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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.

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.

4/19/2007 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.

4/13/2007 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.

4/11/2007 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.

4/10/2007 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.

4/9/2007 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.

4/6/2007 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.

4/4/2007 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.

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.

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.

3/17/2007 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.

3/17/2007 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 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.

3/16/2007 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.

3/16/2007 rycanada: Great map I found for Trollbabe
Called Ravennia, by a guy that goes by Cergorach at EN World. http://www.thehelix.nl/RavenniaBlank72dpiMed.jpg
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Participants: rycanada, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

5/17/2007 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Possessor in a corpse - how to
Hi there, I am prepping for our next Sorcerer game, based on my Unforgiven-inspired one-sheet Las Cruces http://darkplaces.squarespace.com/downloads/lascrucesonesheet.pdf. We have characters and starting demons, minus finalised Kickers, and it's all…
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Participants: pfischer, Alan, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2007 Ron Edwards: For your amusement & insight
Here is a song by Eric Idle which I think is a fine thing. It concerns many things. No discussion necessary, just a bit of love from me to you.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/29/2007 deadmanshand: Introing new players to sorcerer
Hello all. I'm new to the forums but not new to the game as I've had Sorcerer since '98. I am about to start a game with a few inexperienced…
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Participants: deadmanshand, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

5/30/2007 nuanarpoq: New players, new game, new characters
About a month ago a colleague came to visit from Ottawa, and in her bag she had brought me the fours Sorceror books which I opened with an impish glee…
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Participants: nuanarpoq, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2007 GreatWolf: So, about that Wraith game....
In a different thread, Ron said this: All that said, I am still quite motivated to play a game of Wraith one of these days.…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, HighmoonMedia, c, Eliarhiman6, Valamir, Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, Thenomain, Calithena, Jasper the Mimbo.

6/12/2007 James_Nostack: [Dictionary of Mu] A Martian Armory
[i]Sorcerer & Sword[/i], on page 71, suggests that in certain contexts, particular weapons should receive tactical advantages.  While as a GM I'm quite happy doing this [i]ad hoc[/i], I felt…
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Participants: James_Nostack.

6/16/2007 The Dragon Master: So what's sorcerer about anyway?
After reading a brief wikipedia article on GNS Theory at the turn of the year, I began to explore some some of the games referenced in there. Most of them…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

6/20/2007 James_Nostack: Why no "revised" Sorcerer?
Ron, in a recent RPG.Net thread, you said that if people wondered why there would never be a "revised" Sorcerer they should take it to the Adept Press forum.  So:…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Wolfen, Alan, David Artman, xenopulse, Nev the Deranged, angelfromanotherpin, Brand_Robins, The Dragon Master, Matt, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski.

6/23/2007 LordEntropy: [&Sword] Trading Victories Question (split)
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=15988.msg170593#msg170593 date=1121697501] Hi James, Sorry 'bout the delay; the home wireless is acting funny. Let's see if I can stay on-line long enough for this to work.…
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Participants: LordEntropy, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6.

6/27/2007 thespiderprince: Donald Tyson's "Necronomicon: the Wanderings of Alhazred" is right on point
I don't like to use the catch phrase "must read" but I would definitely put this on the recommended reading list. This is an excellent pastiche/ tribute of H.P. Lovecraft's…
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Participants: thespiderprince, Ron Edwards.

6/30/2007 TickTock Man: "Stacking" Demon Abilities and scope
Greetings, A question came up in our game of Sorcerer last night.  The question was really one of the scope of the abilities of a demon and whether a demon…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Ron Edwards.

7/3/2007 preludetotheend: Patrons
So I was thinking the other day about the idea of why demons are compelled to steal away souls through shady contracts? I decided upon the demon actually stealing away…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Ron Edwards.

7/8/2007 dikaiosunh: [Schism] First time running it (or Sorcerer)
This weekend, I'll be running my first Sorcerer game, a one shot at an informal local con.  I have some specific questions, and I've read a bunch of Sorcerer threads…
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Participants: dikaiosunh, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

7/8/2007 Krul: Idea - City Suspended between Void and Chaos
Hello everyone, thought I'd toss this out. I was thinking about a game with a city suspended in void and chaos between three world/dimensions(Our world/universe, another one with biotech base,…
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Participants: Krul, Ron Edwards.

7/15/2007 Abhoth: Hey everyone New guy here
hi all im so new to Sorcerer that I dont even have any of the books yet, for some reason the indie press website is down, anyone got an any…
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Participants: Abhoth, Ron Edwards, zomben, angelfromanotherpin, James_Nostack.

7/14/2007 Plotin: Good discussion about NaN (split)
This is nog a strict reply to the opening of this post, and I also hope that you (Ron!) don't think I am neither hairsplitting nor nitpicking, bit this aspect…
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Participants: Plotin, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.

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