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8/3/2004 lumpley: I Have an Issue, for one
I'm still seeing only the first strip of "We All Have Issues." Is that as it should be? -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, joshua neff, 6inTruder.

8/2/2004 sirogit: Customized Sorcerer Character Sheets
Usual warnings blah blah using possibly copywrited images, for personal use only, blah blah blah, mostly taken from the rasputina website, blah blah, geocities goes down alot. http://www.geocities.com/judasvisc/Smallcharactersheet.JPG http://www.geocities.com/judasvisc/diagrambw.JPG
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, ScottM.

8/2/2004 Bailywolf: Bonus on 1-die defense (split)
I have a question for everyone... can you use creative description or currency to boost your 1 die Hail Mary defense action? For example, say a clever player describes his…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

8/1/2004 Doyce: A look at the Bloody Crown of Conan
While at the San Diego Comic-Con last week, I had a chance to chat with the folks at the Del Rey booth. One of the publishers let me take a…
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Participants: Doyce, Andy Kitkowski.

7/31/2004 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Combat example -- is this right?
Hi, I am about to run my first session of Sorcerer ever, and am wondering if I am getting the combat rules correctly. So, here is three combat rounds as…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy, Trevis Martin, Valamir, sirogit, Christopher Weeks, bcook1971, djarb.

7/30/2004 Old_Scratch: Dream Sorcerers
I was watching "Nightmare on Elm Street" with a friend the other night and it got me thinking of applying the theme of Sorcerer - where your demon is typically…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Yokiboy, sirogit, Ron Edwards.

7/29/2004 Vaxalon: Heresy! Trollbabe needs a new name.
I have encountered a lot of resistance (even more than I expected) to Trollbabe because of the name. Everyone I hand it to looks at me funny. "Ignore the name.…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, sirogit.

7/27/2004 tetsujin28: [Sorcerer]Trojan War
So, I've been milling around, trying to come up with an adaptation of Sorcerer for ancient Greece, mainly due to the influence of Walter Burkert's Homo Necans: the Anthropology of…
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Participants: tetsujin28, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paka.

7/22/2004 Ron Edwards: Interview with me at Flames Rising
Hello, There's a new interview with me at Flames Rising. Check it out; I'm given to understand it's spawned some discussion at the forums there. Oh yeah, and if you…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Vaxalon, Fabrice G., Nev the Deranged.

7/19/2004 Andrew Navaro: More Life & Death
Hello, everyone. Now that "Life & Death" has had its run on the Adept Press site, I've posted the entire strip as well as the original rough drafts on my…
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Participants: Andrew Navaro, jrs, Ron Edwards, Alan.

7/17/2004 Yokiboy: [Sorcerer] Playing NAR for the First Time
Hello, My gaming group has decided to give NAR a try, as it sounds very appealing to most of us. In Sorcerer, and other sorces, they list the optimal size…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Old_Scratch, Christopher Weeks, DannyK, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

7/16/2004 Xaranthas: [Sorcerer] What die do you use and why?
Given the flexibility of which die to use, and the effect on conflict resolution, and balance between strong (high number of dice) and weak (low number of dice) pools, I'm…
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Participants: Xaranthas, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, Christopher Weeks, KingOfFarPoint, Lxndr, Trevis Martin, Andy Kitkowski, Yokiboy, Bailywolf.

7/15/2004 Spartan: [S&S Lit] Bounders and Rogues
Hello all, Having procured a fair amount of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories, and Nifft the Lean, what are other tales of S&S rapscallion heroes? Thieves, con-artists, and…
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Participants: Spartan, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Jaik, Sean.

7/13/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer & Sword] Fistful of Humanity
Hey folks, quick thinker-question. I'm planning on revisiting the abortive Clicking Sands one-shot I ran a few months ago, and in the interim I've had time to consider the relationship…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards.

7/12/2004 Old_Scratch: First Time Play Musings on Sorcerer (Charnel Gods)
Well, I’ve just begun my game and I had a bit of feedback after the first session that I thought I’d try and keep separate from my Actual Play description…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

7/12/2004 sirogit: Moral differences around the table?
In a group for sorcerer that I'm assembling, something has crept into my mind as a concern: Since the game is about stories with moral judgement(Not preachy stories, but good…
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Participants: sirogit, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

7/12/2004 Bailywolf: [Trollbabe] First run advice
I'm planning on running Trollbabe for my lovely and indulgent wife this week. I just downloaded the game, so haven't fully read it yet, so I don't have any specific…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

7/12/2004 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight: Once More With Premise
With a great deal of excitement, I managed to wrangle 2 players (Tim and Carl) for a character and pre-game discussion for Sorcerer this Sunday. I invited the players out…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

7/10/2004 Bob McNamee: Trollbabe patrols in the City of Heros
Just started playing in the City of Heros, a MMORPG...multiplayer superhero "roleplaying' computergame. My first character is "Trollbabe", a magical tanker type (tough defensive), she has an axe (not shown…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan.

7/8/2004 Bailywolf: [Trollbabe] How versatile is it?
From what I have heard about Trollbabe’s mechanics and metagame system, It strikes me as something I might want to get in on… but the whole ‘Troll+babe’ thing leaves me…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, b_bankhead, Andy Kitkowski, Paganini, xiombarg, ethan_greer, montag, sirogit, Tim Alexander, C. Edwards, 8bitjunkie, Mike Holmes.

