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5/5/2003 Bailywolf: Name That Demon- building difficult demons
As per Mike's suggestion, here is a thread to post difficult-to-stat demon concepts & solutions. Here is one which has been niggling with me- Need: Sorcerer's love and affection Desire:…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ben Morgan, Bankuei, Zamiel, Fabrice G., Rod Anderson, Michael S. Miller, Nev the Deranged, Trevis Martin.

5/5/2003 Christopher Kubasik: What Else Can Demons Do?
Okay, Here's my one problem with Sorcerer and her sister books: I don't care about the demon powers. Lets say a demon showed up tomorrow and said, "Feed my needs…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, jburneko, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Michael S. Miller.

5/2/2003 hardcoremoose: Charnel Gods review
Hey everyone, Not sure if this was outlawed or not, but I wanted to point out the new Charnel Gods review at RPG.net by Bryan Bankhead. It's more than a…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Dav, rafial, Christopher Kubasik, Nev the Deranged, talysman, Valamir, b_bankhead.

5/2/2003 Nev the Deranged: Dusi's Wings
I just read a short story in Realms of Fantasy magazine (April 2003) by Maya Lassiter called Dusi's Wings. It's pretty cool Sorcerer material. It concerns a young street performer…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

5/1/2003 jburneko: A Trollbabe Idea
I had a very neat idea for Trollbabe. Is there anyway to produce and distribute or at least distribute so that we can produce a poster-sized version of the world…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Matt Snyder, Ben Morgan, Rod Anderson.

4/30/2003 jburneko: Trollbabe Questions & Comments
Hello, With all the Trollbabe playing going on I reread the game last night. I'm still trying to figure out how to convince my group to give this a try…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, rafial, Bob McNamee.

4/30/2003 Eric J-D: Robert E Howard Pointer: Conan Stories Republished
In the spirit of the thread on the republication of Karl Wagner's Kane books, I thought I would post this. www.wanderingplanet.com Perhaps some of you already know about it, but…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Maurice Forrester, Bryant.

4/29/2003 Bryant: Karl Edward Wagner Pointer: Kane Stories Republished
(Apologies if this is off-topic.) Night Shade Books has republished the Kane novels in one volume -- they'll be doing a volume of the Kane short stories soon as well.…
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Participants: Bryant, Alan, Zak Arntson, Paul Czege.

4/26/2003 Spooky Fanboy: The Fallen: a Trollbabe offshoot (long)
I like Trollbabe a lot. IMO, if done right, it is the best game for portraying Lone Wanderer/Man with No Name/Sword&Sorcery protagonists. This is the character; these are the journeys.…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Bob McNamee, John Harper.

4/25/2003 Andy Kitkowski: [Sor, Dice] "Levelling" dice for dif power levels.
Sorry- I didn't se anything discussing this in the few searches I ran here, so if it's been discussed already, a point towards relevant links would be appreciated. So I've…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, szilard, Ron Edwards, jburneko, greyorm, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen, Nev the Deranged.

4/24/2003 Nev the Deranged: Sorcerer's Soul
Well, I have (at least temporarily) completed my Sorcerer ouvre, with the recent purchase of Sorcerer's Soul. It's pretty intense. Really really has me jazzed to play. The example plots…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

4/23/2003 John Harper: Trollbabe Desktop: Who ordered the cheesecake?
Take one naked woman, a big horn sheep, and a website for ren-fair accessories and what do you get? No, not that you sick monkey! You get the Trollbabe Desktop…
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Participants: John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes, greyorm, jrs, Nev the Deranged, Solomon.

4/23/2003 greyorm: RPG-Index: Sorcerer included
There's a new site trying to index all the games ever published since D&D first came out. On a lark, I checked to see if Sorcerer was included in this…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Andy Kitkowski, Thalendar.

4/22/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Running survivalist scenes in a Sorcerer ("N") gam
Hey all- had a quick question, which may help me develop some quick mechanics or new modes of play for sorcerer. In most of the games of Sorcerer I've run…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, talysman, Nev the Deranged.

4/21/2003 WhistlinFiend: Ravenloft-esque Sorcerer...again
Just got done reading Sorcerer's Soul....very nice, very deep stuff. I kicked my wife out of the bedroom and put SoS and Charnel Gods on her pillow. I pretend they…
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Participants: WhistlinFiend, jburneko.

4/19/2003 John Harper: Sorcerer fan art
I recently put together an entry for the Universalis art contest, and then decided to do a few more pieces in that style, starting with my take on the covers…
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Participants: John Harper, Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Fabrice G..

4/17/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: The Keys of Uriel - a Sorcerer adventure
I just released a free Sorcerer (& Sword) adventure meant for convention or introductory play. It's a weird fantasy scenario with definite western elements to it, set in the town…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Ace.

4/17/2003 Ron Edwards: Guest of Honor at GenCon 2003
Hi there, That would be me, among a bunch of other people whose names are probably more widely known. I have no idea why or how I was selected for…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Valamir, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Matt Snyder, Nev the Deranged, Andy Kitkowski, ejh, James V. West.

4/14/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Some retro-FRPG Sorcerer (comments highly desired)
On Monday nights in Seattle, Alan Barclay and I run what we call "Indie Game Night," a session where usually enough people for two groups show up and we run…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

4/13/2003 Bob McNamee: The indie-netgaming folks are playing Trollbabe
Two fairly short sessions of Trollbabe so far last Mon and Tues, over IRC chat. I've got a combined synched up log of the Narration channel and OOC channel in…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, rafial, Bankuei.

