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3/14/2006 toothpowder: (Sorcerery & Sword) Thugee and Taurus inspired character aid
Having trouble getting the kinks out of this Xar-ish character for S&S.  The character is inspired by my reading of specific Howard and the current Dark Horse line (issues 20…
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Participants: toothpowder, James_Nostack, wyrmis.

3/8/2006 cmnash: Our first try 2
We met again last night and continued our preparation for our first Sorcerer game.  I had done my prep and lifted from http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=11965.0 the checklist of things to define for…
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Participants: cmnash, Ron Edwards, bdcurd, Gaerik.

3/2/2006 Jason13: Ok I 've read my Sorcerer books and joined The Forge what comes next?
Hi Everyone, Please bear with me as this is my first post.  I have been roleplaying since the tender age of 11 in 1979, but I have only recently in…
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Participants: Jason13, Ron Edwards, Glendower, Miskatonic, Paka.

3/2/2006 cmnash: [Sorcerer] Our first try
Hi there.  I have just got Sorcerer and am eager to try it out. On Tuesday night, I presented it to our gaming group as part of a discussion about…
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Participants: cmnash, Ron Edwards, Eric J-D, bdcurd.

3/2/2006 Lisa Padol: Duelling Imperatives
Let me see if I can explain the confusion I have had with elements of Sorcerer. I've tried to explain before, in AP write ups and at Dreamation, but I…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Eric J-D, Trevis Martin, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Julian, The_Tim, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir.

3/1/2006 ijonchrist: For a friend...
Hello again gang, My friend posed this question and asked me to put it on this board for anyone to reply to: Is it possible to have a special damage…
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Participants: ijonchrist, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, The_Tim.

2/27/2006 ijonchrist: Humanity Gain questions...
Hey all, I've recently started a Sorcerer game with a couple of friends who are new to the system.  My questions today, brought to my mind by one of my…
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Participants: ijonchrist, angelfromanotherpin, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2006 Doyce: "How Would I..." question
'lo all. Long time, no play.  Looking to fix that up in the near future, and one of the ways I'm doing that is with a Red Harvest-inspired Clicking Sands…
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Participants: Doyce, Paka, Julian, jburneko, Hisho, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

2/20/2006 Ron Edwards: Followup to the Awful Thread of Awfulness
I'm back. My conclusion: no retractions, no apologies. I do have some comments. If you think my whole point is simply wrong Then you might be right. I never claimed…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/19/2006 Plotin: Hint question
Hello! The description of “Hint” on page 53 of the rulebook says: The demon rolls Power vs. the Will of the target, and if that is successful, the target rolls…
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Participants: Plotin, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2006 Plotin: Cover and Possessors
Hello! I have got a question pertaining to Possessors and the “Cover” ability. Its description on page 53 of the rulebook says: Possessor demons automatically have this ability. Are we…
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Participants: Plotin, Arturo G., Ron Edwards.

2/19/2006 ijonchrist: Spawn Question
OK, maybe this has been gone over before, but I didn't see it in the first dozen pages so I thought I'd make a new topic.  Two players in my…
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Participants: ijonchrist, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2006 beingfrank: [Trollbabe] Acting towards goals after losing a conflict
Today I went through the rules and did character creations for two players I'm running Trollbabe for.  The first session will be in a fortnight, but we all wanted to…
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Participants: beingfrank, Eero Tuovinen, Calithena, Ron Edwards, Alan, James_Nostack.

2/17/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Combatr combat combat
Hi there, I'm going to put up a couple of combat examples here to discuss or study. I'm having a devil of a time figuring rollover…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Julian, Ron Edwards, Paka, Valamir, ubergeek2012, ijonchrist, Hisho, angelfromanotherpin.

2/17/2006 Marco: Telekinesis
So I've got this character with a brain tumor named Amanda Averice (that's the tumor's name, not my character's name) and it talks to me and gives me TK. The…
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Participants: Marco, Ron Edwards.

