[UA] Russian Archangel

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Edward Parsons <edward-parsons at ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> PS-  Robert Harris did Fatherland, Excellent book,
> Very good radio play and
> mediocre movie. He's also got a damn good book
> called Archangel, a must for
> anyone running a Russia campaign for any setting.

Damn. I should have read that before running my last
UA game.  Most of the time, UA is such a good game and
a simple system that it compensates for any trouble
our group's having, but my last game just shut
everybody down.

For one thing, I wrote some of it based off my first
couple years in Portland, ORE. (when I lived in a
mostly Russian neighborhood, off Woodstock near
Malden, if you know the town.)  It was supposed to be
about this guy with pheonix-like powers, he would
immolate himself and rise again (always off in the
background) but the side effect is someone else nearby
would die in fire as part of the ritual. I was all
geared up to work all sorts of imagery and Russian
newspeak (dirty street language) into the game, when I
ran into a small problem.  I couldn't get the players
interested in the Russian part of town at all.  For
one thing, Colorado Springs doesn't have very
significant ethnic neighborhoods at all.

Most of my players are big Anime fans, which doesn't
help. (Especially since I'd pointed out Russia's
age-old enmity with Japan a few weeks back.)  But they
do know Harris' work (mostly through the movie with
Rutger Hauer.)

Anyway, the adventure was "Zhar Pititza" which was
crammed full of blatant puns like new pontiacs, old
GMs and the Egyptian Banu bird.  

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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