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5/7/2003 Ben Lehman: Strange Sorceror Question
Hey all-- I'm making a character for my first sorceror game, an IRC Sword and Sorceror shindig. Of course, being the sort of gamer I am, my character concept stretches…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Dav, Bailywolf.

5/7/2003 Zamiel: D&D Classes to Sorcerer & Sword Characters
I know there's been some talk about treating D&D as a magnificent metaphor for Sorcerer characters, with XP being purchased as further demons and various NPCs dealt with via abstracted…
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Participants: Zamiel, greyorm, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Valamir.

5/8/2003 Rod Anderson: Xuphia - a Sorcerer and Sword campaign . . .
. . . with that ubiquitous 'z' sound at the beginning! Anyhow, hello to everyone. I'm about to start a S&S campaign that I got going through the indie-netgaming Yahoo…
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Participants: Rod Anderson, Bankuei, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Nev the Deranged.

5/9/2003 Rod Anderson: Shapeshift question
Hi, I'm trying to help one of my players, Ben, with a starting Demon. A dry description: She's a demure young woman with (I think) Cloak, Perception and Hint, who…
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Participants: Rod Anderson, Zamiel, Clay, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf.

5/9/2003 jburneko: Mind Control Revisited
Hello Again, So, after reading some of demon building excerises I've realized that Psychic Forces is a VERY interesting ability and is sort of your catch all, "I just want…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/10/2003 Nev the Deranged: The Dead Are Too Much With Us...
Alright. I was stoked to be playing in this campaign, until our chargen session last night. Now I'm on fire. Next weekend can't get here fast enough. Even though I'm…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/12/2003 Balbinus: Sorceror and Sword combats
Hi there, I'd be very grateful if those who've run S&S campaigns could indicate how combat in S&S differed from trad Sorceror. I realise the book addresses this, but my…
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Participants: Balbinus, Ron Edwards, dyjoots, Tim Alexander, jburneko.

5/13/2003 rafial: Trollbabe injury
I'm bringing a question and followup over from the Tale of Three Trollbabes thread in Actual Play, since it represents a digression into some detailed rules hashing. There, it was…
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Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob McNamee.

5/13/2003 jburneko: Diplomacy In Trollbabe
Hello, This is a problem I encounter in almost ALL Fortune-In-The-Middle based systems but I want to discuse it in a Trollbabe context because the mechanics are the simplest and…
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Participants: jburneko, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, talysman, Tim C Koppang, Rod Anderson, GreatWolf, rafial, greyorm.

5/13/2003 Bob McNamee: Trollbabe-Demigods
Trollbabe-Demigods starts tonight Tuesday May 13, 2003 #bobsgame_nar - in game narration #bobsgame_ooc - Out of character and dice rolling Trollbabe with the serial numbers filed off. Fantasy Ancient greek…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, C. Edwards.

5/14/2003 Bruce Baugh: Urge and GeneTech: Considering a kitbash
Some months ago, Polyhedron magazine had an article on the GeneTech setting, which was going to be part of D20 Modern but was cut for space. I love it. It's…
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Participants: Bruce Baugh, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/16/2003 Bankuei: Xuphia in play
Played us some S&S last night via IRC and had a good time! I'll comment on my experience in brief, and let Rod break off the main dealies about our…
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Participants: Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Nev the Deranged.

5/18/2003 Nev the Deranged: MATRIX RELOADED (may contain spoilers)
Wow. Wow. I had heard plenty of rumors about the movie (and has anyone but me noticed that there was very little commercial hype? I don't watch much tv so…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, wyrdlyng, Le Joueur, Valamir.

5/18/2003 wyrdlyng: Wuxia Relationship Maps & adapting for S&S
[quote]And we plan to make the "Relationship Charts" in the back of the novels a feature of how the GM sets up stories to be run in the game, since…
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Participants: wyrdlyng, Bailywolf.

5/19/2003 Eric J-D: S&S: It's like you read my mind
Hi Ron, Hooray, I bought Sorcerer and Sorcerer & Sword this weekend and have already read through much of each. Briefly, the reason for my post is simply to wax…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Valamir, Bankuei, Andy Kitkowski, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards.

5/20/2003 Ron Edwards: 4th Trollbabe story - done
Hello, The story "A Day at the Circus" concludes this week, written by me & illustrated by Adam Prosser. The full version will go up in a day or two,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson.

5/21/2003 Ron Edwards: Sex & Sorcery update
Hello, The books are printed, shipped, and actually present at the Tundra warehouse! Which means that as soon as they're off to the distributors, the on-line sales begin. The theory…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eric J-D, Blake Hutchins, Fabrice G., Valamir, Thomas Tamblyn, Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West, greyorm, Jeffrey Straszheim, Nev the Deranged, Maurice Forrester, Jason L Blair, Paul Czege.

5/21/2003 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery Revisited (Sort of)
Hello Again, One of my players put up a kind of in-character journal for the Space-Western Sorcerer game we played a few months back. It can be found here: http://users.adelphia.net/~ppilati/games/space/space.html…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/22/2003 Matt Wilson: trollbabe one-session adventures
This question may be explained in the rules, and if so, let me know, and I'll shut up and go buy the thing. I've played two games of Trollbabe so…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, jburneko, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Alan, rafial.

5/27/2003 rafial: Shared narrative vs. Exploration of Character in Trollbabe
I'd like to discuss an issue which I believe has been an undercurrent of tension in the Trollbabe campaign I am currently running. The issue is the possible negative impact…
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Participants: rafial, Jeffrey Straszheim, Bob McNamee, Alan, Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, John Harper.

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