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10/20/2003 lumpley: Trollbabe Tragedy!
My workplace's netnanny, Websense, just put the boot on Trollbabe: The Websense category "Sex" is filtered. My Mondays are gonna be even lamer than before. Have you ever considered an…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

10/19/2003 JamesDJIII: When Demons Scheme
Here's another question for Sorcerer GMs out there: The Sorcerer rules mention that sometimes its good to know, as a GM, what the demons are up to or aiming for.…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2003 Ron Edwards: Elfs revisions
Hello, I went through Elfs with a very harsh pen today. 1. Degrees of success are to be handled differently. From now on, one success is sufficient to perform an…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Alan, GreatWolf, Paul Czege, Tim Alexander, greyorm, Ben Morgan, Rich Forest, jburneko.

10/15/2003 sirogit: A play by message board sorcerer game(Uninmaginitive title)
I plan to run a sorcerer game on a message board. The basic setting is a world similar to just before the reveloution russia, with demonic undertones to backdoor dealings.…
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Participants: sirogit.

10/14/2003 JamesDJIII: A Question about Sorcerer, Demons, and Humanity Loss
Forgive me if this material is covered elsewhere but in re-reading and re-reading Sorcerer, I think I understand the concept of humanity loss, but I'd like to hear from you…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

10/13/2003 jburneko: Trollbabe Comics Musings
Hello, After today's strip I feel like doing some trollbabe musing... I don't think I will ever adjust to the tone of the comics. It's like the strips keep landing…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Valamir, James V. West, ejh.

10/10/2003 sirogit: Sorcerer with emotions as demons?
It seems like such a straight-forward idea, I'd be surprised if someone didn't write it up already. The way I'd have it: The setting is modern, with no supernatural undertones.…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

10/8/2003 sirogit: A test for determining Scores in Sorcerer
While I understand that this could be overly complicated to solve a simple problem, I personally had a spot of difficulty in selecting a way to distribuite scores definitively, so…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

10/7/2003 Ben Lehman: Stretching
This post is a little off the wall, but I've been stretching Sorcerer inside my head recently, and I've come up with an "interpretation" which I find interesting enough to…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, sirogit, AnyaTheBlue.

10/6/2003 Paul Czege: some kind of celebrity, it seems...
[A HREF="http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Diner_Wrapper&file=index&req=ShowFile&file_wrap=html/Top10Results.htm"]GamingReport.com: Top Ten Game Designers/Writers[/A] Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Fabrice G..

10/3/2003 sirogit: My/JL's game("The Abyss Chronicles"?)
(Note, I was sort've waiting for JL to do this, as he's more talented at not confusing the hell out of people. So I'd invite him to post about the…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

10/2/2003 kwill: child sorcerers: amulet of samarkand
in addition to Harry Potter and Sabriel mentioned previously in this forum Sorc GMs may be interested in The Amulet of Samarkand (Stroud), published by Doubleday, which is coming out…
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Participants: kwill, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

9/30/2003 MonkeyWrench: Some advice please.
I love Sorceror. I treated myself to Sorceror and Sword and Sorceror's Soul for my birthday and I devoured both of them. However I have a problem....I have never actually…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Tim Alexander, greyorm, Alan.

9/29/2003 jburneko: On Telltales
Hello, Telltales are conceptually very awkward things for me. I have a particularly difficult time understanding the relationship between Telltales, Lore rolls, and non-Sorcerers. Consider this telltale: In my Space-Western…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

9/29/2003 lumpley: Speaking of Trollbabe Comics...
There hasn't been a new one since the end of Avatar is Plenty. I'm jonesin'. -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, jrs.

9/28/2003 Nev the Deranged: The Dead Are Too Much With Us (II)
I was one of the players in the game Ron was running, which we just wrapped up last week. After the second to last session, I wrote up a few…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

9/27/2003 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer & Sword printing news
Hello, Sorcerer & Sword sold out from the warehouse yesterday. I still have a handful of copies left over from GenCon and will be fulfilling orders myself with those. But…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, b_bankhead, Valamir, arxhon, joshua neff, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2003 Christopher Weeks: Humanity and Protagonism in difficult settings
[b]How can I establish protagonism for characters in a setting that by modern western sensibility admits mostly of evil?[/b] I have been playing with Sorcerer settings as an exercise. Most…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

9/22/2003 Ron Edwards: The necromancy game continued
Hello, I'm starting a new thread from My current Sorcerer game - modern necromancy, just to break things up a little. I'll start by making all the remaining material available:…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Christopher Kubasik, Christopher Weeks.

9/22/2003 Tony Irwin: 4 possible outcomes
Hi folks, I have a question related to a very early thread on this board, where Ron mentions 4 possible outcomes in Sorceror scenarios. You can see the thread here…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

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10/23/2003 arxhon: So now i have Sorcerer...
...to go with Sex and Sorcery and The Sorcerer's Soul (yes, i owned them first). I may even be able to get a game running shortly (time to crack out…
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Participants: arxhon, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

10/23/2003 sirogit: Chick comics headlines as Sorcerer campaigns
I think I might want to do a series of thse someday. From "Stairway to hell" What REALLY happens when you get high? What is rock music's hidden danger? How…
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Participants: sirogit, RaconteurX, Ron Edwards.

