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3/15/2007 Eric J-D: [Sorcerer] How do you deal with Mystery Kickers?
Hi folks. Lately I've found myself thinking about Kickers again, specifically the issue of Mystery Kickers.  You know the type: "A friend on the police force tells you that the…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards.

3/6/2007 matthijs: Sort of related to Sex & Sorcery
For anyone interested in how relationships/sexuality can affect role-playing/role-players, and how to plan games around such issues, there's a pretty good article called "Impact of Relationships on Games" in the…
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Participants: matthijs.

3/1/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Sorcerer] no-pain prep: tell me how!
Hello! Sorry for my English, it's not my native language (I'm Italian) I already asked some question in this forum about a "Dictionary of Mu" sorcerer game that I'm going…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Eric J-D, Paka, James_Nostack.

2/26/2007 Rampage: Thoughts on containing for summon rituals
I was thinking on the implications of sorcerers with 1 lore, and I started wondering on the actual utility of contains while performing a summon/bind ritual. Wouldn't all demons want…
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Participants: Rampage, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6.

2/25/2007 Rampage: Cover value vs description mass confusion
Is there any relation between the selected cover and its numerical value? That is, is it possible to have cover 3 and be in a position of high power, like…
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Participants: Rampage, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2007 Astaryll: I've just discovered Trollbabe
Hi everyone, I was recently browsing the net looking for something new to try out with my roleplaying group for when my V:TM campaign finishes in a couple of sessions…
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Participants: Astaryll, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Sorcerer] rule question: changing bond strenght
Hello! I am going to be the GM in a sorcerer game. I already played the game two times (two one-shots), but with very drifted rules, so this time I…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2007 Troy_Costisick: Sorcerer Settings
Heya, I guess I'm kind of out of the loop on some things.  I always thought that Dictionary of Mu was the first setting for Sorcerer released by someone other…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Dictionary of Mu] Red Wastes - Mystic otherworld?
Hello! Playing Dictionary of Mu yesterday, we had some difficulties with the concept of the Red Wastes as a "Mystic Otherworld" from page 32 of Sorcerer & Sword. I get…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Paka.

2/18/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Sorcerer] Reference Sheets
Hello! Recently my gaming group tried to play some Sorcerer & Sword based on the "Dictionary of Mu", but we had a lot of problem with the searching time for…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, hix, Doyce, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

2/5/2007 Roman: Disturbing Thought for the Day
Young demon summoners sending their monstrous proxies into battle against one another, competing for the ultimate prize. ... also known as Pokemon. Heh ... the thought of using Sorcerer to…
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Participants: Roman, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2007 WDFlores: [Sorcerer] Play-by-Mail Party Dice Tweak
Once more into the fray. After many delays (i.e. the holidays), my Sorcerer PBEM is finally falling into place and I've been mulling over this possibility: In scenes…
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Participants: WDFlores, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2007 WDFlores: [Sorcerer] Character Improvement Question
Hello, I've got a question. That bit on character improvement (pg. 42, Sorcerer) says: "The player may check the scores for improvement in any order, but if a point is…
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Participants: WDFlores, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

1/21/2007 Eric J.: Startup questions
I have a question too. As part of the intial binding of the PC's first demon, do they have to make a flat Stamina/Will versus Will roll?  It would seem…
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Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards.

1/8/2007 thespiderprince: A moral dilemma that pertains to Sorcerer: Explore your PC's depravities vs.
A moral dilemma that pertains to Sorcerer: Explore your PC's depravities vs. finding and/or standing up for your PC's humanity. Many gamers, regardless of genre or game, seem to think…
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Participants: thespiderprince, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2007 James_Nostack: serious humanity, but shallow demons?
I'm in the process of getting a game together, hopefully to play in the next couple of weeks; it's got me thinking about the kind of game I'd want to…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, crowyhead.

1/3/2007 Rampage: Honor+Empathy humanity?
Thinking about the Dupes scenario, I was thinking in having humanity as defined the combination of honor and empathy. I'm unsure, tho, as to whether this combination results in a…
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Participants: Rampage, Ron Edwards.

1/3/2007 Elysium: Steampunk setting?
A friend of mine was looking to get into a steampunk game, and I got to thinking about using Sorcerer to do it. Gadgets, vehicles and steam and gear robots…
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Participants: Elysium, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Valamir, angelfromanotherpin, greyorm.

1/2/2007 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer] Lore 1 non-Naive Descriptors
I remember someone quoting Ron as saying that if he had to release the Sorcerer books again, he'd hold back the Naive descriptor for the &Sword book.  If that was…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Rampage, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2006 thespiderprince: Inspirations for Sorcerer RPG
Sorcerer RPG Inspirations The themes: What possesses you? What is your obsession? What would you do to get what you want? Would you summon a demon to bring back the…
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Participants: thespiderprince, Rampage, skatay.

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3/16/2007 Rampage: Ranged and Cover questions
I have two questions regarding demonic abilities I'd like to ask: Imagine I have a demon with two different special damage attacks, Spit Acid and Ray of Frost, both of…
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Participants: Rampage, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Just watched Silent Hill, the movie
Holy crap on a pogo stick, can we say Sorcerer reference material boys and girls? I knew you could. I am a huge fan of the first SH game, that…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, xenopulse, jburneko.

