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1/11/2002 Ron Edwards: The Sorcerer's Soul is printing
Hey everyone, The second supplement has passed the bluelines stage and they are putting the book together even as we speak. Past experience has taught me that no real time-estimate…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Balbinus, Manu.

12/28/2001 Ron Edwards: Goddess of rape?
As I've mentioned before, I've been running Hero Wars for the same group of three players, in good old "campaign" style, for well over a year. The players are Tod,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, James V. West, Blake Hutchins.

12/12/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer tattoo
Hi there, It had to happen. The cool thing is that the person is one of the very first Sorcerer players, Camille Throckmorton. She had the character with the scary,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Time, Tor Erickson.

12/6/2001 Ron Edwards: Characters per player
Hello, At the end of the "My firstest relationship map" thread, I shamefully left poor Vincent hanging: He wrote, "... here's a question. Do you ever play troupe-style, or are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, unodiablo, lumpley, Mytholder, Paul Czege, Marco, Blake Hutchins, jrs, James V. West.

11/30/2001 Ron Edwards: Raw pain
Hello, I should like to direct the attention of anyone interested in role-playing publishing here for a nice insight into the process. For those who've been through the process…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards.

11/20/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorc & Sword news again
Due date from the printer is November 26. Ship to the warehouse should be November 28. Shipping from the warehouse should start immediately, and that's when orders begin. M apologies…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Time, joshua neff, unodiablo, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, Zak Arntson, Tundra, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Help with Nobilis prep
Hello, I am interested in playing Nobilis with a very appropriate group. We've done a hell of a lot of Hero Wars, The Window, and Amber, for instance, and they've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Epoch, Mytholder, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Philippe Tromeur.

11/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Going on a link hunt - help requested
Hi there, I'm revising Sorcerer's links page. I'm also thinking that I want to branch it out into non-gaming circles. So far, I've found some stuff about the following: -…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Dav, Time.

11/14/2001 Ron Edwards: An interesting review
Hey, One of role-playing's "men of letters," Andrew Rilstone, has posted a review of Little Fears here. Its points bear some discussion. I'm not quite as interested in psychologizing…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Dav, Bankuei, contracycle, Jason L Blair.

11/9/2001 Ron Edwards: The future-story outcome of Little Fears
Hello, As I described in my review, our play of Little Fears added a future-history device. After we made up the characters, Dav (the GM) wrote future histories for them…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Fabrice G., Uratoh, hardcoremoose, joshua neff, Dav, Demonspahn.

11/7/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama - the Final Chapter
Hello, For those of you coming in late, this is the fourth and last of a series of threads here on the Sorcerer forum. The first one is called "To…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ian O'Rourke, contracycle, joshua neff, random.

11/6/2001 Ron Edwards: New review is up
Hi everyone, The Little Fears review, by me, is posted! Discuss it in the Review Discussion forum. Buy the game. Best, Ron
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, unodiablo.

11/2/2001 Ron Edwards: Profiling
Hey there, Shortly after the Forge became revived, a thread started up that was VERY useful to everyone involved at the time. I'd like to start it again, as it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Balbinus, James Holloway, Paul Czege, Laurel, Matt Snyder, 333Chronzon, mahoux, Jeffrey Straszheim, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Don Lag, Jared A. Sorensen, John Wick, Galfraxas, Ferry Bazelmans, unodiablo, kwill, unheilig, Jason L Blair, hardcoremoose, xiombarg, Mytholder, Epoch, Pariahic, erithromycin, Ben Morgan, Yasha, contracycle, A.Neill, AndyGuest, James V. West, Dav, Tor Erickson, Gordon C. Landis, Jack Spencer Jr, Ayrizale, Clinton R. Nixon, gentrification, Joe Murphy (Broin), AndrewDucker, Tim Denee, Ranko, mearls, Daredevil, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ryan Ary, Osric, Lofwyr, Ace, Russell Hoyle, Erik.

10/30/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama, part 2
All right then. This post is about what I'd think (or DO think, really) about the characters prior to going into the first session. I will also post about my…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Tor Erickson, random, James Holloway, Ian O'Rourke.

10/29/2001 Ron Edwards: Narrativism and Bobby G
Hey, So last Tuesday, I got a chance to play D20, finally! It was the new Star Wars, and I leaped into action with my Twileek bodyguard and translator for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Marco, Doc Midnight, Jack Spencer Jr, Don Lag, contracycle, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, James Holloway.

10/29/2001 Ron Edwards: Vanilla Narrativism
Hello, Before diving back into the wilds of the Gamism debate, I wanted to address something that's been itching at me for a few weeks. A lot of people seem…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Marco, 333Chronzon.

10/26/2001 Ron Edwards: Link?
Hey James, Where's the page? The link in the Library is broken. Best, Ron
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Ron Edwards, James V. West.

10/18/2001 Ron Edwards: The Mystery Meat thing
Hey there, Last Tuesday, our own Doc Midnite ran a session of what is apparently called "Mystery Meat," that is, a session of play in which the players are unaware…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Galfraxas, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, Epoch, Marco, Doc Midnight.

10/18/2001 Ron Edwards: Art-Deco Melodrama
Hi all, This thread's name is courtesy of the excellent Mike Holmes. It is all set for the next round of the "Under the Hood" series starring me, Jesse, Paul,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, contracycle.