10/23/2003 Calithena: [Charnel Gods] Vanye's Demon
It occurred to me that while the world of Morgaine's saga is fundamentally different in character from Naur Tier, there is a kind of isomorphism between Morgaine's and Vanye's quests…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, David Chunn.

10/23/2003 Calithena: [Sorcery & Sword] Query for R. Edwards re: Fantastic Fic
Ron, I loved your take on the different genres of fantastic fiction in Sorcery and Sword. You have exquisite taste, which as F/SF editor and critic Don Herron once noted,…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, greyorm, joshua neff, David Chunn, Rod Anderson, Ian Charvill, Heraclitus.

10/24/2003 Michael S. Miller: Talking Points for Sorcerer
As Luke Crane mentioned, I'll be helping him pitch games at Lollagazebo in two weeks. There's been a thread on talking points for My Life with Master, and I'm pretty…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2003 sirogit: Relationship maps and the Rat-Bastard
When I was freely constructing my own relationship map for my sorcerer game, I noticed something rather peculier that connects with two of the examples of relationship maps in Sorcerer…
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Participants: sirogit, arxhon, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2003 Calithena: Character Conversion
This is a conversion of my namesake character, who I have played off and on (mostly with the same GM) for more than two decades, to Sorcerer. I'm open to…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

10/27/2003 Calithena: Stat Scaling in Sorcerer
I've seen Ron imply in a thread on rpg.net that demons with Power 15 can 'eat Cthulhu'. Where does that leave demons like Gutterblax and Lashtipus from Charnel Gods, with…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, sirogit.

10/29/2003 sirogit: Ron Edwards' Current prjects
Excus eme if there's some obvious place where I can find this information, but I wanted to ask Ron a few things Are you currently working on any new RPGs?…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Valamir, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy, Paka, xiombarg, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall.

10/29/2003 Calithena: [Sorcery & Sword] Humanity Trading
I'm sure this has come up before, but I couldn't find an old thread. So I'll just ask. I decide I want to play a strongman type character. Really strong,…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Valamir, scorpio rising, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/30/2003 Calithena: Mu's Bed II
Paka, my money is in your pocket the second any version of this hits pdf or the stores. This stuff rocks the HOUSE! Probably you've read her stuff already long…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Paka.

10/31/2003 sirogit: Playing with the idea of "Lineage" in Sorcerer
One of the concepts for something to do in Sorcerer is playing around with the idea of "Lineage", which I will define as, the sense of the supernatural descending from…
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Participants: sirogit, Paka.

11/2/2003 Fabrice G.: Sorcerer and dysfunctional play
Hello, Yesterday I GMed my "convention scenario" for the third time. It's amazing how fast Sorcerer expose dyfunctional play for what it is ! To recap a bit... The scenario…
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Participants: Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

11/4/2003 Bevan: Twin Peaks Sorcerer
NOTE: This contains a lot of spoilers concerning the Twin Peaks TV show. I have been warned. As a TV show filled with subtle demons, strange rituals, and hidden secrets,…
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Participants: Bevan, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, fahdiz.

11/4/2003 sirogit: Order of customizing terms in one sheets for Sorcerer?
Based off of what Mike Holmes said in Charactaer Conversaion, I was wondering what are the suggested method for writing a one-sheet in sorcerer was in terms of order of…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

11/5/2003 Christopher Weeks: Fizzled online play (split from Year of the Rat)
If anyone's keeping track, this game appears to be officially dead. It's my second attempt to play in an online Sorcerer game that went through the character creation process and…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Tim Alexander, sirogit, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Calithena.

11/5/2003 Ron Edwards: Bartender!
Hi there, I want an official mixed drink for Sorcerer, and I want it to be a new and original thing. Yes, I know: we already have the Fallen Angel,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, ethan_greer, Christopher Weeks, greyorm, Tod Olson, jburneko, Rod Anderson, Walt Freitag, erithromycin, Mulciber, Dev, Bob McNamee, jrs, Paul Czege, Calithena, Clay, Lxndr.

11/6/2003 Ron Edwards: Onmyoji
Hello, I liked this movie. In fact, I liked it a lot. I think that self-proclaimed Asian film fans in the west won't like it so much, because the effects…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

11/6/2003 sirogit: Odd idea for multiple-GM Sorcerer
I've been thinking of several ways to do Sorcerer without a single designated GM, I had this idea: Outside of conflicts with demons, other PCs and the elements of the…
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Participants: sirogit.

11/7/2003 kwill: sorcerer: larping
hi all, one of the books mentions sorcerer larp rules/guidelines, but I haven't been able to find them on the sorcerer site, am I just blind or are they somehwere…
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Participants: kwill, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Peregrine Dace, jburneko, Paka, Eero Tuovinen.

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