Editing Sorcerer: A Menu

The genesis of this Wikipage can be found on the Roleplaying Open thread, [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=208480 ''Sorcerer: A Menu'']. The links herein are not intended to be limited to RPGnet, although most are likely to be drawn from the [http://forum.rpg.net/ RPGnet Forums] or [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/ The Forge]. Per Paka's words, "When its firing on all cylinders its not just Story Now. Its Story Now, motherf***er."

Worth mentioning are [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/brochure.php/actualplay.html The Big Menu at the ''Sorcerer'' RPG site] and [http://random.average-bear.com/Sorcerer/HomePage Doyce Testerman's ''Sorcerer'' Rules Wiki]. See also [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18395.0 the corresponding thread on The Forge.]

== Chef's Specials ==

Out-of-nowhere ideas that have no (or little) obvious source.

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[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=165071 Old Scratch's ''The Sin Eaters'']

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=11183.0 Old Scratch's ''The Mythic Past, The Haunted Present'']

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12665.0 ''Eighteen:'' Sorcerous Golf!]

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=14372.0 ''Pangaea: Man vs. The Dinosaur Kings''] - for ''Sorcerer & Sword''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=6397 ''Xuphia''] - a ''Sorcerer & Sword'' campaign.

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=137874 Old Scratch's ''Nightmare Sorcerers'']

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=148218 A ''Sorcerer'' world-building experiment]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=206120 Nature Spirits and Animist or Tainted Spirits as Demons]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showpost.php?p=1204679&postcount=4 Gothic Fantasy (plus Space Western)]

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=14735.0 ''The Bound Gods''] - a Desert City ''Sorcerer & Sword'' setting

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=10874.0 ''Afterglow''] - a post-Apocalypse setting

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=1232.0 ''Magnitude''] - where demons are young children about to explode with strange power and sorcerers are government agencies attempting to harness it

Lisa Padol's Rennaissance ''Sorcerer'' game:
* [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17765.0 First session]
* [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18035.0 Second session]
* [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18074.0 Third session]

== Side Orders ==

The art of the ''Sorcerer'' Mini-Supplement, what's for sale and how you can create one of your own.

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[http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/brochure.php/minisupplements.html Wanna write one?]

* [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/schism.html Schism by Jared Sorensen]
* [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/electric_ghosts.html Electric Ghosts by Raven Daegmorgan]
* [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/urge.html Urge by Clinton R. Nixon]
* [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/demoncops.html Demon Cops By Ron Edwards]
* [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/charnelgods.html Charnel Gods by Scott Knipe (Gilded Moose Games)]
* [http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/hellbound.html Hellbound by Dav Harnish]

== Dishes Inspired By... ==

Ideas and settings based on stories in other media.

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[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=170287 ''Out of the Joint''] - inspired by ''The Wire'', ''The Corner'' and ''Oz''

Also, [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12671.0 Prison ''Sorcerer'']

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=183850 Old Scratch's ''Twilight Armies''] - inspired by the novella "A Dry, Quiet War"

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=208480 Heavenly Kung-Fu] - inspired by ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', ''Exalted'' and the old Shaw Brothers films

''Blood Simple: Demons From the Hell-side of Town'' - [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10822 setting] and [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=122399 prep] and [http://rpgtalk.net/judd/files/ pdf (Character & Demon Sheets, Descriptors and One-Sheet]

''Marr'd/Mu's Bed'' ([http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=16944  RPGnet Forum] and [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=3506&highlight= The Forge]) - inspired by ''Elric'', Fafrd and the Gray Mouser, Howard's ''Conan'' and Burroughs' ''Barsoom''

See also:
* [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=193009 One Day in Mu's Bed]
* [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=122138 Intrigue in Mu's Bed]
* [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=145339 Rocking Mu's Bed]
* [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119085 Return to Mu's Bed]
* [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=18819 Well Met in Mu's Bed]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=184229 Old Scratch's ''Nausicaa'' Setting]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=137216 ''Sorcerer'' and the ''Illiad'']

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12939.0 ''Sorcerers of Fu Manchu'']

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=1689.0 ''Complicated Shadows''] - loosely inspired by ''The Prisoner''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=7974.0 ''The Asylum''] - inspired by ''One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'', ''Brazil'' and ''Batman'' stories featuring Arkham Asylum

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=2480.0 ''The Agency''] - inspired by ''Men in Black''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12942.0 Anime-Style Sci-Fi] - served with kung fu, garnished with giant mecha and seasoned with indomitable human spirit

