[UA] The Villain Archetype (was: various topics)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 05:09 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
>
>> Ehhh... I really shy away from all good or all bad archetypes.  (The Dark
>> Stalker kind of snuck in under the radar in the early days.  Tricky
>> bastard.  Maybe if we ever do 2ed I'll write up the GOOD side of the Dark
>> Stalker...)
>
>    Hmm.  But isn't there a place in the IC for "bogeymen?"  They are part
>of the collective unconscious, after all.  I mean, the Terrorist?  Simon
>Dioulo wasn't trying to ascend as the Freedom Fighter, although that would
>be the obvious inversion of that archetype.  As for the Good side of the
>Dark Stalker, I assumed it was the Masterless man, due to the two
>archetypes' opposition of one another. Maybe not every archetype has a
>positive side, but instead another archetype that stands in counterpoint?
>    It is your game, of course...

Really, it's YOUR game.  I just wrote half of it.  You paid for it.  We're
living in the divine light of blessed capitalism, so really, by that
standard, you're in the cat-bird seat.  But don't expect to see one-sided
archetypes in the canon books unless there's some radical change or
groudswell of demand.

But as tweaks to the setting go, the idea of one-siders is pretty mild and
offers an awful lot of mileage.  Especially if you want to take it away
from its usual grime of moral indecision and into a realm where right and
wrong are a little more obvious.

-G.
Critics are like medical students: they always think a writer is suffering
from the very disease they happen to be studying at the time.
		-Milorad Pavic

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