[UA] Cabal Design (was Re: Horror Actors)

[Chad Underkoffler]

> From: "James O'Rance" <jorance at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:59:10
> 
> Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com> said:
>  >>>I can't watch anything with Sally Fields in it, either,
> or, lately, Uma Thurman (though that may just have something
> to do with THE AVENGERS movie being so God Awful.)<<<
> 
> People keep saying that, and yet I thought that The Avengers
> was a load of fun. Sean Connery's crazed villain offering 
> tea to an investigator? Supervillains conducting their 
> secret meeting in teddy bear costumes? A henchman who drives
> a Minor! Uma's catsuit gets the attention of my best 
> friend, although I was too busy wishing I could fight like
> Fiennes to notice.
> 
> I suppose you have to approach the film with a certain sense
> of humour. Eddie Izzard makes a great henchman, though - I 
> also loved the Disco Boys in Mystery Men. If I was a 
> supervillain in need of henchmen, I know who I'd call.

I simply must rent this movie, it seems.
 
> It's pretty easy to run UA with ironic violence, but how about
> ironic humour? With all of the weird folks in the OU, where 
> would a pinstriped suit and bowler hat fit in?

Well, the Macnee John Steed was the basis for the head of a
dipsomantic cabal in my last UA campaign...
 
Interesting question: when running a UA campaign, do you have
little groups of cobweb farmers/boozehounds/fleshworkers in
their own cabals, or are most of them just catch-as-catch-can?

I essentially ran "single-flavor" GMC cabals, in addition to
purely mundane groups (Mafia mobs, tongs, etc.):

* the New Hellfire Club (which arbitrated by majority vote on
territory disputes among a small population-- say 7-- of Clios
and apprentices),

* Satin Touch Films (a high-class and stylish pornographic film
production house/distributor; also renegade love pirates), and

* Johnnie Walker's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the dipsos mentioned
above). 

The PCs worked for Nightshade Associates, a P.I./troubleshooting
firm that was mixed-media, if you dig. Because of their breadth
of abilities, they had a number of options when in conflict with
them. Of course, the serious badass cabal (the Silvermen) that
came after them later in the campaign was mixed-media, and was a
heck of a lot more dangerous. 



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Chad Underkoffler [chadu at yahoo.com]
http://www.geocities.com/chadu/index.html
God isn't silent, he just speaks very softly. In Etruscan.

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