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3/17/2003 Tor Erickson: Motifs as questions
Hi all, I had this revelation a couple of days ago when I was putting together the characters for a TQB one-session. I wanted one of the characters to be…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Tor Erickson, Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Paganini, James V. West.

3/13/2003 Tor Erickson: Robin's Laws?
Okay, I did a search on this one and didn't come up with anything... if this has already been discussed, I apologize: Over in Actual Play Ben Morgan made a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tor Erickson, Johannes, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, jrs, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Wulf, Ben Morgan, woodelf, talysman, clehrich, M. J. Young, Thierry Michel.

3/8/2003 Tor Erickson: Innocence for the innocent
Hi All, What kind of an effect have you all found that Innocence and fear have on long-term play (over several sessions)? Do they work at all like Humanity in…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Tor Erickson.

3/7/2003 Tor Erickson: But is it REALLY conflict resolution?
Hi Y'all, Don't the rules for combat in Sorcerer favor task over conflict resolution? I mean, for everything else in the game you make just a couple of rolls to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

1/9/2003 Tor Erickson: Spartan Sorcerer
Hi all, The Iliad. The Odyssey. The Aeneid. Medea. Oedipus Rex. Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire. Inspired by the above works I'm about to start a Sorcerer game set in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Thierry Michel, Ron Edwards, Mithras, Clay, erithromycin, clehrich, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead.

12/17/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried Sorcerer, the Final Act
(this continues two earlier posts in Actual Play: Southern Fried Sorcerer, parts 1 and 2. There's also some system posts down in the Sorcerer forum). Southern Fried Sorcerer took 5…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/14/2001 Tor Erickson: Rethinking the Kicker
Hi all, Up in RPG Theory or Actual Play or somewhere I posted that the purpose of Kickers is to give the character some sort of an emotional investment in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

12/11/2001 Tor Erickson: Observers to role-playing
Hi All, For three of our Sorcerer sessions so far we've had an outside observer sitting in. Other than the occasional comment they do just that: observe. What I'm finding…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Paul Czege, gentrification, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Evan Torner, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Osric, Ron Edwards.

11/19/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried System Comments
Hi All, There was another combat in our game on Saturday, and it turned out really nicely. The scene basically involved Cole (a PC) accidentally insulting Junior, a big, mean,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

11/15/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried Sorcerer, part 2
(this is part 2 of a two part post about a Sorcerer game) ACTUAL PLAY 1: Scene-framing, railroading, and director and author stance Throughout the game I exercised hardcore scene-cutting…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, joshua neff, kwill, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, furashgf.

11/15/2001 Tor Erickson: Souther Fried Sorcerer, part 1
Hello All, On Saturday I met with my three players and an observer to play our first session of Sorcerer. This was a particularly exciting moment because we were finally…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

11/4/2001 Tor Erickson: Some technical questions
Okay: if I roll a 8, 8, 9 and he rolls a 4, 5, 8, do I win with one victory (for the nine) or two (for the nine and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, random.

10/10/2001 Tor Erickson: Intense war-games
Hi Mithras, On 2001-10-10 15:28, Mithras wrote: Running with this doomed attitude from the word go, I'm working on a horror in war RPG focussed on the Vietnam War.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Laurel, contracycle, wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, lumpley, Mithras, Bankuei, Gordon C. Landis, Thededine, Balbinus, unheilig, erithromycin.

10/10/2001 Tor Erickson: Circular campaign design (not a good thing)
Man, I feel I'm obsessing over getting everything *just right* (killer Premise, setting, situation, back-story)and that the game is never going to get off the ground. I'm moving in circles…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Paul Czege.

9/27/2001 Tor Erickson: Tragedy in the Pool
Hi all, What do you think about using the Pool as a vehicle to run a tragedy? I've been thinking about this over and came up with a couple of…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, Ben Morgan, Mithras, James V. West.

9/24/2001 Tor Erickson: Game Prep
Hello, I've been re-reading the scenarios in Soul and have a question. Given that character creation (including kicker, technicality, etc.) is an essential process not included in the scenarios (for…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2001 Tor Erickson: SOAP! test-run
(note: I'm posting a few rules comments over in the Reviews Discussions forum, under the current SOAP! topic) Hello all, So I played SOAP tonight to get a feel for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

9/14/2001 Tor Erickson: Class in RPG Theory
Hello All, This semester I'm teaching a course on RPG theory, centering around GNS. I have five students signed up and we meet for the first time on Monday night,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, pacific_steve, contracycle, Paul Czege.

9/14/2001 Tor Erickson: More on SOAP!
I just read Ron's review of SOAP, then went and read the game itself. Now I think I need to run it very soon, but I have a few questions…
In Review Discussion
Participants: Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ron Edwards, james_west, Ferry Bazelmans, Ian Freeman.

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11/19/2007 Tor Erickson: Extended conflict resolution vs. combat resolution
We kicked off Charnel Gods last Thursday and the body count is already climbing into the triple digits.  Naur Tier for us is a desert world based on pre-mohammed Arabia…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

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