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3/16/2010 weaselheart: Sorcerer and Sword ... Conan?
Sorry if I'm being dense, but I've read Sorcerer and Sword a couple of times now and can't seem to get past one simple point, perhaps best exemplified by Conan.…
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Participants: weaselheart, jburneko, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen, Lance D. Allen, greyorm, Noclue, hix, rabindranath72.

3/10/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Convention Workshops: Definitions
So I mentioned a while back that I plan to be running a Sorcerer Workshop at Phoenix Comicon in a couple months. I've since been reading the book (yet again),…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

3/8/2010 Roger: [Sorcerer] My Struggles with Need
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29343.0]John's recent AP post about his Casablanca game[/url] reminded me of my long uphill battle with trying to figure out what Demonic Need was getting at, and I thought I'd…
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Participants: Roger, Ron Edwards, angelfromanotherpin.

3/6/2010 Paka: The Looking Glass, the Cyclone, the Wardrobe and the Second Star to the Right
What happens to those kids who have been to otherworlds when they grow up? One sorcerous theory: http://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/the-looking-glass-the-cyclone-the-wardrobe-and-the-second-star-to-the-right/
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Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, greyorm, The Dragon Master, 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.

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.

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.

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.

2/23/2010 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.

2/21/2010 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.

2/21/2010 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.

2/17/2010 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.

2/16/2010 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.

2/7/2010 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.

2/1/2010 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.

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.

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.

1/19/2010 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.

1/14/2010 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.

1/6/2010 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.

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3/23/2010 Ron Edwards: Naked Went the Gamer is posted
Hello, Here's my essay published last year in Fight On!: Naked Went the Gamer. It's written as a companion piece to S/Lay w/Me. All questions and relevant personal information are…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, droog, Simon C, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, Frank Tarcikowski, Roger, Calithena, Finarvyn, ejh, contracycle, hansel, Melinglor, KevinH.

3/27/2010 weaselheart: Roleplaying Stories
Recently I had a lot of questions about play balance in Sorcerer, which led me to do a lot of background reading. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29500.0 I write short stories as a hobby.…
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Participants: weaselheart, greyorm, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Frank Tarcikowski.

4/5/2010 James_Nostack: [S/ay] What if the match ends in a tie?
The text doesn't say.  I presume we should resort to the fictional events and take it as "facts on the ground" or something, but I figured I'd check.
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2010 jburneko: Quick Angel Question
Hey Ron, The Abilities that Angels have in Sorcerer's Soul: Was the idea that this list of Abilities is what Angels can do *instead of* the list for Demons or…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, fernando.

4/22/2010 The Magus: [Sorcerer] Advice wanted on one-shot and running at cons
Hello all - my first post in a few months. There have been some changes in my RPG activity of late (which I won't bore you with) and consequently I'm…
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Participants: The Magus, Ron Edwards.

4/24/2010 hansel: Charnel Gods - where?
I've looked all over, and while it's easy to find pirated versions, I can't find where to buy Charnel Gods at the moment--is it up somewhere? Thanks, Hans
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Participants: hansel, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2010 Jonathan Hastings: [Sorcerer] Struggling with what Lore looks like
I'm working on putting a one-sheet together for an upcoming Sorcerer game (my first as GM) and I'm hitting a mental/imaginative block when it comes to describing what Lore looks…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

4/29/2010 reason: the Later Blue Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed, Creative Commons edition
I've (re)released the PDF version of the Later Blue Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed as a free Creative Commons edition. 140-something pages of misanthropic sword & sorcery weirdness, and 29…
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Participants: reason, Ron Edwards, rabindranath72, Roger, Finarvyn.

5/1/2010 The Magus: Please critique my one sheet
[u]One sheet: Victorian Steampunk setting[/u] [b]Influences and inspirations[/b] KW Jeter’s Infernal Devices, Nemesis the Warlock (the Gothic Empire in particular), Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Material’s trilogy, more for the flavour…
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Participants: The Magus, Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen, Roger, Motipha.

5/7/2010 hansel: [S/lay W/me] When "You" and "I" no longer switch.
Hey Ron, S/lay W/me arrived in the mail today, and I promptly read through it, then hopped around on the net reading AP and stuff here at the Forge. There's…
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Participants: hansel, Ron Edwards.

5/10/2010 Miskatonic: Frazetta
[url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/frank-frazetta-fantasy-illustrator-dies-at-82/?src=mv]Frank Frazetta[/url] passed away this afternoon.
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Participants: Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings, Melinglor.

5/16/2010 Meme: [S/Lay w/Me] Goal: Kill the Monster
Hi Ron! I'm Meme, and we met at INC'10 one week ago, and, of course, it was a pleasure. I recently tried your beautiful game and i have a question…
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Participants: Meme, Ron Edwards, greyorm, JTColeman.

5/18/2010 Meme: [S/Lay w/Me] Settings!!!
Hi! I'm Meme, and i Played like 15 Adventures with this game, in 5 days! :O Each Adventure was in a different Location, and so i tried all of them.…
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Participants: Meme, Ron Edwards, Artanis, Mauro, hansel, Aetius.

5/18/2010 Meme: [S/Lay w/Me] Female?
Hi guys. I have a question. How about Female Heroes, Male Lovers, Omosexual desires? I ask this cause in the book, all types of character are male, and then I…
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Participants: Meme, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

5/20/2010 Mauro: [S/Lay w/Me] Introducing the Lover
Hi Ron! While playing with Meme we had a doubt: on his first Go, "I" "must introduce the Lover"; the Lover must be described, also if maybe it's not obvious…
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Participants: Mauro, Meme, Ron Edwards.

6/12/2010 Klaus_Welten: [Sorcerer] Which demons get which abilities for free?
Hello there. The descriptions for Inconspicuous and Passing demons state that they "often" have the Cloack and Cover abilities, but the text of those abilities say that demons of those…
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Participants: Klaus_Welten, Ron Edwards.

6/13/2010 Simon C: [Sorcerer] Failed States and Demons as a metaphor
A friend of mine and I have been talking about a game of Sorcerer where the Demons are factions (or faction leaders) in a failed state, and Sorcerers are CIA…
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Participants: Simon C, Ron Edwards.

6/21/2010 Finarvyn: "Play Sorcerer" and Boot Camp
My understanding is that older threads (such as this one) are not to be revived, but instead a new thread should be started. So ... it's been nearly a year…
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Participants: Finarvyn, Ron Edwards, Karl, epweissengruber, Christopher Kubasik.

6/23/2010 Jaakko Koivula: Horror in Sorcerer: Does it happen, is it different?
Heya. Im doing a small bit about horror in indie-games in a finnish convention (http://2010.tracon.fi/). If it's ok, I'd like to strike up conversation about what do Ron and people…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula, Eero Tuovinen, Nocker, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Miskatonic, jburneko, KevinH, AXUM, Finarvyn.

6/30/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Adept Press forum
[i]originally posted August 27, 2004; slightly corrected and updated[/i] Hello, and welcome to the Adept Press forum! Rules - all the basic Forge rules in the Site Discussion sticky apply…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

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