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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.

6/13/2010 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.

6/12/2010 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.

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.

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.

5/18/2010 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.

5/16/2010 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.

5/10/2010 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.

5/7/2010 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.

5/1/2010 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.

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.

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.

4/24/2010 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.

4/22/2010 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.

4/15/2010 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.

4/5/2010 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.

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.

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.

3/21/2010 charlesperez: Babylon 5, Through the Eyes of Sorcerer
Much of the story told within the 5 seasons of Babylon 5 is basically sorcerous, and several of the characters within B5 could have been solid sorcerous protagonists. The following…
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Participants: charlesperez, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen.

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.

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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.

7/1/2010 epweissengruber: Sorcerer and Steam
I am setting up the basics for a Sorcerer session at an upcoming convention.  It will be a 2-parter: Part 1 will be the set-up of a 1 sheet and…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

7/3/2010 Trevis Martin: Color first - A cool sorcerer game challenge.
This is for links only, don't post any actual images to the thread please (per forum rules).   Find an image on the internet that makes you think "Cool Sorcerer…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, angelfromanotherpin, zediekiel, Gregor Hutton, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Marshall Burns.

7/15/2010 rycanada: [Sorcerer] 3 Humanity Rolls to get a new demon?
Hi, this may sound really dumb but... Do you really need to have 3 humanity rolls to get a new demon?  (1 Contact, 1 Summon, 1 Bind) If so, why…
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Participants: rycanada, Ron Edwards, Paiku, 5niper9, The Dragon Master.

7/20/2010 Philippe: [Sorcerer & Sword] building a setting with Inuma
Hi, it's my first post here so I guess I should say something about me. My username is my first name. I'm 37 and rpgs have always been my favorite…
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Participants: Philippe, Paiku, Eliarhiman6.

7/21/2010 Paka: What Sword and Sorcery Means to Me, blog post
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/07/mind-meld-what-sword-and-sorcery-means-to-me/ Thought this article was interesting, here are a few quotes that stood out: "Basically I see it as a good old-fashioned sword and sandal or cloak and dagger drama…
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Participants: Paka.

7/28/2010 Ron Edwards: Adept Press thoughts and projects for Sorcerer
It occurred to me that 2011 is a significant anniversary for me. I published the first available version of Sorcerer in fall 2006, and I published the book version in…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paka, jburneko, greyorm, Paiku, Paolo D., Troy_Costisick, Nocker, Darcy Burgess, Finarvyn, Aaron, hansel, Eero Tuovinen, pfischer, Marshall Burns, Bret Gillan, epweissengruber, Motipha, Courage75, James_Nostack, The Magus, The Dragon Master.

7/30/2010 greyorm: [S/lay w/Me] First Experiences
A while back, Ron mentioned something to me, that he had half written S/lay for me anyways. I was curious what he meant, and he mentioned it might make a…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

8/3/2010 Finarvyn: Elric the sorcerer
Hope this isn't too obvious, but I was thinking about Moorcock's Elric character and the Sorcerer RPG. Seems that the term "demon" gets some folks hung up, probably because of…
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Participants: Finarvyn, Karl, Eliarhiman6, Paiku.

8/6/2010 Paiku: demon ability "Protection"
Hi all, I just read something that makes me think I misunderstand how the demon ability "Protection" works - or maybe that it has been "errata'ed" since the core rulebook…
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Participants: Paiku, greyorm, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2010 Paiku: Sorcerer Dice Mechanic, Examined
Let's say you're Binding an enormous demon.  You have 7 dice for the Binding roll, and the hulking fiend has 15.  We're using d10s.  What would you say is the…
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Participants: Paiku, jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2010 Paiku: Elric, Demon Lords and Sorcery. Modeling it all.
I'm currently preparing to GM a game of Sorcerer based explicitly in Melniboné and the Young Kingdoms (the Elric Saga), and I'm toying how best to model the interactions and…
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Participants: Paiku, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2010 frictorious: [Sorcerer] Rules Question: Boost
I have a question about the side effect of Boost, and had no luck finding the answer elsewhere. Per the text (p 52), "receiving two Boosts of any kind in…
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Participants: frictorious, Ron Edwards.

8/13/2010 Paiku: [Sorcerer] Modern Necromancy (Ron's game)
Hi Ron, the links to the handouts and R-map and such are busted in your threads My current Sorcerer game - modern necromancy and The necromancy game continued.  I'd very…
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Participants: Paiku, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

8/16/2010 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer
I like music, and I like creative mutualism, and I like the whole independent DIY thing. So ... for the sake of indulging and combining all three, and based on…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Marshall Burns.

8/17/2010 Ron Edwards: TFT: Wizard and Sorcerer origins
This thread has a sister topic in the Actual Play forum: One little pamphlet = 100,000 words. If we were to look only at fictional content…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

8/30/2010 Finarvyn: The First Ever campaign setting
The threads on the history of Sorcerer got me thinking. Gary Gygax had Greyhawk. Dave Arneson had Blackmoor. James Ward had the Starship Warden. Throughout gaming history, the "first ever"…
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Participants: Finarvyn, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Paiku, Calithena, Marshall Burns.

8/31/2010 Finarvyn: Supplement "Wish List"
The thread that had the link to t-shirts and coasters and stuff got me thinking, mostly because of the mention of the "Sorcerer and Space" product that never was. I…
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Participants: Finarvyn, The Dragon Master, jburneko, Frank Tarcikowski, Paiku, Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, wholeridge.

8/31/2010 Graham Walmsley: I choose you, Sorcerer
On the way to GenCon, I talked to some guy called Vincent about Sorcerer. He suggested that Sorcerer often gets seen as an excessively serious game: a gut-wrenching emotional fest,…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, jburneko, lumpley, The Dragon Master.

9/1/2010 Paka: The Courtney Crumrin RPG of my dreams.
Looking back on these two threads: Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things  I choose you, Sorcerer And I don't see a mini-supplement but see an RPG that is…
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Participants: Paka, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

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