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1/9/2004 Steve Dustin: Madness Dossier one sheet
Thought I'd share the one-sheet I'm taking to my next gaming session to hook my players into a Sorcerer game. Any thoughts, tips would rock. David Icke's line of…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

1/8/2004 jeffd: Relationship Map Suggestions?
Hey all, I'm gearing up to run Sorcerer. I need something to base a map off of. I don't have much experience in the suggested genre (mystery) so I'd appreciate…
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Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, 6inTruder, Trevis Martin.

1/8/2004 Jake Norwood: Jake is gearing up for sorcerer
Okay, this is a pretty preliminary post, but we're wrapping up an OTE campaign and I want to finally run some serious sorcerer. I'll be posting humanity ideas, etc. here…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, cruciel, Mike Holmes.

1/7/2004 Tim Alexander: Trollbabe rules questions
Hey All, So, I finally pulled the trigger on getting a copy of Trollbabe and I'm quite happy I did. Lot's of great stuff in there and as usual with…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, 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.

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.

1/4/2004 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.

1/3/2004 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.

1/1/2004 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.

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.

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.

12/17/2003 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.

12/17/2003 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 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 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.

12/16/2003 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.

12/15/2003 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.

12/15/2003 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.

12/11/2003 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.

12/10/2003 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.

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1/9/2004 Calithena: Follow-up Query
Wow! That was an extremely interesting game. We're going to continue. Roleplaying a whole land full of people mostly at Humanity 0, without memory or a sense of identity, was…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards.

1/11/2004 6inTruder: Oh, the Cosmic Horror! One Sheet (not really)
I've had this thought in my head for a HUGE ammount of time (since before I owned Sorcerer) that Sorcerer is a great game for CoC, as when you can…
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Participants: 6inTruder, Ron Edwards.

1/11/2004 zmook: A Boost question
[quote="Ron Edwards"]All of the above leads most people in my games to request Boosts [i]before[/i] the "everyone goes for their guns" moment, so as to enjoy the benefit of the…
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Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2004 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe comics] Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Worm
Strip 1 for the new story is up! Illustrated by Antti Karjalainen. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, ejh, AnttiK, James V. West.

1/12/2004 Mikko Lehtinen: Re: Demon Abilities in Combat
I've been wondering whether using the demon power Cover causes fatigue or not. Let's consider two cases: 1) A demon sword makes the wielder a mighty warrior. I'd judge that…
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Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, Ron Edwards.

1/14/2004 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer as teaching text
Hello, In Naked helpless sacrifice story, I wrote, What's very hard to explain is that I don't make any distinctions between "obvious" and "not obvious." You're not supposed…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Lxndr, jburneko, greyorm.

1/15/2004 Calithena: Another Sorcerer Combat Question
Hiero is fighting Gurk and Gookin. Hiero has five dice, gook and gurkin 3 each. They roll off. Hiero gets 65442; Gurk gets 543; Gookin gets 331. Hiero goes first.…
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Participants: Calithena, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, zmook, Blind Hero.

1/17/2004 jeffd: Sorcerer - Pre Session Notes
So, this evening I did our Sorcerer pre-session. One of the players didn't show; I'm not sure why. Not an auspicious happening, I'm thinking of either a) dropping him or…
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Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

1/20/2004 zmook: Humanity checks
Okay, so Humanity checks seemed straightforward enough when I first read them, but then I started thinking about how to administer them. The rules say: GMs can also decree Humanity…
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Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Fabrice G., Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, djarb, joshua neff.

1/20/2004 sirogit: Humanity and Audience Sympathy
I've been wondering this for some time: How correlatable are Humanity and audience sympathy? Naturally, there's some disconnect that's perfectly functional... there's plenty examples of doomed heroes. I've always thought…
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Participants: sirogit, Mike Holmes.

1/24/2004 Finarvyn: Sorcerer campaign web pages?
I'm a newbie (first post!) but have lurked for awhile. I've searched for Sorcerer campaigns on the web and can't find any. The best I can find are threads within…
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Participants: Finarvyn, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, hix, Michael S. Miller.

1/24/2004 Ben Terry: Sorecerer & Sword Q: Spiral Dynamics?
This is just a simple question about a small piece of text at the bottom of page 52 in Sorcerer & Sword. In the description of Xar Demonics, Ron says…
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Participants: Ben Terry, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2004 angelfromanotherpin: Human Demons
As an example of the kind of thing I'm looking at: Watching Pirates of the Carribean, it struck me that Commodore Norrington is much like a Demon for Elizabeth Swann.…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2004 hix: International Orders
Thinking of ordering a copy of Sorceror from New Zealand while the exchange rate's good. I couldn't find any shipping charge info on the Adept Press site, and Paypal didn't…
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Participants: hix, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards, montag, Peter Nordstrand.

1/27/2004 Supplanter: Changing Action Types in Trollbabe
I may have asked and gotten this answered in the other thread, but I don't think so. The PDF says that after the initial series, the Trollbabe has the possibility…
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Participants: Supplanter, Ron Edwards, Lxndr.

1/28/2004 Matt Snyder: Inside, new Sorcerer supplement in Daedalus
Folks, chance are you haven't heard me gush about the upcoming Sorcerer supplement that will debut in Daedalus Issue No. 2 (due out by Jan. 31 -- I'm working like…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, John Harper, sirogit, DevicDynamite, GreatWolf, Zak Arntson, jburneko, greyorm, Gordon C. Landis, DannyK.

1/28/2004 Finarvyn: Discuss these supplements
I finally got my copies of Sorcerer's Soul and Sex and Sorcery in the mail. Wow! Can't ... type ... must ... read ... more...... :-)
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Participants: Finarvyn, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks.

1/28/2004 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer's Soul reading list and an interesting thought.
Hello everybody, I've just finished reading the Ross MacDonald novel "The Zebra Striped Hearse." (And Rons right, I think I've blown a cornea keeping track of the realtionships.) I've also…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2004 zmook: Miami Vice onesheet
I have the following as a draft of a one-sheet for the game I'm trying to put together. I'd welcome any feedback. The setting is in a lot of ways…
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Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2004 zmook: player authority
So, Sorcerer is reputed to be a game that gives players unaccustomed power to create the story of the game. And yet, there is remarkably little in the rules on…
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Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, joshua neff, Silmenume.

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