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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.

6/20/2003 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.

6/19/2003 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.

6/18/2003 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.

6/17/2003 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.

6/17/2003 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.

6/16/2003 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.

6/15/2003 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.

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.

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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.

7/21/2003 jburneko: Sorcerer Game Concept
A few days ago I saw a British mini-series called Ultraviolet. It was more or less a serious crime drama that just happened to include vampires. It wasn't really a…
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Participants: jburneko, erithromycin, Ron Edwards.

7/22/2003 ninguable: Sorcerer site down?
I went to buy Charnel Gods but both the Gilded Moose and the Sorcerer sites are down. And with Gencon coming up I suppose it'll take a while to get…
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Participants: ninguable, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Valamir.

7/23/2003 Ace: Troubles with getting Sorcerer and Sex
I though I would let everbody know that Alliance distribution isn't quite up to date on Adept Press products Several weeks ago I ordered Sorcerer and Sex from my FLGS…
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Participants: Ace, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Clay, ethan_greer.

7/30/2003 Michael S. Miller: Why I can't say "I had fun playing Trollbabe"
On Saturday at GenCon, Ron ran Trollbabe for Gordon & me. Thinking about it robbed me of precious sleep later that night, and occupied brainspace during the long drive back…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Gordon C. Landis, rafial, Alan, Ron Edwards, ejh.

7/31/2003 Steve Dustin: Madness Dossier
So, I've been mulling over in my mind the next campaign I'm gonna run, and I've finally settled on running The Madness Dossier out of the back of GURPS Horror.…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, Christopher Weeks.

8/4/2003 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer, Embraced by the Dark
This was an idea I had for a Sorcerer game, mainly inspired by Flatliners and the progressive demon option mentioned in Sorcerer and Soul. Embraced by the Dark Inspirations: Flatliners,…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Delta1, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

8/5/2003 dyjoots: Becoming Undead
cross posted to RPGnet: i've read through the section in Sorcerer and Sword about Necromancy, and it seems to have some quit interesting ramifications, but i have some questions about…
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Participants: dyjoots, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

8/5/2003 Tim Alexander: Pitching a "new way"
Hey All, So in the last week or so I've had my head turned inside out, mostly from the content here on the forge. Especially enlightening have been the "actual…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, joshua neff, jburneko, Bryant.

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