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8/18/2001 Paul Czege: see Ron Edwards and Mike Holmes sell Sorcerer at GenCon (kin
Mike's the one with the beard: http://www.wizards.com/gencon/virtual/exhibitor.asp?x=virtual/display&E=103 My guess on the timing of this shot is sometime about the middle of the day Thursday. The display of the Sorcerer cover…
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Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

8/15/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Urge is up and for sale
Just a note to let everyone know that both Urge, my new mini-supplement, and Electric Ghosts, Raven's supplement, are both on the Sorcerer website now. _________________ Clinton R. Nixon…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bailywolf, joshua neff, furashgf, Ron Edwards.

8/12/2001 lumpley: Elfs is a funny silly cool game
And that's pretty much all I have to say until I get to play it. Oh, except: is player-director stance the same thing as gm-director stance? Does gm-director stance have…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

8/11/2001 greyorm: FitM and Bonus Dice
It occurs to me last night, while I'm heading off to sleepy land, that FitM and the Bonus Dice mechanic in Sorcerer don't necessarily work together. Bonus Dice are awarded…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: This woke me up and kept me from going back to sleep
"The Sorcerer's Song" aka "Scream for me, Los Angeles!" Sorcerers are musicians. Demons are either passers (groupies, roadies, boy/girlfriends) or objects (instruments or affectations). Humanity is popularity. Humanity 0 =…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, gentrification, Mike Holmes.

8/9/2001 greyorm: Electric Ghosts Available
Yeah! Electric Ghosts is available NOW! Right there with the other mini-supplements on the Sorcerer website! Go get it! Whoo!
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/9/2001 Bailywolf: some conceptual stuff
Hey all. I may be a bit premature here, seeing as how I don't even have the book yet, but let me run some conceptual stuff by you for a…
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Participants: Bailywolf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan.

8/8/2001 Bailywolf: New to Sorcerer..
Howdy all. Glad to see some familiar names from rpg.net. Longstoryshort- I found the sorcerer Aprentice version on my local drive on sunday... and afterlooking at it wondered why the…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, Valamir.

8/6/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer at GenCon
Hello, Back from GenCon ... and into the first actual vacation time I've had in a year. I want to thank (in no particular order): Mike Holmes, Sean Wipfli, Terry…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Uncle Dark, Mario, Jared A. Sorensen, Ferry Bazelmans, JohnB, Clay.

8/2/2001 DaR: Thoughts on Elfs
So I finally bit the bullet and bought Elfs the other day, and I thought I'd share some thoughts and observations. Presentation and Content The book…
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Participants: DaR, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2001 Dav: Some whining and begging...
This may be humiliating for those of you reading this. If so, picture me writing it. I WANT TO READ THE OTHER MINI-SUPPLEMENTS!!!! I've got Jared's, which, if there are…
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Participants: Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm.

7/29/2001 Ron Edwards: News 2
Hello, I hold in my hands the first book copy of Sorcerer to be touched by a human after the printers'. There's a box of them here, to be taken…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, Jason L Blair, Dav, Misguided Games, Ian O'Rourke, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

7/29/2001 Paul Czege: FitM and bonus dice for roleplaying
Hey Ron, One of the things I think we've handled awkwardly in Scott's Sorcerer game is fortune-in-the-middle in conjunction with bonus dice for roleplaying. As a player, you want to…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

7/24/2001 Ron Edwards: War story (probably)
Yesterday I received a friendly message from someone, asking me for any "advice" on an attached file called ACPexe1_7.exe. I wrote back asking for some context - who he was,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, Supplanter, Clay, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, joshua neff, Mytholder, greyorm, Jack Spencer Jr, Ian O'Rourke, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, FilthySuperman.

7/18/2001 Ron Edwards: The damn book
Well, the book is not going to be available until GenCon. You have no idea how agonizing this is. When it's over, I'll write a little "Why books don't come…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/14/2001 Uncle Dark: PBEM
I was thinking of running Sorcerer as a PBEM game. I'm happy to discuss premise and such, but right now what I'm most interested in is how to do it.…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, joshua neff, greyorm.

7/9/2001 Ron Edwards: Help with maps
Hello, I'm in the process of re-writing Sorcerer & Sword extensively. I'd really like to have a map for each of the three example settings (yes, three, not two). I'd…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis.

7/3/2001 jburneko: Players Relation To Relationship Map
So, I'm embarking on a bit of an experiment and I'm planning on running a one-shot using a relationship map as the basis for planning. Since this is a one-shot,…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, james_west.

7/1/2001 Supplanter: I Fight the Indie Fight!
Into Game Parlor in Chantilly VA I go today on my lunch break. (Sucks to be the boss and work Saturdays, but your pity is sufficient balm.) Now this is…
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Participants: Supplanter, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Dav.

