Terminator is totally a Sorcerer Setting, isn't it?

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Timespike:
Okay, first of all, Hi. My name's Peter. This is my first post to the Forge. I'd ask you to be gentle, but I read the warnings in the sticky at the top of this, and I can take it, so if I'm being an ass, retreading old ground or doing something else totally stupid here, go ahead and light me up.

I'm reading through the Sorcerer rules for the first time, and it just registered: Terminator is a Sorcerer setting, with the Terminators being the Demons (mostly of the Passing variety, but a few of the Inconspicuous or Object varieties.) This is particularly true when you consider the new TV show (or the first season and first episode of the second season, at least. My wife & I have decided to consume this one in DVD form rather than week-by-week). Cameron would seem to be a textbook Passing demon, with the T-1000s (the liquid ones) being a kind of strange mix of Inconspicuous and Passing.

Re-Programmed terminators make for potent demons, to be sure, but apparently, now and again, one just "snaps" and mows down a bunch of people.

The only thing keeping the analogy from being perfect is some good needs & desires.

Ron Edwards:
Ha!

You get a big hug and kiss for that one. Terminator 2 came out not long before the real creative spike in writing in Sorcerer, and one of the characters in the very first major playtest was based on Sarah Connor in that film. Her demon was a knife, and there weren't any robots in the story, but the vibe was totally there. In fact, I suppose if one were to watch A Better Tomorrow, The Hidden, and Terminator 2, the whole "modern mythology" angle on Sorcerer would be revealed. It operates in tandem with pulp fantasy (Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, et cetera) and olden-day mythology (Medea) too, but it's certainly a big part of it.

Desire: Mayhem. Needs ... well, if it's applicable at all, that might require a closer look at the TV show, which I haven't seen, but now will.

Best, Ron

Timespike:
Cool! I'm glad I got it.

I've never seen A Better Tomorrow or The Hidden. Looks like I should fix that. I'm pretty excited about this game, though. My initial idea for a setting would be Terminator with some elements of the action/horror movie Virus from a few years back so Parasite and/or Possessor demons can enter the mix. Demons are hostile mechanical things from the future (or maybe the present), from Terminator-like Flesh-Covered robots to AI-equipped smart weapons to parasitic nanocolonies that hijack the host's lymphatic and nervous systems. I'm not sure if I'd want to keep the time-traveling aspects of Terminator, or make them an insidious threat being manufactured as a secret army by a malevolent A.I. on a remote island and distributed through the black market or something.

The Dragon Master:
Timespike: Awesome idea. I've been asked by my group to run a sorcerer game after our current one, and I'm going to offer this to them as a possible campaign.

Timespike:
Feel free! Let me know how it goes if you do.

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