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4/12/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Cunning Demons with Cunning Plans?
From this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8230#top With a demon like this, they often become big villains. Veniamin in the recent necromancy game is a good example, and it's only Power 8,…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G., Lxndr, DannyK, Mike Holmes.

4/11/2004 sirogit: Scenario for my Demon Cops game: Better to Burn Out
This is a scenario I'd like to include in my Demon Cops game, though It still has a few rough edges. ---- Calista Stocker was one of the most successfull…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2004 Ben Lehman: Sorcerer Comic
Apologies to those that may have already seen this: http://www.angryflower.com/master.gif
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Participants: Ben Lehman, sirogit, tetsujin28.

4/10/2004 sirogit: Using teamwork as carried over bonuses.
When I run Demon cops, I'd like to encourage people to make ample use of the ability to give bonuses to another person's action through your own. An obvious example…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

4/9/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Selling Lore
[i](edited for Sudafed typos)[/i] I'm a bad GM. Or I just don't know Sorcerer that well. Or I lent my book to another player (his is on order) and didn't…
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Participants: Doyce, joshua neff, Bankuei, greyorm, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Ben Lehman, tetsujin28.

4/9/2004 tetsujin28: [Sorcerer & Sword]Non-sorcerer PCs?
I may just be being lame, but how does one handle non-sorcerer PCs in a S&S setting, without relegating them to the "second-class PC locker", ala Ars Magica companions? Seems…
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Participants: tetsujin28, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Bankuei, Andrew Norris, Seth L. Blumberg, BPetroff93.

4/8/2004 GreatWolf: What's new about the new Elfs?
Ron, For those of us on the fence about picking up the print version of Elfs, could you give us the lowdown on what you've tweaked/changed/added, etc.? I know that…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, stingray20166.

4/8/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] A hint on Hint (and other Abilities)
Okay, I've checked out What Else Can Demons Do? and Questions About How To Read The Descriptions of Demon Powers and, while they are both educational and entertaining, they didn't…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2004 Ron Edwards: ELFS IS NOW AVAILABLE
8.5" tall, 5.5" wide 96 pp, perfect bound punkish black cover rude illustrations $15.00 + $2.50 = $17.50, via Paypal Direct order from the Elfs website. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, rafial, Ben Morgan, Amok the hungry, ricmadeira.

4/7/2004 sirogit: [Demon Cops]Decorated the handout.
With a few pictures I grabbed from Elfwood and a few other places... you can see a intentionial resemblance more towards modern anime than the source material. So, I was…
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Participants: sirogit.

4/6/2004 Demada: [Sorcerer] Perhaps a dumb (rules) question, but...
I can't seem to find the answer in the book. Can penalties, in Sorcerer, negate the entirity of a dice pool? Example: A player in a game has an inconspicuous…
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Participants: Demada, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

4/5/2004 jburneko: Yet, More On Conflict
Hello, In another thread Ron wrote: There's really no such thing as rolling against "no defense." If there's truly no defense, then the only constraint on the announced action…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

4/4/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Trollbabe] Injuries, and Error in text 2? :)
On page 20: An injured character ignores the “discommoded" step and proceeds to further injury right away on a failed roll; therefore she is limited to a total of two…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, rafial.

4/4/2004 sirogit: [Demon Cops]Great lil' book, a few questions.
Just received it and I have to say I'm quite pleased. Right now I'm planning on my next campaign to be based on it. A few questions I have: I'm…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Valamir.

4/4/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Trollbabe] Player-created conflicts
I'm comfortable with the idea of players calling for conflicts, and by that process adding extra elements to the campaign, but I'm having some conceptual problems with the following: …
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, rafial, Alan, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Mike Holmes.

4/3/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Trollbabe] Error in text?
Page 17, column 2, paragraph 2, of the text says: The player may check off another item and get a second re-roll. If it succeeds, the trollbabe succeeds, although her…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Paganini, rafial, Ron Edwards.

4/3/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Damage Penalties in Combat
Just reading through Sorcerer a bit. Some questions: Where a character is attacked but has not yet acted, if he opts to suck up the attack, rolling one die…
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Participants: bcook1971, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2004 BPetroff93: S&S humanity definition
I'm trying to reconcile the humanity descriptor for S&S with the definition of sorcerous acts as humanity violators (or at lease humanity risky). If humanity is empathy than sorcerous acts…
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Participants: BPetroff93, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, Valamir, Demada, joshua neff.

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.

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.

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4/13/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Various Questions
Good news! My group has agreed to let me run a four-session Sorcerer campaign. Now the pressure's really on to understand the wormy details. Or at least be 70%+ settled…
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Participants: bcook1971, Ron Edwards, kwill.

4/14/2004 sirogit: Episodic, Nonepisodic, or combination plots?
For my Demon Cops game, I'm not quite sure how to treat the plot. Initially, I'm quite attracted to the idea of Episodic self-contained stories per session, as is recommended…
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Participants: sirogit, Mike Holmes, xiombarg.

