[UA] no pity for Towns Without Pity

[Nick Wedig]

>    Don't get me wrong--I want John & Greg to sell a bazillion books and become
>wealthy South American lumber barons. I want them to open a chain of trailer
>parks throughout the southwest built around old drive-in movie screens, offering
>rent subsidies to game designers who are 'between gigs' so we could all hang out
>together and watch Death Race 2000 from our porches as our bizarre children and
>dogs played Stratego in the gently waning purple dusk. 

Dogs playing Stratego?  Those are some smart dogs.  

I keep trying to convince my brother to teach his dog to bend spoons with its mind, but he never seems to do so.

>But all that being said--I
>think UA's comparatively narrow acceptance has made it a stronger game, with a
>more lively and intelligent following than it would've otherwise had.
>    RPGs are like hot rods. No one ever drives one the way they bought it. So
>crappy ideas may be discarded, or tweaked, or used to spark a completely
>different idea, or may turn out to be a good idea in a different situation. Those
>chrome 'feet' pedal covers look good in *someone's* car, I'm sure. I think a
>setting database (and a character database, and others, as well) would be a
>particularly good idea for UA. I might not use much there, and probably none
>without a little picking and tweaking. But with enough entries, I know I would
>find stuff that I think is cool that I would never have thought of myself. And I
>just can't see a down side to that.

I'd just like to throw out my opinion on this thingie.

I'm never, ever going to make my own UA website, as I'm lazy and/or have other things to do.  If such a database were to exist, I might contribute things to it, as that would be a lot easier than learning a bunch of html so that that I can spend my minimal free time updating a site that maybe a few dozen people ever visit.  So I'm in support of it.  I, too, would prefer a real sourcebook and some quality control, but if it's a choice between something not terribly good mixed in with stuff that is, and none of the stuff, good or bad (which seems the case), I'll take the mixture and sort out the good stuff and junk the rest.

Mr. Teapot
with kung fu grip

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