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6/26/2001 Ian Freeman: Knowledge is everything
A very rough idea for doing something with sorcerer, looking for criticism. Okay... demons are demons and what not, but they have one other little ability: they are eternal. How…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

6/26/2001 Ian Freeman: Bid?
Am i being ignorant... I have noticed in the main sorcerer rules references to the term Bid. What the heck i bid, i have not managed to find any talk…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Clay.

6/26/2001 Zak Arntson: Sorcerer & Sword
Okay, I got my über-copy of Sorcerer. And I can say that Sorcerer & Sword rocks the entire combined worlds that make up my rump. So much so that I…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Supplanter, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, greyorm, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Clay.

6/25/2001 jburneko: On Defining And Exploring Humanity
I'm about to compare writing a novel to designing a Role-Playing Scenario and while I've heard the claim that RPGs are not novels I'd like you to bare with me…
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Participants: jburneko, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

6/21/2001 Paul Czege: I'm terrified of my sorcerer
So, as Scott has presumably described in the "Some More Cronenberg Inspired Madness" thread, we had our character session last night. And I'm terrified of my sorcerer. His name is…
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Participants: Paul Czege, james_west, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

6/18/2001 jburneko: Kickers, Storylines and Character Improvement
I realize that character improvement isn't as central to Sorcerer as it is to other games but I was wondering if I could have clearification on what little there is.…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

6/16/2001 james_west: Relationship maps
I have to preface this by saying that reading Sorceror's Soul made me feel like Saul on the road to Damascus. It solved a fundamental problem I didn't even know…
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Participants: james_west, joshua neff, Paul Czege, greyorm, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Dav, Uncle Dark.

6/12/2001 hardcoremoose: Some More Cronenberg Inspired Madness
Here I sit with my newly purchased copy of Sorceror and Sorceror's Soul. I've only read the first half of the first tome, but I am already awash with ideas.…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Clay, Ian Freeman, erithromycin.

6/6/2001 Ron Edwards: I want to see character examples
Hey there, So, some few of you out there have actually played my utterly reprehensible game. I'd like to see some of the characters!! Post'em here. Tell me about them.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, james_west, Jack Spencer Jr, Dav, jburneko, greyorm.

6/5/2001 Ron Edwards: All about mini-supplements
Hello, This stuff was originally announced at GO, so it ought to be here too. A mini-supplement is any combination of the following for Sorcerer: a setting, scenarios, rules tweaks,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, greyorm, james_west, hardcoremoose.

6/4/2001 jburneko: A Sorcerer Idea
I read the main Sorcerer book last night. I also read certain key sections of The Sorcerer's Soul. I then proceeded to send a rather rambly email to Ron on…
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Participants: jburneko, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Dav, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Clay, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

6/1/2001 greyorm: Sorcerer & Sword meat grinder
Heya, Don't have much time, but in a recent discussion of D&D on the Forge, I mentioned that my players had boatloads of fun playing expendable bit parts for a…
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Participants: greyorm.

5/30/2001 Zak Arntson: Players playing Demons
(Dragging an idea over from the ever-fraying Zombie Squirrel thread) I don't have the Sorcerer book (hopefully this weekend), but does it discuss each player playing their character and another…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, greyorm, Dav, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

5/24/2001 joshua neff: batting 1000
over on gaming outpost, the "sorcerer" forum hit it's 1000th post...the only other rpg title fora that have that many posts are the two "deadlands" fora & the "ars magica"…
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Participants: joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/23/2001 james_west: zombie squirrel
There's a place in the Soul of the Sorceror supplement in which it says that perhaps demons are evil the way squirrels are cute. I, apparently, have a zombie squirrel…
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Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Dav, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Clay.

5/21/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: All Elfs must be Eaten
This is from a post by Hardcoremoose in the RPG.net "art of game design" forum. It's really funny and Moosey has yet to re-post it, so... Take 'All Flesh Must…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, james_west, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Dav, unodiablo.

5/20/2001 archangel_2: Elfs Game Session
I FINALLY got a group to play Elfs!! Woo hoo!! Even better, they REALLY enjoyed it! We made up the characters, and then I took them through the Fire and…
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Participants: archangel_2, Clay, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: I really like Sorcerer but...
...I never know what to actually do with it? I know this is a bit of a 'basic' question for these boards, and it's a bit of an embarrassing one…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, JSDiamond, james_west, greyorm, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, Clay, Paul Czege.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: The New Refuge
I return to The Forge after thinking it had died, and suddenly I find this whole forum thing going on. Very good. I like it. It's an alternative to GO…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards.

5/6/2001 JSDiamond: The Ultimate Binding
I was just thinking about this last night. The idea came to me from an idea I have for a drawing inspired by Sorcerer. Binding a demon is dangerous, -this…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, Clay.

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6/30/2001 Ian Freeman: Has anybody done this
I am just curious about whether anyone has tried this. Sorcerer: Discworld. Think about it. You got the dungeon dimensions, and Humanity can be quickly converted to "occult bufferin" representing…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark.

