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9/24/2002 Eric: One on One play
I've run one on one sessions of RPGs twice, at widely spaced intervals, and I'm getting ready to do it again. What I find daunting about this style is that…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik.

9/23/2002 Zak Arntson: More Pulp Books
Hit the used bookstore again, and found some Howard books! I figured I'd ask Ron (and the other pulp fans) about the validity of these, because (like Lovecraft fiction) you…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Thor Olavsrud, Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, talysman, Blake Hutchins, lumpley, Paka.

9/21/2002 Bailywolf: Hybrid Sorcerer/Donjon combat & my upcoming game
I've been ripping into both the S&S advanced combat expansion and Clinton's Donjon combat system which owes much Sorcerer. I am considering adopting some of Donjon's combat mechaincs for my…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

9/20/2002 Bailywolf: Accidental sorcery
This is a side note, and strictly an opinion here. I find the concept of the 'found demon' or 'accidental sorcerer' quite compelling- especialy to play the character's evolution from…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr.

9/20/2002 Eric: Demons rituals and Humanity Checks
Sorry to trouble, but . . . where in the rule book is the list or paragraph which explains which stats to use with which humanity checks for each of…
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Participants: Eric, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

9/18/2002 Wulf: Incidently...
...both myself and my opponent agree that the look and 'feel' of Trollbabe remind us of the, by now ancient, comic 'Redfox'. Have you heard of it, and is there…
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Participants: Wulf, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, Rod Anderson, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/19/2002 Ace: Sorcerer Book Size
Just a short "Thank You' for choosing the : 10" high, 6.5" wide size. It is a great form factor for game books especially if you are gaming outside the…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards.

9/18/2002 jburneko: Erm... Why Trollbabe?
Okay, no doubt there is some really subtle point about natural human social interactions that I'm missing here but... Why Trollbabe? Let me explain. Since having now bought and read…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Yasha, Eric, Bankuei, Henry Fitch, Le Joueur.

9/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Azk'Arn actual play
Hello, Way back before GenCon, one of the role-playing groups I'm in got rolling on a Sorcerer & Sword game. I'd been seized with a bizarre notion of an insectoid-fantasy…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Thor Olavsrud, urbwar, joshua neff.

9/18/2002 Matt Wilson: I bought Sorcerer and think it's just marvy
Since I may well be playin' in a game with Mr. Prez, I grabbed Sorcerer and Sorcerer and Sword at my FLGS on the way home. I picked up the…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Alan, Maurice Forrester.

9/18/2002 Paka: Mu's Bed
I am tinkering with an e-mail to send the players in a possibly forming Sorcerer & Sword game. Here's the first draft with comments below: Mu's Bed is the capital…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Zak Arntson, James V. West.

9/18/2002 Bankuei: Trollbabe 3rd reroll question...
I noticed that for the 3rd reroll, it seems that regardless of success/failure of the roll, that it still results in failure of the Goal. Am I correct in understanding…
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Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2002 Ron Edwards: Help needed on third supplement
Hello, Does anyone know the Cantonese for: "Bad Town" and "Small Village" That would be most helpful. Many thanks, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Bankuei, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, jrs.

9/17/2002 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe comics update
Hi there, Trollbabe comics are tentatively scheduled to start rolling on the website next Monday, September 23. But that's tentative! The comics are done but we have to check out…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Le Joueur, Henry Fitch, Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Valamir, Seth L. Blumberg.

9/13/2002 Zoetrope10: Sorcerer & Sword -- demons on vacation?
Ron At p. 33 of the published version of Sorcerer & Sword, where you list the features of Mystic Otherworlds, you write in part, 'They are demon-haunted; however, the demons…
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Participants: Zoetrope10, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, xiombarg, Tim C Koppang, Paganini.

9/11/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Sorcerer "review"
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=roleplayers&itemid=294058
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, James, erithromycin, Christopher Kubasik.

9/3/2002 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe review
Thanks to Jeff Strazheim for a great review of Trollbabe at RPG.net!! Here's the link. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/10/2002 Ron Edwards: Jonathan Tweet's comments on Sorcerer
Hey folks, I should have posted this a while ago and completely forgot about it. Jonathan Tweet's comments about the combat system and book-explanation thereof are here and his review…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, Eric, Christopher Kubasik, Clay.

9/10/2002 urbwar: Possible Source Material... (edited to include spolier)
Has anyone seen the movie Ring? It's an excellant Japanese horror film (A us version is coming out in October, but at PG-13, I wonder how faithful it will be…
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Participants: urbwar, J B Bell.

9/10/2002 urbwar: Sorcerer & Sword: Character Concepts
One of the people I game with owns all the Sorcerer material. After some discussion during our weekend game, we decided to play a game of Sorcerer and Sword down…
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Participants: urbwar, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik.

