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12/16/2001 Valamir: Sorcerer & Sword
Got it read it loved it. The only downside is that my new apartment uses those really small business envelope sized boxes and the mail carrier seems to view this…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards.

12/14/2001 Tor Erickson: Rethinking the Kicker
Hi all, Up in RPG Theory or Actual Play or somewhere I posted that the purpose of Kickers is to give the character some sort of an emotional investment in…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

12/14/2001 hardcoremoose: Sorcerer & Sword Comments
Enough of us have it now, so I thought I'd start up a new thread to discuss the salient points of the sourcebook. And what a sourcebook it is! Fun…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, joshua neff, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Eric, Tor Erickson, Bailywolf, jburneko, Paul Czege, James V. West, Trav.

12/12/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer tattoo
Hi there, It had to happen. The cool thing is that the person is one of the very first Sorcerer players, Camille Throckmorton. She had the character with the scary,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Time, Tor Erickson.

12/11/2001 hardcoremoose: Yeah baby, It's here!
[i]Sorcerer and Sword[/i] hit my mailbox today...anyone else got theirs' yet? It looks awesome! Kudos Ron...very cool. - Scott
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, jburneko, joshua neff, Uncle Dark, Eric, Jürgen Mayer, Trav.

12/11/2001 Eric: More than one Cover?
Scores of 5 or higher get two descriptions. Does this also apply to to cover? With a 5 Will and a 5 cover, could a character have belief system and…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose.

12/10/2001 hardcoremoose: Edwards' 11
This idea popped into my head on the way home today.* Okay, so Danny Ocean is a sorcerer. He has to be...he's got the swagger down. His crew are his…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/9/2001 Manu: Prescience and teleportation: Sorcerers of Arrakis
I was wondering, how would you guys explain the power of premonition, and that of instant teleportation according to Sorcerer rules? Hint and Travel don't seem to quite cut it...am…
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Participants: Manu, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, erithromycin, greyorm, Dav, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

12/7/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Advanced Binding
I'm fully aware that the Sorcerer rules don't allow the re-Binding of a demon once the initial Binding is done, but there's a concept I'd like to explore in Sorcerer,…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2001 Benjamin: On Writing a Mini-Supplement
Hello, newplayer Ben here again, with some questions on writing a mini-supplement. (So sue me, I like clear subject lines.) The Mini-Supplements page answers my question on 'what stage do…
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Participants: Benjamin, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose.

12/5/2001 Benjamin: A few new-player thoughts and questions
Hello, just bought the book, and have a few questions. 1) If the Humanity score is defined as something that most people might not have (i.e., sorcery, sorcerous soul), what…
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Participants: Benjamin, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

11/27/2001 Bailywolf: Harry Potter meets Animal House
I posted this over at RPG.net... then realized- this is perfect Sorcerer material! I wish my brain could sit still long enough for me to acualy finish something... so here…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

11/26/2001 Manu: Stormbringer redux
Hello all, I had an idea but I thought first to use this forum to pick your brains before launching into a detailed analysis. I suppose everyone is familiar with…
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Participants: Manu, furashgf, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards.

11/20/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorc & Sword news again
Due date from the printer is November 26. Ship to the warehouse should be November 28. Shipping from the warehouse should start immediately, and that's when orders begin. M apologies…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Time, joshua neff, unodiablo, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, Zak Arntson, Tundra, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/19/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried System Comments
Hi All, There was another combat in our game on Saturday, and it turned out really nicely. The scene basically involved Cole (a PC) accidentally insulting Junior, a big, mean,…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

11/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Going on a link hunt - help requested
Hi there, I'm revising Sorcerer's links page. I'm also thinking that I want to branch it out into non-gaming circles. So far, I've found some stuff about the following: -…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Dav, Time.

11/8/2001 jburneko: Role-Playing Object Demons
My players seem to have really gotten into Object demons. I have at least two so far. One is a pair of glasses that allow it's master to see into…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

11/8/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Sorcerer concept
That doesn't involve getting bumped on the head or having a master who's *waves hands* over there somewhere or dead. I'm not sure how it would work, but what if…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

11/7/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama - the Final Chapter
Hello, For those of you coming in late, this is the fourth and last of a series of threads here on the Sorcerer forum. The first one is called "To…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ian O'Rourke, contracycle, joshua neff, random.

11/7/2001 furashgf: Art Deco, GNS and Narritivism, and the Bad Thing
It looks like the Art Deco demo thread turned into an implcit discussion of GNS theory. The question for Ron and Ron-like Sorcerer naritivists out there is how far does…
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Participants: furashgf, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Blake Hutchins.