7/1/2001 Supplanter: I Fight the Indie Fight!
Into Game Parlor in Chantilly VA I go today on my lunch break. (Sucks to be the boss and work Saturdays, but your pity is sufficient balm.) Now this is…
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Participants: Supplanter, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Dav.

7/3/2001 jburneko: Players Relation To Relationship Map
So, I'm embarking on a bit of an experiment and I'm planning on running a one-shot using a relationship map as the basis for planning. Since this is a one-shot,…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, james_west.

7/9/2001 Ron Edwards: Help with maps
Hello, I'm in the process of re-writing Sorcerer & Sword extensively. I'd really like to have a map for each of the three example settings (yes, three, not two). I'd…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis.

7/14/2001 Uncle Dark: PBEM
I was thinking of running Sorcerer as a PBEM game. I'm happy to discuss premise and such, but right now what I'm most interested in is how to do it.…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, joshua neff, greyorm.

7/18/2001 Ron Edwards: The damn book
Well, the book is not going to be available until GenCon. You have no idea how agonizing this is. When it's over, I'll write a little "Why books don't come…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/24/2001 Ron Edwards: War story (probably)
Yesterday I received a friendly message from someone, asking me for any "advice" on an attached file called ACPexe1_7.exe. I wrote back asking for some context - who he was,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, Supplanter, Clay, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, joshua neff, Mytholder, greyorm, Jack Spencer Jr, Ian O'Rourke, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, FilthySuperman.

7/29/2001 Paul Czege: FitM and bonus dice for roleplaying
Hey Ron, One of the things I think we've handled awkwardly in Scott's Sorcerer game is fortune-in-the-middle in conjunction with bonus dice for roleplaying. As a player, you want to…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

7/29/2001 Ron Edwards: News 2
Hello, I hold in my hands the first book copy of Sorcerer to be touched by a human after the printers'. There's a box of them here, to be taken…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, Jason L Blair, Dav, Misguided Games, Ian O'Rourke, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

7/31/2001 Dav: Some whining and begging...
This may be humiliating for those of you reading this. If so, picture me writing it. I WANT TO READ THE OTHER MINI-SUPPLEMENTS!!!! I've got Jared's, which, if there are…
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Participants: Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm.

8/2/2001 DaR: Thoughts on Elfs
So I finally bit the bullet and bought Elfs the other day, and I thought I'd share some thoughts and observations. Presentation and Content The book…
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Participants: DaR, Ron Edwards.

8/6/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer at GenCon
Hello, Back from GenCon ... and into the first actual vacation time I've had in a year. I want to thank (in no particular order): Mike Holmes, Sean Wipfli, Terry…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Uncle Dark, Mario, Jared A. Sorensen, Ferry Bazelmans, JohnB, Clay.

8/8/2001 Bailywolf: New to Sorcerer..
Howdy all. Glad to see some familiar names from rpg.net. Longstoryshort- I found the sorcerer Aprentice version on my local drive on sunday... and afterlooking at it wondered why the…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, Valamir.

8/9/2001 Bailywolf: some conceptual stuff
Hey all. I may be a bit premature here, seeing as how I don't even have the book yet, but let me run some conceptual stuff by you for a…
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Participants: Bailywolf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan.

8/9/2001 greyorm: Electric Ghosts Available
Yeah! Electric Ghosts is available NOW! Right there with the other mini-supplements on the Sorcerer website! Go get it! Whoo!
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/10/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: This woke me up and kept me from going back to sleep
"The Sorcerer's Song" aka "Scream for me, Los Angeles!" Sorcerers are musicians. Demons are either passers (groupies, roadies, boy/girlfriends) or objects (instruments or affectations). Humanity is popularity. Humanity 0 =…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, gentrification, Mike Holmes.

8/11/2001 greyorm: FitM and Bonus Dice
It occurs to me last night, while I'm heading off to sleepy land, that FitM and the Bonus Dice mechanic in Sorcerer don't necessarily work together. Bonus Dice are awarded…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

8/12/2001 lumpley: Elfs is a funny silly cool game
And that's pretty much all I have to say until I get to play it. Oh, except: is player-director stance the same thing as gm-director stance? Does gm-director stance have…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

8/15/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Urge is up and for sale
Just a note to let everyone know that both Urge, my new mini-supplement, and Electric Ghosts, Raven's supplement, are both on the Sorcerer website now. _________________ Clinton R. Nixon…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bailywolf, joshua neff, furashgf, Ron Edwards.

8/18/2001 Paul Czege: see Ron Edwards and Mike Holmes sell Sorcerer at GenCon (kin
Mike's the one with the beard: http://www.wizards.com/gencon/virtual/exhibitor.asp?x=virtual/display&E=103 My guess on the timing of this shot is sometime about the middle of the day Thursday. The display of the Sorcerer cover…
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Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

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