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5/27/2003 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe comics news
Hi there, Check out the complete A Day at the Circus story! Also, the first strip of Holy Trollers, the new story by me and James V. West, is now…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, jburneko, James V. West.

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.

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.

5/21/2003 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.

5/21/2003 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.

5/20/2003 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.

5/19/2003 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.

5/18/2003 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.

5/18/2003 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.

5/16/2003 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.

5/14/2003 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.

5/13/2003 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.

5/13/2003 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 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.

5/12/2003 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.

5/10/2003 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.

5/9/2003 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.

5/9/2003 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.

5/8/2003 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.

5/7/2003 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.

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6/3/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Love, Demons, and a Desparate Cry for Help
Howdy, I'm starting up a Sorcerer game with my wife. We've done it before, but I'm having a sad case of creative block this time around. Anyhow, I'm going to…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Nev the Deranged.

6/4/2003 Lxndr: Mind control redux (split)
Yeah, yeah, resurrecting an old thread; is that a bad thing? I know rpg.net sometimes gets all buggered. But I'm new here, and I'm looking through threads from the beginning…
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Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Valamir, Bailywolf, Michael S. Miller.

6/4/2003 Lxndr: Sorcerer & Space redux (split)
Did this ever come out?
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Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Catalyst, Michael S. Miller, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/4/2003 Bankuei: Legend of the 5 Rings + Sorcerer = S5R
Hi folks, I'll let it speak for itself: Sorcerer of the 5 Rings... What is S5R? S5R is my personal conversion of AEG’s wonderful setting of Rokugan in their Legend…
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Participants: Bankuei, Bailywolf.

6/4/2003 jburneko: Question About Demons Confering Abilities.
This question is prompted by Mind Control Redux thread but since this isn't specifically about mind control I thought I'd put it in its own thread. There were some examples…
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Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, Valamir, Lxndr.

6/5/2003 Jake: Sword and Sorcerer
I'm new to sorcerer, and from what I can see this is the game I've been looking for for a long time. Some quick questions though: I've been thinking that…
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Participants: Jake, Nev the Deranged, ethan_greer, hardcoremoose, joshua neff.

6/5/2003 Nev the Deranged: International Gamer's Day
Saturday the 7th is International Gamer's Day! Go ye forth and patronize all manner of Gaming Establishments, regaling their proprieters with praise and adulation (and money) for their continuing contribution…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young.

6/5/2003 jburneko: Demon Cops: Best Sorcerer "How To" Yet
I'd been holding off on purchasing Demon Cops because it was Anime based and quite frankly, I'm not an Anime fan. However, when I ordered Sex and Sorcery I threw…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

6/5/2003 jrients: TrueSorcery.com, a one-sheet
Fellow Forge member szilard and I have been working together to produce the following one-sheet. This is my first serious effort at a Sorcerer game. Feedback would be most appreciated.…
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Participants: jrients, Ron Edwards, szilard, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 Lxndr: [Sorcerer] Another "How Would You..." Thread
Following please find a list of potential demonic concepts, and their powers in narrative terms; my request is that you help me convert concept into game mechanic. This first…
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Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 Bankuei: Xuphia continued...
Hi folks, We played the third session of Xuphia, minus one player. Rod Anderson, Mike Holmes and I played through an exciting session of S&S, which turned out to be…
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Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Rod Anderson, Lxndr, Bob McNamee.

6/6/2003 Thorsten: Sorcerer in Germany
How long will it take to get Sorcerer to Germany?
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Participants: Thorsten, Ron Edwards, Bomilkar.

6/6/2003 Ron Edwards: Awesome art!
Oh my God! Has anyone seen these?? Elfs, at the Anticide website! And Sorcerer and Sword stuff, and Tribe 8 stuff from a game using The Pool … The artist…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson, John Harper, AnttiK.

6/7/2003 Lxndr: Sorcerer Main Book Questions
This time a short one. I've searched (both here in the forum and in the "you don't have to sign up for them" parts of the Sorcerer website) and didn't…
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Participants: Lxndr, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

6/9/2003 Lxndr: [Sorcerer] Mark
I do believe this is different enough to deserve a separate thread. What is the point of Mark, the demonic ability? What (if anything) might tempt me to choose "Hey,…
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Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, Piers Brown, Fabrice G..

6/10/2003 Trevis Martin: Sex and Sorcery -- This Book Rocks!
Wow Ron. Really wow. I just received my copy in the mail today and I've read it all the way through. Its a page turner. My brain is numb. I…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Bankuei, Jeffrey Straszheim, Lxndr, Andy Kitkowski.

6/10/2003 Bankuei: Shonen Jump- Lots of Sorcerer stories...
Hi folks, Picked up another copy of the japanese comic "Shonen Jump", which is a monthly anthology of manga, many of which are very much Sorcerer stories. Current ongoing stories…
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Participants: Bankuei, Nev the Deranged.

6/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Gen Con Sorcerer Games
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=71072#71072]This thread[/url] game me an idea. I would like to play a 3-session game of Sorcerer at Gen Con (yes, I realize that this won't really happen, but I want…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, jrs, lumpley.

6/13/2003 jburneko: Sorcerer Diceless
I was reading the new Marvel game and I kept getting this weird idea. I kept thinking, "This is similar to what would happen if you tried to play Sorcerer…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Trevis Martin.

6/15/2003 Lxndr: Sorcerer Sessions & Campaigns
From reading a bunch of Actual Play Sorcerer stuff (linked from the RPG website) I'm noticing that many (most) Sorcerer campaigns are set up for the short-term (six sessions, maybe,…
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Participants: Lxndr, Valamir, Bankuei, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes.

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