6/30/2001 Ian Freeman: Has anybody done this
I am just curious about whether anyone has tried this. Sorcerer: Discworld. Think about it. You got the dungeon dimensions, and Humanity can be quickly converted to "occult bufferin" representing…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark.

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8/19/2001 Dav: Electric Ghosts
I'm just putting in the word. Though I will certainly have more formal and well-thought remarks (as much as my remarks ever are) later. I just finished Electric Ghosts on…
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Participants: Dav, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

8/19/2001 Clay: Mini-supplement Sales
I have some questions about the mini-supplements. First, how have sales been? From what I hear on these forums, at least some people are buying them. Have sales numbers reached…
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Participants: Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Dav, Valamir, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

8/20/2001 Ron Edwards: Why this business pisses me off
Well, well. Yesterday - yes, YESTERDAY - I discovered something really aggravating. NONE of the individual orders made prior to this week got sent - apparently store orders had to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, joshua neff, Bailywolf, Laura Bishop, Paul Czege, Valamir, Uncle Dark, Ben Morgan, james_west, Ian O'Rourke, Tundra.

8/21/2001 Bailywolf: High School Was Hell
Has anyone toyed with running a High School sorcerer game? You've got a huge pimple. The girl you love doesn't even know you exist. You have a biology test on…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, jburneko, Paul Czege, furashgf.

8/21/2001 james_west: Running Elfs at a con ...
I've got a convention coming up in two weeks, and I've got two sessions of Elfs in the schedule. One in which I'm planning on running a perversion of Keep…
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Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/22/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Got it!
My HB Sorcerer book arrived this morning - this means international orders are fulfilled very quickly. Since it was only sent out a few days ago?
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, Zak Arntson, Jason L Blair.

8/22/2001 Bailywolf: Something a bit... lighter
I want to run Sorcerer for a small group of non-gamer friends, but don't want to freak them out too much. Those who've read some of my ideas in the…
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Participants: Bailywolf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, jburneko, kwill, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/23/2001 Valamir: Rules Question on Contains
Ok, been reading through the new book, came across something in the Contain rules I had missed before about Preparation. The actual contain is Sorcerer Lore vs Demon Power, but…
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Participants: Valamir, Jeffrey Straszheim, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: First impresions.
Got the game the other day, and I'm impressed. 3e PHB has a few hundred pages on it and is slightly larger but I think the money was better spent…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2001 Uncle Dark: Uncle Dark's Capsule Review
I just got my Sorcerer hardback yesterday, and I finished it this morning. I'm glad I spent the money on it, but if I'd been able to see what all…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Jeffrey Straszheim, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/25/2001 Ron Edwards: Last chance on Sword MS
Hey everyone, Sorcerer & Sword is going into print in just a couple of months (early November is the plan). That means that within the week, there will be NO…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, jburneko, Paul Czege, Supplanter.

8/26/2001 joshua neff: new web design
I really like the new look of the Sorcerer website. However, someone on RPGnet just asked about the Sorcerer's Apprentice free pdf--it's not available from the site & he's apparently…
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2001 Ron Edwards: Call for demos
Hey everyone, It turns out that the next Leap Forward for Sorcerer relies on store demos. Or that's what I'm told, anyway. So what I need are prep materials for…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, unodiablo, Uncle Dark, Molotov, Supplanter, james_west, Blake Hutchins, Tundra.

8/28/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Ideas! Ideas!
I've been throwing around 2 ideas for Sorcerer… The first is based around a Twin Peaks/Over the Edge style idea - I want to explore horror/surreal stories within a fixed…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, Mike Holmes.

8/29/2001 Zak Arntson: Clerks - Sorcerer Style
Okay, saw Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back the day after I read my Sorcerer book ... So ... has anyone run Sorcerer with a comedic bent? I can imagine…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Time, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2001 Ron Edwards: Demon Cops: now available - news at 11
Hey there! And finally my little contribution to the stable of mini-supplements has hit the airwaves. You are all courteously invited to wander by the Sorcerer site and consider giving…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Time.

8/31/2001 Balbinus: Sorceror Group Size
One of the interesting things with Sorceror to my mind is that the focus on the characters is so strong it is difficult to have too many of them. What…
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Participants: Balbinus, FilthySuperman, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

9/3/2001 Supplanter: Last(?) Combat Question
The combat section in HB Sorc is much clearer than the old text. I think I'm just about there. One last thing I wonder: The rules seem to suggest that…
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Participants: Supplanter, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

9/4/2001 xiombarg: Basic Question
Perhaps I'm not reading my copy of Sorcerer closely enough, but I'm not sure when a demon is In Need. I know it loses Power and so on for every…
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Participants: xiombarg, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Knight, random, Ben Morgan.

9/4/2001 Wart: Sorcerer-as-PBEM
I've been considering running Sorcerer as a PBEM - has anybody tried this before, and if so what works and what doesn't work? I'm considering a turn-based format - which…
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Participants: Wart.

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