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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.

12/3/2003 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.

12/1/2003 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.

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.

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.

11/24/2003 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.

11/22/2003 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.

11/22/2003 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.

11/20/2003 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.

11/20/2003 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 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.

11/18/2003 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.

11/17/2003 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.

11/14/2003 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.

11/7/2003 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.

11/6/2003 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.

11/6/2003 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.

11/5/2003 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.

11/5/2003 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.

11/4/2003 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.

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12/9/2003 marcus: Why Should the Narrativist Premise be Pre-Set in Sorcerer?
Although on searching for it in the basic rules I cannot see it explicitly said, I gather that the "Premise" is supposed to be a pretty important thing to be…
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Participants: marcus, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Calithena, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, fahdiz, M. J. Young, greyorm, Peregrine Dace, Ian Charvill, A.Neill, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/9/2003 jeffd: Love Noir Sorcerer - Pregame
[b]Background[/b] I've decided to take the plunge and run Sorcerer. I've also decided I'm going to chronicle the progress of the game from my intitial conception and ideas (which I'll…
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Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Paka.

12/10/2003 Benjamin: the mini-supplement of adventures that never was
Hey all, A while ago I thought it would be great fun to write a mini-supplement; and while I still think that it would be so to do so, I…
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Participants: Benjamin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/10/2003 Russell Hoyle: Katanapunk! My first try at a one-sheet
Hi kids! I need some feedback about this mismash one sheet - most of it shamelesly stolen from Ron's handout to his players in his contemporary necromancy Sorcerer game. It…
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Participants: Russell Hoyle, Calithena, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

12/10/2003 Benjamin: Memory and Humanity
Forgive if this thought has been bandied about before, but what do you think about Memory as Humanity? I mean, what if the starting players took their starting humanity score…
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Participants: Benjamin, xiombarg, Fabrice G., Mike Holmes, jrs.

12/11/2003 6inTruder: big bug demon
So yeah, I want to write up a demon that looks like a giant (... maybe 20 meters long?) centapede. What kind of demon is it though? It doesn't fit…
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Participants: 6inTruder, Benjamin, greyorm, Calithena, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/15/2003 joshua neff: s&s lit: the return of REH
I mentioned in another thread (but decided to start a new one this time) that I was going to be getting the new Coming of Conan. It's not just a…
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, anonymouse, Zak Arntson, 6inTruder, Gordon C. Landis, Valamir.

12/15/2003 qxjit: Quick Stamina / Possessor Question
Ron, you referenced an answer to this question on Gaming Outpost in this thread, but that answer seems to be inaccessible now, so I'll ask it again. What is…
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Participants: qxjit, Ron Edwards.

12/16/2003 jeffd: Accidental Sorcery?
So I'm prepping for Sorcerer. One thing that's occured to me is I might face a PC who is a sorcerer on accident. "I just opened my Grandmother's trunk after…
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Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, greyorm.

12/17/2003 greyorm: Your Red Monkey Fist is no match for my Flaming Tiger Kick!
So, ever since I recieved my copy of Sex & Sorcery I've been trying to think of a way to make the martial arts system therein more than just color,…
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Participants: greyorm, Rich Forest, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2003 marcus: Demon Abilities in Combat
If I haven't already used up my question allocation for this month, I have a few questions relating to the use of demon abilities in combat: 1. It is said…
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Participants: marcus, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2003 Paka: Gangster Sorcerer
I tried to Search around to find a campaign concept like the one I'm about to outline. If anyone knows what it was called, I'd love to get a link…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, ross_winn.

12/17/2003 dunlaing: Some Trollbabe Questions
I had been somewhat skeptical of Trollbabe for quite some time, owing to the Troll part and the Babe part of the title. My friend Jim (he goes by Supplanter…
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Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, rafial.

12/18/2003 Ben Lehman: Assorted Questions of Demon Abilities
So, I'm running a game of Sorcerer (Charnel Gods brew) and I had some questions about demon abilities. First of all, all the demons (save one) are incapable of independent…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

12/19/2003 Fabrice G.: Rêves - a Sorcerer one sheet
Hi, here is a one sheet for the Sorcerer game I hope to play next week during the hollydays. So far it's only me, and it's my input to the…
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Participants: Fabrice G., Calithena, joshua neff, Paka.

1/1/2004 epweissengruber: 2 Hour Sorceror
I am digging up descriptions of short Sorceror scenarios from conventions. Should I be looking here or in Real Play? Any shortcuts would be appreciated.
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Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

1/3/2004 James V. West: [Trollbabe comics] Naked Sacrifice story
Excellent work, Colin! The current strip looks really sharp. I love the way digital art lets objects like the bat's eyes just POP right out of the darkness. I wonder…
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Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards, greyorm, 6inTruder, Lxndr, Valamir, Colin the Riot, jrs, jburneko, Tim Alexander, xiombarg, quozl.

1/4/2004 6inTruder: Sorcerer in my Pocket
I guess this question is for Ron mosly, but anyone who wants to comment please feel free ^_^ Have you thought of publishing Sorcerer as a pocket sized book (mass-market…
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Participants: 6inTruder, Ron Edwards.

1/5/2004 Calithena: Sorcerer Friday!
Okay, so I'm going to sit down with a friend and play Friday. Finally! I'm very jazzed about this. Realization: Relationship Maps and Kickers go together. It's a kind of…
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Participants: Calithena, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2004 Calithena: Shapeshifting in Sorcerer
OK, here's a problem I've been struggling with for a while. Let's say you have a demon concept which involves a parasite/possessor demon allowing its host to take on any…
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Participants: Calithena, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, greyorm, erithromycin.

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