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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.

2/1/2004 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.

2/1/2004 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 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.

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.

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.

1/30/2004 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..

1/29/2004 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.

1/28/2004 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.

1/28/2004 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 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 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 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.

1/27/2004 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.

1/25/2004 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.

1/25/2004 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.

1/24/2004 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.

1/24/2004 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.

1/20/2004 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.

1/20/2004 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.

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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.

2/9/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Zero at the Bone
I read Zero at the Bone tonight, and was very impressed. This is quality game material, and very complete for a sample game. I had a bunch of thoughts about…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Valamir, John Harper, xiombarg, james_west.

2/9/2004 Gabriel: Trollbabes and Social Injury
So this Trollbabe walks into a tavern... ~useless setup for the punchline~ and the barkeep says, "that's not Author Stance, that's my WIFE!" Being that I lack imagination I would…
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Participants: Gabriel, Paganini, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Supplanter.

2/9/2004 Michael S. Miller: The back of the Sorcerer character sheet
Ron, you clever bastard! You're always harping on folks to fill out the back of the character sheet and I always figured it was nice and all, but I really…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

2/12/2004 DannyK: Sorcerer online games
Hi, just discovered Sorcerer after reading some posts about it on RPG.net, picked up a couple supplements ("Sword" and "Soul") and now waiting for the core rulebook to arrive. I…
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Participants: DannyK, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, djarb, Christopher Kubasik.

2/12/2004 jburneko: More on Social Conflict
Hello, This thread was sparked by the Trollbabe thread on Social Injury. I admit that my grasp of Social Conflict as it applies to Trollbabe and Sorcerer wavers in and…
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Participants: jburneko, Dav, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2004 zmook: The Role-Playing Bonus Dice that Ate Manhattan; and more
So, I am gearing up to run my actual first session of Sorcerer tonight (we did character creation last week, mostly). Of course, I have questions. First, reading about the…
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Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/18/2004 kwill: descarification: introducing Sorcerer & Narrativism
over at my local wiki page I've put out a teaser introducing Sorcerer, Inside and Narrativism (for potential players in my local gaming group) I'd appreciate any comments, here or…
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Participants: kwill, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, zmook, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2004 6inTruder: [Trollbabe] Hardcopy?
Any word on this? It's about a year now from the last post I could find on the subject and I wanted to know if there were any further developements.
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Participants: 6inTruder, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Fabrice G., Matt Snyder, stingray20166.

2/19/2004 amel: Schismatic Puddle
Hi, this is my first post. I am a long time lurker. A while back I had the first opportunity to try some of the techniques discussed here on the…
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Participants: amel, Ron Edwards.

2/20/2004 Lithos: Is Sword and Sorcerer a stand alone product?
Is Sword and Sorcerer a stand alone product or does one require Sorcerer for a fully functional system?
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Participants: Lithos, Trevis Martin, tetsujin28.

2/23/2004 Ben Lehman: Thieves and Kings 2
As a flaming T&K fanboy, I need to answer this old thread. But Quinton ... this is a character who breaks most role-playing conventions of "story" and "protagonist"…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2004 kwill: [Inside] looking for the white rabbit
I recently got hold of Clinton's Inside supplement, what with all the praise it garnered, and brushed up on Sword in preparing to start a campaign as a cyberpunk adaptation…
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Participants: kwill, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, tetsujin28, Drew Stevens.

2/23/2004 Ben Lehman: [Zero at the Bone] The worst thing
My major problem with the game is the opposite of Jesse's -- I've known some people who have done some very awful things, and thus one person is in the…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2004 Zak Arntson: [S & Sword] New Conan comic from Dark Horse
Just picked up Issue 0 of the new Conan comics from Dark Horse. Looks promising, with great art (Conan wears armor into war, even) and Kurt Busiek writing (I know…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

2/25/2004 EricAlexander: Black Fire, you can never have too many buckles
I just read this game in the articles section, and it sounds like a pretty good time. A couple of questions for the author: How long did you intend for…
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Participants: EricAlexander, Ron Edwards, jburneko, motherlessgoose, montag, angelfromanotherpin.

2/27/2004 Doyce: Trollbabe to Amber conversion
Currently at 20 x 20 foot room, referencing a post I made on my own game blog. Didn't expect it to garner much comment, but that shows what I know.…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, james_west, Rob MacDougall, Bob McNamee.

2/27/2004 motherlessgoose: Sorcerer Supplements
Is there any certain order one should purchase the supplements Sorcerer & Sword, Sorcerer's Soul, and Sex & Sorcery?
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Participants: motherlessgoose, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

2/29/2004 motherlessgoose: Possessors
It may be that I'm just a newbie, but... Why can't Possessor demons have Boost? What about in the Exorcist, where the possessed girl had superhuman strength? Also, biblically, there…
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Participants: motherlessgoose, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2004 6inTruder: So, what does put in to a Sorcerer One Sheet?
What it says on the tin really... What kind of structure, content, um... other stuff, is good to go into this?
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Participants: 6inTruder, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

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