[UA] City Swap

[Chris Milne]

Gaston Phillips wrote:
>Do those of you from Europe run games set in Europe?

Yes. Well, my game has died a death due to lack of time for all 
parties, but it was set in and around London, which is pretty much 
where all the players live right now.

> What is the OU like over there?  I'm imagining that, for instance, 
Cliomancy
> must be radically different - lest people gain charges just by 
taking a
> morning stroll.

Well, I view Cliomancy as being awareness-based rather than 
history-based. Sure, there's history all over the place in Europe, 
but a lot of it goes unnoticed and hence rarely generates any 
charges. There are still plenty of other places to charge up from, 
though. I had Cliomancers being a fairly common part of the OU, but 
they were extremely Balkanised. Principally, they hated each other 
because they either learnt Cliomancy from a different person (Dugan 
being hero-worshipped or despised), or because they harvested their 
power from different places (eg: the "white-collar" Cliomancers, who 
charged up from traditional historical locations, looked down on the 
"blue-collar" Cliomancers, who tended to hang around football stadia 
and similar places).

> Cryptomancy comes from
> Europe, right?  Have people developed other 'Eurocentric' schools?

One of my players was busily developing a school based on the tenets 
of Epicureanism. We never playtested it, but it was looking rather 
good. He was putting the finishing touches to it when his laptop was 
stolen. He hasn't had the time or the patience to redevelop it from 
scratch.

> A substitution of the clean and efficient high speed rail system 
for
> the lure of the open highway?

Hmmm. I suppose you could view the rail network as some sort of 
modern substitute for ley lines, linking centres of population and so 
on. If you gained charges by disrupting it (in a similar manner to 
Urbanomancers), then it would certainly go some way to explaining the 
joys of rail travel in the UK  <g>


Chris Milne
another 'dinosaur lurker'

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