Play Sorcerer: Narrative Tools and Techniques for Social Storytelling

Play Sorcerer will be a compliment guide to Ron Edwards' Sorcerer.

The tools and techniques within Play Sorcerer do a bang up job of moving the narrative through turns, twists and surprises. The format of the setting (people with strong agendas given great power) sets up a series of ethical and emotional choices that engage and compel everyone at the table. I loved the game since I first encountered it, and after tooling around with it for about seven years, I love it even more.

However, the rules are sometimes obscure. Some items have been left unclear. Little explanation has been offered as to how all the pieces fit together. And a great deal of thought has gone into the game since it was published almost a decade ago.

Play Sorcerer will take all the thinking and playing I've done with the game and break out all the components of the rules in a clear and easy to use manner. The book will explain both procedures and the reasons for Kickers, Bangs, Bonus Dice and other components of the rules, and explain how they all work together to produce a game of Sorcerer.

Moreover, the text should serve as a large essay on the act of social storytelling for roleplaying games in general. The book will be approximately 150 pages in a 6x9 format, released at first as a PDF.

This collection for the $1500 is to make sure there is interest for the project before I begin.

Anyone donating to this fund will automatically receive a PDF copy of the book upon its completion. (Email addresses are automatically stored when donations are made, and I will simply go down the list and mail out the PDFs).

Thank you for your time and interest on this project.

For the record, my name is Christopher Kubasik. I'm the author of five published novels. I was the Head Writer for "Stranger Adventures," which received three Emmy Award nominations for broadband content. I'm currently writing and producing an original anthology series for ABC/Disney's Digital Media division. I am also currently in negotiations to sell my original Internet series "The Booth at the End" to Michael Eisner's Tornante Company. I was a leader designer on the TORG and Earthdawn roleplaying games, and wrote RPG material for TSR, FASA, West End Games, and Mayfair games.

I have a blog about the Play Sorcerer project at playsorcerer.wordpress.com