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12/25/2005 James_Nostack: [& Sword] First Time Prep: Atlantis Pulp Fantasy
After many months, I finally will have a chance to try out Sorcerer & Sword through IRC.  I'm posting this up here for advice, suggestions, and warnings.  This is the…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

12/24/2005 jburneko: Wicked City and Demon Cops
Hello, I would like to discuss the relationship between Wicked City and Demon Cops.  I recently saw Wicked City and it was not what I was expecting.  It started a…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

12/22/2005 Old_Scratch: Recommended: Artesia
After seeing mention of this for a couple of years, I finally got around to buying Artesia. This is a comic book series with a gradual graphic novel release that…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Paka, angelfromanotherpin, Yokiboy, Lisa Padol, Valamir, Brand_Robins.

12/13/2005 Lisa Padol: Does Lore a Sorcerer Make?
We got in a second and a third session, and I'm hoping to post the write up of the second soon. One question came up about an NPC (or GMC…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Calithena, angelfromanotherpin, mneme.

12/9/2005 dyjoots: [Trollbabe] Action-type question
In the text of Trollbabe, there are examples of a Trollbabe trying to spot or escape an ambush, used as an example of who the player can call for a…
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Participants: dyjoots, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

12/2/2005 Lisa Padol: Animal Passers and Bows
A couple of questions: 1. If I create a demon passing as an animal and give it the Cover ability, does this mean that I can dispense with buying things…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

11/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [It Was a Mutual Decision] Girlfriend + Rat
Hello, Quoting from memory, probably slightly garbled, from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns ... Bob: Batman, he nasty. Rob: Rob hope Bob don't say balls nasty. Bob: Balls nasty.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, IMAGinES, Roger, Aman the Rejected, Matt Snyder.

11/26/2005 James_Nostack: [Sorc] Combat Wiki Posted
[url=http://random.average-bear.com/Sorcerer/HelpfulFlowchartForSorcererConflict]Helpful Flowchart for Sorcerer Conflict[/url] At least, I [i]hope[/i] it's helpful.  I'll try to monitor the combat threads, and modify this in the light of frequent questions and their answers. …
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Participants: James_Nostack, Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

11/14/2005 Lamorak33: Sorcerer - first session
Hi Here is a post of how our first session went. I have two players for this game, James and Josh - both good guys well up for the game.…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Paka, Tim Alexander, Imperator, Trevis Martin.

11/12/2005 Lisa Padol: Odd Sorcerer Twink
While working on character generation, Josh noted that it's usually better to croc stats for faster advancement, e.g., going for a 1-2-7 or 1-3-6 spread, rather than a 3-3-4. This…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Paka, Ron Edwards, mneme.

11/12/2005 Lisa Padol: Calibrating NPCs
I need a bit of advice on NPCs -- not so much examples of individual NPCs, though those will be appreciated, as the principles to bear in mind while creating…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

11/9/2005 Karl: Couple of Demon Ability questions
Hi (i) A parasite demon inhabiting a limousine... player wants Travel so the demon can drive the limo around, does it need Perception as well? I think so. Why not…
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Participants: Karl, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand.

11/1/2005 angelfromanotherpin: [& Sword] Source Material Humanity Definitions
This is a question, mostly for Ron because he's so good at this, but anyone can chime in. What's the Humanity definition used in the Conan stories?  The Fafhrd &…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, MetalBard, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2005 Eric J-D: Kickers for Dummies Part 2
Here's part 2: II. How Kickers relate to Theme, or Why the Kicker is Not the Whole Story Morninglory. I said earlier that the Kicker is the player’s announcement to…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, John Harper, James_Nostack.

10/27/2005 Eric J-D: Kickers for Dummies Part 1
Hi folks.  I hope this is kosher Ron; if not I trust you'll tell me.  I wrote up the following thoughts on Kickers to distribute to new Sorcerer players and…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2005 Lamorak33: Feedback
Ron Just taken delivery of Sorcerers Soul. Awesome book, and the missing link for my plans to run Sorcerer. If you ever get round to a second edition you could…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2005 greyorm: White Noise as a Sorcerer game
Ok, I just watched the movie referred to in the title about an hour ago, and during the whole thing -- particularly as it moved further and further towards resolution…
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Participants: greyorm.

10/25/2005 emaise: [Sorcerer] Setting Concept: Inner Demons
I'm working on a Sorcerer setting.  It's not ready yet, but I thought I'd share some of my thoughts as I work on it. I'm getting back into gaming after…
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Participants: emaise, MetalBard, Lisa Padol, jagardner, Ron Edwards.

10/24/2005 Lisa Padol: Questions after looking at Quick Ref
Nev very kindly sent me his Quick Ref. I emailed him a couple of questions, and he suggested I post them here, as he'd like to know the answers as…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

10/21/2005 James_Nostack: [Sorc] Possessor uses Host Stamina?
Quick question: Say you're the host of a Possessor demon.  When the demon comes out to play, what Stamina does it use for physical activity, its own or its host's? …
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

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12/30/2005 Old_Scratch: [Charnel Gods] Armageddon Clock Epoch
Just thought I'd let you folks know that I put up a pdf of the Epoch used during this Actual Play: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=11472.0 It's just the source material, but I thought…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Matt, hardcoremoose.

