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In Adept Press 5/11/2006 Eric J-D: [Sorcerer} Has anyone tried this with Demons?
Hi all,
In addition to welcoming any comments on the "Playing Sorcerer with my Daughter" thread, I would really appreciate some feedback on the following idea.
Has anyone ever tried…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, mneme.
5/11/2006 Eric J-D: Playing Sorcerer with my Daughter (long)
Over in this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19793.msg207341#msg207341 I mentioned that I am starting a Sorcerer game with my 11 year old daughter. It'll be just the two of us (I think), although…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Czar Fnord, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg.
5/11/2006 The_Tim: [Sorcerer] Humans as Demons and The Matador
So, this thread got me thinking again about something burning the back of my mind. That was how to reconcile demons that are humans with the idea that in Sorcerer…
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Participants: The_Tim, Ron Edwards.
5/10/2006 dsellars: whooohoo! it arrived!
My copy of Sorcerer arrived in the post today :) Looks like all other books are going to be put on hold for a bit :)
My first impression was,…
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Participants: dsellars, Gaerik, joshua neff, Eric J-D, Christopher Kubasik.
5/10/2006 Lisa Padol: Humans with Desires and Needs
Judd recently asked me what we talk about after a Sorcerer session. Last night, we were really jazzed after the session, so there was a lot of talk about the…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.
5/3/2006 Miedvied: Re: [Sorceror] First Time Prep: Big Sky -- The New Primitives (split)
[quote author=ivan23 link=topic=13770.msg146568#msg146568 date=1103739641]
[b]Will descriptors:[/b]
[i]Daddy's Farm [/i]– this land's always been yours, and it's always gonna be.
[i]US outta UN [/i]– resist authority, fight the man.
[i]Lotus Eater…
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Participants: Miedvied, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, Bret Gillan.
5/3/2006 Miedvied: Sorceror Updates/Revisions
Are there any plans in the works regarding updating and revising Sorceror?
I've noticed that in a lot of discussions here there occurs the comment - not infrequently - that…
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Participants: Miedvied, Ron Edwards, greyorm, jburneko.
5/2/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer and Training Wheels?
In this ( http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19689.0 thread, Chris wrote:
For folks who've really only known D&D, do you -really- want to start them off with Sorcerer? Does anything like Donjon or octaNe…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Bankuei, Eric J-D.
5/1/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer, FitM, and Cinematic Narration
Hi all,
This post is divided into two parts: a preamble and then the actual meat for thread discussion.
So... The twenty-something's in my graphics department discovered I used to…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Eric J-D, Bankuei.
4/28/2006 Anthony Herring: [Trollbabe] How do you like your Stake?
Hello,
I'm planning to run Trollbabe soon, and am looking for a little elbow-elbow, nudge-nudge in the ole gray matter. So, please share some of the Stakes and Consequences that…
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Participants: Anthony Herring.
4/26/2006 scorpio rising: [Sorcerer] Rules questions: Total Victory
Hello! I haven't posted on the Forge much previously, but I've recently reaquired my Sorcerer books and I'm hoping to run an &Sword game in the near-ish future. In re-reading…
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Participants: scorpio rising, Plotin, Ron Edwards, The_Tim, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, jburneko.
4/25/2006 Bret Gillan: [Charnel Gods] The Irthan Epoch
I've moved to a new city, into a new apartment, paid for with money from my new job. College is over, and I feel like I'm stepping into life as…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Valamir, Paka, Eric J-D.
4/24/2006 Old_Scratch: Some Sorcerer Setting pdfs
[url=http://When Reason Sleeps...]When Reason Sleeps...[/url]
The first one was partially developed in this thread:
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12191.0
The second one:
http://home.earthlink.net/~glepper/SinEaters.pdf
...was first developed here:
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13816.0
My group has gotten together to…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, matthijs, xeperi, Eric J-D.
4/21/2006 Eric J-D: Three's A Crowd Redux
Over in this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18447.0 Wolfen asked some good questions about how to handle a host who was inhabited by both a parasite and a possessor demon.
This got me…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Paka, Alan, Ron Edwards.
4/18/2006 Paka: Ben and Tony, Stay Away: Blood Simple Play by Post kickers and bangs
I exchanged some e-mails with Tony and talked about play by post role-playing and he really did try to talk me out of it but still, we are and the…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.
4/17/2006 matthijs: A few rules questions
I ran a Sorcerer one-shot yesterday and have a few rules questions:
1. If a character's Confused (by a demon, or by too much boost), do they defend in combat?…
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Participants: matthijs, Ron Edwards.
4/15/2006 Paka: Binding Rolls
Do the players know the outcome of the initial binding rolls?
How exactly can binding rolls be re-rolled during play? I've never done that and wonder how it works.
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand.
4/15/2006 epweissengruber: [Elfs] My Apartment Con & Elfs
I have run Slave Pits of the Undercity ret-conned for Donjon. This weekend, for the IndieRPG Toronto group, I ran it for Elfs. I was pleased with the level of…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards, jaw6.
4/13/2006 Christopher Kubasik: A Completely Inappropriate Post
Hello Ron -- and everyone who frequents these boards,
I missed the Birthday Party -- which is terrible enough in itself -- but I actually had something to say, which…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Michael S. Miller, Paka.
