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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.

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.

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

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.

10/6/2009 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.

10/5/2009 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.

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.

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.

9/17/2009 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.

9/16/2009 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.

9/16/2009 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.

9/8/2009 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.

9/4/2009 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.

9/4/2009 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 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 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.

9/2/2009 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.

9/1/2009 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.

8/24/2009 Ron Edwards: Interview with me at Independent Insurgency
Rob Bohl had the cay-utest little recording gizmo at GenCon. The interview is at Talk to Me Now: Ron Edwards on Twosie Games. It was fun, even though it's clear…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

12/7/2009 John Stephens: [Trollbabe] Dungeonbabe & Dragons (Actual Play)
My wife and daughter bought me a D&D 4th Edition "starter kit" for my birthday, and we had more fun playing the intro adventure with its pre-fabricated characters than I…
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Participants: John Stephens, Ron Edwards, stingray20166, jburneko.

12/28/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Sorcerer] How do you play it?
I got my greedy hands on Sorcerer and the first two supplements. I red them. The game looks fantastic, but I found I have problems understaing how exactly you do…
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Participants: Klaus_Welten, Ron Edwards, 5niper9.

1/3/2010 5niper9: Framing Scenes for NPCs
Hello Ron, after reading the nice thread about how to play Sorcerer http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29158.0 I am wondering about framing scenes for NPCs. You said the GM should frame scenes guided by…
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Participants: 5niper9, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: Humanity and Society
Check me on this. I have this understanding of Humanity as something that, within the setting, is generally thought of as something good/right. So when someone does things that warrant…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, James_Nostack, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Paka.

1/14/2010 Paiku: [Sorcerer] New player, bootstrapping
Hello all, this is about the hundredth post that I've STARTED to write on the Adept Press forum, but the first that I'll actually finish and post.  I've started so…
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Participants: Paiku, Paka, Ron Edwards, rycanada.

1/19/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Convention Workshops and Character Creation...
Just back from DarkCon this weekend and while I couldn't get a game of Sorcerer going, I did manage to run three brief "Sorcerer Workshops" for interested players. By the…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards, Paiku.

1/23/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: [Sorcerer] I don't get Necromancy
Hi there, can someone help me out on the necromancy rules in Sorcerer & Sword? I don't get them. I've read the examples, and in them I don't see where…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Paiku, greyorm, The Dragon Master.

1/29/2010 Paiku: [Sorcerer] Sorcerers in Casablanca
Hi folks, as promised in an earlier thread, I have posted on my blog the One Sheet and player-character concepts (backstories, demons and kickers) (PC 1)(PC 2)(PC 3) for our…
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Participants: Paiku, Artanis, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, The Dragon Master.

2/1/2010 lumpley: We're playing Pokemon Sorcerer
We made characters last night and I've got a pageful of 1st-session prep here in my notebook. We're all more-or-less experts on the source material - some of us unwillingly…
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Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, RichD.

2/7/2010 Markus: [Trollbabe] advice about the practical application of these two rules?
Yesterday I finally played my first game with the new Trollbabe rules! It was a really fun, light-hearted, action-packed session and I'm drafting an AP report about it, because I…
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Participants: Markus, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

2/16/2010 Ron Edwards: Walking Eye interviews me
Kevin Weiser interviewed me at the excellent game store Chicagoland Games, The Dice Dojo here in Chicago. It's the usual marathon, hours-and-hours thing that my interviews tend to become. These…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paka, Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), Gregor Hutton, The Dragon Master, Noon, Artanis, Calithena, epweissengruber, Melinglor.

2/17/2010 Ron Edwards: How about some love for Sex?
Hello, Here's an old thread to check out: Sex and Sorcery -- this book rocks!. Pride aside, restricted only to looking at the responses to the text, higher praise for…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Frank Tarcikowski, greyorm, jburneko, hix, The Dragon Master, Roger, James_Nostack, Calithena, ejh.

2/21/2010 CedricP: [Sorcerer] Player AP
Hi. My playing group decided to try Sorcerer, so far we have done a "session zero" and played our first session. I was really eager to try Sorcerer, but after…
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Participants: CedricP, James_Nostack, Paka.

2/21/2010 nyhteg: [Sorcerer] Character Concept: Demon Ability Question
Hi I'm just warming up for my first game of Sorcerer and I'm trying to find the best Demon Ability for a player's concept of his demon. His demon is…
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Participants: nyhteg, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2010 Paiku: S/lay w/Me - where?
Hi Ron, I paused the Walking Eye interview when you started talking about S/lay w/Me, to go read up on the game.  It looks really interesting, from Gregor Hutton's latest…
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Participants: Paiku, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

2/23/2010 jburneko: Sex & Sorcery and Houses of the Blooded LARP
Okay, so this is my attempt to collect my thoughts on the material in Sex & Sorcery, and Houses of the Blooded LARP.  Let me start off by explaining the…
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Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Roger, The Dragon Master.

2/26/2010 Tveir: [Sorcerer] Linda Meier
Thinking of running a game in (a terribly inaccurate version of) Berlin in the 90s, from the perspective of eleven-year-old kids. I'm still essentially running one-player one-shots, trying to figure…
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Participants: Tveir, Ron Edwards.

3/4/2010 CedricP: [Sorcerer] Solaris
I am working on a Sorcerer setting and I want to use to use some elements from Solaris (the Stanisław Lem novel or the Tarkovsky movie). About the "passer demons"…
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Participants: CedricP, Ron Edwards.

3/4/2010 Ron Edwards: The Adept and Sorcerer website has returned!
Hi, It's here at Adept Press. Mind you, a lot of things are still textually in development, mainly because if I tried to nail it down in full before going…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Markus, Gregor Hutton, Eliarhiman6, greyorm, Paka, jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, James_Nostack, Artanis.

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