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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.

11/2/2003 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.

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.

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.

10/29/2003 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.

10/29/2003 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.

10/27/2003 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.

10/27/2003 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.

10/26/2003 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.

10/24/2003 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.

10/23/2003 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.

10/23/2003 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 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 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.

10/20/2003 jburneko: Elfs and Modules
Hello, Ron, have you considered opening up a mini-supplement program for Elfs? I was thinking that having a supply of modules for sale would not only allow people to profit…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson, Paganini, greyorm.

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.

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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.

11/14/2003 b_bankhead: No-Death and Trollbabe
After I finish my present series of threads on Call of Cthulhu, The next hobbyhorse I intend to ride is the subject of character mortality. Is it really necessary? Trollbabe…
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Participants: b_bankhead, GreatWolf, Brian Leybourne, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin, rafial.

11/17/2003 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe comics: old story down, new story up
Hello, For the first time in a while, the Trollbabe Comics page is finally fully stocked - all the previous stories, and the start of a new one. Yup, "Dusty…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Rod Anderson, Colin the Riot, ejh, greyorm, jrs, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Bob McNamee.

11/18/2003 marcus: Death, Combat Sorcery, and Punishment
Very recent purchaser and Forum member here, so please excuse me if these questions have been answered elsewhere (although if they have, my searches have not revealed the answers) 1.…
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Participants: marcus, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, erithromycin, greyorm.

11/20/2003 marcus: Gamist, Narrativist, Simulationist Outlook
In the "Appendixes" to Sorcerer, three styles of play are identified: "Gamist", "Narrativist" and Simulationist", and it is said that there is "some, but not much, crossover possible" between them.…
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Participants: marcus, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

11/20/2003 sirogit: The Evoloution of Sorcerer?
I seem to recall a post where Ron Edwards referred to the begginings of Sorcerer as "drifted Gamist" before the GNS definitions existed. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. If…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

11/20/2003 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Dialogue and Combat
Okay, dialogue in a combat situation is a massive problem for me. In most traditional "linear" initiative systems, I'm very inconsistant with how I run dialogue. Sometimes It's a free…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

11/22/2003 Heraclitus: Humanity
Hi Mike, Ron, Sean et. al. I think Mike asks a good question here. He says Let's say that I want to play in Calithena's world. I need to know…
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Participants: Heraclitus, Calithena, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

11/22/2003 marcus: Starting Demons
I can't see a rule for how good starting demons can be. Is the idea for the players to be allowed to start with a demon as powerful as they…
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Participants: marcus, joshua neff, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

11/24/2003 sirogit: Trying to find out if an object is demonic?
If a player in a game were trying to search an object to find if it's really a demon, and that object was not a demon, what would the roll…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

11/26/2003 kwill: harsh humanity
so I thought you took victories off humanity in humanity checks, and in my first roll ever in a Sorcerer game reduced someone to Humanity 1; you can imagine I…
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Participants: kwill, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

11/26/2003 kwill: safe sorcery: scary magical friends?
I've recently had to put a Sorcerer demo on hold because the event will (hopefully) attract a number of younger newbies, and the organisers felt that talk of summoning and…
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Participants: kwill, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, Emily Care.

12/1/2003 Ron Edwards: New review up - actual play too!
Hiya, Our own David (kwill) has posted his actual-play review at the ... um ... Kwa-Zulu Natal Roleplayers site. David, what the hell does "Kwa-Zulu Natal" mean? It certainly sounds…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, marcus, Christopher Weeks, kwill, ScottM.

12/3/2003 Russell Hoyle: The Literature
I am a bibliophile. There I have confessed! Its a sickness, really! I am sure I own more books than I could ever read. The reason for my confession? Yesterday…
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Participants: Russell Hoyle, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

12/8/2003 marcus: The Problem With Sorcerer Is...
... that there is simply too much you can do with it! With most RPGs, there is a particular world being presented, or at least a particular genre, so it…
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Participants: marcus, qxjit, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, ross_winn, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Paka, Valamir, joshua neff, Roy.

12/9/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Enlightenment devours you: Mage the Ascension a la Sorcerer
So, I ask myself, since I like Mage the Ascension (with all it's faults) and I like Sorcerer, is there a way to get two great tastes that taste great…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy.

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