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3/6/2010 Paka: The Looking Glass, the Cyclone, the Wardrobe and the Second Star to the Right
What happens to those kids who have been to otherworlds when they grow up? One sorcerous theory: http://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/the-looking-glass-the-cyclone-the-wardrobe-and-the-second-star-to-the-right/
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, greyorm, The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

9/19/2009 Paka: Wanting to Game with My Dad
My dad introduced me to science fiction, fantasy and comic books.  Growing up, I cannot remember a time when he didn't have a science fiction novel on his night table…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Noon.

9/17/2009 Paka: Sorcerer 2289: Technological Demons in the Science Fiction Solar System
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26820.0]I posted this thread a while back. [/url] But nothing has come of it for a long while and I just [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28726.0;topicseen]saw this thread [/url]and listened to [url=http://glyphpress.com/talk/category/olmag/]Rob and Joshua…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, weaselheart.

5/29/2009 Paka: Revised Questions
I am reading over the revised edition and I like many of the changes, particularly the change of Magic Tokens for one-shots...very nice. We are thinking about a modern magic…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Paka, inthisstyle.

5/22/2009 Paka: Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things
I read a cute graphic novel called Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things by Ted Naifeh and it was adorable.  It had a spunky protagonist, a mysterious uncle, vapid yuppie…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, zediekiel.

3/31/2009 Paka: Two Games When PTA Either Didn't Work or Only Kinda Worked
A few games of PTA have fallen really flat and I just wanted to take a gander at them. The most obvious one first: I hate television When someone says…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Paka, exedore6, LeSingeSavant.

3/7/2009 Paka: The Slaughter at Corinthton, a Dogs in the Vineyard game
It was one of those Fridays where the regular game fell through but we knew it far enough ahead of time so that we could pick up the pieces and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, James_Nostack, Queen_of_Kryos, Noon, Eliarhiman6.

3/4/2009 Paka: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
I am late to the party, having just finished it tonight but man-oh-man is it a Sorcerer setting. The Sorcerers and their demons are pretty clearly spelled out. The demons…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, M. J. Young, LandonSuffered.

2/24/2009 Paka: Agon: The Kleos Cup, Dreamation '09
Ever since reading Agon I have thought it was tailor-made for convention tournaments, like competitive deals that you read about as jokes in Knights of the Dinner Table only in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, jefgodesky, Mel_White, John Harper, Valamir, Nathan P..

12/5/2008 Paka: The Last Watchdog Over the Faithful
A solo campaign in a wild west that never was and has moved on, starting off in a ghost-town called Bridal Falls, winding through what is left of the Desert…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, agony, Brand_Robins, Graham Walmsley, jefgodesky.

11/22/2008 Paka: Sorcerer Sci-fi: Demons of Mercury
I've got a bunch of Sorcerer setting ideas that I want to tinker with and this latest, set a few hundred years in the future, in a recently colonized solar…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, davidberg.

10/7/2008 Paka: How do you award Bonus Dice for role-playing?
I am not looking for an official ruling but am looking for different ways and methods folks use to award players Bonus Dice for role-playing.  I am re-reading the Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski.

10/2/2008 Paka: Solar System's Demons: Sorcerer Science Fiction
The setting is the colonized solar system.  Pluto and some robot probes on Charon are as far as we've gotten.  Space travel is slow and clunky.  When you go to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Artanis, Melinglor.

8/20/2008 Paka: Dark Pages Imprint: Zeppelin City Set-up
A few friends of mine are moving back into town and I was excited to read that DarkPages prefers a GM and one or two players.  I have been enjoying…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paka, Jared A. Sorensen, Spooky Fanboy.

3/7/2008 Paka: Amazing Series of Sorcerer Threads on SG
Links below: Conflict Subtleties http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5945&page=1#Item_15 Conflict & Inanimate Objects http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5952&page=1#Item_0 Social Conflict http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5950&page=1#Item_13 Sorcery as Conflict http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5956&page=1#Item_1 System & Narrative http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5955&page=1#Item_3
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Eliarhiman6, jburneko, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Marshall Burns, Yokiboy, greyorm.

2/26/2008 Paka: Learning to Game
I was IMing with Thor about different generations of gamers and how they learned to game and it made me think about how I learned to play RPG's.  This isn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Valamir, buzz, Nev the Deranged, greyorm, Ilmryn, Michael S. Miller, Kevin Smit.

1/28/2008 Paka: [Dreamation 2008] Shock: Overflow - The Clone Civil Wars
Joshua got a bunch of overflow for his Saturday night Shock: game and rather than turn people away he set up three other fellas to set up games.  We grabbed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Mel_White, JoeStanton, nikola, Dave Cleaver, lumpley.

12/20/2007 Paka: B to the W to the G to the N to the S
For whatever reason, I'm thinking about incoherence after an IM chat with Paul: Play which includes incompatible combinations of Creative Agendas among participants. Incoherent play is considered to contribute to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

9/13/2007 Paka: [Shock:] The Collections Agent, the President of Earth and the Revolutionary
I knew that my roommates, Bret and Jeff (not Jeff "Sons of Kryos" Lower, a different Jeff) would be down for some Shock:, a game I was eager to play…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Bret Gillan, xenopulse, drnuncheon, Yokiboy.

5/2/2007 Paka: Sorcerer: Warlocks, Witches, Priests, Nuns, Demons, Angels, Satan and God
"Our job as Devils is not to damn our appointee's soul to hell as quickly as possible.  Ideally, we want a cycle of damnation and coldness and then a sliver…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, James_Nostack, Arturo G., Valamir.

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3/31/2010 Paka: In which we head out into the Sorcerer's Solar System
Bret, Christine and I are all buddies who don't game together.  Realizing this was silly, we got together to game.  We agreed that we wanted a finite game, 3 session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Roger, davidberg.

7/21/2010 Paka: What Sword and Sorcery Means to Me, blog post
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/07/mind-meld-what-sword-and-sorcery-means-to-me/ Thought this article was interesting, here are a few quotes that stood out: "Basically I see it as a good old-fashioned sword and sandal or cloak and dagger drama…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka.

9/1/2010 Paka: The Courtney Crumrin RPG of my dreams.
Looking back on these two threads: Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things  I choose you, Sorcerer And I don't see a mini-supplement but see an RPG that is…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2011 Paka: Moorcock on World Building
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/05/mind-meld-lessons-learned-from-master-world-builders/ Reminded me of Sorcerer & Sword. I hardly know what this means. I used to draw a rough map if the story was a 'journey' adventure and made up…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2011 Paka: Una the Blade, webcomic with a Trollbabish feel
http://unatheblade.tumblr.com/ I saw this and immediately thought of ya, Ron. The idea of a woman swords and sorcery barbarian with a dash of Lone Wolf and Cub makes me hopeful.
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

10/7/2011 Paka: Gone, gone, oh form of man...
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3339692.html#cutid1 I haven't read the Demon mini-series in years but have fond memories of it. I thought these pages were neat from a Sorcerer point of view.
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2011 Paka: Refugees from the Forgotten Realms
Read Ron's article and it reminded me of the gaming I have done in the Forgotten Realms using the original grey boxed set, a few early supplements and Burning Wheel…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, C. Edwards, ffilz, HighmoonMedia.

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