[UA] Ghost Dog RPG as a UA resource

[Patrick O'Duffy]

Watched GHOST DOG again last night. Such a marvelous film. So UA you could
carve it.

And the TriStat system is elegant, simple, and very easy to convert to other
mechanics. Definitely gotta pick up the sourcebook sometime soon (after UA2
and a mountain of D&D and Exalted stuff).

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

Okay, it's started. His brain is wrong. If I empty this bag, we can collect
it as it runs out of his ears.

- Yelena Rossini, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #54

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Craig" <wytchfynder at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:45 PM
Subject: [UA] Ghost Dog RPG as a UA resource


Hi all

Kinda in response to Patrick's questions about this RPG:

Allow me to put forward a vote in its favour. For a Mafia-centred game, or
in
fact any street-level game where crime is not all high jinks and jewel
robberies, GD is full of good detail on organised crime and the various
non-Hollywood rackets many gangsters run to make money (cigarette machine
and
jukebox rackets, waste disposal fraud, freon smuggling, bank fraud, etc.).
The
rulebook also includes one very good and one medium-good adventure, but
because
GD's focus is on solo play some extra work may be required to reconfigure
these
for a group. Quality-wise the book is quite gorgeous, with an incredible
blue
photocover, and inside b&w illustrations of moderate to good quality (mostly
stills from the movie).

Also, the Tri-Stat system is quite lenient as far as conversions to UA go,
which
is a bonus. A nice touch is that character 'balance' is, as a rule,
discarded;
there's no problem with creating N/PCs as weak or strong as you need them.
Equipment is divided into minor and major items, which is just begging for
the
inclusion of 'significant'. More on the RPG, and less frantic ranting (I'm
late
for work!) at http://www.eyeballkid.co.za/modules.html .

--
"Ain't no angel gonna greet me / It's just you and I, my friend"
Dylan Craig · Writer and Historian · Cape Town, South Africa
Contact Details: http://www.eyeballkid.co.za/contact.html

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