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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.

12/4/2010 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.

12/2/2010 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.

12/1/2010 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.

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.

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.

11/23/2010 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.

11/10/2010 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

9/16/2010 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.

9/16/2010 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.

9/13/2010 John Stephens: [Sorcerer] How to play a sorcerer
So, we had another session on Friday continuing our adaptation of the Training Run scenario. Afterward, we had a long conversation about the adversity and intensity of the session. Steve…
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Participants: John Stephens, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paiku.

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.

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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.

1/21/2011 jburneko: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
Hello, So, I might have a chance to play Doctor Chaos this weekend and if I don't then I'm thinking of putting it on the schedule at OrcCon in February. …
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

1/29/2011 konratius: Order problems with Adept Press
Ron, I tried to get in touch with the email listed at your site, but kept getting my messages returned, saying that I couldn't reach you. I thought about joining…
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Participants: konratius, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

2/6/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe barrage II (split)
New questions! 1) A Trollbabe can be harmed only by a failed reroll. But what about a Relationship? Can the well-being (or even the liberty or the life) of a…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/6/2011 Tveir: [Sorcerer] concidering demonification, among other things
I was reading 3x3 Eyes the other day. I always felt like it seemed sorcerer material, existing somewhere inbetween vanilla sorcerer and sorcerer and sword, with a strong indian/chinese/tibetan flavour.…
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Participants: Tveir, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

3/9/2011 Troy_Costisick: Updated Sorcerer
Heya Ron, I know you're neck deep in Ronny games right now, but I was wondering, are you still thinking about doing an updated Sorcerer like the one you menationed…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Melinglor, Finarvyn, The Dragon Master, Russell Hoyle, John Stephens.

3/9/2011 Natespank: [Elfs] damage to the PCs
I read the Elfs book and have a question about monsters being able to hurt the PCs. From the look of things, the only way a PC can get hurt…
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Participants: Natespank, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2011 Motipha: [Sorceror] interesting take on demons
So I was listening to this podcast called RadioLab.  They talk about inspiration, and it immediately made me think of Sorceror, so I thought I would share. http://www.radiolab.org/2011/mar/08/me-myself-and-muse/ Kind of…
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Participants: Motipha.

3/16/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe Barrage of Questions III: backstory and content authority
Hi Ron! I am still mulling over the last reply in the "Barrage II" thread, but meanwhile, let's attack the backlog of question that surfaced in play... In this thread,…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe Barrage of Questions IV: places, scenes and turns
New questions! Places: 1) What IS the map of Trollabe? It's the map of the entire world? So the entire world is made "of fjords, mists, twisted trees, and frozen…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe Barrage of Questions V: conflicts and authority
Other questions! (I used two thread to be able to use a more descriptive thread subject) 1) Often, it' not simple to judge the right Action Type.  Sometimes there is…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/20/2011 jenn: Anyone playing Sorcerer online?
Are there any online Sorcerer games I could look at or join?  PBEM, forum, or even a MUSH/MUD based on Sorcerer would be interesting.  Thanks!   - Jenn
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Participants: jenn, Trevis Martin.

3/22/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe vs Trollbabe
A question that did come up in the Italian forum: Two Trollbabes are fighting against each other. The situation is the one addressed in page 83 (page 132 of the…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2011 Mauro: [Trollbabe] Fighting without hurting?
This is a doubt coming from Gente che Gioca, where Moreno said that "it's not mandatory, in a Fight, hurting or killing someone"; this somewhat startled me, because I remembered…
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Participants: Mauro, Ron Edwards.

3/28/2011 James_Nostack: [Sorcerer] Miyazaki + Wuxia + Westmark = Druids! (one-sheet help)
Though I haven't played Sorcerer in four years, it remains one of my favorite game, and periodically I get the urge to run it again.  Now's such a time, and…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Chris_Chinn, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns.

4/11/2011 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer & Sword] Prep Time!
Doing Sorcerer again; hopefully it'll last more than a few sessions this time!  We had the first pre-play session last night, and I think it went very well, but I…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Roger.

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