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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.

1/17/2004 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..

1/15/2004 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.

1/14/2004 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.

1/12/2004 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.

1/12/2004 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.

1/11/2004 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.

1/11/2004 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.

1/9/2004 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.

1/9/2004 Matt Wilson: Sorcerer for Spies?
Last night we were playing us some Spycraft, and I was thinking, man, there needs to be a good spy game that doesn't use a microfiche character sheet. Naturally my…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, jburneko.

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.

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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.

1/29/2004 Blind Hero: Tokens and the Highlander
I apologize if this has been done to death before. My search over the older threads didn't satisfy my question. I'm running a Highlander game in Sorcerer. It fit's like…
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Participants: Blind Hero, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

1/30/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Sorcerer's demon rules
I happen to remember an issue with the build of Sorcerer I've held for quite some time, and being in front of a computer, will proceed to tell all about…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Christopher Weeks, zmook, Ron Edwards, Valamir, ejh, Michael S. Miller, Fabrice G..

1/31/2004 Blind Hero: A question on Boost and Vitality
It's two questions really. First, on pg 76 Ron says that Vitality provides "defense" against over-Boosting, equal to the Power of Vitality. However, the description for Vitality says that it…
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Participants: Blind Hero, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2004 Blind Hero: Big Trouble...
I have a quick question on Big. The book reads that you add the demon's Power to the users Stamina for resisting damage but not to attack or defense rolls.…
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Participants: Blind Hero, Ron Edwards.

2/1/2004 james_west: more than one trollbabe in a conflict
I can't figure out how more than one trollbabe on the same side of a conflict works; do you run them as parallel conflicts? do they both roll? what happens…
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Participants: james_west, Alan, Ron Edwards.

2/1/2004 Blind Hero: Threat resolution for Sorcerer
So tonight I was running my Highlander Sorcerer game. The major conflict came down between a handful of thugs, a pair of vampire neophytes and a full vampire against a…
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Participants: Blind Hero, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Eric, sirogit.

2/1/2004 Jake Norwood: The *house* is a demon...
We just wrapped up our second session of sorcerer (see this thread for pre-game discussion and set-up), in a story based on the "Training Run" scenario from the Core Rulebook,…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards.

2/5/2004 Andy Kitkowski: Sorcerer: Back to Basics Questions
Hey all- I'm going to be running another Sorcerer game starting next month. Rereading the Sorcerer collection is a blast, but I realized that I had some questions about a…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

2/6/2004 james_west: Game prep for Trollbabe
It seems implied by the descriptions of play and by the rules that this meant to be a low prep time game (for instance, the Trollbabe picking out where she…
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Participants: james_west, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

2/6/2004 jburneko: Demons as Primary Antagonist
Hello, I'm not sure if the subject of this post fully captures what I'm about to talk about so please bear with me if this wanders a bit. I've been…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

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