[UA] Stress Ratings and Icons

[tim.struck at gmx.de]

Hi,

about the stress ratings:

Fortunately my players never had a look at the rulebook. Most of the time
they roll their Stress ratings on their own: "Oops, that's pretty jucky. Lemme
me see whether I freak-out..)

I think that Sonja's right. The stress rating list is less than helpful...
And not exactly intuitive. But then again, you get a feeling in the game which
stress is really bad and which is not.. - but always in respect to the
characters.. So I think that you have to bring your players to the point that they
know when they should make a Stress Check.. 

About getting rids of those notches: Hey, were in Germany, we've got friends
instead if psychiatrists. So you may eliminate notches when you confess your
experiences to your best friend... (if he or she doesn't make you feel more
insane than you really are - or doesn't go out telling anyone else about your
experiences and bringing the Sleepers into action...)

Here are some more icons:

Jacques Cousteau - the famous undersea explorer
Versace and John Lennon...
Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes

More German ones:
Milva - one of the grand dames of German 'Schlager' 
Franz Joseph Strauss - who died at a hunting expedition...
Rudolf Hess (the German Nazi who - at the end - had a whole prison for
himself)
Wolfgang Neuss - German Kabarettist
Rio Reiser - lead singer of the Band "Ton Steine Scherben" 



Another thing which I find most fitting for a German UA campaign is the role
of the German Kabarett which can be compared to the more political
stand-up-comedians. It's vitrious, aggressive and really intelligent. One of the
really scary facts is that there had been Kabaretts even in the concentration
camps. So imagine Nazi commandands laughing over the inmates making Jokes about
Hitler...
In the last years Germany was flooded with so called comedy but Kabarett
still prevails and has taken the 'comedy' back into its folds...
 

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