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3/4/2004 jburneko: [Sorcerer] More On Complex Conflict
I don't know what it is about this Asylum game I'm running but I'm really beginning to see that for all my intellectual understanding I really suck at this whole…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

3/3/2004 Amok the hungry: ELFS: the book?
Hello, I recently read a review of Elfs and decided to come do a little more research. I was browsing through some older posts and found one called Elfs revisions…
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Participants: Amok the hungry, Valamir, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, quozl, kwill, montag.

3/2/2004 Dev: Metaphorical Demons and Non-Sorcerers
(I did some searches, and didn't get the answers I wanted yet; apologies if these are frequent themes.) I like Sorcerer a lot, and I reallyreally like it's ability to…
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Participants: Dev, jburneko, Michael S. Miller, Ben Lehman, tetsujin28.

3/2/2004 sirogit: Frequency of sorcery action.
Would you think that Sorcerer loses something if there isn't a consistant occurence of Sorcery? Like Containing, Contact&Summoning, Punishing, Banishing. Obviously, it denotes that players aren't being challenged too much,…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2004 Ron Edwards: Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Worm
Hello, The Trollbabe comic "Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Worm" is done! As of next week, Antti will have it up on his website, so you can read the whole…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, joshua neff, ejh, Rod Anderson, AnttiK, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/2/2004 6inTruder: So, what does put in to a Sorcerer One Sheet?
What it says on the tin really... What kind of structure, content, um... other stuff, is good to go into this?
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Participants: 6inTruder, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

2/29/2004 motherlessgoose: Possessors
It may be that I'm just a newbie, but... Why can't Possessor demons have Boost? What about in the Exorcist, where the possessed girl had superhuman strength? Also, biblically, there…
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Participants: motherlessgoose, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2004 motherlessgoose: Sorcerer Supplements
Is there any certain order one should purchase the supplements Sorcerer & Sword, Sorcerer's Soul, and Sex & Sorcery?
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Participants: motherlessgoose, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

2/27/2004 Doyce: Trollbabe to Amber conversion
Currently at 20 x 20 foot room, referencing a post I made on my own game blog. Didn't expect it to garner much comment, but that shows what I know.…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, james_west, Rob MacDougall, Bob McNamee.

2/25/2004 EricAlexander: Black Fire, you can never have too many buckles
I just read this game in the articles section, and it sounds like a pretty good time. A couple of questions for the author: How long did you intend for…
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Participants: EricAlexander, Ron Edwards, jburneko, motherlessgoose, montag, angelfromanotherpin.

2/23/2004 Zak Arntson: [S & Sword] New Conan comic from Dark Horse
Just picked up Issue 0 of the new Conan comics from Dark Horse. Looks promising, with great art (Conan wears armor into war, even) and Kurt Busiek writing (I know…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

2/23/2004 Ben Lehman: [Zero at the Bone] The worst thing
My major problem with the game is the opposite of Jesse's -- I've known some people who have done some very awful things, and thus one person is in the…
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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…
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Participants: kwill, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, tetsujin28, Drew Stevens.

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"…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

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?
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Participants: Lithos, Trevis Martin, tetsujin28.

2/19/2004 amel: Schismatic Puddle
Hi, this is my first post. I am a long time lurker. A while back I had the first opportunity to try some of the techniques discussed here on the…
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Participants: amel, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2004 6inTruder: [Trollbabe] Hardcopy?
Any word on this? It's about a year now from the last post I could find on the subject and I wanted to know if there were any further developements.
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Participants: 6inTruder, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Fabrice G., Matt Snyder, stingray20166.

2/18/2004 kwill: descarification: introducing Sorcerer & Narrativism
over at my local wiki page I've put out a teaser introducing Sorcerer, Inside and Narrativism (for potential players in my local gaming group) I'd appreciate any comments, here or…
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Participants: kwill, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, zmook, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2004 zmook: The Role-Playing Bonus Dice that Ate Manhattan; and more
So, I am gearing up to run my actual first session of Sorcerer tonight (we did character creation last week, mostly). Of course, I have questions. First, reading about the…
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Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/12/2004 jburneko: More on Social Conflict
Hello, This thread was sparked by the Trollbabe thread on Social Injury. I admit that my grasp of Social Conflict as it applies to Trollbabe and Sorcerer wavers in and…
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Participants: jburneko, Dav, Ron Edwards.

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3/11/2004 Dev: Use of cards with Sorcerer rolling scheme...
Supposing I wanted to use my Tarot cards instead of pools of dice; the cards are easily ranked, so that is easy enough. However, Since the die size can effectively…
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Participants: Dev, sirogit, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Lxndr, xiombarg, Matt Snyder, tetsujin28, Andrew Morris, clehrich.

3/15/2004 Alan: [Trollbabe comics] Mystic Crystal Revelations
Ah, a new strip, a new life! A new homage? The mushroom man looks like he stepped right out of the sample adventure in Donjon. Let me be the first…
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards, ejh, Lxndr, jburneko, Valamir, Paul Czege, Ben Lehman, Gordon C. Landis, jrs.

