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10/10/2004 Paka: The Evils of Civilization
The City is all cities, a primordial urban mess whose alleys lead everywhere and everywhen. Sorcerers are the desperate, the rugged or the just plain mad who live outside in…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Mike Holmes.

10/10/2004 bastion-b: Another first time sorcerer prep-thread...
Hi all! The purpose of this thread is basically to get some pointers from all you experienced sorcerer buffs and maybe get some help in finding solutions to my woes…
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Participants: bastion-b, sirogit, Ron Edwards.

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.

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.

10/4/2004 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.

10/4/2004 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.

10/3/2004 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.

10/2/2004 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.

10/1/2004 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.

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.

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.

9/26/2004 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.

9/26/2004 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.

9/23/2004 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.

9/20/2004 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.

9/19/2004 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.

9/18/2004 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.

9/18/2004 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.

9/17/2004 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.

9/17/2004 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.

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10/13/2004 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe comics] Story's done!
Hello, It's all available now, at We All Have Issues. Kind of an odd little story, really, but see what you think. The photo-based artwork was far more effective than…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson, jrs, lumpley.

10/14/2004 andy: I know what you did in high school.... (long post)
Sorcerer is a great game, even if Ron does disavow any interest in making us gamers happy. I am in the nascent stages of putting together a Sorcerer campaign, set…
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Participants: andy, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall.

10/5/2004 Valamir: Marcus' game (latecomers to Flagging thread)
[quote]Perhaps that is been my main problem running the game- I am divided between two principles, being "don't exercise any control, the players will drive the game and interesting situations…
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Participants: Valamir, marcus, Scripty, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2004 andy: Alternate combat system
The one part of Sorcerer I have a hard time embracing is its combat system. Frankly, while the game's core mechanic is simple and elegant, the combat section seems to…
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Participants: andy, Sean, sirogit, bcook1971, The_Tim, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

10/17/2004 sirogit: (One-sheet)Psychic Residue
Setting: A curious mix of an outside view of America with a certain vacant, hokey pleasantness, and an inside view of supernatural intrigue with a flavor of traditional horror stories,…
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Participants: sirogit, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

10/17/2004 ricmadeira: Urban Squalor - Thanks Mike M!
Hi there! Just wanted to thank Michael S. Miller for his Urban Squalor scenario, and ask for his forgiveness for shamelessly taking all his stuff (although that doesn't really mean…
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Participants: ricmadeira, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

10/18/2004 Clay: Successful Sorcerer Quickie
I am very happy to report a successful sorcerer session run tonight using a short one-off scenario of my own demented design and inspired by Installing Linux on a Dead…
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Participants: Clay.

10/18/2004 Sean: Possessors, Stamina, and Boost
The Sorcerer main book says Possessors can't have Boost. Why not? What's wrong with the force that takes you over and gives you, say, inhuman Stamina? Is this game-breaking in…
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Participants: Sean, Ron Edwards.

10/19/2004 Tim Alexander: How many d10s? [low content]
Hey Folks, So I'm finally getting around to running the Ordinary Tragedies game in a week or so. Being my first live experience with Sorcerer I realized I have no…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Bailywolf.

10/21/2004 Tim Alexander: Truth, stranger than fiction: Building a map
Hey Folks, So I'm gathering resources for my Ordinary Tragedies game prep and was considering various material for a relationship map. Since OT is set in vegas, I've been mulling…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Mike Holmes, ivan23, Ron Edwards.

10/25/2004 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe comics] Tea and Sympathy strip #1
Hi everyone, Check out the first strip of the new Trollbabe story, written by me, pencilled by Rod Anderson, inked by James V. West, at the Trollbabe comics page. It's…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Andrew Navaro, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, joshua neff, jrs, ejh, Valamir, Alan, Solomon.

10/25/2004 hix: [Sorc] Prepping for Toons
Remember this thread? It's about running a Sorceror game in the 'Roger Rabbit' universe. Tonight I'll be taking this to my group for a character-gen session - and in a…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Paka.

10/30/2004 cthulahoops: Freedom on the Seas (Gaelcon Post #2)
Hi, This is the report for my second Gaelcon game, the first being over on the Universalis forum (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13218). Back in April when I was thinking about games for Gaelcon…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2004 Trevis Martin: Big, penalities and absorbtion in combat
Hey Ron, I've done some searching through the threads for clarification on an issue that came up in an actual game tonight. Let me refer to Big Trouble... Where you…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Running Day of the Dupes
It happened by accident, I get to play Sorcerer. In a couple of weeks, we'll play Sorcerer set in 17th century France, starting with the scenario depicted in the Sorcerer's…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

11/3/2004 Picador: New Sorcerer setting: The Metamorphosis
My copy of Sorcerer just arrived, although I've been lurking here at The Forge for about a year. I'm giddy. I just wrote up a new setting which I'd been…
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Participants: Picador, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger, DannyK, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards.

11/5/2004 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer]Two-Fisted Science!
So, I'm working on a sorcerer setting, very 30's pulp in flavor. I'm a good bit into it, but there's a few details I'd like input on. Of course, general…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Nev the Deranged.

11/7/2004 Paka: Underworld: Werewolves vs. Vampires
I just played in a brilliant game by my buddy, Robert and the premise was that the trailer for Underworld was cool but the movie sucked, let's play it right.…
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Participants: Paka, erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Scripty, Sydney Freedberg, DannyK.

11/9/2004 Henri: Is Trollbabe balanced?
Last night I finally did my first run of Trollbabe. It was very much an improv thing, thrown together at the last minute, and we didn't want to play all…
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Participants: Henri, Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, Alan, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

11/11/2004 Paka: School Days
[b]Influences[/b]: Freaks and Geeks, Battle Royale, School Daze, Buffy the Vampire Slayer?, Malcom in the Middle?, Dawson's Creek? [i]? = shows I'm either not sure of or haven't seen[/i] [b]Humanity[/b]…
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Participants: Paka, DannyK.

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