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9/17/2004 TickTock Man: Sorcerer in Space
I have read most of the threads in this forum, and I have read several old ones that mentioned a developing Sorcerer in Space mini-supplement. I do not see it…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Ron Edwards, Doyce, joshua neff, Old_Scratch, DannyK, erithromycin, Clinton R. Nixon, sirogit, Mike Holmes.

9/17/2004 TickTock Man: The Mechanics of Hellraiser....
Greetings! In general, when I play sorcerer the demons are actually demons of some kind. I think I have heard it called "Naked Sorcerer", so in this post, that is…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, erithromycin, DannyK.

9/16/2004 TickTock Man: Priest, by Hyung, Min Woo (product endorsement)
Greetings! I am not if any of you have had the chance to read the graphic novel series Priest, but I will tell you it is unbelievably good and very…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2004 TickTock Man: Angels and Their Dominion
From a long-time lurker and first-time poster to the forums, greetings from Chicago! I just got the supplement the Sorcerer's Soul, and i find the treatment of angels to be…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2004 dunlaing: Trollbabe role/goal II (split)
Sorry to resurrect this but,... I'm thinking about starting a Trollbabe campaign in early November and I thought that I had seen a post where Ron had agreed that it…
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Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

9/16/2004 suffusionofyellow: [Trollbabe] PvP question
This grew from Paganinis latest session of Nightbabe, the Trollbabe variant with Vampires. We have two PCs in a room, arguing over the fate of a NPC in the corner…
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Participants: suffusionofyellow, Ron Edwards, Alan, Doyce, b_bankhead.

9/15/2004 Yokiboy: [Sorcerer] Session Prep - The Party
Hello, I've been away from the boards for a while, pursuing my other hobby of Texas Hold'Em Poker, but now I'm back trying to wrap up the prep work for…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Doyce.

9/10/2004 Paka: Still Wrestling with a Sorcerer in Prison Idea
Roughly inspired by Oz, Shawshank Redemption and Escape from Alcatraz but not entirely faithful to any one of them. Humanity is hope of ever making it back outside to a…
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Participants: Paka, hix, DannyK.

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.

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.

9/9/2004 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.

9/8/2004 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.

9/8/2004 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.

9/2/2004 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.

9/1/2004 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.

9/1/2004 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.

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.

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.

8/27/2004 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.

8/27/2004 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.

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9/17/2004 Paka: Where the Wild Things Are
I had the pleasure of reading this to two kindergartenners today and couldn't help but think that Max was a Sorcerer. If I were to run Grade-School Sorcerer again it…
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Participants: Paka, pete_darby, TickTock Man.

9/17/2004 TickTock Man: Scary Occult Trappings
This is a question for all you GM's and players out there. When you are palying Sorcerer, lets say "naked" Sorcerer in this instance, do you give a bonus for…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Ron Edwards, ejh.

9/17/2004 TickTock Man: Can my job (cover) save my soul....?
Greetings! I will begin this post with a quick charcater sketch, and then go forward with the question. The character is Dr. Victor Tull, a noted and talented surgeon. Dr.…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Jinx, Alan, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2004 TickTock Man: Character Creation as Narrative gaming
Be forewarned, my thoughts here are not complete, and I amy be guilty of rambling and excessive use of commas. I love to create characters. I l-o-v-e it. I find…
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Participants: TickTock Man.

9/18/2004 TickTock Man: Ron mentioned something called Zero to the Bone...
... and I gotta believe it is a new game of some sort coming down the pipeline. Is this true? Is it top secret? I am the only one wallowing…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Ron Edwards, Mulciber, jrs.

9/18/2004 Ben Lehman: The Fucked Up Sorcerer
From over in The Mechanics of Hellraiser... There is such a thing as playing Sorcerer too tight. This would be something like ... Character history = terrible…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, erithromycin.

9/19/2004 abzu: Sorcerer in the Shell
Don't know if this has been done or thought of before... but Dro and I went to see Ghost in the Shell: Innocence last night. It was great. Much better…
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Participants: abzu, TickTock Man, Ben Lehman, Bankuei.

9/20/2004 Paka: Olde School Dee And Dee Sorcerer
[i]Would this work at the table or am I just sleep deprived?[/i] [b]Sorcerers[/b] are your favorite junior high characters. [b]Demons [/b]are magic items, henchmen, followers and cool pets. Note that…
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Participants: Paka, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Tobias, pfischer.

9/23/2004 marcus: My Sorcerer Game is Flagging
Although I purchased Sorcerer last year and had my first play session now almost 1 year ago, I have been holding off describing my actual play of the game until…
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Participants: marcus, Paka, Ron Edwards, Doyce, A.Neill, bcook1971, Alan, Mike Holmes, Finarvyn, greyorm, pfischer, clehrich.

9/26/2004 Zaidaco: How did I miss this?
I've only just recently started playing Sorcerer again. Time and other concerns made any role-playing prohibitive. But that's besides the point. I was under the assumption that when the ability…
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Participants: Zaidaco, Ron Edwards, Alan, greyorm, Old_Scratch.

9/26/2004 TickTock Man: Inspiration!
When I am writing a story, or even creating a character to roleplay, I would say that I find my inspiration from an external source about 50% of the time.…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Zaidaco.

9/28/2004 Tim Mahan: Gushing praise and fan art questions
I just want to say thank you to for providing that elusive something that I felt was missing from roleplaying - techniques for helping your players to create the story…
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Participants: Tim Mahan, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

9/29/2004 sirogit: The Art of Dramatic Writing and Sorcerer
Hey Ron I began reading this and has some very intereasting ideas I'd like to use in roleplaying. I'm wondering how much it influenced Sorcerer, and how much you think…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2004 Zaidaco: Need? Desire?Huh?
Need and Desire are still giving me grief. The problem lays not so much in how they work (I feel that I have a fairly good grasp of that), but…
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Participants: Zaidaco, Clinton R. Nixon, clehrich, Trevis Martin.

10/2/2004 sirogit: References for people who don't think they get Sorcerer
Play these games: Inspctres My Life with Master Universalis Read these books: Medea Elric of Melninbone Hellblazer Read…
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Participants: sirogit, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson.

10/3/2004 clehrich: Sorcerers of Fu Manchu
Hi, gang. I'm working toward a brief Sorcerer campaign and I'm having a little trouble getting it to make sense in the writeup. In particular, I'm having trouble with rituals.…
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Participants: clehrich, Old_Scratch, sirogit, DannyK, marcus, Rob MacDougall, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2004 Tim Mahan: Rough Sorcerer one sheet: Anime-style Sci-fi
Note 1: I won't be able to playtest anything for a while so I'm just throwing this out there. Nitpicking highly appreciated. Style: This is one of the sci-fi styles…
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Participants: Tim Mahan, sirogit.

10/4/2004 angelfromanotherpin: Demon ability assistance requested.
One of my players wanted a Demon who functioned like the time-twisting knife in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, specifically its ability to reverse failure to try the task…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, greyorm, sirogit, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Michael S. Miller, djarb.

10/5/2004 marcus: Sorcerer Preparation and Bangs
I have had some trouble to date with the question of the GM's role in Sorcerer. There was some useful clarification of this in some postings on my last thread,…
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Participants: marcus, Paka, Trevis Martin, Alan, Peter Nordstrand, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, DannyK, Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, hix.

10/8/2004 stingray20166: Sorcerer miniatures
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/869938/ These could be useful for a game -- wait until sites like www.pjcc.com put the singles up for $.25 US a piece, though.
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Participants: stingray20166, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

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