[UA] Bad Reactions to UA?

[Liam Astley]

From: "Joshua Knorr" <j-knorr at uchicago.edu>
Subject: RE: [UA] Bad Reactions to UA?
> In Unknown Armies, magick is ultimately destructive and degenerative for
the
> person using it.  To be obsessed enough about something, anything, to use
> that obsession for magick can only be unhealthy.  You may be able to do
good
> things with your magick, but in the end you are personally going to pay a
> high and unavoidable price that will leave you boned.  An adept who
pursues
> magick hard enough and long enough to become good at it is either going to
> burn out (Dirk Allen) or become so twisted that he or she is no longer a
> sympathetic and playable character.  (The Freak)

while i can see why this can put players off the game, as far as i'm
concerned it's one of the game's best bits. not only does it set magic as
being Something Not To Be Fucked About With, and creating immediately
interesting (if possibly short-lived) characters, the above reasoning you
give is in itself a good reason for magic remaining unknown to the general
populace, even without the Sleepers getitng involved. plus i like the idea
of magic being Weird. this is something that comes up in most horror/urban
fantasy books and comics, but not really in other supernatural RPGs (lets
face it, most WW stuff is basically superheroes)


liam



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