Sorcerer, subtitled The Game of Magical Conflict, is a fantasy board wargame for one to five players that Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) published in 1975. It is set where seven universes, each shown by a color, touch one another. Every player is a sorcerer who rules one universe and tries to defeat the others with spells, human soldiers, summoned creatures, teleporting units and energy bolts. A random attrition rule picks two colors each turn and damages or destroys the units standing on them, and a wandering vortex adds further chaos. The box held a hex map, a rule book, 400 die-cut counters and a die. It grew out of a reader request in Strategy & Tactics and quickly reached the top of SPI's bestseller list.
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Skill or Luck Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Sorcerer (board game) (Wikipedia)
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is a fantasy board wargame for 1
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published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1975
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is a fantasy board wargame for 1-5 players
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Sorcerer, a game for 1-5 players
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the game employs the right proportion of skill and chance
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