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7/2/2002 jburneko: Die Mechanics & NPCs
Hello, Okay, so here I am preping for my upcoming game (WAY EXCITED) and I suddenly had a thought. How do all the bonuses and what not affect NPCs? There…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, Emily Care.

7/2/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Awesome Sorcerer quote
The title of this post is kind of misleading. I don't want to get into a "Jack Chick bad!" discussion either, but anyway - in the newest Jack Chick essay…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Morgan, Clay, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

6/30/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Hey Paul! Face to Face CharGen!
Hi everybody, We just had our face-to-face chargen for Jesse's game. I arrived with a whole new character, everything stripped down. I did it in the order listed in the…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Uncle Dark, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, jburneko, Mike Holmes.

6/30/2002 Ian O'Rourke: Maths behind Sorcerer
Anyone know the details of the statistics behind Sorcerer? Percentage changes of success given various dice pools (using D10 or D20)? Or the way it is worked out. It is…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

6/29/2002 Ian O'Rourke: Sorcerer: Glenwood Springs
Sorcerer, really like it, but like a lot of these fiercely narrativist games, I like the idea, but I've not thrown myself into the frying pan with actual play yet.…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

6/28/2002 Ace: Printing the Mini Supplement PDF's a question or two
I am thinking of buying some of the mini supplement PDF's in a short. I want them printed and bound. Now I priced this at Kinkos copies and was told…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/26/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Character Back Story
Hi everybody, I just hammered out a PC for a game Jesse's going to run. Before I'd even gotten to the Kicker I'd hammered out a Gothic Adventure, full of…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Uncle Dark, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, jburneko.

6/24/2002 Petter Sandelin: rules-thoughts
My sorcerer game is doing brilliant, five sessions played and a sixth probably finishing this storyarc soon. At this point I have two rules questions(sort of) and after we’re done…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

6/21/2002 Ace: What happened to Sorcerer and Space?
Just curious, wasn't this supposed to be a PDF download at one time. It sounded pretty facinating and I as wondering if it would become available
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Participants: Ace, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, hardcoremoose.

6/20/2002 Ron Edwards: Third print supplement - maybe
Hello, Some of you know that I'm considering a third print supplement for Sorcerer to be released in early 2003. I'm only planning to do this if the new material…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Le Joueur, Christopher Kubasik, Bankuei, Bailywolf, Clay, Ace, Uncle Dark, hive, Walt Freitag, efindel.

6/19/2002 Dav: Del Ray Diablo, New England (!!)
(Ron, I trust if you feel this is best served in Actual Play, you will move it and give me a swift backhand when next we meet) I just wanted…
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Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

6/14/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Premise in S&Sword
Hi Ron, Since Humanity is limited to concerns about buddy and family in S&Sword, does this limit the choices of Premise for the game as well? It it, essentially, "How…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

6/13/2002 Ron Edwards: New demonstration packet
Hello, I've finished beefing up my Demon Con notes and handouts into an alpha-version for a Good Sorcerer Demo Packet. I am hoping to provide enough guidance and usable material…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Buddha Nature.

6/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer: the Agency
(Note: I edited the title. As I've made certain to say before, games based on copyrighted works are a tricky area. Plus, I really like this idea, and might make…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Bailywolf, Clay, Seth L. Blumberg, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/13/2002 bluekabuto: Demon Cops and Silent Mobius?
Hey all - I was just cruising the Socerer site and I saw the Demon Cops mini-supplement. Ron mentions it's based off of Japanese anime and I am just curious…
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Participants: bluekabuto, Bailywolf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards.

6/11/2002 Ron Edwards: Pokemon: feature or bug? And more
Hi there, The thread at RPG.net following the recent review has raised several important issues of play. I thought it would be good to discuss them on their own merits…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Eric.Brennan, Bailywolf, rabidchyld, Valamir, Le Joueur, xiombarg.

6/11/2002 joshua neff: Sorcerer review at RPGnet
Eric Brennan has written a nice review of Sorcerer that's now up on RPGnet. Just so's ya know.
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Balbinus, Paul Czege.

6/6/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer Contact Lists
Hi Ron, A question: Since the business plan of Sorcerer is to get people to play... And the book contains the link to the Sorcerer web page.. Are there any…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

6/4/2002 Ron Edwards: Missing relationship maps available
Hello, I have posted the missing relationship maps from The Sorcerer's Soul and Demon Cops at the website, at the Errata page. Also, check out the News item for the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/30/2002 jburneko: Relationship Maps - Book Plundering Technique
Hello All, First of all, I was going to send this to Ron privately because of this reason: THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR JAMES ELLROY'S THE BLACK DAHLIA. Then…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

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7/3/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Help with demons in The Clicking Sands
My group and I got together last night to make characters for Sorcerer and Sword. We're jump-starting the game by using the Clicking Sands setting right out of the book,…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, Clay, Valamir.