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12/20/2001 contracycle: Demonology 101
Hiya, I just wanted somewhere to ask some questiones sepcifically about demons and their function in Sorceror. I have two concerns: The structure of the game embeds one, possibly more,…
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Participants: contracycle, Eric, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/20/2001 Eric: Relationship Maps and Bangs
Hello -- From searching around the forum here, apparently the "rules" for Relationship maps and Bangs are in Soul and in Sword respectively. Since I'm currently waiting for Sword and…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, jburneko, Tor Erickson, Blake Hutchins.

12/21/2001 Eric: Overconfident or Hedonist: valid prices?
Hedonist might work as -1 to doing things that would be uncomfortable, but I'm stumped on Overconfident. -- Eric, who liked the LotRs about a 100 times more than he…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, erithromycin, Ben Morgan.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: have you read the literature of Sorcerer & Sword?
Hey everyone, I have to say that if there's one single element in Sorcerer & Sword that I anticipate will drive sales of the book to casual buyers, it's the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

12/25/2001 Manu: Hint and Contain questions
Ron, this one is for you: -Could you explain what you mean by "diminishing returns "in the Hint description? Does it mean you have to keep throwing away "used" demons…
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Participants: Manu, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

12/26/2001 Ben Morgan: Happy Holidays!
I just got Sorcerer and S&S for my brother for Christmas. I was actually torn. Did I want to give him both books, or just the main book, and keep…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, hardcoremoose.

12/29/2001 Bailywolf: Ofuda, Blue Seeds, and Sorcerer Anime
Perhaps this is Demon Cop stuff, but I was watching an episode of the anime 'Blue Seed', and couldn't help but think of sorcerer... the whole thing seems like a…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2001 jburneko: Concatenating Relationship Maps
Hello, Has anyone here experimented with concatenating more than one relationship map together. That is, reading say, three novels, and linking the maps together via extra links to create one…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin).

12/31/2001 J B Bell: Sorcerer dice-rolling tool in Python
Here's a little dice utility for Sorcerer rolls written in Python, & therefore useable on Unix or Windows (and possibly Mac, not sure if there's python for it or not).…
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Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf.

12/31/2001 Jason L Blair: And the Outie goes to....
Congratulations, Ron, on picking up a coveted (I'm not sure by whom) Outie award doled out every year by Ken "Sassy" Hite. Ron picked it up this year for "Most…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

1/5/2002 erithromycin: Sorcerers of the world
The posts on anime sorcery got me wondering. Now, somewhat of a fan of fair nippon, I sat down and thought about a 'typically japanese' view of sorcery . So,…
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Participants: erithromycin, Bailywolf, J B Bell, greyorm, lumpley, Bankuei.

1/7/2002 greyorm: Page 85
Okay everyone, grab your copies of S&S and flip to page 85. Now reach in and tear that sucker right out of there. Now go frame it and put it…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins.

1/7/2002 Tim C Koppang: Stroking Ron's Ego
So I was in the game store the other day and I saw a copy of Sword on the shelves and I thought to myself, "Hmmm... that sounds familiar." So…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

1/8/2002 Uncle Dark: S&S Literary Sources
One of the things that (finally!) recieving &Sword did for me was get me reading Conan again. I decided to revisit the stories that Ron picked as the best Conan…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes.

1/9/2002 furashgf: Defining "Pulp"
Both Sorcerer and Sword and Sorcerer have (or can be played with) a "pulp" feel. What the heck is "pulp" (in a setting/mood sense)? Gary Furash
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Participants: furashgf, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, Uncle Dark.

1/10/2002 J B Bell: Steel Cage Death-Match Tournament Sorcerer
If you haven't fled in Narrativist horror at the seeming blatant Gamism in the title, imagine with me for a moment: SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY, in the Venerable…
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Participants: J B Bell, Zak Arntson, mahoux, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

1/11/2002 Ron Edwards: The Sorcerer's Soul is printing
Hey everyone, The second supplement has passed the bluelines stage and they are putting the book together even as we speak. Past experience has taught me that no real time-estimate…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Balbinus, Manu.

1/11/2002 Zak Arntson: S&S Praise & semi-Actual Play
First off, huge amounts of props (prizops, even) go to you, Ron. I got Sorcerer & Sword from my mother on Christmas (!!), and immediately began reading the thing. It's…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Clay.

1/12/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Big robots?
In the Sorceror rulebook, there's a list of different kinds of demons people have used in the past. One of the examples is robotic fighter jets. Can someone expand on…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Bailey, Bailywolf, contracycle.

1/12/2002 James V. West: Now I get it.
My copy of Sorcerer was in the mailbox today. I sat in the parking lot of the USPO and eagerly flipped through the book, drinking in paragraphs and statements like…
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Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Manu, Paul Czege, Bailey.

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