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2/2/2005 dunlaing: [Trollbabe]
I might be running Trollbabe tonight for three players (well, four if you count me). We finished up an adventure last session (the Trollbabes scared off the Troll shaman who…
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Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Alan, joshua neff, Bret Gillan.

2/2/2005 Bret Gillan: [Sorcerer] Introducing a New Player
My girlfriend Sarah is interested in checking out roleplaying games. She's a long-time writer who dabbled in some collaborative writing that sounds very much to me to be a roleplaying…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Paka, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

2/2/2005 Paka: 7 Sins
[b]Inspirations[/b]: Se7en, Hellblazer, more? [b]Humanity[/b] is the ability to lead a life in control of sin, rather than allowing them to control you and define who you are. [b]Humanity gain[/b]…
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Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.

2/2/2005 Paka: Sorcerer Con Games
Michael put this idea in my head. I am sorry that I didn't get a chance to play Sorcerer at the Dreamation, just to see how it feels to be…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

1/29/2005 Roger Eberhart: [Sorcerer] Contest of Wills
This is in regards to a post by Ron in a recent thread. Unfortunately I couldn't find the thread in question. The gist was players had opposing ideas so they…
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Participants: Roger Eberhart, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, hix, Valamir.

1/28/2005 Paka: Out of the Joint (Inspired by The Wire, The Corner and Oz)
[b]Inspirations[/b]: The Wire and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood and Oz will probably be in there too. You only ever role-play two days in…
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Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2005 Eric J-D: Bonus Dice for Defense
I know that Ron says he loves questions about Sorcerer combat, so here goes: Page 105 of Sorcerer describes a combat involving Brandon, Fragg and some thugs. In the text…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2005 ejh: Monica the Sorcerer -- Wapsi Square
I've recently become a big fan of the webcomic "Wapsi Square" http://www.wapsisquare.com/. It's a drama series (with a nod towards daily punchlines, but it's really more story than funny) about…
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Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2005 xenopulse: Sorcerer: Bonus Dice for Action Descriptions
Ron, I have a question regarding bonus dice awarded for describing one's actions in Sorcerer. This is specifically in regards to combat (p. 106). Now, I was under the impression…
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Participants: xenopulse, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, sirogit, angelfromanotherpin.

1/21/2005 sirogit: Non-linear play and a change in character's ability.
What's the recommeded way to handle a character having different abilities during different time periods when running scenes non-linearly? Example: I'm running some Sword & Sorcerer. We run scene A…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson.

1/19/2005 Henri: Snap-shot and Boost: Quick Question
I have a question about how the snap-shot penalty and boos interact. Suppose my demon has Boost Lore and Power 6 and my base Lore is 3. I want to…
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Participants: Henri, Eero Tuovinen, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

1/17/2005 jburneko: Elfs Question
Hello, My group requested that we play Elfs. So, I reread the rules and amazingly I only have one question. Regarding Magic Items. It says that one becomes available every…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

1/14/2005 greyorm: A Demon's Need
So, I was crusing through the old Pokemon Sorcerer thread on RPG.net looking for something else, and someone brought up how reducing one's Humanity to 0 might warp the sorcerer…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2005 Ron Edwards: Didn't see that coming
Hiya, I'm about 35 minutes into "The Village." Omigod! It's a Trollbabe story! I'll post more later after seeing the whole thing. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, dunlaing, Valamir.

1/9/2005 Harlequin: Lois McMaster Bujold does Sorcerer
I'm not sure if this is deliberate or not, given the number of SF/Fantasy authors who turn out to be gaming junkies at heart. She looks a bit old for…
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Participants: Harlequin, Ron Edwards, Tav_Behemoth.

1/8/2005 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer on Wikipedia
Hello, While cruising Wikipedia for some Cold War details, I discovered this: Sorcerer. Various things on the page are ... dated, at best. The influence of the single reviewer ever…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

1/5/2005 Paka: Sorcerer for YA Fantasy Fiction
Inspirations: high fantasy young adult novels, The Golden Compass, Narnia and Harry Potter. Demons are: animal familiars summoned by wizards, apprentices and the gifted that are in fact manifestations of…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

1/4/2005 sirogit: [Sorc]Superhero-Cyberpunk-Angels.
Idiom: Superheoic-angels in cyberpunk-apocalypse, goofy irreverent fun. Inspirations: Spawn, The Preacher, Hellboy, Aberrent, X-Men(Paticularly Night Crawler), The Prohecy, Demon: The Fallen(An excellent thread on Rpg.net morsso than the actual game.),…
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Participants: sirogit, Paka.

1/1/2005 Trevis Martin: & Sword Fiction, The Writing of Robert E Howard
Del Rey has been releasing trade paperbacks of Wandering Star's collection of the Robert E Howard's conan fiction. (A good thing as the Wandering Star hardcover limited editions are very,…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, bcook1971, joshua neff, Paganini, James_Nostack, Alan, Ron Edwards.

12/31/2004 Old_Scratch: [Sorcerer] The Sin Eaters
I came up with this setting while taking my dog for a walk, and even though I haven't had a chance yet, I'd like to throw some ideas out. It…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

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2/16/2005 Prince of Thieves: [& Sword] Pangaea: Man vs. The Dinosaur Kings
[b][u]Pangaea: Man vs. the Dinsaur Kings[/b][/u] Here is the recent Pulp Fantasy setting my players and I created for our first Sorcerer and Sword story! Hope you enjoy reading it…
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Participants: Prince of Thieves, Valamir, Paka.

