[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Michael Dinowitz]

The quote is all mine and your quite welcome to use it. As your here I should say that I actually enjoyed Cabal and it sent me on another one of my "infomancer" quests. I've read just about every work that deals with decans due to it. I can't find any source in Judaism for them and used that as a reason to reject a book (Kabbalistic Astrology, which claims that the decans are part of Jewish lore). 
I also added the decans to my list of ritual times. I've been writing what I jokingly consider "gurps ritual magic" for a while now and have collected a lot of information for it. One day it'll be done. :)

> Michael D., quoting Bryant D.:
> 
> >  > Thanks for the clarification.  I will admit to being surprised -- the
> >>  abyss also appears in Ken Hite's GURPS Cabal, and I usually trust Ken's
> >>  research.  But, hey, translation problems happen...
> 
> >Ken was working from post-golden dawn magic (as he stated in his 
> >introduction).
> 
> Precisely because real Kabbalah makes a fairly poor basis for a 
> horror game, for obvious reasons.  (Or at least not nearly as good a 
> basis as does dodgy Crowleianity.)  Also, Crowleianity/GD magick has 
> already gone to a great deal of trouble to come up with the 
> correspondence system I adapted, so it made sense to keep it all in 
> the family.  And then, like I said in the intro, I simplified it some 
> more.  Not even *I* want to game real-life GD magick, and 
> Presbyterians aren't allowed to do real Kabbalah. :^)
> 
> >If you want, look at the ars magica supplement on Kabbalah. Not 100% 
> >correct, but I know the person who wrote it. We don't necessarily 
> >see eye to eye on some things (like him adding a Jesus tale to the 
> >golem section or saying that a Ba'al Shem did not have to be a 
> >Rabbi) but enough is correct to give a good understanding (for a 
> >RPG).
> 
> KABBALAH for ARS MAGICA is indeed an excellent work. I cite it in 
> GURPS CABAL's bibliography, after all. :^)
> 
> >  > If it's any consolation, RPGs are an equal opportunity offender.
> >>  The Christian mythology in your average RPG is not noted for depth
> >  > (and we shouldn't even get into In Nomine's accuracy).
> 
> Here is truth, and much of wisdom.  And yet another reason that I 
> love UNKNOWN ARMIES so much -- the explicit, foregrounded, 
> intentional junking of the whole shebang.
> 
> And Michael, I love your "incestuous piranha" quote -- is it yours, 
> and can I steal it?
> 
> Kenneth Hite, LHN
> 
> _______________________________________________
> UA mailing list
> UA at lists.uchicago.edu
> http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua
> 


_______________________________________________
UA mailing list
UA at lists.uchicago.edu
http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua