[UA] First Run

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Saul Peers <rexmundis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I just ran my first UA game last weekend, and it
> ended up being a total flop 
> of gigantic proportions.  

It doesn't sound like a flop to me.  Was the feel bad?

I described the game I recently ran as a flop because
the players spent most of the game with their heads on
their chests, muttering and not making eye contact
(which is actually pretty standard for my group, but
not during UA games.  At least then they're trying to
screw eachother or one of the NPCs.)

> The basic plan was, everybody arives at the
> warehouse, Biff enters and kills 
> Clip, assassin enters and tries to get Biff,
> knowledge of the artifact leaks 
> and hilarity ensues as the PCs try to wrangle the
> device for themselves.
> 
> It didn't turn out that way at all.
> 
> Tim picked up the third PC, john, and they got down
> to the buisness of 
> blowing the organization wide open.  Tim was a
> Cryptomancer and John an 
> Infomancer, so you can understand how they'd get
> their jollies from doing 
> this.  I could never get Tim, John and Bruce
> together at the barn together.  
> Instead, Bruce flies off to try to located Tim and
> John, who Clip now thinks 
> is Biff (They'd broken into the barn and been
> spotted earlier).

Well, that's a Story, right there.  Completing
assignments is only an optional bonus.  Most really
good gritty stories (from which, it would seem, UA is
derived) end with the characters falling considerably
short of their goals.

After all, the game is designed to have players
transcend themselves, not solve the world's problems
(some of which are expressly insoluble.) 

(Oh, wait, sorry, it was really pompous of me to say
that.  I think I'll leave it anyway.)

> It just ran so badly it was astounding.  Maybe I'll
> just go back to playing 
> Trinity.


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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