[UA] CRPG

[Greg Stolze]

>On Fri, 20 April 2001, "Gareth Hanrahan" wrote:
>
>
>> Wacky idea - the player takes on the role of Alex Able or one of the other
>> "faction heads". You've got a stable of spies, agents, adepts and thugs.
>> You've got to keep an eye out for wierd occurances, and send out the best
>> agents to deal with the wierdness. On a mission, you actually control the
>> agent...
>>
>> Hmm. now that I describe it, it sounds more and more like Unknown Occult
>> Football Management.
>
>Actually, it's pretty close to Syndicate ... put a weirdness engine in
>there and you're pretty much sorted.

I'm surprised that no one's thought to make it a god-game.  You're not Alex
Abel: You're a member of the IC, trying to keep your Godwalker from giving
you the ol' heave-ho.

-G.

"Anyway, after that, I became known around the campus as 'the D&D guy,' which
made me the de facto expert on the occult.  I really didn't know that much,
so I got a subscription to Time/Lifes Mysteries of the Unknown series, to
bone up."
		-Tim Toner



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