[UA] various topics

[Eric Christian Berg]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> Very few people get up and say "Hey, I'm a BAD GUY.  I'm a villain.  I'm
> working for the downfall of everyone!"  Nazis thought nazism was best for
> German society.  The KKK saw themselves as the defenders of innocence.  If
> you're going to HAVE an organization (meaning you're not just a lone nut
> like Joey Dunes), you need to have a party line people can get behind.
> Otherwise your motivation problems doom your project from the start. 

This is precisely why I like 'dark' games. In my experience, what games
get classed as 'dark' are those where, like in real life, people doing bad
things have excuses, rationalizations, and understandable intentions and
anybody capable of those former two are capable of doing 'evil'. 

One of the things I like about UA is that it even has a system to help
illustrate this. The Madness Meters go a long away to explaining how a
normal person could get to the point where they'd shot a man in cold blood
and not even flinch or sacrifice their family to a dubious 'higher cause'.
Perfect sanity and perspective is a very hard thing to maintain and is
practically impossible when you put yourself into or are forced into the
sorts of extreme situations that define the Occult Underground.

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Eric Christian Berg
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