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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.

6/10/2003 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.

6/10/2003 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 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.

6/9/2003 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..

6/7/2003 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.

6/6/2003 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.

6/6/2003 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 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.

6/5/2003 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.

6/5/2003 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 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 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 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.

6/4/2003 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.

6/4/2003 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 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 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.

6/3/2003 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.

5/29/2003 Ade: Sorcerer Humanity Loss and Gain
Hi, I've just run a couple of sessions of Sorcerer, and it may well be that I've not read the rules well enough :) but it does seem that Humanity…
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Participants: Ade, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

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6/16/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Actual Play: Love, Demons, and a Desparate Cry for Help
We played this over the weekend. Here is how things turned out. Summary The demon Moebius showed up begging Maggie to support its breaking from its master, who was, it…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

6/17/2003 Fabrice G.: Sorcerer : breaking the Binding and the binding strengh
Hi, In my last Sorcerer game (Famillyt ties, about witch I'll post later), the player asked me if he could break the binding with his demon. The rules are pretty…
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Participants: Fabrice G., Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

6/17/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: The Tale of the Unwilling Trollbabe
I think that my wife and I will continue her Trollbabe's saga this weekend. I'd like to run some things by you folks. Here is the basic situation -- I…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Jared A. Sorensen, Alan, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin, quozl, John Harper.

6/18/2003 Ron Edwards: help requested
Hi there, Can someone take a quick peek inside all three print supplements and then email their ISBN numbers to David Seaward, at adams.west@saol.com? Many thanks! My computer access will…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin, kwill.

6/19/2003 jburneko: Trollbabe Comic Stuck?
Is my computer just being weird or has the Trollbabe comic not updated at all this week? Jesse
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Participants: jburneko, lumpley, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

6/20/2003 Bailywolf: More Real World Sorcery
Does this not soundl like a cool twisted Sorcerer game to you: http://www.metro.co.uk/metro/weird/live/index.html?in_page_id=4 Girl marries dog A NINE-YEAR-old girl has married a stray dog in front of more than 100…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Bankuei.

6/22/2003 Lxndr: Sorcerer Dice Pool Odds
Has anyone ever done calculations to suggest the rough odds for sorcerer dice pools based on the # of dice in each pool, and the # of sides used? I'd…
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Participants: Lxndr, rafial, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

6/25/2003 Lxndr: [Sorcerer] Chum in the Water
This is a "one-sheet" that I've been working on. I ask one simple question, seeking as many answers as possible: What Did I Do Wrong? Beneath the surface of the…
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Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

6/27/2003 Ron Edwards: At last, Puppetman
Hello, Finally, here's my followup to Alexander's questions in Mind Control Redux and Another "How would you ..." thread Everyone's input is appreciated. You've mentioned in the past (in that…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Spooky Fanboy, Eric J-D, Lxndr.

6/29/2003 Ben Lehman: Mind Control Demons
The threads about mind control got me thinking and, against my better judgement, I put together a perfectly good "mind-controlling" demon with the base Sorcerer rules. Whether or not you…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf.

6/30/2003 Ben Lehman: Humanity as Moral Gauge?
Hey-- I am playing around with the sorcerer rules, as I just got them. One of the things that immediately struck me is that the Humanity gauge seems primarily designed…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, jburneko, Lxndr, hardcoremoose, Trevis Martin, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, ethan_greer, erithromycin, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, greyorm, Jake Norwood, Akos Szederjei, Mike Holmes.

7/2/2003 Bailywolf: A great story, chock full O werid
Anyone read anything by Mick Farren? Writer, reporter, & musician- Mick wears many hats. I've been reading his stuff for years, and his sci-fi remains some of the odd writing…
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Participants: Bailywolf.

7/6/2003 Lxndr: Sorcerer Online - redux
[quote] Thing #2 is the planned main feature of Sorcerer Online, specifically a means to archive and describe ACTUAL PLAY to one another in a decent, interesting fashion. It will…
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Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Delta1, Ben Morgan, Fabrice G., Clay, Clinton R. Nixon, MrWrong, Hardpoint.

7/8/2003 Ben Lehman: Sorcerer: Art and Artifice
[quote="Mike Holmes"]Could you post the basic details (maybe in a new thread)? When you say 60s art scene, I'm getting a vision of Warhol, Lou Reed, and Heroin. Am I…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks.

7/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Binding someone else's demon
Can you bind a bound demon? Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, jrs, Ron Edwards.

7/11/2003 Piers Brown: More Errata(?) for Sorceror
So, having just gotten the books, and plunged straight through them, I have a couple of questions. These aren't so much queries about how the rules work--reading through the back…
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Participants: Piers Brown, Ron Edwards.

7/13/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Elfs spell system
I had my third session last night. Mayhem ensued. Various other problems like I have to figure out a way to keep bad guys around because one of the players…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Alan, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, brianm.

7/13/2003 greyorm: Protagonism and Mind Control
So, I was reading over Ron's take on Puppetman, mulling over the conversations about mind control and protagonism, and thinking about Immortal. First, I know absolutely nothing about Puppetman --…
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Participants: greyorm, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

7/17/2003 Andy Kitkowski: [Site Hop] Running Sorcerer with 4+ players
I doubt that this is kosher, posting here asking people to check out another thread on another board, but a topic came up there that I'm very interested in, and…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

7/18/2003 John: Sorcerer & Sword Pact Rules
The Pact rules in Sorcerer & Sword seem fairly straightforward when applied to on-going tasks like having a demon guard a vault. However, they are less obvious when applied to…
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Participants: John, Ron Edwards.

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