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4/2/2005 James_Nostack: [& Sword] Liches (again)
Allow me to do some forum necromancy here and bring this thread Becoming Undead back from the grave. But I've got some quick questions on that topic. 1. If you…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, dyjoots.

4/1/2005 Gethyn: Total Victory
Hi We were talking over here about (amongst other things) single-die rolls and a few effects of different dice combinations during conflicts. As an aside, Ron mentioned Total Victories and…
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Participants: Gethyn, Ron Edwards.

3/30/2005 Gethyn: Confusions - Demon Abilities and 'Drawn Contests'
Hi OK, so here are a couple of shallow Sorcerer questions based on no actual play experience, but they're bugging me. I'm sure they're trivial and obvious but my brain's…
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Participants: Gethyn, gorckat, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Trevis Martin, angelfromanotherpin.

3/29/2005 James_Nostack: [Sorc] Sacrifice Questions
On page 87 of the 2001 printing, it says... Furthermore, performing a sacrifice entails making another Humanity check. If it is a human sacrifice, this check has a penalty equal…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

3/27/2005 hix: [Sorc] The Celebrity Machine
[b]The Celebrity Machine[/b] The characters are either celebrities or working in the Hollywood movie industry. Humanity is your connection to your genuine multi-faceted and unpredictable self. * Zero humanity means…
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Participants: hix, Miskatonic, angelfromanotherpin, J B Bell, Michael S. Miller, gorckat, Valamir.

3/25/2005 hix: [AP] Sorc: Toon Town Confidential - no longer freaked
Just had the final session of our game described in ‘Sorceror freaked us out’. To recap: it’s Sorceror in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit universe. Lots of work on the…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2005 Blind Hero: The Role of Cover
I'm a little confused about how cover works in a game. I love the idea of a general "skill" but it keeps hiccupping in-game. Example: Cammy has gymnast as her…
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Participants: Blind Hero, greyorm, Andrew Norris, Alan, Trevis Martin, Paka, 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.

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.

3/18/2005 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.

3/18/2005 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 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.

3/17/2005 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.

3/15/2005 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.

3/15/2005 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 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.

3/14/2005 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.

3/14/2005 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.

3/12/2005 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.

3/10/2005 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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4/3/2005 sirogit: Playing Sorcerer: Alchemist
After a very long time, I'm finally getting to play my Sorcerer Alchemist setting, as a one-on-one game ran by my brother. Its on session two and it's been incredibly…
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Participants: sirogit.

4/5/2005 pfischer: Humanity roll: 50%?
Just a quick rules question re: Humanity checks: Humanity checks are rolled against Humanity itself, ie. the same number of dice. Does that mean a 50% chance for either "winning…
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Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Paka, greyorm, Trevis Martin, sirogit, Andy Kitkowski.

4/5/2005 Gethyn: 'Gates of Hell'
First off, know that this is probably entirely trivial and I'm not sure if it's contributing anything, but it amused me and I felt I should share. So there I…
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Participants: Gethyn, gorckat.

4/5/2005 angelfromanotherpin: Introverted vs Extroverted Humanities
I've played a few different games of Sorcerer using different Humanity types. Most have been what I'll call introvert qualities: Empathy, Sanity, Hope. Qualities which can exist outside a relationship…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

4/5/2005 Old_Scratch: [Sorcerer] Twilight Armies (Sci-fi Western: A Dry, Quiet War
Ron, I promise you I'm going to start running some of this stuff once my group finds its legs again! Anyhow, this was crossposted to rpg.net. Seeing as how there…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Andrew Norris.

4/5/2005 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Player Tactics That Affect Multiple Targets
Hello, I've been reviewing older rules question threads, sorting some things out and I'm trying to work out situations where a single player wants to prevent or hinder the actions…
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Participants: jburneko, Alan, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch.

