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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.


10/25/2004 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.


10/25/2004 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.


10/21/2004 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.


10/19/2004 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.


10/18/2004 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.


10/18/2004 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.


10/17/2004 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.


10/17/2004 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.


10/15/2004 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.


10/5/2004 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.


10/14/2004 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.


10/13/2004 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.


10/12/2004 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Dark Places version 2
[b]Dark Places - a Sorcerer one sheet.[/b] Written by Per Fischer. Additional ideas by Bailywolf, and also inspiration from Tim's Ordinary Tragedies one sheet. Ron provided helpful comments as well.…
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Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol.


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.


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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.


11/25/2004 Spartan: Inu-Yasha as inspiration for Sorcerer & Sword
I've been away for a while, but here we go... Lately I've become addicted to an anime series called Inu-Yasha, and I can't help thinking of Sorcerer every time I…
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Participants: Spartan, Gabe McKean, Fabrice G..


11/26/2004 sirogit: &Sword setting - Last Rites of the Dark Gods
Sword & Sorcery setting I'm shooting for running after my current Sorcerer game, out of the fact that one of the current players is a major S&S fan and it'd…
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Participants: sirogit.


11/28/2004 Gabe McKean: [Sorcerer One-Sheet] Alien Ghosts
I'll be running my first game of Sorcerer pretty soon. I have an idea for a sci-fi flavored game that I'll present to them later this week. This is my…
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Participants: Gabe McKean, greyorm, Ron Edwards.


11/29/2004 Mattes: (Sorcerer) Questions of a newbie
Hi! I just purchased Sorcerer, and I have a question concerning the rules, I have checked the book over & again, but haven't been able to figure it out. Here…
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Participants: Mattes, TonyLB, Alan, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Jonas Larson, Ben Morgan.


11/29/2004 Picador: (Sorcerer) The Metamorphosis v 2.0, call for players
Here's the new version of The Metamorphosis in PDF form. (The original thread for this setting is here.) I'm also including some links for further reading about stage…
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Participants: Picador.


11/30/2004 dunlaing: [Trollbabe] A Question of Scale, or The Last Boy
I am planning to start up a Trollbabe campaign and was thinking about using the following set of Stakes and Circumstances for the first adventure. Once I started thinking about…
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Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards.


12/2/2004 dunlaing: I ran [Trollbabe] last night for the first time!
We had a good time, although the majority of the session was spent introducing Trollbabe to two of the three players and character creation. I'll post the recap of the…
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Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards.


12/7/2004 Paka: Mystery Men
I've been flirting with how to do super-heroic Sorcerer and here is my most recent attempt. The starting Demon is something that happened to you that made you want to…
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Participants: Paka, urbwar, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, Bailywolf, Ben Morgan.


12/7/2004 Negilent: Revolution 2 - first time sorceror prep
I've finally swiped the MC over at Paypal, and am getting set to bounce my first Sorceror game. Before I paste it all before your eyes here are the issues…
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Participants: Negilent, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin.


12/8/2004 Moah: Where to get the supplements
Hi, I bought Sorcerer from a shop here (after reading much about it here and at the rpg.net forums), and found by luck "Sex and sorcery." I'd like to get…
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Participants: Moah, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.


12/16/2004 Paka: Sorcerer One-Sheet Preperation
I am not sure if these steps are exactly where I want them just yet but here is a rough guideline to making a one-sheet. Any feedback or disagreements are…
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Participants: Paka.


12/20/2004 Paka: Stepping Away from the United Party Mentality
I am about to run Blood Simple on New Year's Day, it looks like and we're in the preliminary e-mail stages, flirting with the game idea before any foreplay takes…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, greyorm.


12/21/2004 joshua neff: Art Deco Sorcerer on the big screen
When Ron first started the Art Deco Melodrama threads and described the look and feel of the setting, how did I picture it in my head? Pretty much exactly…
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paka.


12/22/2004 ivan23: [Sorceror] First Time Prep: Big Sky -- The New Primitives
Hi, all ... picked up Sorceror from the FLGS on the strength of all the Actual Play and one-sheet prep posts. The missus subscribes to a lot of homesteading magazines,…
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Participants: ivan23, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, jc_madden, Snowden, Trevis Martin, Nev the Deranged.


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