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2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Demons and Preservation
I don't like the way that Preservation, as a demonic power, works. It seems counter-intuitive to everything else in the system, which is all about throwing extra dice down on…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Obliteration and Sins
So I have been reading Sophocles and interviews with people who were sexually abused as children, which have combined with Dogs in my head into a incestuously breeding, heavily polygamist,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/21/2004 Ravien: Eclipse RPG
[b]Eclipse[/b] Now that i have been here a while, and gotten a bit of a feel for "how things are done", i've decided to present my system mechanics in a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ravien, Darksmith, greyorm, Mike Holmes, montag, Robert K Beckett, Bracken.

2/21/2004 Jaeger: Toned down spell system
This spell system is just a modification of the existing one. it is intended to be a toned town or throttled back version to reduce the ridiculous power levels of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaeger, Edge, Morfedel, Andrew Mure.

2/21/2004 Smithy: Prepping for A Succession Conflict in Pimia
So I'm prepping the first HQ game for myself and my group. We're committed to exploring narrativist gaming, but I'm still getting a feel for how to go about putting…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Smithy, RaconteurX, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, buserian.

2/20/2004 Grover: Trying to find setting design rpg
I remember running across a free RPG on the internet several years ago. Unfortunately, the only thing I can remember about it is some vague things from the example of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Grover, contracycle, anonymouse.

2/20/2004 Lithos: Is Sword and Sorcerer a stand alone product?
Is Sword and Sorcerer a stand alone product or does one require Sorcerer for a fully functional system?
In Adept Press
Participants: Lithos, Trevis Martin, tetsujin28.

2/20/2004 Jonathan Walton: Brecht Article up on RPGnet
Hey folks, This is a public service announcement. http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/collists/fineart.html The new article is called "...But with Innovations!" and talks about the dramatic theories of Bertolt Brecht and how they apply…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Noon, Halzebier, xiombarg, Valamir, clehrich, John Kim, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr.

2/20/2004 Scripty: Game Prep and GM Techniques
I've been fishing around this forum for a while and have a question, or a request really, for all the Narrators, GMs, etc., contributing to the Forge. I've seen a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Scripty, Steve Samson, Nathan P., Negilent, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

2/20/2004 bergh: Half Swording, split
No swinging when half swording?!? Why does the halfsword mode intry, in the doppelhander profile then have a CUT profile?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Salamander, The Heretic, Drifter Bob, Muggins, Richard_Strey, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

2/20/2004 bergh: Black Powder Weapons (Split)
first of all, I also wan't black powder weapons for TROS BUT, i need info about the different techs used: Flintlock Matchlocks Wheellocks can anybody give a short description of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Valamir, Andrew Mure, Salamander, Brian Leybourne.

2/20/2004 bluegargantua: Dog Dispensation
Hey, I think we had this conversation before under the heading: "Can a Dog order a regular Faithful to violate Church Law? For example, could the Dog order the Faithful…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/20/2004 Darksmith: Paradox RPG...
I’ve been working on an RPG called Paradox for what seems like eternity. After finding this site I decided to pick it up again after a very long hiatus. The…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Darksmith, orbsmatt, Zak Arntson, Jeph, Nathan P., greyorm, Ravien, coxcomb, Alex Johnson, John Burdick.

2/20/2004 Matt Wilson: some confusion on dodging missiles
In last night's game, my character was generating missile pool to nail some guy with a thrown knife, and the guy actually launched a knife in return. So the rules…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Matt Wilson, Wolfen, Valamir, John Harper, Brian Leybourne, kenjib, Alan, Jake Norwood, Ben Lehman, Overdrive.

2/20/2004 Bob Goat: Press Releases
Hi, I finally got my game to my editor today and have finally started to givve serious thought to other aspects of publishing. I was wondering, as far as press…
In Publishing
Participants: Bob Goat, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris, Paul Czege.

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.

2/20/2004 Lithos: An entirely gameplay unrelated piece of praise for TRoS.
The binding.. it's a bloody well bound book! I've had my copy for months, and it's received a heap of use and abuse, and it's sturdy as the day I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lithos, Bob Richter, Wolfen, Drifter Bob, Jake Norwood.

2/20/2004 clehrich: Calculating card-hand odds
Hey, math people, Can you help me calculate some odds that use cards? The difficulty, of course, being that every card drawn changes the pack, thus each draw affects the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, james_west, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, HMT.

2/20/2004 bergh: Armor and the test character on page 25
Armor and the test character on page 25 This guy haves full suit chain, ok this gives AV4 and -2CPM this is fine, not this guy have a Cheat Plate…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, [MKF]Kapten, Malechi, Wolfen.

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.

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2/21/2004 M. J. Young: Ubercon III
I'm surprised not to see a thread on this here. I will be at Ubercon III next weekend in the NY Metro area; I will be running a Legends…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, inthisstyle, abzu, Dregg, Thor Olavsrud, urbwar.

