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8/24/2009 Ron Edwards: S/Lay w/Me notes and errata
Hi guys, Final layout didn't allow much time - or any, actually - so here's what crept into the first printing. I'll fix'em all for the next printing and going…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, greyorm, Lance D. Allen, noahtrammell, Ben Lehman.

8/22/2009 hix: Boot Camp at GenCon
How did the boot camp go, Christopher? What did you learn?
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Participants: hix.

8/21/2009 Mackie: Need - how tough?
DIscussing Sorcerer a few days ago over some pints, a topic came up that I had wondered about. How "tough" should a demons needs be? On the one hand, you…
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Participants: Mackie, 5niper9, Ron Edwards.

8/19/2009 Ben Lehman: Putting Together a One-Sheet
So I'm going to be running a Sorcerer game inspired by the Anime / Novel series <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_and_Wolf">Spice and Wolf.</a> If you haven't seen it, and you're a Sorcerer fan,…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

7/16/2009 rafial: Re: Buying my games (split - no posting here please)
[quote]Coming soon: Trollbabe[/quote] [i]faints in silent glee[/i] edited to un-sticky - RE
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Participants: rafial, pfischer, James_Nostack, Spooky Fanboy.

8/18/2009 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe
The book debuted at GenCon, and a copy or two was in fact bought. Copies are now, or very soon will be, in the hands of my fulfiller. When I…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Antoine F, pfischer, skatay, James_Nostack, droog, GreatWolf, jburneko, Arturo G., Paka, Aaron, Gregor Hutton, Finarvyn, kallisti_dk, rafial.

8/7/2009 lachek: Modifying Binding strength, revisited
Over here Ron is saying that Binding strength can improve in the demon's favour (i.e. either weaken towards 0 if the Sorcerer has the upper hand, or strengthen away from…
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Participants: lachek, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2009 jburneko: Breaking Binding Question
The text has information about what happens if a demon wants to break a binding.  What happens if a Sorcerer wants to break a binding? In specific I had a…
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Participants: jburneko, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, lachek.

8/1/2009 Mackie: Resources: Playing it out
Ok, Just  run my first game of Sorcerer as GM! Woohoo! I played with just one PC (Wanting to ease myself into GMing slowly). Prior to the  game, I had…
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Participants: Mackie.

7/28/2009 jburneko: Basic Contain Mechanic Question
Hello, In the text it says that you can make a series of Lore vs. Stamina tests while constructing a Contain to generate bonus dice that will eventually add to…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

7/26/2009 Neon White: [Sorcerer] Any groups/players in London?
Hi all, Are there any groups playing Sorcerer actively in London at the moment who could use another player?  Alternatively, are there any players about who would be interested in…
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Participants: Neon White, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Salar, The Magus, Neil the Wimp, GB Steve.

7/24/2009 Rod Anderson: S/Lay with Old Gregg
So, for whatever reason my brain made a connection between all the Monsters, Lovers and Monster Lovers in those S/Lay with Me playtest threads and the "Legend of Old Gregg"…
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Participants: Rod Anderson.

7/24/2009 James_Nostack: Humanity in the Maltese Falcon?
I'm doing "Sorcerer exercise" with an eye toward later play.  I'm adapting Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon using the relationship-map method from The Sorcerer's Soul.  I'm having a little bit…
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Participants: James_Nostack, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns.

7/22/2009 Ben Lehman: Thoughts on Sitch and Sorcerer
This is inspired by <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28341">More Evil Is More Morally Taxing?</a> but it's not about actual play, just shooting my mouth off. So anyway. The thread got me thinking about…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, jburneko.

7/22/2009 jburneko: The Demonic Plague Scenario
So, as promised here is my Demonic Plague scenario that CK affectionately refers to my "demonic venereal disease story".  Enjoy! The Humanity definition for this scenario is: Love.  Love is…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

7/16/2009 Ron Edwards: Buying my games
Here's the place! Un-Store Adept Press page. The buy buttons take you straight to Paypal. You have to purchase them one at a time (no cart), but orders made together,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Arturo G., Finarvyn, Meme.

7/16/2009 lachek: Problems with sorcerer-rpg.com
This may not be the right place to report such issues, so please feel free to delete this post. The http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com website seems to be having a problem - it…
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Participants: lachek, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

7/13/2009 lachek: Help me with a one-sheet: Mad Max style post-apoc
I'm finally gearing up for a first-time game and need to develop a few one-sheets to pitch. One potential player suggested a post-apocalyptic Mad Max style situation and I think…
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Participants: lachek, Alan, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

7/6/2009 Ron Edwards: new
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Lance D. Allen, JMendes, angelfromanotherpin, skatay, Frank Tarcikowski.

7/5/2009 Neon White: [Sorcerer] Humanity as social empathy
Hi all, I'd like your input on interpreting some of nuances inherent in a defintion of humanity as 'social empathy'.  For context, the game is to be set in 1930s…
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Participants: Neon White, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

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9/1/2009 ejh: [S/Lay w/Me] actual play - Asad at the Monastery
Written up at Esoteric Murmurs -- http://esotericmurmurs.blogspot.com/2009/09/slay-wme-actual-play-asad-at-monastery.html copied here for your convenience. :) ====== OK, I wrote this up over several days, so it may not flow very well. So…
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Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards.