2/14/2006 Lisa Padol: Demon-Human Crossbreeds
I'm likely to just wing this, should it come up, but I'm curious to know what others might do and if there's an actual rule I'm missing. In our Sorcerer…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, Julian, preludetotheend.

2/14/2006 Brand_Robins: Recommended: Secret Things
Having just finished watching the French movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287963/">Secret Things</a> I highly recommend it to Sorcerer players. While the "magic" is all symbolic and the mythic elements are not always…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards.

2/11/2006 Ron Edwards: Brain damage
About the brain damage. This is coming in a series of posts. Comment freely as I go, but bear in mind that it is a series. Everyone who's interested, please…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, Piers Brown, mneme, joshua neff, Jonathan Walton, Levi Kornelsen, Keith Senkowski, ffilz, demiurgeastaroth, Seth L. Blumberg, bcook1971, Halzebier, JonasB, ricmadeira, Gregor Hutton, Artanis, Caldis, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Wormwood, Lisa Padol, Troy_Costisick, John Kim, Marco, Matt Snyder, Web_Weaver, LandonSuffered, Walt Freitag, Supplanter, Calithena, Bankuei, Valamir, Ian Charvill, Roger, talysman, lumpley, Rustin, jeffd, xenopulse, Peter Nordstrand, jagardner, Eric J-D, Alan, Julian, John Wick, Sydney Freedberg, iago, MatrixGamer, Arturo G., droog, greyorm, ethan_greer, contracycle, Doug Ruff.

2/11/2006 nyhteg: Back of the Character Sheet
At last I've found someone to try out a real, live Sorcerer session with. Hurrah. Going through character/setting/demon generation last night and we came to the lovely crosshairs on the…
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Participants: nyhteg, Ron Edwards.

2/10/2006 Lisa Padol: Contain Question
So, Dave's character, Andreas, put a Possessor demon in a Contain. He instructed another Possessor demon, this one bound to him, to force a sedative down the throat of the…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Mister Six.

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3/14/2006 The_Tim: [Trollbabe] Possible Rules Mod
I'm hoping to play some Trollbabe with my wife.  As prep I've been rereading the past threads on it.  Something jumped out at me as I did.  The whole Relationships…
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Participants: The_Tim, Eero Tuovinen, Alan, Jonathan Hastings, Ron Edwards.

3/16/2006 nyhteg: Questions From My First Sorcerer Game
Happiness. After far too long, I've managed to get a game of Sorcerer going - one-on-one with a friend who was (briefly) a D&D player in his youth, but who…
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Participants: nyhteg, Ron Edwards.

3/20/2006 Mister Six: [Schism] First game
My rpg group played Schism for the first time last weekend. We have an ongoing Ninth Gate meets Twin Peaks Sorcerer game, but a player couldn't make it, so we…
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Participants: Mister Six, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/20/2006 James_Nostack: [& Sword] Armies in Conflict
In a Conan story--"The Scarlet Citadel," I think--Conan is in charge of a huge army, fighting against this other huge army.  In the first Elric novel, Yyrkoon and the Angsty…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer.

3/21/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] A Question of Scale
Hi there, I'm running a Trollbabe game at the moment, and there's something I'm looking for input on. Currently, the Scale of the game is still Personal. Last session, due…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

3/21/2006 cmnash: Sorcerers in Black
Was thinking about a setting for a Sorcerer game - Sorcerers in Black Based on the Men in Black movies, the Sorcerers are police keeping humanity 'safe' from the Aliens…
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Participants: cmnash, Danny_K, Ron Edwards.

3/22/2006 Rustin: [Sorcerer] questions about stakes
I’m looking for any advice prior to running my first Sorcerer session. I’m interested in the use of stakes and conflict resolution as much as possible and shy away from…
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Participants: Rustin, Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

3/22/2006 James_Nostack: [Sorcerer] Weird Initial Reactions
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18991.0]In this thread[/url], Ron entioned that some people had weird, off-putting reactions to Sorcerer based on the game's aesthetics, or something.  I was wondering if Ron could elaborate on that,…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen, jburneko.

