Death... not that kind though
argh.. i hate it when that happens.. My PC died in the wee hours of this morning, taking with it a goodly amount of Katanapunk!, Midnight to TROS Conversion stuff…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Wolfen.

2/27/2004 Malechi: [InSpectres] Fort Lauderdale franchise opens!
well tonight we played our first ever game of InSpectres. It was great! The scene opens as the trio of paranormal investigators take coffee in their franchise "offices", the largest…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi, Mike Holmes, clehrich, WDFlores, Bob McNamee.

2/29/2004 Malechi: Origins of TROS
Hey there guys, I was posting a little encouragement about TROS last night on a new messageboard I've found for Australian gamers. One of the board admins there made mention…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, bcook1971, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Wolfen, casinormal, Stephen, Jake Norwood.

3/23/2004 Malechi: New review at RPG.net
[url]http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10177.phtml[/url] errrr ... yeah.... go check it out.. *ahem*
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Salamander, bottleneck, Caz, MrGeneHa, tauman, Eamon, Wolfen, Stephen, bergh, Richard_Strey, montag, NotOnYourLife, kenjib, Turin, Edge, dysjunct, Valamir, Merritt Baggett, Ingenious, clehrich, Ian.Plumb, Alan, Jake Norwood, luke, Dain, [MKF]Kapten, pete_darby, ZenDog, Brian Leybourne, Mayhem1979.

3/30/2004 Malechi: downage?
Just curious but was the site down for the last errr 12 hours or so?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Malechi, greyorm, orbsmatt, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/30/2004 Malechi: [Sorcery] Resisting spells
Sorry if this has been brought up before.. i tried a search but came up empty handed. My question is, the rulebook presents a set of guidelines for resisting spells…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, nsruf.

3/30/2004 Malechi: [InSpectres] More Ghastly Endeavours in Ft. Lauderdale
Well..we've had our second and indeed third jobs now..and boy did things get strange. Some background: these next two jobs were GM'd by two different GMs who were in turn…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Bob McNamee.

3/31/2004 Malechi: [Cabal] intro mechanics
Hi there, So there we were, digesting the last session of InSpectres with a nice glass of Pinot when we struck upon the idea for a new game. Its got…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Malechi.

4/1/2004 Malechi: [TROS] Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Last night we wrapped up the first story arc in our TROS Midnight game. I'm still thinking about how amazing the game was over the entire six sessions. With the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi.

4/16/2004 Malechi: Sci-Fi Narr-based with some healthy doses of Situation
Straight to the point.. we're looking for a low $ investment sci-fi rpg. It needn't be an actual Sci-Fi rpg but should definitely allow for some nice background setting, situation…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Malechi, Dev, Lxndr, b_bankhead.

5/5/2004 Malechi: TROS Review
I've posted a review of TROS over at a couple of Australian websites and while I don't want to take the credit the FLGS has had to restock twice since…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

5/13/2004 Malechi: Settings and Unused/Pointless Priorities
I'm currently working on Katanapunk! and I've been thinking about the priorities and what to place in the character section of the book. As this game is set in 18th…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Tash, nsruf, kenjib, Tom.

5/14/2004 Malechi: Katanapunk Art
Artist Daniel Danborg has joined the Katanapunk! project. For a sample of his work check out the Shigira story here http://members.westnet.com.au/manji/shigira.html let me know what you guys think? Jason K.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, tetsujin28, Edge.

5/18/2004 Malechi: Katanapunk: Zanshin and the Armour question
Hey guys, We've been having some discussions regarding Katanapunk and in particular the issue regarding armour. As Katanapunk is set in an era where armour was quite rare we've tried…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Ashren Va'Hale, Tash, Ashton.

5/24/2004 Malechi: [Katanapunk] Playtesting the Punk - Edo Calling (long)
Well last week we made characters and constructed the Martial School that the characters belonged to using the system we've devised. Comments from the playtesters were encouraging regarding both elements,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malechi, Jinx, Paka, greedo1379, ascendance, 6inTruder.

5/24/2004 Malechi: Katanapunk Playtest
For those who don't step out of the TROS forum into the wider-Forge world I've posted a quick run-down of the playtest session we had last week in the Actual…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, ReverendCuster187, greedo1379.

6/1/2004 Malechi: Twilight Samurai...
Hey guys, Just wanted to make sure everyone's heard of and intends to go see "Twilight Samurai". If you haven't seen it yet go and find a copy soon. SAs…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Loki, Tash.

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