This woke me up and kept me from going back to sleep

[Jared A. Sorensen]

"The Sorcerer's Song"
aka
"Scream for me, Los Angeles!"

Sorcerers are musicians.
Demons are either passers (groupies, roadies, boy/girlfriends) or objects (instruments or affectations).

Humanity is popularity.

Humanity 0 = Burn out and drop out of sight (your career is effectively "over")
Humanity 10 = Burn up in a blaze of glory (you die from a drug overdose, in a car wreck or the mothership returns to earth)

Ah, I'm still not awake yet. Discuss...

[Bailywolf]

And what about the blues world... deals with the devil have always been part of the blues myth.

Sultry Nights, Black Magic, and Music hotter than the fires of hell.

[Uncle Dark]

I've always had a theory that Jim Morrison died 'cause he was channelling Dionysos without proper controls or awareness.  He couldn't handle the amps being pumped through his spirit.

Interesting idea, Jared, though I (personally) would be mroe likely to allow it as a PC than run it as a game.

Lon

[Ron Edwards]

Hi there,

I'm with Lon on this one, in terms of play - for Sorcerer, it sounds more like a character concept than a game/overall Premise concept. Seems to me that a whole game about Rock 'n Roll, fame, passion, and so on could well be done on its own without recourse to the demonics/sorcery metaphor at all.

I'm given to understand something is in the works along those lines anyway.

As for the Jim Morrison issue, I beg of everyone not to leap into a big pop-culture debate about the guy. At least not in the forums.

Best,
Ron

[gentrification]

Demons are either passers (groupies, roadies, boy/girlfriends) or objects (instruments or affectations).

Enh. How about:

Demons are the songs themselves.



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[ This Message was edited by: gentrification on 2001-08-13 19:11 ]

[Bailywolf]

Demon Songs!  I friggin love this!  Musicians are Possessed by their music... hell, this could make an insane campaign!

The group is an indy band trying to break into a recording industry even more corrupt than in the real world...

They stumble onto a subculture of sorcerer song writers who provide starting bands with demon-songs to possess them... but in exchange for the classic Devil's Deal...  Imagine what the Elvis's 'manager' sold him!

Music politics meets occult underground.  This is choice.  Very choice.

[Mike Holmes]

On 2001-08-10 12:50, Ron Edwards wrote:
Hi there,

I'm with Lon on this one, in terms of play - for Sorcerer, it sounds more like a character concept than a game/overall Premise concept. Seems to me that a whole game about Rock 'n Roll, fame, passion, and so on could well be done on its own without recourse to the demonics/sorcery metaphor at all.

What, you're telling Jared he can't write an incredibly specific Roleplaying game? That's like telling a crack addict not to light up.

Personally, I'm waiting for Jared to finish his RPG about English Canal Barge Operators. Its got this really cool mechanic called sediment....

Mike Holmes