2/21/2005 matthijs: Sex & Sorcery review up at rpg.net
It's short, and it's here.
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Participants: matthijs, Ron Edwards.

2/28/2005 Hisho: [& sword] Humanity in Moorcocks Stormbringer?
after a lot of stress in the last year and an failed attemp to run sorcerer I found someone to run Sorcerer&Sword with, it will be a one-on-one game but…
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Participants: Hisho, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2005 Miskatonic: Trollbabe print?
Any news on a print edition of Trollbabe? I've been very satisfied with the quality and value of the other Adept Press releases. Pre-orders maybe?
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Participants: Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, sirogit, jburneko, Bankuei, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Matt Snyder, ejh, Sean, quozl, Tony Irwin, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, jeffpreston, demiurgeastaroth.

3/2/2005 gorckat: Feeder Demon's Requirements
Cheerio all! Long-time lurker, first time poster! First- Ron- awesome game. I've had it on loan from a friend for a couple of years and am just now getting serious…
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Participants: gorckat, Ron Edwards.

3/3/2005 chris_moore: [Sorcerer] Players as demons?
My gaming group has six players. I think it would be neat to have three players be sorcerers, and the other three be the demons bound to those sorcerers. Has…
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Participants: chris_moore, Ron Edwards, Picador.

3/3/2005 Hisho: [& sword] First Time Prep: A Tale Of Dark Times
So, after the Humanity question was cleared everything worked out fine and now we have a setting, and the player has a character to play with (or as I think,…
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Participants: Hisho, Ron Edwards.

3/10/2005 Andrew Norris: [Sorcerer] Mystery Demon Abilities
This week our group met for the starting session of our Sorcerer campaign, "The Tenure Game". I'm sufficiently jazzed by the ideas the players came up with to start an…
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Participants: Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

3/12/2005 Halzebier: [& Sword] Mining the Conan stories for bangs
Hi there! After reading "Sorcerer & Sword", I'm totally jazzed about the genre and have bought a collection of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories, "The Coming of Conan the…
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Participants: Halzebier, matthijs, Ron Edwards, Paka, Valamir.

3/14/2005 Andrew Norris: [Actual Play] Sorcerer: The Tenure Game (game prep)
Hello all, Our first session of Sorcerer was last week. I explained the setting and Premise, talked a bit about Narrativist play, and we hashed out ideas for characters over…
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Participants: Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, gorckat.

3/14/2005 inthisstyle: [Actual Play] Picking Over the Bones
OK, I ran a Sorcerer demo this last weekend at Ubercon in New Jersey. This ran at 4:00 on Friday afternoon, so I was very pleased that I had a…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2005 James_Nostack: [Sorcerer] Pro-Social Demons?
Is it possible to have demons with a "socially helpful" Desire or Needs? I'm reading through the Sorcerer core rules for the first time, and they seem to take a…
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Participants: James_Nostack, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

3/15/2005 hix: [Sorc] Toon Town Confidential - final session bangs
I’m prepping for the final session of our game described in ‘Sorceror freaked us out’. To recap: it’s Sorceror in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit universe. We’ve got four characters.…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2005 Hisho: [sorcerer] little conflict resolution problem
Ok, I have a little problem with a conflict I had in my mind, maybe the answer is easy but I don't get it at the moment. Let's take 3…
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Participants: Hisho, Ron Edwards, JMendes, Valamir, greyorm.

3/17/2005 Ron Edwards: Help & confirmation regarding website
Hi folks, Do me a quick favor: click to see the Sorcerer Products page. Got it? Now tell me whether you can actually see the Paypal buy-buttons across from my…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, inthisstyle, TonyLB, hix, Bankuei, JMendes, greyorm, Fabrice G., Ben Lehman, Miskatonic, joshua neff, jrs, Jack Aidley, Andrew Morris.

3/18/2005 apparition13: get your own humanity, this one's mine
I'd been having a little trouble wrapping my head around "humanity" until, while re-reading Sorcerer yesterday, I realized it functions alot like POW in BRP. I think the value-neutral nature…
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Participants: apparition13, Jinx, Paka, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, sirogit, Andrew Norris.

3/18/2005 Paka: Sigil via Sorcerer
Reading the works of China Mieville has made me yearn for Planescape and I had a nice conversation with the fella who introduced me to GMing, back in the day.…
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Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, Bailywolf.

3/18/2005 Mister Six: Confuse ability & additional victories
Confuse cancels the target's next action. So what happens when additional victories are rolled? My thought was to just keep rolling them forward as bonus dice. So: Round_1 - Bluebottle…
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Participants: Mister Six, Ron Edwards.

3/19/2005 James_Nostack: [Sorcerer] Defending: with penalties, or without?
While trying to familiarize myself with the combat system, I ran into a question: Let's say you have Stamina 5 but have taken 8 lasting penalties. You flub your Will…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

3/20/2005 Shane Street: The Bound Gods of Ulkhur-Zakand (game prep)
[b]The Bound Gods of Ulkhur-Zakand[/b] [i]You stand on a mesa, overlooking the fabled city of Ulkhur-Zakand. Its vermilion walls just a shade lighter than the rusty plain in which it…
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Participants: Shane Street, Miskatonic, Christopher Weeks, Old_Scratch.

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