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10/23/2001 random: spawn questions
I'm kind of confused about how Spawn is meant to work. (Note that I'm only bringing it up here because I'd like to get some public clarification: for my own…
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Participants: random, Ron Edwards.

10/19/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Spiel Essen report
Hi Ron, A report from Spiel Essen here (as if the subject wasn't clear enough *sigh*). I'm happy to report I saw Sorcerer at no less than 4 different Germany-based…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama
Hi all, This thread's name is courtesy of the excellent Mike Holmes. It is all set for the next round of the "Under the Hood" series starring me, Jesse, Paul,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, contracycle.

10/16/2001 Eric: Sorcerer and Swashbuckler
Hey -- I noticed the ad for Swashbuckler in the back of Sorcerer, so I read a review of it. Sounds like it is a system good for dueling but…
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Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, jburneko, greyorm.

10/16/2001 lumpley: Just Praise
This isn't substantive, but I've been rereading Sorcerer this evening and my gracious it's a smart game. I think it was the stuff about disgruntled demons that made me want…
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Participants: lumpley, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen, Eric, furashgf, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins.

10/15/2001 Ron Edwards: To Tor, Jesse, and Paul
All right, you three. Here's how it's going to work. 1) I provide a template or basis for a Sorcerer game, exactly as if you were my players. You comment…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, joshua neff, jburneko, Tor Erickson, furashgf, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/10/2001 Tor Erickson: Circular campaign design (not a good thing)
Man, I feel I'm obsessing over getting everything *just right* (killer Premise, setting, situation, back-story)and that the game is never going to get off the ground. I'm moving in circles…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Paul Czege.

10/10/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Not Suited To One Shots?
Hello Again, Up in the Actual Play forum Ron made the comment about Sorcerer not being suited for one shots. I marvel at this statement and it only feeds my…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

10/10/2001 Bailywolf: Alternate Demons
Anyone play with alternative demon ideas? Ron suggests some intresting ones in the ole' tome itself, but I came up with a few... Wuxia: based on a mini-suplement I'm working…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes.

10/9/2001 Ron Edwards: Soul moves into production
Hi everyone, Well, Sorcerer and Sword has winged its way to the printers, so we're now in that weird space in which *I* feel all done, but *you* are still…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, jburneko.

10/2/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer & Sword news
Hello, It hasn't happened yet, but it's happening this week: the text, art, and covers are going to the printers. It will print much faster than the main rules because…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Ferry Bazelmans, Blake Hutchins, contracycle, Zak Arntson, Bailywolf, Matt Snyder, unodiablo.

9/25/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Combat
Hello There, This might end up to be one of my thinking out loud posts. So, I ran a session of my monthly Deadlands (yes, this will get around to…
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Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2001 Tor Erickson: Game Prep
Hello, I've been re-reading the scenarios in Soul and have a question. Given that character creation (including kicker, technicality, etc.) is an essential process not included in the scenarios (for…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

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.

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.

9/14/2001 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.

9/12/2001 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.

9/12/2001 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.

9/11/2001 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.

9/11/2001 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.

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10/29/2001 Mike Holmes: Hey Alchemist!
That new concoction almost ready yet? A reel of black and white film, eye of Frank Lloyd Wright, a few dark demons, and a big dose of Kicker, and what…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis.

10/30/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama, part 2
All right then. This post is about what I'd think (or DO think, really) about the characters prior to going into the first session. I will also post about my…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Tor Erickson, random, James Holloway, Ian O'Rourke.

10/31/2001 Bailywolf: Short term bindings, invocations, favors...
Binding is a pretty permenant thing... A sorcerer could go his entire life with a single well cared for and bound demon without having to go through the time consuming…
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Participants: Bailywolf, furashgf, Ron Edwards.

11/2/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Glenwood Springs: Relationship Map
Okay, I'm trying to get a campaign off the ground using all this player driven, relationship map style plotting. While sketching out a vague map, one thing I noticed is…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2001 Tor Erickson: Some technical questions
Okay: if I roll a 8, 8, 9 and he rolls a 4, 5, 8, do I win with one victory (for the nine) or two (for the nine and…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, random.

11/5/2001 James Holloway: A possibly irrelevant question
Ron said: (which I like to call the "Lincoln Logs" model of GMing, which is to blow up anything the player-character likes or cares about, or to threaten to do…
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Participants: James Holloway, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf.

11/6/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Sighting
I CAN'T believe it took me this long to post this. I just completely forgot. So, you'll never guess in a MILLION YEARS where I saw a copy of Sorcerer…
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Participants: jburneko, furashgf, Jared A. Sorensen, DaR, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, greyorm, erithromycin, Julian Kelsey, contracycle, kwill.

11/6/2001 Manu: Secrecy and stamina
Hey all, Here are two questions for Ron: 1-the Rule of Secrecy forbids Demons from revealing their existence to the world; wouldn't that prohibit their blatant use as combat monsters,…
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Participants: Manu, Ron Edwards.

11/7/2001 furashgf: Art Deco, GNS and Narritivism, and the Bad Thing
It looks like the Art Deco demo thread turned into an implcit discussion of GNS theory. The question for Ron and Ron-like Sorcerer naritivists out there is how far does…
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Participants: furashgf, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Blake Hutchins.

11/7/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama - the Final Chapter
Hello, For those of you coming in late, this is the fourth and last of a series of threads here on the Sorcerer forum. The first one is called "To…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ian O'Rourke, contracycle, joshua neff, random.

11/8/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Sorcerer concept
That doesn't involve getting bumped on the head or having a master who's *waves hands* over there somewhere or dead. I'm not sure how it would work, but what if…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

11/8/2001 jburneko: Role-Playing Object Demons
My players seem to have really gotten into Object demons. I have at least two so far. One is a pair of glasses that allow it's master to see into…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

11/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Going on a link hunt - help requested
Hi there, I'm revising Sorcerer's links page. I'm also thinking that I want to branch it out into non-gaming circles. So far, I've found some stuff about the following: -…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Dav, Time.

11/19/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried System Comments
Hi All, There was another combat in our game on Saturday, and it turned out really nicely. The scene basically involved Cole (a PC) accidentally insulting Junior, a big, mean,…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

11/20/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorc & Sword news again
Due date from the printer is November 26. Ship to the warehouse should be November 28. Shipping from the warehouse should start immediately, and that's when orders begin. M apologies…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Time, joshua neff, unodiablo, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, Zak Arntson, Tundra, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/26/2001 Manu: Stormbringer redux
Hello all, I had an idea but I thought first to use this forum to pick your brains before launching into a detailed analysis. I suppose everyone is familiar with…
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Participants: Manu, furashgf, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards.

11/27/2001 Bailywolf: Harry Potter meets Animal House
I posted this over at RPG.net... then realized- this is perfect Sorcerer material! I wish my brain could sit still long enough for me to acualy finish something... so here…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

12/5/2001 Benjamin: A few new-player thoughts and questions
Hello, just bought the book, and have a few questions. 1) If the Humanity score is defined as something that most people might not have (i.e., sorcery, sorcerous soul), what…
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Participants: Benjamin, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/7/2001 Benjamin: On Writing a Mini-Supplement
Hello, newplayer Ben here again, with some questions on writing a mini-supplement. (So sue me, I like clear subject lines.) The Mini-Supplements page answers my question on 'what stage do…
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Participants: Benjamin, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose.

12/7/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Advanced Binding
I'm fully aware that the Sorcerer rules don't allow the re-Binding of a demon once the initial Binding is done, but there's a concept I'd like to explore in Sorcerer,…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

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