[UA] Bad Reactions to UA?

[Eric Brennan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Bad Reactions to UA?


> At 06:44 PM 12/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >    2) The setting is downright immoral or amoral, which bothers at least
> >two gamers.  (A similar complaint was aired about Vampire...members of my
> >group just don't feel like mucking with a slow degeneration into
Beasthood
> >when they could save a kid, I suppose.)
>
> I find this very, very interesting.  What, exactly, do they feel is
> STOPPING them from being moral?

    Well, admittedly, it could be how I couched the game to them; but rather
than engage in self-flagellation over that, I could say that the NPC groups
as presented are firmly in the "grey" side of things.  There were no groups
(with the exception of Mak Attax) who were setting out to be, well, heroic.
There weren't any built in "good guy" hooks for them, like there are in,
say, Mage The Ascension, Delta Green or Con X.  Add to that the fact that
half of my group really embraced the gritty Ellroy/Powers mix, and the other
half just didn't get it.
    Now, as I said earlier, I've worked my new campaign around a less
"gritty," noir hook than The New Inquisition or Sleepers or something
similar.  I'm hoping it will work.  Like I said, I love UA, and half my
group does, too--it's just the other half that was holding us up (and hell,
half of them left for other parts of the country and were replaced with
younger, less four-color folks.)  Hopefully, that will make the difference.
--Eric



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