[UA] Otherwheres

[Greg Stolze]

>All I can say is: tread carefully. Look at where so many others have
>gone before you, and make sure that UA's marvelous grounding in the
>mundane doesn't get swallowed up by weekly dreamquests in the Land of
>Nod or searches for magical energy in the Ethereal Plane.

Valid cautions...

>The Astral Plane is also an Other Place/Other Frame of Mind, but it gets
>almost no coverage in the rulebook. Is this going to get addressed at
>some point? Right now, it seems a little bit like a piece of errata
>rather than an actual feature of the game world.

Heh.  It might be fun to write up the Astral Plane as, basically, the attic
of the material world.  If you want, you can go there, but there's not much
there but bugs, dust, and critters you don't want to see real clearly.  But
you can peek down through the rafters and get a different view of the
people underneath.

>Finally, there is the world Beyond The Veil. I applaud your decision to
>draw, um, a veil over that. If we're lucky, it will be years before we
>see supplements with thanatomancers who are high-level avatars of the
>Deathwalker and act as messangers for the Cruel Ones, using their
>Entropic-powered Etherships to navigate the Astral Plane. Not that
>there's anything wrong with that kind of game, mind you, it just doesn't
>play on UA's unique srengths.

It would take an awful lot to convince me to provide any more explanation
than we've already got.  I think it's important for death to be, like,
scary.  (I'm toying with the rules for demon PCs, and to keep it true to UA
they're real, REAL strict.  Stuff like "you're instantly destroyed if you
fail to act on your obsession, EVER.")

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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