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=4692.0 ''Sorcerer'' meets ''Neon Genesis Evangelion''] - with a side of ''Planescape''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=5168 ''Sorcerer,'' Inc.] - inspired by modern examinations of the 21st century corporation and the world it has built 

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=5360.0 ''Blood Relics''] - a strangely titilating flavour combination of ''The Guyver'' and ''Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=8571.0 ''Twin Peaks Sorcerer''] - examining one of ''Sorcerer's'' Viewing Recommendations

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=2640.0 ''Glenwood Springs''] - ''Twin Peaks'' meets ''Six Feet Under''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=14811.0 ''The Celebrity Machine''] - inspired by ''The Player,'' ''Project Greenlight'' and the ''E!'' show

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=987.0 ''Sorcerers of Arrakis'']

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=7422.0 ''Embraced by the Dark''] - inspired by ''Flatliners''

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=474107 '' Sorcerer 2289: Technological Demons in the Science Fiction Solar System''] - 3 cups of Richard K Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs with a dash of 2001: a space odyssey and a pinch of Stross' Accelerando

== Your Favourites Done Flambé Sorcerér ==

Direct conversions of other roleplaying games.

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[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=180333 ''Planescape'']

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=147187 Olde School Dee and Dee] - a strange conversion of back-in-the-day ''Dungeons & Dragons'' filtered through a lens of mocking absurdity

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=181138 ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' goes Narrative], described by Old Scratch as "a very rough, and I do mean rough and at times misguided conversion of WFRP to Sorcerer"

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=205586 ''Hunter: The Reckoning'' done ''Sorcerer'']

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=10381.0 ''Sorcerer'' and ''WoD''] - how to handle the entire ''World of Darkness'' line in ''Sorcerer''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=7380.0 The Madness Dossier] - based on a ''GURPS Horror'' campaign blurb by Kenneth Hite

== Wine and Dessert Menus ==

Threads that contain a selection of ideas or discuss broad concepts.

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[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105003 What have ''you'' done with ''Sorcerer?'']

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105093 What do you WANT to do with ''Sorcerer?''] - features a whole host of brief ideas on ''Sorcerer:''
* Sorcerer with '''Goblinland''' and the Fae and their dark ilk (Post 1)
* Sorcerer with ''Jedis'' and Midochlorians as your demons (2)
* Fantasy '''Buddhist Empires''' of South-East Asia (7)
* Epic '''Dawn of Civilization''' with Animist Demons (16)
* '''Supers''' (ideas spread throughtout the thread)
* '''Crime Families''' with Demons as Criminals without scruples (33)
* "The Devils" '''Pre-Revolution Russia''' (34)
* '''Post Modern/Transhuman''' (36)
* '''Modern Things with Demons as Modern Technology''' (41)
* And a great example of a metaphorical demon (44)

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12755.0 ''Sorcerer in Space''] - brainstomring science fiction concepts compatible with ''Sorcerer''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=5122 Executive-Class ''Sorcerer''] - has ''Sorcerer'' sold out to the Corporation?

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=4910.0 Cyberpunk Sorc] - one of several discussions on playing cyberpunk using ''Sorcerer''

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13592.0 Mystery Men] - ''Sorcerer'' and Super Heroes

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=237482 Masks] - another brief look at ''Sorcerer'' and Super Heroes, as well as several three-line concepts

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=239728 Four Mecha Settings] - WarGods, Creation was a Lie, 1000 Years Ago, and Mechanoir (Posts 20, 22, 23, and 33 respectively)

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=10874.0 Afterglow], a post-Apocalypse setting

== Cooking Tips ==

Our chefs give you tips on how to bake one at home.

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'''Art-Deco Melodrama:''' In which the game's author shows how settings can be made in a collaborative effort in four parts.

# [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=753.msg6535#msg6535 To Tor, Jesse, and Paul]
# [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=770.0 Art-Deco Melodrama Part One]
# [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=828.0 Art-Deco Melodrama Part Two]
# [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=876.0 Art-Deco Melodrama The Final Chapter]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=123848 You Kick, we Bang]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=123408 Kickers and Bangs, how do you use them?]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=124119 Kickers and Group Parties]

Kickers for Dummies:
* [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17413.0 Part 1]
* [http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17415.0 Part 2]

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=123839 Relationship Maps]

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13709.0 ''Sorcerer'' One-Sheet Preparation]

[http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16901.0 Getting Started] - Ron Edwards and Lisa Padol discuss assembling the one-sheet, relationship map preparation, identifying sources and getting everyone on the same page
* ''Sorcerer'' One-Sheet Preparation and Getting Started were used to create [[How_to_Run:Sorcerer|How to Run: ''Sorcerer'']]