Sorcerer & Sword: "Eh."
pete_darby:
Look on the bright side, he apparently paid cash money that ultimately goes in part to Ron.
Ron Edwards:
My view exactly - with the additional hope that, one day, he might sell them on eBay or any other second-hand venue, such that a person who actually wants the books will come to own them.
Might I suggest that everyone involved in this thread has spent altogether enough (at least enough) time on this person? I mean, spend time as you see fit, but that's my suggestion.
Best, Ron
Zoltar:
I just read Sergio's review and all 7 pages of the following Sorcerer & Sword review discussion. The reviewer does understand Sorcerer and even has some good things to say about Ron Edward's core RPG. However, Sergio did not see the worth in Sorcerer's supplement, Sorcerer & Sword.
The reviewer makes his claims clearly and logically. He only gets exasperated at the end of the 7 page back and forth, and I can understand his frustration at being told "No, you just don't see it the right way" and then basically being called an idiot for not understanding certain portions of S&S nonsense. Many people, like the ones here at the Forge, try to make him see reason... their reason. To Sergio (and I must agree), a lot of Sorcerer & Sword tries to make the reader believe that 2 + 2 = 5. Many rpg.net posters insist that indeed 2 + 2 does equal 5, yet still Sergio will not see "reason"!
If you don't agree, then that's fine. Everyone entitled to their own opinion, etc. Mistaking his analysis of this product as a bashing of someone's gaming politics or off-beat RPG paradigm, however, is totally missing the point. Sergio knows the sword and sorcery genre well and has proved it with his knowledgeable, insightful critique. Read his review on its own merits, isolated from other pro or con reviews of Ron Edward's books. You may be surprised that Sergio has a point...
Zoltar Delgado
Ron Edwards:
All discussion of that review can stay at RPG.net, where there's software dedicated exactly to that purpose.
This thread didn't have much purpose in the first place, and now that it's attracting some kind of spillover from the discussion at RPG.net, it has no purpose. So, no more posting to it, from anyone.
The preceding post is striving to be flamebait and deserves no attention here.
Ron
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