Supplement "Wish List"
Finarvyn:
Just downloaded and skimmed Mud Planet and it looks really cool. Once I finish looking it over, I'll check out the playtest you linked to. Thanks for the tip!
Paiku:
I'm currently working on a "Dictionary Of Elric," though it remains to be seen whether the finished product will adopt the format of the excellent Mu. Certainly Sorcery & Sword draws a lot of inspiration from and direct references to the Elric Saga, but it is (purposely and rightly) not an Elric campaign sourcebook. I'm putting a lot of work into this because: (a) I love the Saga, I want to play a campaign based in that world, and I agree that Sorcerer is the best RPG in which to do it; and (b) because none of my players have read the Saga so I need to convey the flavour and provide some artifacts (NPCs, demons, monsters, kingdoms, etc).
So: what can I do with my "Dictionary of Elric" once it's finished? Is such a thing interesting to anyone else? Publishable? Marketable? Are there copyright issues that would kill such an effort right from the start?
PS:
I agree that a supplement has to provide more than just setting. My Elric work would be a setting sourcebook, not a proper supplement.
I'm 7 pages into Mud Planet and so far it's very cool!
Jesse, your nascent supplements sound very interesting, especially the Gothic one, I'm sure we'd all love to read them!
Marshall Burns:
I'm very enamored with the "book report in a hardcover" thing that you get in the core Sorcerer books. I'd want the same thing out of any supplement: insightful discussion of the mechanisms of the source literature (/film/whatever) -- not as a guide on how to emulate it, but as a guide on how to sorcerize it: how to derive demon, sorcery, sorcerer, and Humanity definitions from it, and Kickers.
It's very important that a Sorcerer supplement never turn into the fandom, emulation-centered thing. It must always be focused on helping players create Situation so that they can resolve it according to their own horrible wills.
Finarvyn:
Quote from: Paiku on September 07, 2010, 10:07:33 AM
I'm currently working on a "Dictionary Of Elric," though it remains to be seen whether the finished product will adopt the format of the excellent Mu. Certainly Sorcery & Sword draws a lot of inspiration from and direct references to the Elric Saga, but it is (purposely and rightly) not an Elric campaign sourcebook.
So: what can I do with my "Dictionary of Elric" once it's finished? Is such a thing interesting to anyone else?
I would very much like to see this when it's done. I think that the style of Elric is very much in the spirit of Sorcerer, and the character Elric has to suffer through so many harsh situations along the way. To me, Elric is even more of a Sorcerer setting than, say, Conan or other pulp fantasy settings because of this.
Sadly, when you finish you won't be able to do much with it because Michael Moorcock owns the setting for Elric and probably won't allow you to publish unless you give him a piece of the action. You might be able to do the freebie giveaway thing, however, if you aren't making any money off of it.
Finarvyn:
I wish we could edit our posts. (sigh) I end up posting, then thinking of other details.
Quote from: Paiku on September 07, 2010, 10:07:33 AM
I agree that a supplement has to provide more than just setting. My Elric work would be a setting sourcebook, not a proper supplement.
I'm not entirely certain if a supplement has to be more than one setting, if that one setting is diverse enough. (And it may depend upon how you define the "setting" of Moorcock's multiverse since so many worlds are linked together through planar travel.) Even if Elric (for example) wasn't diverse enough to make a full supplement such as Sorcerer and Sword, one could certainly argue that there is enough material to make an excellent "mini supplement" such as the ones you can get through Adept Press.
Seems like the setting is more than just a list of names and places, but also includes the philosophy of the world, the way the characters look at their surroundings, and other factors. For example, the Conan setting is somewhat racist because Robert E Howard was racist and he imposed these beliefs on his characters and setting. If one did a Conan supplement it would probably need to capture this essence as well as the more plesent aspects of the world of Hyboria.
In Elric's world, the folk of Melinbone don't see summoning elementals and demons as wrong but people of the Young Kingdoms do. Elric feels that using Stormbringer is wrong but Yrkoon does not. These diverse outlooks give the setting depth and, in game terms, help define Humanity and other elements of the campaign. I guess what I'm thinking is that if there are enough examples of diversity (and perhaps good quotes to back them up) perhaps a single setting could make ao sourcebook.
Dictionary of Mu may have originated from many sources, but now it can form the basis of a single campaign. Would it matter if the book was derived from one or many sources, as long as it makes a good resource?
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