4/13/2006 John Stephens: Bone onesheet
I posted here months ago looking for ideas about a game my daughter and I were playing using Lego minifigures. That game never developed a fixed form, but we have…
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Participants: John Stephens, Bret Gillan, Yokiboy, Paka.
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In Adept Press 5/17/2006 jrs: Trollbabe music
I've been tinkering with my personal "Wanna be a Trollbabe" playlist. It remains subject to my whim, but in the off chance it may be of interest, here's the contents…
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Participants: jrs, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Dav, John Harper, Miskatonic.
5/23/2006 Sinistraphobia: Ron Edwards, guest of The Gamestas
I just wanted fans of Adept Press games, Sorcerer and It's a Mutual Decision, to know that Ron talks with us about his work in our latest installment of The…
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Participants: Sinistraphobia, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.
5/24/2006 Nev the Deranged: So my copy of It Was a Mutual Decision arrived, wee!
I'm psyched to try and sneak this into my regular board gaming group and see if I can make it sing. In the interest of that, I'm pondering taking a…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, jburneko, Ron Edwards.
5/24/2006 Gaerik: Descriptors: What's the big deal?
I've been reading advice on creating one sheets and prepping for Sorcerer play and creating new Descriptors customized for the setting gets a fair amount of press. Why is this? …
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Participants: Gaerik, Alan, Valamir, jburneko, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, The_Tim, Sydney Freedberg, Paka, Old_Scratch.
5/28/2006 Ron Edwards: Coolest, funnest Eurovision song winner EVER
Finland won! I know, it took me a bit to get around to posting it here. I was busy.
But if you haven't seen the video yet, you just gotta:…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, demiurgeastaroth, Miskatonic, Everspinner, Nev the Deranged, Arturo G., ocasta.
6/2/2006 Paka: Quote from R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before
I'm only 74 pages into this novel and I'm not sure if I dig it yet.
But this quote needed to be posted on this board, so here it is:…
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Participants: Paka, Nev the Deranged, Calithena.
6/5/2006 Nev the Deranged: It Was a Mutual Decision... heterocentric?
I was thinking about which of my friends might be interested in playing, and I realized not all of them consider a male/female dating relationship standard. So I'm just wondering…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, John Harper.
6/15/2006 Nev the Deranged: [It Was a Mutual Decision] mechanics question
Quick question which I didn't feel like starting a new thread for:
When ticking off scores, are the transformation threshholds the ORIGINAL scores or the Trust-modified scores? I am assuming…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.
6/26/2006 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer movie - who knew?
[i]A Prairie Home Companion[/i] does very nicely as an example text for Chapter 3 in The Sorcerer's Soul.
If she had been a [i]demon[/i], then Guy's plan would have worked…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Miskatonic, jrs.
6/28/2006 hix: Are Trollbabe's revised rules online anywhere?
Hey Ron,
I've seen various threads over the last year where you explain the change to how magic, fighting and social are calculated. Are there any other rule changes a…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards.
7/3/2006 Randulf: Debuffs in Sorcerer?
I'm playing with converting some elements of the Hârn setting (currently working on religion) to Sorcerer, and I can't find a lot of "debuffs" (to borrow MMORPG terminology) among the…
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Participants: Randulf, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen.
7/12/2006 Solamasa: Commanding demons and the like
I have questions pursuant to an upcoming Sorcerer game; these then aren't questions from actual play, but I can reasonably expect to have to address them, and I'm not sure…
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Participants: Solamasa, Ron Edwards.
7/12/2006 Randulf: Dice mechanics question
I'm sure this has been answered before, but I couldn't find it so please bear with me.
In the event of a tie, do you discard all instances of the…
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Participants: Randulf, Gaerik, Valamir, Ron Edwards.
7/13/2006 Randulf: Some questions
Q1: Suppose I want an object demon that can spy on the folks in it's immediate vicinity and somehow convery the information to the master, who isn't there. I know…
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Participants: Randulf, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol.
7/14/2006 Randulf: Secret sorcerers
One of my players wants to be a demon hunter who hates sorcerers. As envisioned, he will be a Naive sorcerer with a potent demon who he believes (incorrectly?) is…
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Participants: Randulf, JamesDJIII, Valamir.
7/14/2006 Randulf: Demon Files
This is not for my game, but Ron's comments about an object demon in the form of a computer made me wonder about demons manifesting as data (a particularly nasty…
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Participants: Randulf, jrs, greyorm.
7/14/2006 Randulf: Dave's quickref (split)
[quote author=Nev the Deranged link=topic=16067.msg171792#msg171792 date=1122340835]
Demons are not required (unless commanded) to tell the truth, or to reveal anything at all about their actions on their own time. A…
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Participants: Randulf, Ron Edwards.
7/15/2006 wunderllama: Sorceror character sheets
My husband, a friend, and I are gearing up to play a campaign of Sorceror with a Middle-Eastern flavor. So at my husband's request, I used my meager skills with…
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Participants: wunderllama, Ron Edwards.
7/17/2006 Randulf: Object demon communicating via Telltale?
I know Object demons are logically constrained from communicating, but I wonder how absolute that prohibition might be.
My player has a sword, and one of the things being considered…
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Participants: Randulf, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, jburneko.
7/19/2006 ZenDog: [& Sword] Game Prep - Long
Hi I'm prepping (along with three players) for my first game of Sorcerer, which will be an & Sword game and PbP. The games taking part over at RPGnet, all…
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Participants: ZenDog, James_Nostack, Lisa Padol.
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