[UA] What You Want

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Bryant Durrell <durrell at innocence.com>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] What You Want
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 11:55 AM
> 
> John Fiala writes:
> > > 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 agree with other people - these are nifty names and all, but I'm
> > not sure I want a 100-page book on getting drunk.  
> 
> You know, when you put it that way, a Dipsomancy sourcebook sounds 
> kind of interesting.  Especially if it's combined with a Los Vegas
> citybook.

	I don't think that's the way to go, either.  UA isn't like Trinity. 
Trinity pretty much has all the orders tied to specific geographical
locales, so material on one thing supports material on the other.  In UA if
I don't much like the Dipsomancers I just don't put 'em in my game. 
There's no hierarchy of Dipsomancers headquartered in Las Vegas, and if I
were buying a book on Las Vegas, I'd be disappointed if a good chunk of it
were devoted to Dipsomancy.  The reverse is also true.

	A city sourcebook could have new magickal schools in it if they were
really appropriate (L.A. and cinemancy comes to mind), but why try to cram
everything together?  Why not just have books on discrete topics?

	Heck, I don't even think there needs to be all that much more explanation
of the existing magickal schools.  Maybe a few more spells, a couple of
adventure seeds for adepts of that school, and guidelines for creating new
formula spells.  I think the bulk of a "postmodern magick" book should be
new schools, new artifacts, new archetypes, and new clueless cabals.

Kevin "Professor Bobo" Mowery _____________________ profbobo at io.com
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