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9/13/2010 The Dragon Master: Bound Possessor Demons...
A few things have led me to consider the notion of a Possessor Demon that is possessing the Sorcerer that Bound it. In Sorcerers Soul it talks about the possibility…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, jburneko.

9/11/2010 droog: We're also playing Pokemon Sorcerer
Totally ripping off – I mean RIFFing off – Vincent's game, I punted the idea of a pokemon game to my 9-year-old daughter. Jemima, I'm guessing, is less well-versed in…
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Participants: droog, stingray20166.

9/9/2010 Vortigern: S&S One sheet
Alright.  Yeah.  So.  Books+Me = Actually trying to sit down and do a game. I'm currently the player recruiting phase for my play by post: http://online-roleplaying.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11559 While that is going…
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Participants: Vortigern, John Stephens, Ron Edwards, Paiku.

8/15/2010 Tveir: We're playing Pokemon Sorcerer II (split)
Speaking of pokemon, this was a pretty interesting read and made sense of the tv series no less
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Participants: Tveir, droog, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

9/8/2010 Bret Gillan: [S/lay w/Me] Say it yourself
So I know that coming up with your own Who is by the book. Can you also 'say it yourself' to the Where, or Ron do you encourage people to…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

9/7/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Character Sheets...
I'm getting ready to start working on a Sorcerer campaign, and wanted to pick up some pdf Demon sheets so that I could have an electronic copy to transmit to…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Finarvyn, Paiku, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Ben Morgan.

9/5/2010 John Stephens: [Sorcerer] Training run: London, June 1966
After my wife's brother saw us playing Tunnels & Trolls with my daughter and nephew, he started frequently expressing interest in joining the game. He's been playing Dragon Age on…
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Participants: John Stephens, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, The Dragon Master, jburneko, Paiku, Noclue, Karl.

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.

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.

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.

8/30/2010 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.

8/17/2010 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.

8/16/2010 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.

8/13/2010 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.

8/10/2010 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.

8/10/2010 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.

8/7/2010 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.

8/6/2010 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.

8/3/2010 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.

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.

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9/16/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Fast and Multiple Actions. An epiphany... I think
While working up a character who was meant to be a berserker, it occurred to me that the rules don't support a character who's noticably faster than the other characters…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Paiku, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Demons, Sorcerers, and multiple targets...
This is about handling attacks that should (logically) injure multiple parties, so let's handle it one example as separate entities rather than as a single issue (which I did in…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, jburneko, John Stephens, Marshall Burns.

9/19/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Sorcerer's In Suburia : Prep
As usual I put off prep till the last weekend figuring it'd be fine as is. Until I ran across a reminder that I hadn't yet really nailed down the…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards, Vortigern, Paiku, Roger.

9/28/2010 lumpley: A Sorcerer PSA
To whom it may concern, If you ever have the chance to play Sorcerer with Julia Bond Ellingboe, I recommend it. She's very cheerful. She says, "my demon's need is…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Lance D. Allen, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, Paka, James_Nostack, Roger, Chris_Chinn, Simon C.

10/14/2010 Artanis: Demoing Trollbabe
Hello Ron and other Trollbabe aficionados I'll be attending Spiel Essen, slavishly monkeying for Eero. The booth will be offering Trollbabe and we'll be demoing it. Except, I just read…
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Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

10/29/2010 lopes-gabriel: [S/Lay w/Me] AP - O herdeiro e a prometida para o rei dos vermes [Portuguese]
This is an AP of S/Lay w/ Me in Portuguese and small review of the game http://www.paragons.com.br/slaywme-heroimonstroamante/ I would like to have time to translate it. Sorry :)
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Participants: lopes-gabriel, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2010 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe barrage of questions: help!
Hi! The Italian edition of Trollbabe was published ten days ago, translated by me, and now people are asking all kind of questions in our forum about the rules. Some…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Walking Eye] An interview
Hi there, Kevin Weiser wanted to interview me about the Forge Winter dustups on other sites, and although I really don't have much interest in What The Great Big Internet…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Chris_Chinn, Melinglor.

11/26/2010 Ron Edwards: Dragon penis / Shambling mound
Hiya, Back in 2002, someone started an RPG.net thread called "Do dragons have penises?" Much like Superman responding to a cry for help, I swooped to contribute. The thread also…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Adam Dray, Marshall Burns, Chris_Chinn, John Stephens.

11/30/2010 Aetius: [Trollbabe] A New Map
Hi to all. I'm going to play some Trollbabe at a con near Milan. I would like to draw a new map of the world for my games... just because…
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Participants: Aetius, Ron Edwards, Markus.

12/1/2010 Eliarhiman6: GM-full Trollbabe
Hi! Recently, my gaming group played Trollbabe again. I wanted to play a trollbabe this time and another player wanted to try play in the GM's role. But to avoid…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

12/2/2010 James_Nostack: [Trollbabe] Harmed relationships - pg 61
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but page 61 of the print edition of Trollbabe says, in effect, IF (Goal fails) AND (Trollbabe ends at inconvenienced) THEN (any relationships invoked the…
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Participants: James_Nostack, John Stephens, Eliarhiman6, Gregor Hutton, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

12/4/2010 James_Nostack: [Trollbabe] Harm questions
Questions from actual play with the Print Edition of the rules.  (1) If a Trollbabe gets injured in a social conflict, and then, without a recovery scene, gets into a…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2010 James_Nostack: [Trollbabe] Goal questions
More questions from some actual play of Trollbabe's Print Edition. (1) Can either side say, at the outset of a Conflict, "Hell, dude, there's no Conflict here!  I give you…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

12/14/2010 Artanis: [S/lay w/me] Questions of a swiss rules lawyer
Hello Ron I've been playing S/lay w/me with my girlfriend Sylvie over the last few months (interspersed with some Breaking the Ice and soon Sweet Agatha). We've played two adventures…
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Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

1/4/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe GM prep: public, private or neither?
Hi! I am posting this in a different thread because I think it merit a separate discussion. I was asked recently if the map the GM create in preparation of…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2011 Bret Gillan: [S/lay W/Me] Singly or In a Group
For the Monster and how it kills you, does Singly or In a Group refer to it being a group of monsters, or to the monster killing groups of people…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

1/7/2011 Trevis Martin: [Sorcerer and Sword] Trading Victories Question
Okay.  So I get that you can choose to knock down your own victories all the way to a tie.  I assume that means you can choose to save only…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2011 Aetius: Trollbabe: the meaning of "active"
Ciao to all ;-) Playing and talking about TB a doubt has emerged, about the precise meaning of the term "active" in the definition of the goal. A goal must…
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Participants: Aetius, Ron Edwards, Mauro.

1/17/2011 Paiku: [Sorcerer] Dictionary of Elric
Hi folks, I am writing a mini-supplement for Sorcerer that enacts the novels of The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock.  If you have read Sorcerer & Sword then you know…
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Participants: Paiku, 5niper9, Chris_Chinn, Finarvyn, Paka, Ron Edwards.

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