[UA] Books of Magic

[Tim Toner]

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From: Patrick Reitz <dreamfarer at userdefined.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Books of Magic



> > 100 bullets also seem interesting.

100 Bullets is perfect for UA, since it nicely describes the interplay
between a street level game and how the events there influence higher order
games.  It has such a simple premise, that I thought it couldn't last a
year.  But then--oh, sweet mother of God, it got gooooooood!

>
> 'Planetary' is worth reading in that vein as is DC's new Swamp Thing
> series.
>
> Planetary is a bit more grandiose in scale than most UA games
> will probably be, but tone it down a bit and things like the dimensional
> portals and giant monsters can become strange bits of high weirdness
> or examples of Cliomancer spells gone awry.

Planetary's good for showing you how to shake up genre.  I want to have a
lot of my friends read it, but I think there's a fairly steep buy-in
involved.  You ought to be familiar with certain details of various comics
universes, plus the Big Monster genre, plus Hong Kong Action films, etc.
Don't get me wrong--it's effin' brilliant on a BAD day, but I don't know how
many of the concepts translate if, for instance, you don't know what Crisis
on Infitine Earths was.

Preacher's great for run-of-the-mill weirdness, coupled with a few
gobstoppingly cool powermongers, and it wonderfully shows just how fragile
ego is.


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