10/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Rules clarification, please
Jason, Help us out a bit regarding monster-induced Darkening. On page 44, it says, "... the Darkening can usually claim a child's soul at the rate of 1 point per…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

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1/21/2002 Ron Edwards: About what Scattershot's about (GNS yipyap included)
Hey there, I'm starting a few separate threads about Fang's game Scattershot. All of them are based on the content of these threads (at the date of this post) and…
In Scattershot
Participants: Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Mike Holmes.

1/21/2002 Ron Edwards: Phrasing of Scattershot's dice resolution
Hello, This thread addresses something that might crop up in the first: Fang's explanation of the basic resolution roll. It seems like a small point, but there are a couple…
In Scattershot
Participants: Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, RobMuadib, Marco.

1/23/2002 Ron Edwards: The Beast Released I
Hi there, So last night was Questing Beast night! I'm setting up two threads about it, one here about play and content, and another in the Random Order Creations forum…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, James V. West.

1/23/2002 Ron Edwards: The Beast Released II
Hi James, Here are some of my mechanics-concerns about The Questing Beast. 1) As I mention in the Actual Play forum, the Pool ends up being quite stable. One player,…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, James V. West, Paul Czege.

1/25/2002 Ron Edwards: Points and abilities
Hi Fang, I have a number of Currency questions about Scattershot. Here's one, admittedly from the basic grognard school of thought, but still genuine. If starting character points are unlimited,…
In Scattershot
Participants: Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, RobMuadib, Marco, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2002 Ron Edwards: Yet again, The Questing Beast
Hello, The campus group met again, and the two games being played were AD&D2 and Macross (using Palladium). But one cry went up in a pitiful chorus: "I didn't get…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Manu, James V. West.

2/11/2002 Ron Edwards: philosophical musings (response to Gareth)
I've split this off from the thread about Historical Sorcerer. In there, I wrote: "My interest in Thirty Years War period as a specifically-Sorcerer setting stems in part from the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, contracycle.

2/13/2002 Ron Edwards: InSpectres again! grrl version
Hi there, So I ran some more InSpectres last night, which for me was the first time using v. 2.0. The session had some interesting features: the players were all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Fixed! (no, not like your dog! jeez)
And for no good reason whatsoever, Elfs has not been available to buy since the start of the year ... but all is better now, because the buy link has…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/15/2002 Ron Edwards: New game from Adept Press: Trollbabe
Hi there, I wrote 'nother role-playing game, working title: Trollbabe. Like Elfs, it's light fantasy, but it's not satirical. Here are some excerpts, which explain about 20% of the system/idea.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, contracycle, Clinton R. Nixon, Adam, Manu, Dav, lumpley, BPetroff93.

2/15/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002: the lowdown
Hello everybody, It's about time I announced the Forge plans for GenCon. The main issue is that "the Forge" is not a business entity and as such will not have…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Zak Arntson, Jason L Blair, James V. West, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, mahoux, mearls, sdemory, Le Joueur, Matt Gwinn, Dav, Adam.

2/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Ending the story
Hello, As I mentioned a while ago, our long-standing Hero Wars game is coming to at least a temporary end. My reasons for calling it finished are mainly based on…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell, jrs.

2/19/2002 Ron Edwards: Superpets questions for Zak
Hi Zak, I'm lookin' over some games I want to play really soon, and Superpets poses a problem or two for me. I like it a lot but help's needed…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Mike Holmes, lumpley.

2/22/2002 Ron Edwards: More fun with Trollbabe
Hello, Here are some more notions about Trollbabe. The biggest unit of play is "the Adventure," which is like a short story. It contains Scenes within it, and Scenes contain…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/25/2002 Ron Edwards: Relationship map issues
Gentlemen, and Gordon in particular, This post deals with concerns in two current threads, "Soul reviewed" and "Relating Sorcerer's Soul and Sorcerer & Sword." Consider issues of baseline kinship and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, Valamir, greyorm, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clay, jburneko, lumpley, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, AndyGuest.

3/4/2002 Ron Edwards: No Premise: Dust Devils, The World The Flesh and the Devil
Hello, I want to discuss a problem I'm seeing with a lot of would-be Narrativist game design at the Forge. It is the problem of No Premise. It's most serious…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, jburneko, Valamir, Matt Snyder, erithromycin, Matt Gwinn, hardcoremoose, Bailywolf, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Paul Czege.

3/6/2002 Ron Edwards: TQuid's Sorcerer game
Hi there, A while ago, Tquid posted this thread about his Sorcerer game. I had a hard time reading it; like many transcripts of play, it included a lot…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell.

3/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Kayfabe - lots of questions
Hi everyone, Most of this is for Matt, but comments from anyone who has downloaded the game are welcome too. I played Kayfabe last night and had a fine time,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Matt Gwinn.

3/9/2002 Ron Edwards: Bedlam review is up
Hi there, The subject line says it all! Best, Ron
In Review Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Dav, Mike Holmes, Matt.

3/12/2002 Ron Edwards: Seven major misconceptions about GNS
Hello, Given the most recent mishegoss about the topic on RPG.net, and putting aside for the moment various personal attacks on me, I thought I'd outline the wide variety of…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, joshua neff, Christopher Kubasik, Thor Olavsrud.

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