[UA] What You Want

[Bryant Durrell]

Stacy Stroud writes:
> >	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.

Trinity pulls this off pretty well -- each splatbook is tied to the
geographic region associated with the splat, and the fluff is cut to a
minimum.  But I don't know that I associate UA with a splat-type 
system, although I know splatbooks sell darned well.

OK.  My choices:

Citybooks at the top; those things usually have tons of good solid
source material even if you don't want to use the city in question.

I'm not sure what you mean by "red herrings," but I like books that're
just interesting ideas a lot.  The Spherewalker Sourcebook is one of 
the best things I've ever read.  Back for Seconds is something else I
liked a lot.  

One Shots 2, yes yes.  Adventures are good.

The aforementioned splatbooks.

The integrated campaign.  (Not too exciting for me.)

_Godwalker_.  (Also not too exciting, to be honest.)

Hm.  Something you didn't mention -- I really like the Trinity
minibooks.  24 pages for $4.95.  Short takes on stuff that doesn't
really fit anywhere else.  If I were doing UA splatbooks, that's the
kind of format I might use.

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