3/17/2007 rycanada: Best of Trollbabe threads
I'm looking at Trollbabe really closely these days, and I really enjoy reading about peoples' experiences trying various twists on the rules and what techniques they use in play.  Could…
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Participants: rycanada, John Harper, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2007 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe (with or without sex), how to do it ?
Hello! Reading this thread has made me remember the problem I had when I tried to push playing Trollbabe to my playing group. I wanted to talk about this, but…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, droog, Claudia Cangini, sirogit, James_Nostack.

3/28/2007 greyorm: Review of Sorcerer
I was bopping around the web tonight and by means random and illogical happened to come across <a href="http://www.websnark.com/archives/2007/03/for_all_the_fif.html">a review of Sorcerer</a> on Websnark.
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, demiurgent.

3/30/2007 Ragnarok: Sorcerer: First steps
Here's a collection of thoughts and events related to character creation and introduction to the game in, hopefully, the order in which they happened. It was a bit confusing. So…
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Participants: Ragnarok, Karl, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2007 redalastor: [Elfs] Gothic Elfs
I'm about to GM my first game of Elfs. I thought about what kind of scenario I'd want to play and the thought "something gothic" went through my mind. Something…
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Participants: redalastor, jburneko.

4/6/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Dictionary of Mu] Theme music.
Hello! For my future game of Sorcerer set in the "Dictionary of Mu" setting, I am thinking about returning to an old habit we had in a previous game group:…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, Jennifer Rodgers, Paka, epweissengruber, Dumirik.

4/9/2007 TTK: [Sorcerer] First try and questions
Hi all! So my Sorcerer game finally arrived last week and me and my group set together for the first session... After reading through most of the topics listed under…
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Participants: TTK, Alan.

4/10/2007 Simon C: [Sorcerer] Roleplaying bonus dice.
I'm planning on running a game of Sorcerer in the near future.  I got the rulebook recently, and I'm really impressed.  I have one problem with it though.  The system,…
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Participants: Simon C, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, angelfromanotherpin.

4/11/2007 epweissengruber: [Sorcerer One Sheet]
These are the first steps towards a one-sheet for IndieRPG Toronto.  Comments welcome Life Under the Double Sun - j"stone age" post-apocalypse, coming out of ice age and hurtling towards…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2007 BlackSheep: School me on relationship maps
Following up from a post in the Chimera forum: Actually, what you're describing isn't a relationship map, not as I introduced the term in my book…
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Participants: BlackSheep, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

4/19/2007 Offray: Sorcerer first gamming and questions
Hi all, First, excuse me for my English. I'm not a native speaker. This will be my first post on actual play, I have been reading the post here for…
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Participants: Offray, James_Nostack, angelfromanotherpin.

4/24/2007 James_Nostack: [& Sword] Build an Anthology!
I'm constructing a Sword & Sorcery anthology for my girlfriend C.  After months of rolling her eyes when I would suggest it, she started reading Tomoe Gozen a little while…
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Participants: James_Nostack, angelfromanotherpin, Alan, Christopher Kubasik.

4/29/2007 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer] Help me brainstorm a Humanity.
I'm looking to start a new Sorcerer game, and I'm looking to really sink my teeth into Humanity.  I want a Humanity which will get checks and gain rolls all…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir.

5/1/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Sorcerer] - short & long con Demos
Hi Gang, I'm running an indie demo-table at my local con (CanGames) later this month. I've got a slew and a half of games lined up, and most of my…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, angelfromanotherpin, hix.

5/2/2007 Paka: Sorcerer: Warlocks, Witches, Priests, Nuns, Demons, Angels, Satan and God
"Our job as Devils is not to damn our appointee's soul to hell as quickly as possible.  Ideally, we want a cycle of damnation and coldness and then a sliver…
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Participants: Paka, James_Nostack, Arturo G., Valamir.

5/5/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Sorcerer] - Help - Slaves to the Rhythm
Hi, I'm working on developing a sorcerer game.  In fact, its genesis is detailed here.  I'm pretty stoked about the basic idea, but I'm at loggerheads about the definition of…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, James_Nostack, Arturo G..

5/9/2007 jackson_tegu: question about bass playing
hey Ron, this is kind of a weenie question. so, from M. J. Young's article here http://ptgptb.org/0027/theory101-02.html i've got an idea about a referee "playing bass"; setting a groundwork for…
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Participants: jackson_tegu, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, Calithena, M. J. Young.

5/14/2007 c: [Forge Midwest]Interview with Ron Edwards
Hi Folks, I did an interview with Ron Edwards, at Forge Midwest. It just went up late last night. We talked about a debacle that took place in these very…
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Participants: c, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Troy_Costisick, Valamir, Paul Czege, Yokiboy, Gaerik, Nev the Deranged, James_Nostack, HighmoonMedia, brainwipe, Mick Bradley, Wolfen.

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