1/2/2006 Plotin: Necromantic Tokens
Hello all and most of all Ron, who is my foremost addressant for these questions! I am about to meet with my group for for a first discussion to mutually…
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Participants: Plotin, Arturo G., Ron Edwards.

1/5/2006 May: Getting started - help needed
Hello! I'm in the process of starting up my very first sorcerer group ever, and I plan for us to play the "nasty house scenario" from the book as way…
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Participants: May, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, The_Tim.

1/11/2006 Moah: [Sorcerer] Travel and Transport
Hi, I've recently reread Sorcerer, to prepare a session for tonight, and my players almost all picked Travel as a demon power. I had read that Travel was exclusively a…
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Participants: Moah, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Gaerik.

1/13/2006 Maitete: [Sorcerer] Real World Premise?
Hey all, I have a long-term group of friends with whom I have been gaming weekly for around 6 years.  I've had several dysfunctional moments with one particular member of…
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Participants: Maitete, Lamorak33, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, May.

1/18/2006 Justin A Hamilton: [Sorcerer] Preparing for a pitch, King in Yellow
Hello again, let me apologize in advance if this post has a lot of jargon, please ask. So my roleplaying group has a kind of round-robin GM format.  We all…
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Participants: Justin A Hamilton, Neros Boot, TickTock Man, IMAGinES, Mister Six.

1/18/2006 IMAGinES: [RPGnet Forum / Wiki] Sorcerer: A Menu
As the RPGnet forums are no longer searchable, Paka set up a forum thread called A Menu with the intent of collecting all the best RPGnet threads relating to…
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Participants: IMAGinES, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2006 Neros Boot: Sorcerer in Spaaaaaaaaace!
I have an idea for a Sorcerer adaptation, which I've already emailed to Mr. Edwards as a potential mini-supplement.  Essentially, the mini-supplement would be about human pilots in the near…
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Participants: Neros Boot, Justin A Hamilton, Sydney Freedberg, ubergeek2012, Bret Gillan, cpeterso, IMAGinES, Peter Nordstrand.

1/18/2006 Neros Boot: Indie Press Revolution
How long does it typically take IPR to send out dead-tree-format books once you've ordered them? --I ordered Sorcerer and Sword and Sex and Sorcery off them, and am curious…
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Participants: Neros Boot, Justin A Hamilton.

1/18/2006 Neros Boot: [Sorcerer] The mini-supplements
What can y'all tell me 'bout the Sorcerer mini-supplements?  As preparation for writing my own mini-supplement, I have decided to buy all six currently available e-sourcebooks.  I am particularly interested…
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Participants: Neros Boot, Bret Gillan, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Hisho, Jasper Polane.

1/19/2006 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Las Cruces Onesheet
Hi, I set up this game to present Sorcerer to a group I haven't played with before. The ideas were bounced forth and back during an evening, and I put…
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Participants: pfischer, Yokiboy.

1/22/2006 Wolfen: Three's a Crowd
So, our third session of sorcerer has just ended. Let me give a brief synopsis of the last scene... My sorcerer, Vincent Ashmore is a cop with a parasite demon…
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Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2006 Peter Nordstrand: La Journée des Dupes
I've wanted to run a game using Day of Dupes from Sorcerer's Soul ever since I first read the scenario. I just couldn't quite figure out how to handle it.…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

1/23/2006 Adam Biltcliffe: Sorcerer is hard (understanding currency)
So the Sorcerer rulebook is, um, pretty densely packed with information and not really that great (at least, for me) of explaining the logic that ties everything together. I think…
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Participants: Adam Biltcliffe, faerieloch, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2006 Frank T: [&Sword] Trading down Humanity
So I want to trade down Humanity. I pick Will or Stamina, whichever I like better for my character, at 8 (giving me Humanity 8), and the other two attributes…
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Participants: Frank T, jburneko, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2006 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Gearing up for a new session
I'm hoping to have a 4th session of Sorcerer next Tuesday, January 31st. This is assuming all goes well, and we don't get another strike, what with the union members…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Paka, Valamir, Eric J-D, Iskander, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2006 Paka: Define Humanity, List Descriptors and Go
Ron did this at Gen Con, sat down with us and we all defined Humanity together.  Then we decided on a descriptor list and we rolled right there with our…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Imperator, urbanpagan.

1/30/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Day of Dupes]Post-Chargen Question
[b][color=Maroon]Important: Jonas, Johan, and Kristoffer, this thread is not for you. Please go away.[/color][/b] Everyone else, please stay. I have some specific question this time. We've finished chargen for our…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol, James_Nostack, Roger.

1/31/2006 Neros Boot: I now own all the dead-tree supplements!
My copies of Sorcerer and Sword and Sex and Sorcery showed up yesterday, whilst I was gaming offline with a friend.  Today, I shall start reading on them!  I've already…
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Participants: Neros Boot, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

2/1/2006 Lisa Padol: Contain / Banishment question
In last night's session, Niccolo failed to Banish a demon. Unknown to him, Andreas put the demon in a Contain. Okay, a snapshot Contain, which may not hold up when…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, Julian.

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