4/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe] Sales spike
I'm not sure why, but Trollbabe has been selling like hotcakes for about a month. I wonder why? Usually such things happen due to a review at a widely-visited site,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, inthisstyle, Rausch, Rob MacDougall, lumpley, Andrew Norris, Bob Goat, sirogit, MarcoBrucale, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Sölvi, b_bankhead, JamesDJIII, remi, matthijs.

4/8/2005 sirogit: The timing of overboost damage.
Its funny that this has never come up before. Is the intended timing of the effects of Boost this: 1. Boost raises the Sorcer's Score. 2. The Demon's power goes…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

4/8/2005 pfischer: Greg Costikyan played Dark Places in Denmark
Costikyan was invited as guest of honor to the Danish con where my Dark Places Sorcerer scenario was played (10 groups in all). His feedback from the event is here:…
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Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards.

4/12/2005 Trevis Martin: Anna Kerenina R-map
I found it here: http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/anna/characters/anna_characters_map.jhtml while doing a search for relationship maps. I think it might be useful to someone. I"m probably going to use it myself. best, Trevis
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Participants: Trevis Martin, pfischer, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, matthijs, Mike Holmes, Andy Kitkowski, Rob MacDougall, Jere, Thierry Michel.

4/16/2005 Nev the Deranged: The Melancholy (and funny) Adventures of Zebra Girl
One woman's quest to cope with being turned into a demon: www.zebragirl.keenspot.com I found this one while reading Wapsi Square (www.wapsisquare.com) which someone else on this forum suggested, because it…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, erithromycin.

4/26/2005 Harmast: [Charnel Gods] End of an Epoch and NPC Harbingers...
I love CG, enough that after buying it I picked up Sorcerer and have ordered Sorcerer & Sword, however I have two questions: 1. What does the end of an…
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Participants: Harmast, sirogit, hardcoremoose, Old_Scratch, Danny_K, Valamir, Ron Edwards, pete_darby.

5/9/2005 Bret Gillan: Uses for Mark
I was wondering what uses for the demonic power Mark have (pg. 54) have arisen in the course of gameplay in your campaigns. I think it's an interesting power, but…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

5/9/2005 Bret Gillan: Increased Power Through Contact Successes
Short question: Using the option to add exta Power to a Demon for successes gained on a Contact roll (pg. 92) should you use the modified power for the subsequent…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

5/10/2005 Bailywolf: [HEX] A good but hard to find Sorcerer TV show.
So in my random web surfing, I stumbled upon a television show called HEX , produced for the Brit satellite network Sky one. Being neither British or with access to…
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Participants: Bailywolf, urbwar, Miskatonic.

5/14/2005 JMendes: [Sorcerer] Again with the penalty currency thing...
Hey, folks, :) This thread from back on August 24th has been brought to my attention... two characters declare they're attacking each other. Both roll, leaving dice…
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Participants: JMendes, Valamir, Trevis Martin, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

5/14/2005 shaheddy: [Sorcerer] By the Sword - First session
I just started GMing Sorcerer and have done one session of play so far. The in-game situation: we're set in mid-19th century Japan, during the Meiji revolution. The premise is,…
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Participants: shaheddy, Ron Edwards, droog.

5/15/2005 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer Doesn't Scare Me. What's Wrong with Me?
This one is specifically for Ron. Others can join in soon. Ron, I was poking around Jesse's Live Journal and found this quote he pulled from you about Sorcerer: "Let's…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, C. Edwards, ejh, KingstonC, Ben Lehman.

5/21/2005 Alan: [Sorcerer] McCarthy Era
McCarthy Era Sorcerer =============== We started a Sorcerer game here in Seattle. I'm GM and I have two players: James, who's played Sorcerer before with Clinton, and Kristian, who's relatively…
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Participants: Alan, droog, Ron Edwards, Danny_K, sirogit, Dreez.

5/22/2005 Hearthweru: Sorcerer by post.
Hello all this is my first post on the Adept press forum. I’m partial to the odd tequila slammer or five. Anyway having said hello Ron, I’d like to ask…
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Participants: Hearthweru, Selene Tan, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Danny_K.

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