Since I may well be playin' in a game with Mr. Prez, I grabbed Sorcerer and Sorcerer and Sword at my FLGS on the way home.

I picked up the hardback copy, which was all they had, and it appears to be the same size as my copy of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. That must mean something. I'm doing the research as we speak.

Hiya,

Thanks for picking up the game!

Side note: it so happens that the hardback is the only version; there is no and will be no paperback version of the main book.

As far as the dimensions are concerned, my model was the standard comic book size: 10" high, 6.5" wide. I always liked books about that size; they have a compact and classy feel without being "mini."

Best,
Ron

Ah, that's the size... I always wondered what the size was modeled after...

Jake

Hi there,

As it happens, it was fall 2000 or early 2001, and I was playing Obsidian over at Dav Harnish's apartment, when I saw his hardbound copy of The Dream Hunters, a Sandman illustrated story published by DC. "Hey!" I said. "I want it to look just like that!"

That particular edition is indeed in the comics-size format, a slim hardbound book, all classy clothbound-looking. I was able to meet my desire to imitate its format up to the point of the cover illustration, which in The Dream Hunters hardback is some kind of decal or sticker attached to a smooth inset portion of the cover. Of course, that was hideously customized and expensive so I went with the dust jacket at the last minute.

Best,
Ron

I'll just jump on the band wagon and say I bought Sorcerer and Sword just yesterday and the treatment of the heroic fantasy is great. I've been dissatisfied with modern fantasy fiction since Elric and it's good to see my impression put into words.

Conan as sorcerer makes perfect sense - all that surging dark emotion!

Good job. Now I need someone to play it with.

- Alan

I'll jump on the bandwagon here to say I also picked up Sorcerer and Sword recently. It looks great and I'm eager to get a game together (got at least other one game to run first, though). As a teenager in the 70s, I devoured sword and sworcery stories and it was those stories that I wanted to emulate when I discovered D&D. I have a great deal of fondness for OD&D and for first edition AD&D, but they never quite captured the feel of those stories the way I expected. It will be fun to try that genre again with Sorceror and Sword.

I was sorting through my books recently and came across the old Lin Carter "Flashing Swords" volumes which, despite Lin Carter's flaws, were a huge influence on my taste in fantasy. I need to pass those on to my own teenager now....

Hi Maurice,

I like those anthologies, and we were probably devouring them at the same time. Their biggest limitation to me was that they often included stories that I was already reading in author-based collections, e.g. Fritz Leiber and so on, so each FS volume only offered a couple of new stories. But as a panoply from each to develop one's own tastes (by picking which you like and which you don't), they're great collections.

Best,
Ron