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1/18/2002 jburneko: Really Stupid Telltale Question
Hello, Okay, I have a REALLY stupid telltale question. I can't determine if the spotting telltale rolls are meant to be an 'in-game' thing such that if the opportunity to…
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Participants: jburneko, J B Bell, Ron Edwards.


1/18/2002 Balbinus: Sword characters
Hi all, As a spin off from Paganini's thread I would be quite interested to see some ideas for Sword characters who are not adepts, that is to say characters…
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Participants: Balbinus, Bailywolf, Paganini, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, AndyGuest, Uncle Dark, efindel.


1/17/2002 Bailywolf: Sorcerer to Supers- an unholy transformation
No one slap me, please. I'm going to work some mojo here. The other night I went a bit nuts until about 2 in the morning. I was thinking about…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen.


1/17/2002 Paganini: Sorcerer & Sword?
The Premise of Sorcerer doesn't really grab me... nothing personal, I'm just not interested in playing a guy who rules demons. Still, I've been thinking about getting it, just for…
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Participants: Paganini, Ben Morgan, hardcoremoose, contracycle, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Uncle Dark, Balbinus, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, AndyGuest.


1/16/2002 Eric: S&S, pg 69, Bonus Dice: Price
Ego assertion I understand and I like, but while I understand the mechanics of Price, I don't see the link to the source material. Can I get an example from…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards.


1/15/2002 Eric: Possessor Demons Possessing Sorcerer
So I'm prepping my character for making characters Thursday. They don't know the system yet, but I asked them to start thinking about what they'd want their demons to be…
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Participants: Eric, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.


1/12/2002 James V. West: Now I get it.
My copy of Sorcerer was in the mailbox today. I sat in the parking lot of the USPO and eagerly flipped through the book, drinking in paragraphs and statements like…
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Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Manu, Paul Czege, Bailey.


1/12/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Big robots?
In the Sorceror rulebook, there's a list of different kinds of demons people have used in the past. One of the examples is robotic fighter jets. Can someone expand on…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Bailey, Bailywolf, contracycle.


1/11/2002 Zak Arntson: S&S Praise & semi-Actual Play
First off, huge amounts of props (prizops, even) go to you, Ron. I got Sorcerer & Sword from my mother on Christmas (!!), and immediately began reading the thing. It's…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Clay.


1/11/2002 Ron Edwards: The Sorcerer's Soul is printing
Hey everyone, The second supplement has passed the bluelines stage and they are putting the book together even as we speak. Past experience has taught me that no real time-estimate…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Balbinus, Manu.


1/10/2002 J B Bell: Steel Cage Death-Match Tournament Sorcerer
If you haven't fled in Narrativist horror at the seeming blatant Gamism in the title, imagine with me for a moment: SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY, in the Venerable…
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Participants: J B Bell, Zak Arntson, mahoux, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.


1/9/2002 furashgf: Defining "Pulp"
Both Sorcerer and Sword and Sorcerer have (or can be played with) a "pulp" feel. What the heck is "pulp" (in a setting/mood sense)? Gary Furash
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Participants: furashgf, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, Uncle Dark.


1/8/2002 Uncle Dark: S&S Literary Sources
One of the things that (finally!) recieving &Sword did for me was get me reading Conan again. I decided to revisit the stories that Ron picked as the best Conan…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes.


1/7/2002 Tim C Koppang: Stroking Ron's Ego
So I was in the game store the other day and I saw a copy of Sword on the shelves and I thought to myself, "Hmmm... that sounds familiar." So…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.


1/7/2002 greyorm: Page 85
Okay everyone, grab your copies of S&S and flip to page 85. Now reach in and tear that sucker right out of there. Now go frame it and put it…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins.


1/5/2002 erithromycin: Sorcerers of the world
The posts on anime sorcery got me wondering. Now, somewhat of a fan of fair nippon, I sat down and thought about a 'typically japanese' view of sorcery . So,…
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Participants: erithromycin, Bailywolf, J B Bell, greyorm, lumpley, Bankuei.


12/31/2001 Jason L Blair: And the Outie goes to....
Congratulations, Ron, on picking up a coveted (I'm not sure by whom) Outie award doled out every year by Ken "Sassy" Hite. Ron picked it up this year for "Most…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.


12/31/2001 J B Bell: Sorcerer dice-rolling tool in Python
Here's a little dice utility for Sorcerer rolls written in Python, & therefore useable on Unix or Windows (and possibly Mac, not sure if there's python for it or not).…
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Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf.


12/29/2001 jburneko: Concatenating Relationship Maps
Hello, Has anyone here experimented with concatenating more than one relationship map together. That is, reading say, three novels, and linking the maps together via extra links to create one…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin).


12/29/2001 Bailywolf: Ofuda, Blue Seeds, and Sorcerer Anime
Perhaps this is Demon Cop stuff, but I was watching an episode of the anime 'Blue Seed', and couldn't help but think of sorcerer... the whole thing seems like a…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.


