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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.

2/5/2002 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.

2/2/2002 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.

2/1/2002 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.

2/1/2002 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.

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.

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.

1/29/2002 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.

1/28/2002 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.

1/25/2002 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.

1/24/2002 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.

1/24/2002 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.

1/23/2002 Manu: The Sorcerer's Pool
Hey all, Here are my first thoughts on combining Sorcerer and the Pool to get the ultimate in Narrativist design. My premise is to take Sorc as a base and…
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Participants: Manu, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, James V. West.

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.

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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.

2/15/2002 Bailywolf: Demonic Roll-call
Hey, why arn't there more sorcerers and demons online at the sorcerer rpg website? Come on you slackers! Post your best. You, there in the back of the room! No…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Paul Czege.

2/15/2002 jburneko: Relating Sorcerer's Soul and Sorcerer & Sword
This is kind of an off-shoot of the relationship map stuff being discussed down in the Soul Reviewed thread. I'm probably making the 'Nothing-But' mistake that Ron mentions in his…
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Participants: jburneko, RogerEberhart, Ron Edwards, efindel, erithromycin, J B Bell, Thor Olavsrud, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/15/2002 Laurel: Skotos Article
Imagine my happy surprise to see Ron and Sorcerer get some free publicity at Skotos today. Its not the first time that Ron's ideas or products have gotten tossed around…
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Participants: Laurel, joshua neff, efindel, Ron Edwards.

2/25/2002 Zak Arntson: Sorcerer's Soul in Lynnwood, Washington!
I saw (and bought) Sorcerer's Soul here in Lynnwood, Washinton. A store called Fantastic Games & Toys. I've been going there since um, 1980-something, and it's had the same owner…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, AndyGuest, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Christopher Kubasik, Noble, Robert Leal, jburneko.

2/25/2002 Ron Edwards: Relationship map issues
Gentlemen, and Gordon in particular, This post deals with concerns in two current threads, "Soul reviewed" and "Relating Sorcerer's Soul and Sorcerer & Sword." Consider issues of baseline kinship and…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, Valamir, greyorm, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clay, jburneko, lumpley, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, AndyGuest.

2/27/2002 greyorm: Announcement: Sorcerer Ts
Now you can WEAR your favorite game! (and advertise it, too!) RavenGear More "Sorcerer" designs coming shortly, check my homepage for details/updates.
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Participants: greyorm, jburneko, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, joshua neff, Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, jrs.

2/27/2002 GreatWolf: Pseudo-familial relationships on the relationship map
I'm posting this in a different thread than the recent relationship map thread because it represents a slight tangent, and besides, the other thread is getting too long. :-) Whilst…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2002 Alex: Play by E-mail Sorcerer
It strikes me that Sorcerer is the kind of game that would be really great if run through e-mail. Not only does the GM have more time to put into…
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Participants: Alex, Seth L. Blumberg, J B Bell, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, furashgf, Gordon C. Landis.

3/3/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer: A Generic RPG?
Clearly, it isn't. If only because it doesn't claim to be. But, on the first page of the game opens with these words: "Many role-playing games amount to not much…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, Dav, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Clay.

3/4/2002 erithromycin: Simply Ghastly...
My system collapsed moments ago, so I'll do this faster, just in case: Sorcerer in early 1920s Britain, in the Highlands of Scotland, events centred around an old mansion in…
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Participants: erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay.

3/7/2002 hyphz: Cunning OR lucky, but...
Perusing the Elfs rules a bit, I noticed a slight concern: there appears to be no reason to ever give an Elf both Dumb Luck and Low Cunning at character…
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Participants: hyphz, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Henry Fitch, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/11/2002 Balbinus: Sorceror and Space
Well, while I had thought that the various mini-supplements were of little interest to me, good as they are (I like making my own stuff up too much generally to…
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Participants: Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Bailywolf.

3/12/2002 jburneko: Whither The Quest?
Hello, This post pertains primarly to the material presented in Socerer & Sword. In Chapter 7 under the dicussion of bangs it says that fights that are merely obstacles and…
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Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Christopher Kubasik, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, contracycle.

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