3/22/2006 Ron Edwards: [Fell] Awesome Sorcerer-esque comic
This is an unabashed fanboy post. "Fell," a comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Ben Templeton, is my hands-down favorite comic of my current buy-batch. It's published by…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, James_Nostack, Paka, Eric J-D, Miskatonic, Mister Six, Lisa Padol.

3/27/2006 Paka: 70's Marvel Horror via Satan & Night Watch over on RPG.net
[url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=253749"]Cursed by Satan![/url] [url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=253940"]Night Watch[/url] They both need some work and I'd appreciate any help folks would be willing to give.  Reckon it'd be best to do the work in…
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Participants: Paka.

3/28/2006 Eric J-D: [Sorcerer] Musings on Humanity
So I was rereading The Sorcerer's Soul the other night and thinking generally about the importance of defining Humanity in the game when it occurred to me that perhaps I…
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Participants: Eric J-D, cmnash, Plotin.

3/30/2006 matthijs: Interview with the Sorcerer
I wasn't quite sure where to post this, but it's a link to an interview I did with Ron a while ago for the Norwegian fanzine "Imagonem". Imagonem has been…
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Participants: matthijs, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Thunder_God, Calithena.

3/31/2006 Nev the Deranged: Dave's Sorcerer quickref project rides again.
Hokay, so, a friend of mine just picked up the whole Sorcerer suite, and I figured now might be a good time to update my quick reference guide before passing…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, pfischer, cmnash.

4/3/2006 James_Nostack: [Star*Babe] Trollbabe for Space Opera
in 1998, TSR/Wizards published the "Star*Drive Campaign Setting" for their short-lived science-fiction RPG Alternity.  It was, as someone once phrased it, "Forgotten Realms in Spaaaace!" and I hated it for…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Chris Gardiner, Jonathan Hastings, sirogit.

4/4/2006 Lisa Padol: [Cantarella] Possible Sorcerer source material
Hi. My name is Lisa, and I'm a manga addict. So, I picked up volume two of a manga called Cantarella. It's about Cesare Borgia, and how his father agreed…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, mneme.

4/6/2006 Paka: Blood Simple
http://rpgtalk.net/judd/files/ At the above address I posted a pdf (thanks to the adobe skillz of Josh) of a one-sheet, character and demon sheets and descriptor list for Blood Simple, a…
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Participants: Paka, Jason13, Ron Edwards, Chris Gardiner, pfischer, angelfromanotherpin, The_Tim, Eric J-D, Thunder_God, Miedvied.

4/10/2006 matthijs: Sex & Sorcery: Rereading it.
I'm re-reading S&S these days, and am surprised at how some of the things I found strangely irrelevant or academically stilted the first time, now read as practical and inspirational.…
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Participants: matthijs, jburneko, Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, Sydney Freedberg, Meguey.

4/10/2006 Will Whatley: Key Phrases: Ron
Hey Ron (et alii), We met at Gencon last year '05, but it's entirely possible you shan't remember one of the boys from Alabama who played schizophrenic Sorcerer with you…
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Participants: Will Whatley, Ron Edwards, jagardner.

4/12/2006 Eric J-D: [A History of Violence] Sorcerer-esque Goodness
In much the same spirit as Ron's thread on Warren Ellis's Fell, this one is a bit of gushing about Cronenberg's latest film A History of Violence.  I'll admit up…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Old_Scratch.

4/13/2006 Eric J-D: Compiling a Humanity Definition Database
Hi all, As a service to Sorcerer newcomers, I was thinking about trying to put together a list of all the definitions people have developed for Humanity in their Sorcerer…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Trevis Martin, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Dav.

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