[UA] (OT) No WoD Gaslight.

[Liam Astley]

From: "James O'Rance" <jorance at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] (OT) No WoD Gaslight.
>Beauregard is a great model for PCs; in some games, a mixture of action,
>intrigue, and style is more fun than a bloody big gun or magical powers.

the set-up with the Diogenes Club is a good one for campaigns, too. they
give the characters a mission, but leave it to them to decide how to handle
it.

>The Beauregard in my game was in a different situation; there was no
Dracula
>as Prince Regent, but he was one of the few people aware that Victoria was
>actually a disguised (and sublte!) Lilith.

did you have genevieve in it? i've got some official stats for her
somewhere. well, WFRP stats. but i'm sure they could be converted somehow...

>You could do something similar for Gaslight UA. It's hard to imagine the
>setting without some kind of Rosicrucian conspiracy, for example, but what
>would the Rosicrucians be like in UA? Throw in all of the allusions and
>literary references that you like, and you're halfway there.

a lot of those occult groups like the golden dawn seem quite similar to the
cabals and avatars of modern day UA. they all claimed to reach back to "the
ancient mysteries of Lemuria" and so on but tended to be a load of mumbo
jumbo some civil servant had made up after reading one too many books on
egyptology.

>The man deserves to be thanked, yes. I read "Red Reign" (the novella that
>turned into Anno Dracula" in the Mammoth Book ov Vampires, or something,
>then sought out other newman stuff like Famous Monsters (a short story
>anthology, some very UA-able) and Jago.

red reign's also in "seven stars", a kim newman short story collection.
that's got another story set in his vampire alternate history world, set in
70s new york. shaft and travis bickle as vampire hunters.

thinking about it, if i was going to run a campaign based off a book kim
newman's vamp-world ones would be it (if i was going to run one based on a
comic it'd be 2000AD's "canon fodder", but that's something else entirely).


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