4/14/2004 Alan: Big always on
Hi all, Last year, when I played Charnel Gods, I had to come up with several beasts (Imanent Demons) for the game. When I read Ron's comment about Sorcerer powers…
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/15/2004 BPetroff93: Sorcerer and Sword
Hi Ron, I'm prepping for my first S&S game. Do you recommend using R-maps for S&S prep, or just Sorcerer Prep?
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Participants: BPetroff93, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2004 DannyK: Free-standing Passer Demons?
[quote] Ron Edwards said in a different thread about why Demons don't just kill their sorcerers: 1) is the demon's Need. A demon Bound to a dead sorcerer does not…
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Participants: DannyK, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

4/16/2004 Paka: Gangster Sorcerer: Demons from the Hell Side of Town
A Sorcerer is someone who has let someone from the hell side of town get close to them. They might be a junky brother, a lover whose a hooker with…
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Participants: Paka, BPetroff93, Christopher Weeks, DannyK, 6inTruder, Seth L. Blumberg.

4/17/2004 Doyce: Rolling successes over that cover from... where?
Hey all, I'm afraid this is a rules question more than one of my more-common 'how do you do it in your game' questions. The question arose during a (new!)…
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Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Bankuei, Alan, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2004 sirogit: Kinship/Sex as ideal relationships for Story purposes.
At first when I read Ron's insistance for story-important relationships to based on Kinship/Sex to be rather limiting. But just now I realize a great reason for the distinction. Alligince,…
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Participants: sirogit, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2004 Eric J-D: Sorcerer: combat a la Queen of the Black Coast
Hi folks, I have not yet run a game of Sorcerer although I am getting very close to doing so. However, I still feel a bit unsure about how to…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Alan, Sean, BPetroff93.

4/19/2004 Henri: Elric books for Sorcerer and Sword background (Help!)
I have a question for the big Sword and Sorcery fans out there. I wanted to read Elric of Melnibone as background reading for Sorcerer and Sword, since I haven't…
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Participants: Henri, Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, DannyK, Doyce, Sean, The Fiendish Dr. Samsara, Nev the Deranged.

4/19/2004 sirogit: Humanity gain for summoning demons?
I'm abit conflicted over the answer to this question: 1. If someone summons a demon for the purposes of performing a task that equals Humanity Gain, could they get a…
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Participants: sirogit, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/19/2004 Nev the Deranged: Couple of questions...
I've been going through the Sorcerer books, page by page, trying to put the information in an order I can more easily reference while running or playing a game... sort…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, 6inTruder, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2004 sirogit: A few random rules questions.
1. Is there any point to group-banishing? The way I read it, in order for the group to confer bonuses to the main sorcerer, they would have to make the…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

4/20/2004 Sean: Afterglow
It looks like I may actually be running a Sorcerer mini-campaign in the near future, which is a source of great delight. I'll follow this up with some setting teaser…
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Participants: Sean, Ron Edwards, RaconteurX, Doyce, Mike Holmes, kwill, b_bankhead, ScottM, DannyK.

4/20/2004 cthulahoops: Pirate Sorcerer: Demons from the Law School side of town.
Hi, I've had an idea floating around in my head for a while now and I thought I'd post it here and see if anyone has anything useful to say.…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Christopher Weeks, Henri, Paka, angelfromanotherpin, DannyK, Bob McNamee, tetsujin28, Dev.

4/22/2004 Dev: Demon-peddling (or going to CorruptoMart)
In a lot of literature there is the one figure you go to in order to access Humanity-threatening power, i.e. basically the equivalent of the evil mastermind/tutor who helps you…
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Participants: Dev, Paka.

4/22/2004 Ron Edwards: Witherwing
Hello, In the Afterglow thread, Sean referred to David Jarrett's curious book Witherwing - not what I'd call well-written or well-paced but full of haunting and evocative imagery nonetheless …
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Sean, jrs, DannyK.

4/23/2004 Wolfen: Sorcerer and Sex in Realms of Fantasy
I was reading through my latest issue of Realms of Fantasy last night, and was surprised to find a review of Sorcerer and Sex in Realms of Fantasy. It was…
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Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

4/24/2004 Paka: Heavenly Kung-Fu: Sorcerer variant
[b]Inspirations:[/b] Shaw Brothers films, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Exalted (particularly Sidereals), Way of the Rat, Lone Wolf and Cub, Legend of the Five Rings The kung-fu of the red dust can…
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Participants: Paka, Dev, greyorm, urbwar.

4/24/2004 BPetroff93: Sex and Sorcery
Have you read through the Paragon Senario in Sex and Sorcerey, Paka? If so how do you invision this differing? (this was supposed to be a response to Paka's thread…
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Participants: BPetroff93, Paka.

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