[UA] Bad Reactions to UA?

[Piotr Pogorzelski]

>>Has anyone on the list introduced UA to a player who doesn't
>>like it, and what has their experience of it like? 

My group was neutral-with-a-light-negative-tendance to UA first. I
lead a session that was quite bad (I was so exited that I wanted to
GM immediately, without much preparation, and the plot was so
confusing - too much OU elements - that my players didn't understood
a darn thing and went bored). 2/3 of them got UA-unfriendly after that.

But I didn't quit the idea to lead a UA game. So, I talked out with each
player, one-on-one, about why they didn't like it, what they'd wish to see
in a modern-day occult game, and so on. Then we tried a one-shot or 
two and they were intertained.

The most UA-unfriedly player was quite disturbing. He said he didn't like
UA, but when he explained me was he was expecting from a modern-day
occult game, it was like he decribed UA to me. So, to convince him that
this game was a/ made for him and b/ was a great soil for uber-interresting
stories, we made a test: he made on the fly a caracter concept, and I threw
at him story plot and event, and he described me what his PC would do, etc...
After an hour or so of "and if this was happening, what would he do?" I asked
him "doesn't it make a great story?" and he said "yes".

>What experiences have you all had with people who didn't like
>UA? Can we think of ways to either:
>1. Re-introduce UA more positive to these folks, or
>2. Make settings/tone/rule changes to make UA more positive to
>these folks.

The 1 answer is what I did, and it worked. Ask your players what they expect
of a modern-day/occult setting, and explain them in wich way UA can fulfill
their goal, or in wich UA way these goals can be fulfilled. Of course, not
every one is made to like a UA session: otherwise, Wizards of the Coast would
have buyed the licence.

Greg Pogorzelski
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