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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.

6/1/2004 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.

6/1/2004 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 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.

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.

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.

5/28/2004 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.

5/25/2004 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.

5/25/2004 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 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.

5/24/2004 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.

5/24/2004 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.

5/22/2004 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.

5/22/2004 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.

5/21/2004 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.

5/21/2004 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.

5/20/2004 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.

5/18/2004 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.

5/18/2004 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 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.

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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.

6/5/2004 Tim Alexander: [Sorcerer] Ordinary Tragedies
Hey Folks, Yep, I've been gone for quite a bit what with the birth of my son, but I'm itching to get back to some playing. Towards that end I'm…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards, Paka.

6/6/2004 angelfromanotherpin: Questions re: Sorcerer System
If a character is rolling a single die and succeeds, is it automatically a total success? There seems to be no room for any other result. Also, the main book…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

6/6/2004 Henri: [Sorcerer] Cure lite wounds and other "white magic"
[quote="Ron in the Sorcerer book"]Vitality. Dice of lasting damage up to the demon's power are removed when the user takes a rest following combat, as opposed to half the damage.[/quote]…
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Participants: Henri, sirogit, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2004 Wulf: Adept Press print stuff.
My FLGS has basically given up on finding Sex & Sorcery (the book that is...) through his distributor, so I was going to order direct on the Adept Press website.…
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Participants: Wulf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, stingray20166, 8bitjunkie.

6/9/2004 Old_Scratch: [Charnel Gods] Questions and Musings
I'm looking forward to breaking my players into Sorcerer, but before playing with the Mythic Past/Haunted Present setting, I'm going to start them off with the Charnel Gods setting, which…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, hardcoremoose, DannyK, greyorm, Paka, Nev the Deranged, Bryant, Secondlaw.

6/10/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Effects of Perception
Had some questions related to my Actual Play thread that seemed better devoted to this forum. My first thought on doing surprise (which I take to be synonymous with what…
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Participants: bcook1971, Ron Edwards.

6/10/2004 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Thanks for the kick
I got a copy of Sorcerer last week, read it, and boy, that was a kick in the head. It brought my belief that roleplaying isn't a waste of time…
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Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards.

6/11/2004 Paka: A Sorcerous Month
I've been playing Sorcerer regularly these past four to five weeks. Two different games of Mu's Bed, a one-shot of Blood Simple, a two shot with Grade-School Sorcerers and another…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, hix.

6/12/2004 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Convention scenario
In Denmark there is a long tradition of scenarios written for conventions, able to be played by a GM other than the author, and with complete and extensive player characters.…
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Participants: pfischer, Paka, sirogit, Ron Edwards, kallisti_dk, Fabrice G., Michael S. Miller.

6/16/2004 Paganini: [Trollbabe] Conflicts and Pace
One of the things that I've never understood about Trollbabe caught my attention again tonight. I'm getting ready to run it again (a vampire game, this time, in fact). The…
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Participants: Paganini, rafial, Ron Edwards.

6/17/2004 Sydney Freedberg: Gamist Sorcerer?
First, an admission: I've never played Sorcerer, just read it (acquired rulebook only after acquiring tiny baby daughter; roleplaying, sleep, sustained rational thought all on hold). But as I go…
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Participants: Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, Solomon, Alan, Ben Lehman, Jaik, DannyK.

6/17/2004 Henri: Demon Cops - Character Creation
If this should be in Actual Play, please feel free to move it. Last night we had our first session of Demon Cops, in which we discussed general aesthetics and…
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Participants: Henri, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2004 Peter Nordstrand: Describing Sorcerer
Hi, How would you describe Sorcerer to potential players? I'm talking about that first conversation about the game, pre-first session, pre character generation, pre any kind of seriuos prep. Let's…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Paka, sirogit, Clinton R. Nixon, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2004 KingOfFarPoint: Are some NPCs communal property in Sorcerer?
A little while back I read a post that seemed to suggest that the GM plays the PC's and NPC's demons as major NPCs but that non demonic NPCs are…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

6/24/2004 Bret Gillan: [Sorcerer] The Unnecessary Mentor View
So, I have Sorcerer. I've gathered my players, and I've done some character creation. A problem that I keep encountering is that the players keep getting drawn to Solitary Adepts,…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, sirogit, Bailywolf, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

6/25/2004 sirogit: Hooray[Sex&Sorcery]
Yay! I just got this in the mail. I'm at a loss for words. That Death/Madness/Sex thing just blows my mind, I'll have to give it some serious thought on…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, DannyK, Henri, Christopher Weeks.

6/27/2004 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer]Demon Types Make No Sense (to me)
Hi, Please forgive me if I'm asking something that has already been discussed at length... However ... The demon types make no sense to me. The categories actually seem pretty…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, sirogit, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Christopher Weeks, Piers Brown.

6/28/2004 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Dark Places
OK, I am working on my own Sorcerer setting, to be developed as a mini-sup. I am in the very initial stages, reading, making notes, researching. What I wanted to…
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Participants: pfischer, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, DannyK.

6/28/2004 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer]Favorite Humanity Definitions?
I tried running Sorcerer a couple of times, once with Humanity as Identity, once with Humanity as Empathy; and I was a little disappointed each time. The mechanics flowed nicely,…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Paka, KingOfFarPoint, Doyce, droog, Yokiboy.

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