3/16/2004 Michael S. Miller: Rollover & Intimidation Questions
I ran our first session of Sorcerer on Sunday. Actual play post later in the week. Someone had the great idea of running a mock combat bewfore we started, to…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2004 tetsujin28: [Sorcerer and Sword] 17th-century demon-hunters
Sorry to all offended...I failed my Library Use roll ;-) And btw, thanks, Ron, for being polite and pointing me to the correct forum. I was directed to the other…
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Participants: tetsujin28, Simon W.

3/17/2004 Drew Stevens: Question on running a Sorcerer one shot
So, I've been contemplating running a Sorcerer one shot for mine comrades- part of an ongoing effort to introduce more folks to more varied forms of roleplaying than vanillia immersionism…
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Participants: Drew Stevens, Fabrice G., kwill, angelfromanotherpin.

3/20/2004 james_west: Personality is impolite
[quote="Raymond Chandler, in [i]The Lady in the Lake[/i]"]Two guys will meet on a park bench and start talking about God. Did you ever notice that? Guys that wouldn't talk about…
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Participants: james_west, Trevis Martin, Christopher Weeks, Sean, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2004 b_bankhead: Hellbabe: Hellboy in Trollbabe
He says he's the world's greatest paranormal investigator, but his method of investigation is to open a door and if there's a monster, beat the crap out of it.... Guillermo…
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Participants: b_bankhead, sirogit, Rob MacDougall.

3/23/2004 Ron Edwards: Thor the Barbarian interviews me!
Hello, Have any of you heard of Thor the Barbarian? I'm not really sure where to start ... well, there's this guy, right? And he decided that Conan was a…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, lumpley, JamesDJIII, Andrew Norris, Trevis Martin, sirogit.

3/24/2004 Uriel: Tweaking the damage
Hello everybody! I've been lurking around here for some time now, but I haven't posted before. I've fallen in love with Sorcerer and plan on using it a lot in…
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Participants: Uriel, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2004 montag: Sorcerer and WoD
sorry, I apologize for bringing this up, but I need some advice with this, so here goes: I'd like to play a game of sorcerer in WhiteWolfs WoD because I…
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Participants: montag, jburneko, Valamir, Bankuei, xiombarg, Spooky Fanboy, erithromycin, greyorm, Henri, Mike Holmes, DannyK, GreatWolf, Dev, furashgf.

3/25/2004 6inTruder: just another loser...
First, I want to say that my ability to write this one-sheet up proves (to me anyway) just how amazing Sorcerer really is. Second, on with my write up: just…
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Participants: 6inTruder, sirogit, Ron Edwards.

3/26/2004 Ron Edwards: Artists for upcoming stuff, sp. Andrew Navaro
Hi everyone, Quick news flash: I have engaged a large number of artists for work on Mongrel, Zero at the Bone, Black Fire, Trollbabe art for the upcoming book, and…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Andrew Navaro.

3/27/2004 Sean: [Trollbabe] Switching the Social Range?
In Actual Play, Ron wrote: "1. The Social roll is now based on the lesser end of the number scale, not the greater. So Tha, with a number of 3,…
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Participants: Sean, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, rafial, montag.

3/27/2004 KingstonC: Trollbabe, feminism, and the chain mail bikini
Ok, so I just finished reading Trollbabe. I liked it. A lot. Reading it, I noticed two things about Trollbabe that I think work together in interesting ways. 1) Trollbabe…
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Participants: KingstonC, Ron Edwards, kwill, ethan_greer, montag, Spooky Fanboy, james_west, rafial.

3/29/2004 stingray20166: TrollBabe Miniatures!
The first thing I thought when I saw these was: Trollbabe miniatures! http://theminiaturespage.com/news/?id=40189 The rest of the range is here: http://www.maidenheadminiatures.com/ Click on "Ferals" at the bottom and then the…
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Participants: stingray20166, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton.

3/30/2004 Bob McNamee: Trollbabe Roll and Goal interpretation
Pasted from a private message... Hi there first off, I'd like to repeat your post was very helpful. Thanks. Concerning the GM, I know the example you cited and I'd…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Alan, montag, rafial.

3/30/2004 jburneko: Sorcerer Reference, "lighter" Demons and Humanity
So, anyone who knows me knows that I'm not really a big anime fan. But a couple of months ago a friend of mine suggested that I check out a…
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Participants: jburneko, sirogit, Ace, xiombarg, jrs, Bankuei.

3/30/2004 Amok the hungry: Is it done yet?!!!
Is it done yet?!!! Is it done yet?!!! Is it done yet?!!! ;)
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Participants: Amok the hungry, Ron Edwards, rafial.

3/31/2004 Doyce: Commanding Demons?
I've seen several references in Actual Play to a PC 'commanding' a demon that they didn't currently have bound (specifically, that was bound to someone else). Also, on page 41…
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Participants: Doyce, Fabrice G., Trevis Martin, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

4/1/2004 Demada: [Sorcerer] Which Mini-Supplement?
I have ordered "Charnel Gods" and "Schism." I'm looking to order one more mini-supplement for Sorcerer, and I'm not sure which one. I want something that will help me stretch…
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Participants: Demada, Valamir, hardcoremoose, greyorm.

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