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5/9/2004 Nev the Deranged: Conflict Resolution, questions and confirmations
Alrighty. I'm going through the Combat section of the book (which as Ron mentioned somewhere might be better labeled "conflict resolution"), and before asking any questions I ran a search…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Doyce, ScottM.

5/8/2004 Doyce: Sorcerer: When does Vitality Kick In?
Reading the recent post on Damage Effects and Demon Abilities reminded me of a question I keep forgetting to ask. The situation: 1. I have Vitality conferred on myself. 2.…
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Participants: Doyce, Eric J-D, Nev the Deranged, bcook1971, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

5/8/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] MacGuffin Brainstorm
Full-disclosure: the following is sort of a lame question; I acknowledge this and accept that I suck for not coming up with something better on my own. THE SHORT VERSION:…
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Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Nev the Deranged, Trevis Martin, DannyK, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson.

5/8/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Damage Effects and Demon Abilities
Below is a copy of an e-mail I sent to one of my players explaining damage effects and how demon abilities impact them. It's pretty straight forward and brings to…
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Participants: bcook1971, Doyce, Ron Edwards.

5/7/2004 angelfromanotherpin: [Inside]How special is a Hacker?
I recently ran a one-shot of Inside, and the question came up: When your character is not Inside, are they a Sorcerer at all? The specific issue was whether or…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Mike Holmes.

5/7/2004 Dev: Sorcerer questions: martial arts, dices, "game balance&
There's a chance of getting some friends to try Sorcerer out, in an "intense blood opera wish-I-was-Tarantino" way. So, some minor questions. (My search-fu turned up nothing, even though I…
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Participants: Dev, Nev the Deranged, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes, Henri.

5/7/2004 Paka: Birthright via Sorcerer
[i]"...Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown..."[/i] Shakespeare Henry IV- Part II [b]Sorcerers [/b]are kings and queens. They bind their subjects to their throne, crown and scepter, thus awakening…
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Participants: Paka, kwill, Brand_Robins, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, DannyK.

5/6/2004 DannyK: Demons are people too (split from Sorcerer in Prison)
[quote] [b] Ron Edwards said: [/b] I guess I need a little bit more understanding. I'm playing a character, and we use the Summoning rules. In-game, what just happened? Is…
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Participants: DannyK, Mike Holmes, Paka, The_Tim.

5/6/2004 redwalker: Should the party amass power in Sorcerer?
[quote="Christopher Kubasik"] Red was looking over the rules for Sorcerer. He found passages in the rules that stated the typical "lone wolf, no connections, I'm interesting cause I kill well"…
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Participants: redwalker, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Trevis Martin, Nev the Deranged.

5/6/2004 sirogit: For Ron: How would you do Sorcerer differently?
Ron, I've read a smattering a posts where you poisited minor design flaws with Sorcerer. This seems very curious to me as I find Sorcerer the epitome of an advanced…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

5/6/2004 Nev the Deranged: Initiative tweaking...
Alrighty, I was running through some quick scenarios in the shower (no, the scenarios were not set in the shower, I was in the shower while thinking of them). And…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, bcook1971, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, sirogit.

5/5/2004 Eric J-D: Sorcerer Question: Building the Art-Deco Gun
Apologies from the start about the weird subject line, but those of you familiar with the series of "Art-Deco Melodrama" threads will understand what I am talking about. As I…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Michael S. Miller.

5/5/2004 Nev the Deranged: Contain
Okay, the rules for Contains are pretty vague. No actual mechanics in there aside from something nonspecific about Lore rolls or something. The actual line (p89) says: "The sorcerer must…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

5/4/2004 Eric J-D: Sorcerer handout request
Dear Ron, I am gearing up to begin a game of Sorcerer just as soon as I can get out from under these *&@#ing research papers that I am grading.…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards.

5/3/2004 Nev the Deranged: Idea, free to good home
Just a throwaway idea that ran through my head that I thought someone might make use of. It's probably been done a few times, but I can't think of any…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

5/2/2004 Nev the Deranged: Questions I already sent Ron when the Forge didn't like me..
*** The Forge decided to be kind to me today, so I am able to ask these questions to the masses, so that Ron can attend to the myriad of…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Valamir, clehrich.

5/2/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Fresh From Play: Comments, Questions
This being particular to the system, I thought I'd separate it from the thread I started in Actual Play. Comment: The game text does not overstate the peril of a…
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Participants: bcook1971, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

5/1/2004 tetsujin28: Sorcerer on the Inside -- of Prison
What is Lore?: Lore is knowing how to handle yourself and work the system. What is Humanity?: Being able to get out and still be a Man, not an Animal.…
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Participants: tetsujin28, Paka, Ron Edwards.

5/1/2004 Sean: Heavy Metal
Well, since we've had these interesting discussions of Elric and Witherwing lately, I suppose I'd like to follow up on another of Ron's references in Sorcerer and Sword, namely Heavy…
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Participants: Sean, Nev the Deranged.

4/29/2004 Zak Arntson: I got Elfs! (but pennicillin helped)
Showed up the same day the power went out, so I read the whole damn thing by candlelight. It's great! I remember being utterly confused with the pdf copy, with…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Demada, GB Steve, Jason Puckett, Bob Goat, AnttiK.

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5/10/2004 sirogit: Walk-by Sorcerer
Me and my brother were going on a 4 hour walk for some Real-Estate deal, we were bored and thought, what they hey, why don't we try to run an…
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Participants: sirogit, Doyce, b_bankhead, Mike Holmes.

