[UA] Life, the Universe, and Everything (was Plot idea: genetically engineered rice)

[John C]

> >As to having enough ideas to bother looting for UA, I'd say no.  While 
>it's
> >certainly a good book for HtR, trying to connect the Golden Age in the 
>book
> >to the system of karmic rebirth seems like a pointless headache.
>
>Who says you have to reconcile them?  The wonderful nature of UA magic (and 
>indeed, most UA characters) means PCs and NPCs alike are prone to believe 
>the most fantastic BS.  Just because it isn't "true" doesn't mean it can't 
>be of use.
>
>This reminds me of something that cropped up here the other day...
>
>Just how clued-in are y'all's UA games?  While I like the UA cosmology and 
>appreciate that there is a master plan of sorts behind everything (well, a 
>design philosophy at least), I don't think it's actually all that relevant 
>to the game in play.  Alex Abel and the Naked Goddess sect have pretty good 
>reason to be somewhat in the know, but I don't think all that many other 
>adepts and cabals should have more than a piece or two of the puzzle of the 
>Archetypes (never mind Ascension), and even that they may misunderstand.  I 
>don't even like the Sleepers having the level of knowledge they do, given 
>that [HUSH HUSH SPOILERS REDACTED].
>
>Am I the only one who got the 'this is what's really going on, but hardly 
>anyone knows it' vibe from the base book's discussion of the Statosphere?

I've decided that the OU is going to be largely clueless in my game -- no 
one *really* understands what's going on except for the Comte, and he's not 
talking.  I haven't decided which direction to take, though: Keep the 
players ignorant of the UA cosmology, while supplying thm with a variety of 
crackpot theories?  Or do I give them the full UA information, while making 
the *real* truth something entirely different?

I'll probably settle on some combination of the two, eventually.

John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
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