7/6/2002 jburneko: Passers & Abilities
Hello Again, Okay, so I just noticed something while preping for Monday's game. Passer Demons can not have Boost but more interestingly they can not confer their abilities onto others.…
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Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

7/12/2002 Ron Edwards: In Utero
So I'm building a vile little scenario that I think might be interesting. Demon A is a fetus, a Parasite hosted in the body of its master - a pregnant…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, rafael, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Stuart DJ Purdie, jrs, Gordon C. Landis, J B Bell, Solomon, Walt Freitag.

7/12/2002 Ron Edwards: The Marquis, plus Angel Rant
I ran across this great comic at the local store: The Marquis: Danse Macabre by Guy Davis, published by Oni Comics It's currently in graphic novel format and it's so,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.

7/13/2002 Rod Anderson: Parasite Communication
Hi, I'm starting a Sorcerer & Sword campaign in which the PCs are Sorcerer-Kings in a Moorcock-esque world of purple skies, jagged black peaks and dangerous beasts in the mix-n-match-animal-parts…
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Participants: Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, Mike Holmes.

7/15/2002 Clay: Lilo & Stitch as Sorcerer
We took the kids to see Lilo and Stitch yesterday, and after laughing my posterior off for the entire length of the movie, it occurred to me that this was…
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Participants: Clay, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

7/17/2002 Ron Edwards: A Sorcerer novel
Hello, I just finished reading John D. MacDonald's novel, The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything (1962). The hero inherits a gold watch from his mysterious uncle. ****** Kirby, the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, Zak Arntson.

7/23/2002 jburneko: Rules Questions - Bonuses to Humanity Check/Gain
Alright so here's the big issue from last night. Do Humanity Check/Gain rolls get the usual role-playing/story/tactic bonuses and if so how? Here's the actual play session problem that occured.…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis.

7/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Nice Sorc & Sword thread on RPG.net
Hello, Most of you probably know this already, but people are saying very nice things about the supplement on this thread. Thanks to everyone who's contributed. I confess I'm keeping…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Ferry Bazelmans.

7/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Mini-supplement finance news
Hey there, Dav Harnish just sent me this email ... I just sold my 75th copy of HELLBOUND! Whoopie!! At $4.55 per copy to me (except the first 12, which…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, greyorm.

7/25/2002 Mytholder: Friends in high places
I'm sitting here watching a chat over at enworld with Peter Adkinson, and the question comes up "who would Peter like to game with?". After the usual answer (Tweet, Greg…
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Participants: Mytholder, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, PeterAdkison, Uncle Dark, Jürgen Mayer.

7/29/2002 Bailywolf: I've met a real demon
Recently some of the thematics in Sorcerer came into alignment with a situation in my life...not a new situation, but one I only just began to see in this light...…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

7/30/2002 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer play at GenCon
Hello, So here's what I'm prepping for the con. 1) The Lincoln High Reunion demo, now blessed with incredible portraits by Rod Anderson. I'd like to run this a couple…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Chade, Bailywolf, Andy Kitkowski.

7/31/2002 Russell Hoyle: Unknown Armies 2nd Ed has kickers?
Hi folks, I was just reading an Unknown Armies (2nd Ed) review on rpg.net (see link below) and was greatly interested to see that the reviewer describes something that sounds…
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Participants: Russell Hoyle, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, Henry Fitch.

7/31/2002 jburneko: Advice Needed -- Retooling Gothic Fantasy For a Con
Hello All, Imagine my surprise when I was perusing the event schedule of my local con and I see someone is running Sorcerer & Sword. Then I read the description…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, J B Bell.

8/1/2002 Matt Gwinn: Need Sorcerer Logo
I'm doing the layout for Charnel Gods, but I don't have the font used for the sorcerer logo. Can someone hook me up with a hi-res B&W image of the…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Clay, Chris Passeno.

8/2/2002 Bailywolf: Wuxia- I need some help (and might get to play!)
It looks like I might get to play (well, run) a Sorcerer game fairly soon. The players voted for a wuxia style S&S fantasy... all scheming eunuchs, waring clans, secret…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Zak Arntson, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

8/2/2002 jburneko: Something I just noticed....
Hello, In the Reunion Demo and all the scenarios (I think) in Sorcerer's Soul the "villain" at the heart of each Scenario is always a demon. Usually a demon who's…
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Participants: jburneko, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards.

8/3/2002 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe debut at GenCon
Hello, Well, Trollbabe's ready for GenCon. I have a bunch of sales copies and the original printout for backup. The website's not ready yet, though - it has some features…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/5/2002 Bailywolf: Defining Humanity Through Play
Perhpas this is in 'Soul, but I don't have a copy (perhaps I should...). Defining Humanity always seems like one of the cornerstones set during the conception process of a…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark.

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