Although we haven't sat down together for our first session, with the work and excitement of preparations I already feel as though we are "playing" and so I'm starting an actual play thread. I hope this doesn't curse our actual plans to commence. I have 3 players committed to meeting me on April 4th to start a Sorcerer Campaign set in our here and now: Halifax, Nova Scotia - a salty little town-city on the east coast of Canada.
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Posted by: Joshua Bearden
25 Mar 2019
8 comments
So we finalized Azur’s character and played our first session.
Character finalization
We finalized Laura’s character while reviewing the rules together so here is the reworked version. We used the Sorcerer & Sword rules for humanity and she traded off 2 points of humanity for 2 points in Will. Her character, Azur, is now:
Posted by: arakn_e
25 Mar 2019
Games: Sorcerer
15 comments
In keeping with tradition, our group will be learning, playing, and sharing our experiences with Circle of Hands via a sort of round-robin cycle of a shared campaign world of multiple GMs. In this experiment we have 3 GMs who will each create and run Ventures for our pool of Circle Knights. Posted by: Runeslinger
23 Mar 2019
Games: Circle of Hands
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My Desperate Sorcerer's group split up before we can continue and I absolutly wanted to GM Sorcerer. After a few of S/Lay W/Me sessions with Laura where we tried different ways of “playing loose”, we wanted to play a Sorcerer and Sword game. Furthermore, Sorcerer & Sword states explicitly that it’s good to play with only one player.
Posted by: arakn_e
19 Mar 2019
Games: Sorcerer
16 comments
We finished our second session of [S1:E2], 16 Feb 2019
Session 1 recap: The adventurers are at Castle Figaryo for the prince’s birthday festival when the Empress shows up with a military escort. She is ticked that her daughter is missing. The adventurers get into some antics and escape the castle, with the prince Sabin.
Posted by: John St. Gaptooth
13 Mar 2019
4 comments
The concluding sessions for Sorcerer Marseille! I love it when the rolled outcomes make NPCs go batshit. At one point you get to see me act out the same stare that Cage is thoughtfully providing for you in the accompanying image.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
12 Mar 2019
Games: Sorcerer
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My son Erik, 11, joined me for a visit to Ulf’s in Göteborg (Gothenburg), for a one-night session of play. Ulf was kind enough to run things and to include his daughter Alice and son Franke, as well as another adult, Andreas, and Erik really wanted to try 5th edition D&D for his first time role-playing. We played in English, although I was the only one at the table who “needed” to, and I think I might have made it through in simple Swedish. Next time perhaps.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
12 Mar 2019
18 comments
Here is a recording from Session 1 of my Sorcerer campaign (“Demons are Social Media Junkies”).
Posted by: robowist
10 Mar 2019
Games: Sorcerer
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