[UA] Starting a UA campaign

[Tim Bisaillon]

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>First, hello to all
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Well, a tip top of the morning to ye, Ari.
Welcome aboard. I am the ship's purser and will be sailing from here to the 
unknown as soon as we can.
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>Second, a bit of warning: I use UA as a "generic" system for
>everyday horror and weirdness scenario, and I don't follow the
>canonical background. While I like it, I also like to stage this kind
>of scenarios in locations I know: in this case, my hometown and
>Northern Italy.
>
>Having said that, I usually take normal situation and twist just a
>little, but enough to make mundane things look weird and fairly
>scaring.

It's good to put your own twist to things, or generally make it more 
localized. So players know the surrounding areas and can get more tied intot 
he game.

In one of the first games I ran, I set it in the hometown where soemthing 
was going on. Missing children, an old railway bridge and a phantom train 
was the tie that brought the players into the fold.

I look up old newspapers from the past (which can be found at the library) 
and jot down notes of weiridness that has happened through out the ages as 
well. It adds colour to the game.

Example
GM:"As you drive down Queen Street, you approach the traffic light. The 
light just switched from yellow to red. As you wait for the light to turn 
green, you see on the hill an old house, with green siding, its windows are 
boarded up and the lawn has been left uncut for a long long time."

Player #1: That must be that old ladies house that owned about a thousand 
cats.

Player #2: That's right. Didn't see die there and no one discovered her 
until three weeks later?

Player #3: Along with several hundred cats as well.

GM: As the light turns green. You slowly proceed. Make a spot roll. (dice 
rolled) As you head off to your destination. You can see several cats 
peering outside the attic window....

Has all the makings of a classic scenario. :)

tjb
Just throwing my two cents in.
"Hail to the King, Baby."
                Ash - Army of Darkness


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