THIS one I knew about, starting yesterday. THIS one I knew I wanted, no question. THIS one I logged on to back. Unknown Armies is an amazing game that never generates enough content to satisfy me. I can’t wait to get these books.
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For those who don’t know, UA is likely the best horror RPG there is. And it’s the sheer humanity of the thing that drives it. Also, not remotely kid friendly.
I so desperately wanted to rewrite In Nomine’s Sorcery rules after reading UA for the fortieth time or so.
I’m wishing I had backed up my documentation on kludging UA and CoC together into a unified game engine. (How can you not LOVE UA’s Sanity system? It’s just so much better. Not to mention cherries.)
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Mechanically, it’s not too bad, because they’re both 2d10 systems based on roughly equivalent power levels.
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Philosophically, there needs to be a bridge. I found Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” great inspiration. If humanity in aggregate is itself a protean Eldritch abomination, you’ve got your tie in. (And a horrible doom, if the human race survives long enough to reach it. Not to mention a really interesting role for Nyarlathotep to wallow in.)
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Most of what survived my oldest child destroying that laptop is a custom tarot deck for the players to use as a feely (and to predict their own doom, of course). It’s never a good thing when The Magician is labled Comte St. Germain, The Hermit Nodens, The Star Algol, and those were some of the least threatening cards. (Cybele making an appearance as High Priestess would have certainly gotten *my* sphincter to pucker.)
If anyone wants to raid it for ideas, I’ve still got a possible card meanings cheat sheet file, and the graphics files. (Most of the art is public domain, but some of it isn’t, so don’t publish them.) And I can dash off a synopsis of the first episode I had planned easily enough.
All the pieces are shamelessly derivative, but I think I put them together in an interesting way. (But if Kenneth Hite feels inspired by any of it, it might cause a recursive loop and Zeppelins to show up. Granted, I think I only kept 3 of his Cthuhlu tarot card names, and less of his art. But that and S. John Ross’s The Oracle Gem from Warehouse 23 were the seeds from which the campaign structure grew.)
And another FYI- David “Gurps Casey & Andy” Morgan Mar just launched a KS for a collection of his Irregular Webcomic strips. Just the fantasy strips, but still a collection.