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9/27/2002 Eric: The Lighthouse Campaign – a Sorcerous BtVS Riff
FWIW, here is the one sheet for the one on one campaign I'm going to try. My wife is going to play the watcher/lighthouse keeper and she's going to be…
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Participants: Eric, Bailywolf, Clay, Ron Edwards.

9/28/2002 Bailywolf: combat question: multiple actions
I have a question about multiple actions taken in a round of Sorcerer combat, and to a lesser extent the Fast demon ability. On page 112 in the MRB, there…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns and Sorcery
Well, it finally happened, my weekday group collapsed under the weight of the clashing gaming styles and preferences it was trying to support. Thankfully, we only lost two players. So…
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Participants: jburneko, Bailywolf, Bogie_71, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik.

10/3/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Sex and Sorcery Literature?
So, I picked up Dark Ladies (Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife and Our Lady of Darkness in one volume) the other day. I've read both, years and years ago, and I'm…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2002 Bailywolf: Alternate Humanity check rule idea
I didn't want to start a new thread for this little thing I was considering, so I'll drop it here. I like how Unknown Armies maps a character becoming more…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Fabrice G..

10/4/2002 Tim Denee: Sex and Sorcery movie?
[url]http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/timdenee/sorcerer.jpg[/url]
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Participants: Tim Denee, Ron Edwards, jrs, Bailywolf, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/4/2002 Bailywolf: gods & demons & group binding
I've recently been thinking about Zelazny's Amber books. Amber's Pattern can be thought of- in pretty clear terms- as a sorcerer-style demon. It is intelligent, clearly has a Desire (to…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Valamir, greyorm, Ron Edwards, talysman.

10/5/2002 greyorm: Sorcery & Bloodshed
For quite a while (QUITE a while) I've been toying with an idea for a Sorcerer game based on traditional fantasy and traditional fantasy gaming, that is: wizards, elves, dragons,…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2002 Colin the Riot: Tim Powers' Declare
Anyone ever read that? It's kind of a spy novel dealing with these powerful elemental beings. The novel kind of hints that they're what have historically been known as Djinn…
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Participants: Colin the Riot, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark.

10/8/2002 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe a'scrollin'
Hello, Well, the li'l strip engine seems to be working fine, and the second-week strip of the first story is in place. I'm thinking, too, that each story might be…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Valamir, Roger Eberhart, Henry Fitch, jburneko, greyorm.

10/9/2002 Alan: Sorcerer & Sword: adding Pasts
Hi, I was just finishing Sword and I noticed that the character rules say that an experienced character might have multiple Pasts. What mechanic would I use to add a…
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, erithromycin.

10/10/2002 rafael: Dizzamn, I got mine
Finally. I ordered a copy from a very MFUFLGS, and after a few weeks, they told me, any day now. I said, come on. I said it like Deniro: "Come…
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Participants: rafael, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

10/12/2002 Sykora: Swashbuckling definitions
Once my Unknown Armies game wraps up, I'm planning on finally biting the bullet and running Sorcerer. Inspired by Day of Dupes in #Soul, I've decided to run some swashbuckling…
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Participants: Sykora, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paka.

10/13/2002 Andrew Martin: Trollbabe with multiple players
Can be Trollbabe be played with more than just one player (this is my impression from reading a few reviews/playtests)? Our usual playgroup is around 6 - 8 players.
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Participants: Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards.

10/13/2002 Bankuei: Trollbabe: dead relationships
Since there's no mention of a relationship being deactivated with a npc's death, am I correct to assume that it can still be used for rerolls(via revenge/last wish/flashback)? Chris
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Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2002 jburneko: Let's Talk About "Meaningful" Choice
Hello, I almost put this in RPG Theory or even GNS but I'm going to be talking almost entirely in terms of Adept Press products and I don't mind responses…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, GreatWolf, joshua neff, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, talysman.

10/15/2002 Grimlok: Incarnations
Incarnations- (World Book Idea for Sorcerer) The paradigm this works on is the following: "Every soul is essentially a complex program running through a celestial computer." What this means for…
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Participants: Grimlok, Ron Edwards, Paka.

10/16/2002 Matt Snyder: The Charnel Gods are coming
Folks, I've just finished the much-delayed (on my part!) layout for Charnel Gods. This Sorcerer supplment is going to kick everyone's ass. For a bit of a treat, check out…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Nick Pagnucco, Ben Morgan, hardcoremoose, greyorm, Manu, bpzinn, Ron Edwards, Khaibit.

10/16/2002 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Rules Questions
Hello Again, These are just some simple rules questions. 1) Can demons spot telltales with the usual Lore roll? I couldn't find anything specific in the books. 2) When you…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2002 Paka: Teenage Super-Heroes using Sorcerer Rules
I run an After-School Program and have been thinking about how I could introduce Sorcerer to middle school and high school students. On my ride home from work I thought…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Grimlok.

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