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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.

5/17/2004 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.

5/16/2004 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.

5/15/2004 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.

5/14/2004 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.

5/13/2004 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.

5/12/2004 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.

5/11/2004 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.

5/10/2004 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.

5/10/2004 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 Nev the Deranged: Sorcerer setting idea, free of charge
Just a quickie Sorcerer setting idea that tumbled out of the dark closet in the back of my brain the other day. I'm dropping it here in case it strikes…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

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.

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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.

5/25/2004 Ron Edwards: [Sex & Sorcery] Gay stuff
Hello, This thread follows up on Judd's (Paka's) comment in Sex and Sorcery: facts feeding fictions: ... would like to at some point address the gay and lesbian issues that…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, DannyK, Paka, lumpley, kwill, Tim C Koppang.

5/25/2004 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe comics] Life and Death
Hello, My story with Ed Heil, Mystic Crystal Revelations, is now concluded. It should be available in full soon. The new story, Life and Death, written by me and illustrated…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, joshua neff, sirogit, ejh, Andrew Navaro, Valamir, Bankuei, greyorm.

5/28/2004 Paka: Gun-Fu Ghost Story
Rob (aka Scorpio Rising) has been running our 7th Sea game for years and hasn't played in a while, so I asked him what he'd like me to run whiel…
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Participants: Paka, Nev the Deranged.

5/28/2004 Paka: Non-Verbal Demons
I don't like 'em. When my players make up Demons it is as if they are making these great NPC's for me to play and non-verbal Demons just make me…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

5/31/2004 Nev the Deranged: Gretchen Helfrich raps about motherhood in cinema
www.odysseyradio.org click the link to Maternity in the Movies, for Friday the 28th of May. A truly interesting discussion on the roles of mothers in various genres of film, as…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, ethan_greer.

6/1/2004 sirogit: Elfs would do a Slayers game incredibly well.
(As much as I hate to admit it, as I hate slayers and find Elfs much funnier. But I could be coerced to run it like that as I know…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, xiombarg.

6/1/2004 pfischer: Sorcerer and Pullman's His Dark Materials
Excuse me if this is a stupid-kind-of post, I am waiting for my Sorcerer copy (due Thursday). I can't help thinking of Philip Pullman's brilliant trilogy His Dark Materials (Northern…
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Participants: pfischer, Nev the Deranged, iambenlehman, Solomon, pete_darby.

6/1/2004 Nev the Deranged: A few really stupid questions
These are probably dumb questions, but I don't have my books handy and can't remember anything relevant. So I beg your forgiveness in advance. 1) What do demons use Lore…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Doyce, Ron Edwards.

6/4/2004 Dev: Posthumanesqe Sorcerer!
Based in part of talk about roleplaying posthumans, I'm trying to plan how to roll with good hard sci-fi using Sorcerer. So here's the thoughts I've got so far, and…
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Participants: Dev, sirogit, Henri, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, neelk, Christopher Weeks.

6/4/2004 Bailywolf: For demons- why not ditch all scores but Power?
Hey gang- it has been a while since I posted hereabouts. I searched for this topic, but didn't see it anywhere, so I'll post my question/idea/thingy. A Demon's Power is…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Doyce, Ron Edwards, greyorm, stingray20166.

6/4/2004 Trevis Martin: Posessors/Parasites, Stamina and Damage
Hey Ron, I've perused a bunch of past threads but I can't seem to find an answer to my question. If someone attempts to damage a possessor or parasite demon…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Henri, Bob McNamee.

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