2/21/2004 Ace: I turned down a good GM's game Friday Night or
This could almost be called actual not play -- in fact I would have put that in the subject but I ran out of space However I thought I would…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ace, clehrich, furashgf, Wolfen.

2/21/2004 gobi: [Stat! TV Medical Drama] Design Goals
While putting aside the other game ideas that are simmering in the back of my brain for the time being, I started thinking of Tales of Human Drama! A few…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: gobi, MoonHunter.

2/21/2004 ksarith: Profiling (split and closed)
The topic isn't quite dead yet... Most recently Played. WoD VtM (New Orleans Setting), Star Wars(D20), and DeadLands Most Enjoyed. Home Brewed Game while in Germany(Cross between 2nd Ed AD&D…
In Actual Play
Participants: ksarith, Ron Edwards.

2/21/2004 Wolfen: Melee
This is slightly OT as it has nothing specifically to do with TRoS, but with WMA instead. I do not question the skill of our WMA practitioners, esp. considering that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Caz, Salamander, Jake Norwood.

2/21/2004 Dev: Noreascon 2004 info
[b][url=http://www.noreascon.org/]Noreascon[/url][/b] is Sept 2-6th in Boston, MA. I just wanted to share that a contact of mine (ranma1224@yahoo.com) is running the game room. Apparently, you don't have to pay for…
In Conventions
Participants: Dev.

2/21/2004 Autocrat: Item & Equipment Details ????
OK then, lets see how fast this one goes...... So you have a huge list of potential equipment, (to cover your post apoc setting with umpteen types of skills and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Autocrat, anonymouse, erithromycin, Ole, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, Noon.

2/21/2004 Mulciber: Actual Play: Trithofar: Liam Learns to Set Up Fights
Some people play _Burning Wheel_ in Alabama. That includes me and my friend Jared. Trithofar Setting Notes (enough to get you by): Kunjels are the not really anthropomorphized cats. They…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Mulciber, abzu, rafial.

2/21/2004 Autocrat: Skills:- What types and how many?
Yeah, yet another one to pick you brains and preference sticks with! OK, post apaoco', loads of variety for the technnology, potential goldmines of info for Characters to locate and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Autocrat, Taina, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat, M. J. Young, Ole, clehrich.

2/22/2004 sirogit: Two questions
Do bludgeoning, cutting or puncturing type attacks have any effect on how much armor they're able to get through? Also, is there any rule I skipped in which you can…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: sirogit, Bob McNamee, Brian Leybourne.

2/22/2004 Ingenious: Armor of Air question..
This question came up during last night's session. Does the +3 bonus damage for halfswording/estocs etc apply to the 'armor of air' spell? It says that it's a +3 vs…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ingenious, Jake Norwood, Salamander, BirdMan, Valamir.

2/22/2004 Ben Lehman: Exclusivity of Creative Agenda
Yo. To people who have been around for a while, I apologize. I've brought this up before, and this is spurred by some recent conversations with another friend (hi, Dave!)…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Jinx, Jack Spencer Jr, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, james_west, M. J. Young, Ian Charvill, Emily Care, Mike Holmes.

2/22/2004 Zhores: Byuing new skills vs. skill packets.
Greetings one and all. This is my first post to the forum. Let me first say that TROS is an excelent game, though, exempting the combat rules, a little rough…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Zhores, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

2/22/2004 sirogit: TROS game: The Sea of Fallen Gods
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9688 for a little bit of info on the game. I had the first session of this game this saturday and it was great, even if it was just prepatory…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: sirogit, Brian Leybourne.

2/22/2004 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Fortune-less Rules
I have finished a draft version of my supernatural game Mortal Coil, and have playtested it with a small group of friends. The rules have no fortune mechanic, and instead…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: inthisstyle.

2/22/2004 MrWrong: Masters of Luck and Death competition
Patrons & Nemesses Competition To celebrate the release of the excellent Masters of Luck and Death, we are running a competition to with three copies as prizes. For entries we…
In HeroQuest
Participants: MrWrong, Brand_Robins, buserian.

2/22/2004 Loki: [Great Ork Gods] playtest
I ran Great Ork Gods last night and it may have saved my game group. We haven't been playing much for the last few months, but last night we had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Loki, gregkcubed, Jack Aidley, Valamir, Steve Samson, montag.

2/23/2004 Eric J.: Pyron's first Rant (Which isn't very good)
I would just like to rant for a moment: And I'd like to start with a quote from Shapesphear: "This, above all else, to thine own self be true." I'd…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Eric J., james_west, Noon.

2/23/2004 Ben Lehman: Thieves and Kings 2
As a flaming T&K fanboy, I need to answer this old thread. But Quinton ... this is a character who breaks most role-playing conventions of "story" and "protagonist"…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2004 kwill: [Inside] looking for the white rabbit
I recently got hold of Clinton's Inside supplement, what with all the praise it garnered, and brushed up on Sword in preparing to start a campaign as a cyberpunk adaptation…
In Adept Press
Participants: kwill, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, tetsujin28, Drew Stevens.

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