[UA] golden guns and a mini-series

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Infamous36 <theinfamous36 at ivebeenframed.com>
wrote:
> 
> True, it would look fun though, but if i do use em,
> i may just leave the
> whole, everyone in the room knows your there for
> some reason and its most
> likely bad, cause i can just see and old saloon(now
> a seedy dive bar) in
> walks the gunslinger with his 6 shooter (big dude in
> a hooded bomber jacket
> with a 9) the piano stops and everyone looks over
> (the jupe box skips and a
> bunch of guys playing pool look over) etc etc. (yada
> yada)
> 
> Or not.

Now you're cookin'.  The emotional element is really
what gives UA it's kick for me.

You know, I get down on White Wolf a lot, but I don't
really think it's a worse game or that UA is a better
one.  It's just that UA is a much better game for ME
and this is one of the reasons.

Actually, I think UA is a better game for a lot of
people, but not for everyone.  I think it's a good
game because I've seen it bring out the best in a lot
of players generally consensus had pegged as "rotten"
(myself included.)  

It comes down to this attitude:

Okay, fine, you can be God Awfully powerful, if you
want; but it has to be an interesting kind of
powerful, powerful with a social impact; with an
attitude; with a feeling of barely suppressed, but
embraced falliability and then, yeah, you can shoot
holes out of people with your Mac-truck-stopping-power
magical handguns that hit upwards of 75% of the time
even if you've never fired a gun before and the air is
filled with more experienced gunmen's lead.

I'm not being sarcastic, here.  I think the attitude
is important and, more than that, I think it's FUN. 
And it's human, too, which is a nice plus.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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