9/2/2009 AXUM: A Dying Sorcerer - newbie confused
Hello! Not quite sure on the rules for dying in Sorcerer: 1.  What happens when a creature hits 0 Stamina? 2. Is the game set up to always recover even…
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Participants: AXUM, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

9/4/2009 matthijs: Can't buy S/lay w/me
I'm over at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/games/unstore/game/64, clicking on the "buy now" button, which takes me to PayPal and says I'm paying $0.00. Which seems very cheap, really. Is international shipping + handling…
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Participants: matthijs, Ron Edwards, Rafu.

9/4/2009 greyorm: [Sorcerer] Do What I Say, Now or Later
Rules query about demons, them acting or using their powers and when it happens, because there's a spot in the book that makes it seem as though a demon doing…
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Participants: greyorm, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

9/4/2009 AXUM: The Adept
Hiyas! I keep hearing about this "adept" sorcerer option (& how broken it is)... I wonder if it has been completely excised from the current Sorcerer RPG book (the 2001…
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Participants: AXUM, Ron Edwards.

9/4/2009 AXUM: Question about Ron's gaming history
[quote author=AXUM link=topic=28641.msg269224#msg269224 date=1252092700] [quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=28641.msg269167#msg269167 date=1252008861] However, it's also the case that every version of Sorcerer opened my own eyes in playtest, to the extent that through…
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Participants: AXUM, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Artanis.

9/8/2009 Neon White: [Sorcerer] Will in combat and rollover of successes
Hi all, I have two rules issues on which I could use your thoughts. 1) Roll over of successes in extended conflicts: Let’s say PC Phil is in a fist-fight…
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Participants: Neon White, The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2009 AXUM: Seems olde D & D just got "Sorcered"
Hi: Hmmm... Interesting new sword & sorcery supplement for 1974's Dungeons & Dragons. http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14486.phtml Some of the ideas are superb, IMHO - ripe for the taking! Sorry if…
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Participants: AXUM, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

9/16/2009 weaselheart: Sorcerer & Space?
I was reading through The Sorcerer's Soul, and came across a mini-supplement I'd not seen before, called "Sorcerer & Space". Now this is very relevant to my interests because I'm…
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Participants: weaselheart, 5niper9, greyorm.

9/17/2009 Paka: Sorcerer 2289: Technological Demons in the Science Fiction Solar System
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26820.0]I posted this thread a while back. [/url] But nothing has come of it for a long while and I just [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28726.0;topicseen]saw this thread [/url]and listened to [url=http://glyphpress.com/talk/category/olmag/]Rob and Joshua…
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Participants: Paka, weaselheart.

9/17/2009 jburneko: Trollbabe: Question and Comment
So last night I finished reading the new version of Trollbabe.  I can't help but wonder what the me of 10 years ago would have thought of it.  I did…
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Participants: jburneko, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, John Stephens.

9/25/2009 Mackie: [Sorcerer] A few mechanical questioms
After playing Sorcerer a few times now, I just had a few questions on rules that are niggling in my brain like an itch I cant quite scratch. I hat…
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Participants: Mackie, Ron Edwards, Noclue, greyorm, pfischer.

10/5/2009 Brand_Robins: S/Lay w/Me question about the Match
Heya Ron, Stupid question, and I still don't understand how I got confused about it, but the Match starts in the Go where one of the key conditions to start…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2009 SaintandSinner: Mini-Supplements
How do you learn more about them?  This links on sorcerer-rpg.com aren't working.  Also, are there others not on this site I should check out?  I have Dict of Mu…
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Participants: SaintandSinner, greyorm, Ron Edwards, thomasfjones, Finarvyn, scarcow, nande.

10/6/2009 Ben Lehman: [S/Lw/m] Anthological Questions and Observations
Hi! David and I have done a couple of rounds of S/lay at this point, with it looks like a few more to go. A rules question and a thematic…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

10/10/2009 Reithan: Sorcer Site Broken
All the links are producing 404 errors.
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Participants: Reithan, greyorm.

10/23/2009 AXUM: THE CHARNEL GODS/DICTIONARY OF MU MASHUP
HELLO AGAIN! I was wondering if any of you guys have melded Dictionary of Mu & Charnel Gods together & how it fared? Thanks!!! Axum
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Participants: AXUM, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2009 lachek: Questions regarding apparently non-sentient Demons (f. ex. technological)
We've run a couple of sessions of Sorcerer in an Afterglow-based post-apocalyptic setting. Things got a bit messy, both with the game and with scheduling the game, and it may…
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Participants: lachek, Ron Edwards, angelfromanotherpin, GreatWolf, Finarvyn, The Dragon Master.

11/29/2009 Darcy Burgess: Buying Trollbabe: original PDF owners
Hi Ron, A question just occurred to me; are you offering any sort of upgrade or rebate offer for folks who've purchased the old Trollbabe pdf? Thanks, Darcy edited to…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2009 Trevis Martin: Help with Sorcerer Descriptors for my one sheet.
My history with Sorcerer is a little spotty.  I dig the game, it compels me personally, but customizing it to a personal vision has been a little difficult.  Watching and…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

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