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8/4/2004 sirogit: Getting bonus dice but not wanting them?
What are the ramifications in Sorcerer if a player is purposefully setting their characters up to lose in a conflict? Specifficly, I was thinking about bonus dice. What if a…
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Participants: sirogit, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, joshua neff, greyorm, Mike Holmes.

8/10/2004 Bailywolf: Very very very powerful demons (and how to keep them)
I'm almost done with Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore- a quirky, funny, quick read. The Demon is a bastard thing named Catch- a full-bore-monster-from-hell kinda demon. Catch likes to destroy…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Doyce, bcook1971, Paka, DannyK, Valamir, stingray20166, angelfromanotherpin, Mike Holmes.

8/13/2004 sirogit: Three settings that show the breadth of Sorcerer's options?
If you could choose three settings of Sorcerer to show the breadth of the possibilities behind customizing the concepts, what would they be?
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Participants: sirogit, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Doyce, DannyK, Paka.

8/17/2004 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer in Raleigh, NC
Hope this is appropriate for this forum. Didn't seem to fit into the general forums, but it's certianly Sorcerer specific. I'm looking for like-minded players or GMs that are going…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

8/23/2004 DannyK: Embarassment of riches? No, just embarassed.
Aargh. I screwed up. I was all ready to finally try my hand at running Sorcerer after lots of big ideas, and I throw out a recruiting post in the…
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Participants: DannyK, Ron Edwards, Sean, Nev the Deranged, sirogit.

8/24/2004 Alan: [Sorcerer] Combat & Next Roll Penalties
Hi Ron et al., I need clarification about handling next roll penalties. Here's an example situation: two characters declare they're attacking each other. Both roll, leaving dice on the table.…
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards.

8/24/2004 Alan: [Sorcerer] Mundane Armor & Shields
I'm preparing a Sorcerer and Sword one-sheet and have been thinking about non-demon armor and shields. In the core rules, Ron says that mundane armor functions in general just as…
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Participants: Alan, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2004 Alan: [Sorcerer]Range of Conferring Usership
Hi all, So when a demon confers "User" on someone, does he have to touch that person? Or be within a meter, or more?
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2004 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Adept Press forum
Hello, and welcome to the Adept Press forum! Rules - all the basic Forge rules in Etiquette at the Forge (policy) apply in this forum, which shouldn't be surprising 'cause…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

8/27/2004 xiombarg: Clark Ashton Smith
I've been trying to catch up on my "classic" S&S reading, and I've ended up reading a lot of Clark Ashton Smith stories, especially since most of them are available…
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Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch.

8/30/2004 Alan: Raiders of the Lost Object Demon
Hi all, I just saw Exorcist and spent the movie, saying "okay, that's a possessor demon with cloak" and "that's an object demon that's also a necromantic token" etc. It…
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Participants: Alan.

8/30/2004 Ole: Oh, the Humanity
I`m prepping my first game of Sorcerer, and need some help with Humanity. First off, do NPCs follow the same rules for Humanity gain and loss as PCs? The rules…
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Participants: Ole, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch.

9/1/2004 sirogit: Sex & Robots
Idiom: Reproduction-based stories, speicially with themes of technological invasion. Settting: Ultra-modern, extremely familiar world save for the inclusion of advanced robots. There's a focus on the urgent and the downtrodden,…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Andrew Martin, neelk.

9/1/2004 stingray20166: Trollbabe rules change clarification
This is going to be an interesting month for me -- Elfs this Friday, TrollBabe on Saturday and Sorcerer next Friday. If my brain doesn't explode I'll be fine. Anyway,…
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Participants: stingray20166, rafial, Alan, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

9/2/2004 stingray20166: Elfs Backfire Mnemonic
"Ummm. . .hi, everyone. . .umm. . .My name's Spanky and I'm stuck at the Anal stage of development." "Hi, Spanky!" "Hi. Ummm, anyway, my player is going to be…
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Participants: stingray20166, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

9/8/2004 Trevis Martin: Character Sheet as the Baseline.
I wanted to share something I came across in Doyce Testerman's blog the other day which was a kind of 'bonk' insight moment for me (though I'm sure Ron has…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

9/8/2004 Trevis Martin: Yet another Character Sheet
I just wanted to make the character sheet I made for my group available to others. You can get it here Its not as baroque as Ben's and not as...um...utilitarian...as…
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Participants: Trevis Martin.

9/9/2004 hix: Relationship Maps: Your Story or Their Story?
I've had fun drawing players into relationship maps during a Buffy mini-series and a pick-up game of The Pool. But now I'm thinking about running Sorceror for the first time,…
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Participants: hix, sirogit, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, matthijs.

9/9/2004 Ben Lehman: Two Sorcerers, One Demon
There are a lot of compelling reasons to want to have two sorcerers bound to the same demon. I mean, it certainly shows up a lot in the literature. What…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Old_Scratch.

9/10/2004 Doyce: eighteen: a sorcerer one-sheet (draft)
With apologies to various good golfing movies, the sport itself, the hobby of roleplaying, and Ron Edwards, I present eighteen: a golfing epic for sorcerer. Notes: * I'm…
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Participants: Doyce, Paka, Mike Holmes, hix, Ron Edwards.

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