[UA] Dissemination idea

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

You know, as long as we're talking about supplements,
a pretty neat idea would be some quickie start "what
you know" pamphlets or blue sheets that GMs could hand
out to players and say:

"Here's what you Know."

Some would be for Adepts and some would be for Avatars
and ex-members of TOSG or law enforcement or
government agents or poseur occultists or
what-have-you.

That's a technique I use, anyway, but people often
distrust my stuff because it isn't very "official." 
And I'm a crackpot.  Also, I still have to modify
player knowledge and clarify it with Q&A, but I don't
mind.  It makes me feel important.


--- Dylan Craig <wytchfynder at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, all
> 
> An interesting challenge presented itself recently
> in my game. One of the
> players has an occultist/priest character - an
> ex-member of the Order of St.
> Cecil - and I'd been grappling with the problem of
> how to give this
> person -some- knowledge of the UAverse without just
> letting them read through
> the sourcebooks. Said character had Occult Lore at
> 55% as their obsession skill,
> so I wanted the benefit to be palpable without being
> served up on a plate.
> Similarly, this character spends a lot of time
> in-game researching, so I wanted
> some way of rewarding this without having to
> spoon-feed the guy module hints.
> But; how to do this?
> 
> What I ended up doing this afternoon, which seems to
> have worked out nicely, is
> to photocopy the magick, unnatural and artifacts
> chapters (and a few others at
> random) from the book, shuffle them, add in some
> loose pages from the reject
> trays of the copy center (someone's Biochemistry
> thesis index, a couple of pages
> on the sociology of famine), cut the pile of pages
> into eight with the
> guillotine machine so that I had an inch-high stack
> of card-sized fragments,
> shuffled them again, and let him pick half the
> pieces, sight unseen.
> 
> He now has a (literally) fragmentary knowledge of
> lots of aspects of the
> UAverse, but nothing coherent, which suits me fine.
> Every now and again I'll cut
> one of my campaign notes pages into eight and add
> them to the pile. And now,
> when he spends an afternoon researching, I can hand
> him one of the remaining
> fragments. Of course, if he spends long enough doing
> this, and lots of time
> putting together the scraps, he'll eventually know
> the Big Picture - or, at
> least, all the players.
> 
> I'll keep everyone posted on how it works from here
> on in (first game on
> Sunday). If anyone on the list tries it out, let me
> know too.
> 
> --
> "When you hear sweet syncopation / And the music
> softly moans
> T'ain't no sin to take off your skin / And dance
> around in your bones"
> Dylan Craig · Writer and Observer · Cape Town, South
> Africa
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> 
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