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1/24/2002 Valamir: Crazy Question on mini sups
Any thought to publishing a compilation of mini-sups in a format to go along with Sorcerer, Sword, and Soul HC? Don't know what kind of hassle would be involved in…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mario, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell.


1/24/2002 Eric: Champions Example of pacing?
Hey -- I'm looking for a paragraph I thought I read in S&S about how one of the reasons Ron's Champions campaigns went so well was that everyone had a…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards.


1/25/2002 Balbinus: Cover in play
One thing which has puzzled me slightly with how to run Sorceror (or Sword for that matter with the equivalent Past) is how to work with Cover. Firstly, how complex…
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Participants: Balbinus, Bailywolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, jburneko, furashgf.


1/28/2002 jburneko: Odd Kicker Question
Hello Again, So a couple players who have been away from one of my games for a long while are coming back. Rather than trying to squeeze them back in…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, efindel, contracycle.


1/29/2002 Jason L Blair: Pictures, pictures, pictures.
Ron, Where can I see a picture of the Sorcerer's Soul cover? And some interior artwork! I'm itching to see Veronica's work and I have no idea what the cover…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Paul Czege, Clay.


1/29/2002 jburneko: Sorcerer & Sword PBeM
Hello All, Well, for a while now Mike Holmes has been trying to talk me into running a PBeM of some kind, particularly using a more Narrativist friendly system. I've…
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Participants: jburneko.


1/30/2002 Time: Just got my game going
Well, I finally got my very first Sorcerer game going last Saturday and I have to say so far everyone in the group loves it - and to get 10…
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Participants: Time, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Trav.


2/1/2002 Thor Olavsrud: The Ninth Gate and The Club Dumas
I've just been re-reading Sorceror after picking up the excellent Sorceror & Sword supplement. Anyway, I was checking out the bibliography and noticed the mention of The Ninth Gate. I…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards.


2/1/2002 Tundra: Sorcerer's Soul Shipped
Say THAT three times fast ;-) SS shipped to distribution today, Feb 1. Direct orders placed with Adept will be mailed tomorrow and Monday. <ahem> It's really cool ;-) ttfn…
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Participants: Tundra, Paul Czege, random, Eric.


2/2/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Sorcerer, Schism reviewed in this month's SciFi magazine!
Just got my gratis copies from the editor! In the "Games" section, there's a review of Schism. Aside from getting a really nice review ("...a love letter to David Cronenberg..."…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.


2/5/2002 Bailywolf: More groovy sorcerer anime
Over the weekend I did one of those, "oh jeeze, I knew this already!" things... I binged, rewatching most of the anime run of 3X3 Eyes- a top-flight anime series…
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Participants: Bailywolf.


2/6/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Modern Things
Just to give y'all some background... a rush of ideas came to me this evening for a Sorceror supplement. Without giving too much away, a song by Bjork inspired…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, lumpley, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Bankuei, Manu.


2/6/2002 Bailywolf: Combined Sorcerer and S&S games... and the Dreamlands
I just found out the CoC folks are producing a new (and quite heafty) Dreamlands book... which is suposed to have excised most of the Lumbly tot and gotten back…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Doc Midnight, Mike Holmes.


2/6/2002 Bailywolf: Historical Sorcerer
Another new post. Anyone mess with running Sorcerer in a historical setting? I've toyed with a sort of Pulp Sorcerer (inspired in no small part by Hellboy) in which an…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Blake Hutchins, Uncle Dark, Fabrice G., contracycle.


2/8/2002 jburneko: The Spy Who Summoned Me
So with the release of AEG's Spycraft just around the corner I've been thinking about Spy Thriller RPGs. For a long while now I've been dying for a really good…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, erithromycin, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, Bailywolf, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, contracycle.


2/10/2002 Bailywolf: Personalizing Humanity
Something occors to me. Much is made of defining Humanity for a given setting of sorcerer, but what I've come to think is more importiant is defining Humanity for each…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Clay, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Valamir.


2/11/2002 Ron Edwards: philosophical musings (response to Gareth)
I've split this off from the thread about Historical Sorcerer. In there, I wrote: "My interest in Thirty Years War period as a specifically-Sorcerer setting stems in part from the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, contracycle.


2/12/2002 Balbinus: Soul reviewed
Just to let you all know that Kenneth Hite has now reviewed Soul, read all about it at http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php
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Participants: Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Ayrizale, Gordon C. Landis, james_west, contracycle, RogerEberhart, Le Joueur, Manu, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Emily Care, Valamir, J B Bell.


2/13/2002 Eric: Hot glances through lowered lashes?
Hey – The back of S&S promises rules (or at least guidelines) for "Hot glances through lowered lashes." Sadly, I can’t find them. There are references to sensuousness and sexy…
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Participants: Eric, Clay, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, GB Steve.


2/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Fixed! (no, not like your dog! jeez)
And for no good reason whatsoever, Elfs has not been available to buy since the start of the year ... but all is better now, because the buy link has…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.


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