5/10/2004 Bifi: Wagner's Kane books
Dear all, does anyone know what is the order of the following Kane books (recommended in S&Sw)? Darkness Weaves Death Angel's Shadow Bloodstone Dark Crusade Night Winds A friend gave…
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Participants: Bifi, Ron Edwards, Sean, BPetroff93.

5/11/2004 Paganini: Thor the Barbarian
So, Ron, when do you start your own radio talk-show? I gotta say, your voice is way more well-suited to broadcasting that Thor the Goober's. But, anyway, in the interview…
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Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards.

5/12/2004 Old_Scratch: [S&S] Setting: The Mythic Past, the Haunted Present
I've been a lurker here off an on for some time now. Anyhow, I've been kicking about an idea ever since I bought Sorcerer & Sword, and I thought I'd…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Mike Holmes, DannyK, Nev the Deranged, tetsujin28, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

5/13/2004 DannyK: Sorcerer & Delta Green
Anybody done this? It seems like a natural fit. I was just reading a novel by Charlie Stross, "The Atrocity Archive", which posits that sophisticated mathematics and geometry can open…
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Participants: DannyK, Nev the Deranged, Mike Holmes, 6inTruder, Fabrice G., JamesSterrett.

5/14/2004 Doyce: Sorcerer: an unofficial Rulings collection
Hey all. A week or so ago, while working on collating a bunch of my static gaming pages into a single wiki (PMWiki, since you asked) and also reading something…
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Participants: Doyce, greyorm, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Paka, sirogit, kwill, tetsujin28, pfischer.

5/15/2004 sirogit: 100% Blood and Sex... Relationship Maps.
Is a relationship map in which ALL of the characterss are connected through blood or sex ties more, less, or not conducive to play? It sounds implausible on paper, but…
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Participants: sirogit, Paka, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller.

5/16/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] A 'new' demon ability
Hey all, While digging through the archives looking for something to put into the Wiki regarding Daze (Some Demon abilities just never seemed to raise that many questions.), I ran…
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Participants: Doyce, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

5/17/2004 Paka: Critique of Desires and/or Needs
Ron mentioned a problem with my Demon's Desires. Any critique or ideas on how they might effect my game in a negative way would be appreciated. Demon Hasan is a…
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Participants: Paka, DannyK, greyorm, sirogit, Ron Edwards, kwill.

5/18/2004 Nev the Deranged: &Sword Price/Goal Trading
I was thinking about the Goal/Price trading mechanic in &Sword, and wondering how others have handled it in play. Frex, if a character were to swear an oath of vengeance…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, sirogit, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2004 Paka: Intrigue in Mu's Bed II - Fleshing Out the NPC's and Bangs
[u][b]Interactions with the NPC's of the R-Map[/b][/u] [b]The Witch King [/b] Overlord of Stygia, Master of Lemuria, High Warlock of Mu’s Bed [i]Father of The Prince and Lovers with Lady…
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Participants: Paka.

5/18/2004 sirogit: Another new Demon Ability
I came up with the idea for this ability while watching B:TAS's Two-Face episode. It breaks alot of the fundamental rules of the game so I'm not sure how disruptive…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, DannyK.

5/20/2004 Nev the Deranged: Quick thought on Guns and Will
I was thinking... about guns. Seems to me there are some situations in which it makes more sense to roll Will to fire a gun than Stamina. Say, for instance,…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, DannyK, Dev, Ron Edwards.

5/21/2004 Nev the Deranged: Some ideas for feedback
Everybody's been talking about how Descriptors really contribute to setting. Dammit. Now I don't feel right about just using the standard Descriptors from the book for my game. Thanks a…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

5/21/2004 Rexfelis: Will this tweak for Sorcerer work?
Hello, I am working on a version of Sorcerer set in a "medieval space opera" setting of my own creation. The setting was originally going to be its own game,…
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Participants: Rexfelis, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, iambenlehman, Rob Carriere, John Harper, xiombarg, Old_Scratch, Valamir.

5/22/2004 Paka: Sex and Sorcery: Facts Feeding Fictions
[i]"In the functional group, the interactions among the real people provide a charge to the creative interactions. The emerging story has value to the people who create it, and real-life…
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Participants: Paka, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik.

5/22/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Humanity gain quickie question
Okay, quick and easy: The humanity gain check for a successful Banish against a demon whose Power is higher than your Humanity is: Humanity vs. Power The Sorcerer has to…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Solomon, Henri, sirogit, djarb, Valamir, Nev the Deranged.

5/24/2004 Paka: Suburban Fairy Tale - Grade School Sorcerers
[u][b]Suburban Fairy Tale[/b] [/u] [i]inspired by a post by Old Scratch over at RPG.net in the thread, [/i][u]Kickers and bangers, how do you use them?[/u] An epic adventure can be…
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Participants: Paka, b_bankhead, Old_Scratch, RobNJ, Nev the Deranged.

5/24/2004 sirogit: (Sorcerer) Alchemist
Before my Demon Cops game this fall, A friend and I wanted to get together for a game over a month or so, and something I definately want to run…
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Participants: sirogit, Paka, b_bankhead, Nev the Deranged, Solomon.

5/25/2004 Nev the Deranged: Wannabe Sorcerer scores
So, if I wanted an NPC who was a hardcore wannabe occultist, who stumbled into a real sorcerer coven and got apprenticed to a powerful adept.. who has devoted himself…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Henri.

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