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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.

8/29/2001 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.

8/28/2001 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.

8/27/2001 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.

8/26/2001 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.

8/25/2001 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.

8/23/2001 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.

8/23/2001 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 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.

8/22/2001 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.

8/22/2001 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.

8/21/2001 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.

8/21/2001 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.

8/20/2001 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.

8/19/2001 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.

8/19/2001 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.

8/18/2001 hardcoremoose: The Misbegotten
Hey everyone, Lately every time I try coming up with an idea for a new game I always arrive at the same conclusion: It would work better as a Sorceror…
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Participants: hardcoremoose.

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.

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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.

9/5/2001 jburneko: Layout Question
So, my hardcover copy of Sorcerer arrived and I've been reading it over the last few days and there's something about the organization that I just don't get. Many reviews…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

9/6/2001 Valamir: The possessed house adventure
Hey all, I'm going to be running my first Sorcerer adventure this Saturday, which since I just found out about it yesterday, leaves me little time to prepare. I'm thinking…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

9/7/2001 Valamir: Commanding Demons
Ok. Several places in the book it mentions the ability sorcerers have of giving orders to other demons besides there own. Are there specific rules for this? I can't find…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/7/2001 Ron Edwards: the Hite report
Hey folks, The book's received its first review, and I for one am vastly relieved - much as I attempt to ignore reviews, this one's pending appearance did give me…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Valamir.

9/7/2001 Ron Edwards: Picture's up!
If you haven't seen it yet, drop by the website and check out the grinning mugs of the Sorcerer booth-monkeys from GenCon 2001. Yes, it really was that fun.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/9/2001 furashgf: Scenario - Indian Summer
I was hoping I could toss my Sorcerer game ideas, inchoate as they are, into the community here and take advantage of the creativity I’ve seen in other posts. Any…
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Participants: furashgf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/9/2001 Valamir: My first Sorcerer game
Ok, just got back from my first Sorcerer game. The results were somewhat mixed. First let me say, that a good time was had by all, so the issues raised…
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Participants: Valamir, Supplanter, Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, furashgf, random, Blake Hutchins, Clay.

9/9/2001 Valamir: Sorcerer Characters
I figured I'd post the character's my players came up with. I think they really figured out the feel of a Sorcerer sorcerer far more quickly than I'd imagined. This…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Tar Markvar, Jack Spencer Jr.

9/10/2001 ephealy: RPGnet Sorcerer Review
[P] I wasn't sure if anyone had listed this link yet, and I'm too lazy to read the whole forum to find out :wink: [A HREF="http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4735.html"]http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4735.html[/A] [font size=-1][ This Message…
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Participants: ephealy.

9/10/2001 Zak Arntson: Elfs - First game tonight!!
Okay, Clinton came over to play some Elfs. So I figure, what the hell. We're playing Elfs so all bets are off. So anyhow, I drank way too much (having…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/11/2001 Ron Edwards: An open message
To all, I have realized that my attempt to foster a "friendly Uncle Ron" approach has backfired. It worked fine for the PDF format, but not with the book. Recently,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Time, Jack Spencer Jr, jburneko.

9/11/2001 sanctum: Humanity - the non-degenerative aproach
I haven't run a sorcerer campaign yet, but that hasn't stopped me from forming concepts as I read through the rule book. Frequently when humanity is discussed it is made…
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Participants: sanctum, Time, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Valamir.

9/12/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Trouble printing?
I had a problem printing Elfs out. For some reason the art is sort of blurry looking and, for reasons I'll never understand, it locked up my computer when printing…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr.

9/12/2001 Valamir: Defining Humanity
Many different ways of defining what Humanity represents have been proposed. How important is it to tie the definition of Humanity into the portrayal of demons. It occurs to me…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, random, Mike Holmes.

9/14/2001 Bailywolf: Why no mind control?
I'm curious why sorcerer includes no mind control or mind reading type powers in the basic set of demon abilities... These would seem to offer some intresting new complications... and…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, Blake Hutchins, Jared A. Sorensen, Wart, Tar Markvar, contracycle.

9/17/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer Online
Hey, The title's a little whacked, because the whole SITE is on-line, but what it refers to is the sign-on feature at the Sorcerer website. Now, when Clay and I…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Blake Hutchins, Tor Erickson, Uncle Dark, Wart.

9/18/2001 Paul Czege: Sorcerer review by Kenneth Hite
I'm not sure of the arrangement between Gamer's Realm and Pyramid, but I just ran across Kenneth Hite's review of Sorcerer here: http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

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