[UA] Stolze's Schaudenfraude (was: Re: [UA] Bill In Three Persons Survey)

[Chris Milne]

On Friday, December 15, 2000 5:10 PM, Gregory Paul Stolze 
[SMTP:holycrow at mindspring.com] wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 12/14/2000 -0000, you wrote:
> >I don't think so. To me, UA is a dark game, not heroic. I imagine
> >that's more or less the view of most UA players. But throughout 
the
> >books, there are options and viewpoints that could be taken as
> >positive. Alex Abel could be trying to make the world a better
> >place.
>
> IS trying.  He definately needs to believe he's a great man, like 
many
> people who do terrible things.  Whether he's succeeding or not is 
open to
> interpretation and will probably STAY open to interpretation.

Yeah, that was what I was trying to say. As usual, I failed to 
express myself clearly. While I was thinking on this, I was chiefly 
reminded of the chapter in the core book dealing with themes and 
alternate slants one could take on them. If that chapter doesn't 
convince people that UA is a game that can be played in almost any 
style you like, then nothing will.


> >The Sleepers are trying to prevent a war breaking out amongst
> >humanity. OK, so they're not doing it in the nicest way possible, 
but
> >that just means they're not purely heroic.
>
> They'd probably argue that the they've succeeded.  Though there you 
fall
> back on the argument of the magic tiger-repelling stone.  ("How 
does it
> work?"  "I don't know.  But you don't see any tigers around, do 
you?")

Surely the magic tiger-sleeping stone...  <g>


> -G.


Chris Milne

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