[UA] What You Want

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Stacy Stroud <sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] What You Want
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 9:23 AM
> 
> >	Okay, UA fans: you've probably heard that there are a number of UA
> >books
> >basically written and in the pipe for development.  However, once those
get
> >extruded into your waiting hands, which of the following do you think
you'd
> >most want to see?
> >
> >	"Mature Audiences" - The Pornomancer sourcebook.
> >	"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" - The Dipsomancer sourcebook.
> >	"Flesh for Fantasy" - The Epideromancer sourcebook.
> 
> I like the titles . . . but can you give me an idea of what would go into
> these books?  If I may make the obvious comparison, I'm sure we've all
> heard the complaints WW has gotten over the non-content of their
> "splatbooks."  It's clear from UA that the schools of magick are not
> coherent organizations or even consistent mindsets -- so why a whole
> sourcebook for each?  The old schedule included a "Postmodern Magick"
> sourcebook; it seems that would be the place to put new spells and such. 
I
> could see a Sect of the Naked Goddess book to match the TNI book, but
none
> of the other schools is so strongly tied to a specific group of people.

	I agree with this.  I'd rather see (and buy) one massive $25 book on UA
magick as a whole (including new schools?) than buy a new book for each
school.

> >	"Grand Secrets" - A bunch of red herring adventures and material.
> 
> How does this differ from "One Shots"?  What's a "red herring adventure"?
> (I would presume an adventure that seems to involve the answer to one of
> the Big Questions of the UnAverse, but actually does not.  Is that it?)

	It sounds like adventures around the likes of vampires and cattle
mutilations: wierd as heck, but with a relatively mundane explanation in
the UnAverse.  (Although wierder than our reality just the same.)

> Stacy Stroud
> sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net

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