[UA] Burning Bright

[Ari Hansen]

On 8 May 2002, at 8:05, Tim Bisaillon wrote:

> The light was a burning chrome and now just oozing out 40 wattage of 
> unsatisfy warmth. All he wants is time to recharge, just a little time, 
> that's all is required. But, some of them don't see that. For He feels that 
> he is just their drug of choice, to be used and then discarded until the 
> next fix.
> 
> My Question is: Has anyone else felt this way?

Well, there's an unofficial rule in my gaming group: every 3-4 
months we meet to choose the game we'd like to play, so everyone 
that want to try to GM his/her favourite game has a chance to try it. 
This way has the nice side effect we _don't_ usually play DnD ;-) 
because we developed a natural curiosity for non-mainstream 
games. (Werewolf and Fading Suns are _our_ mainstream).

The "bad" side effect is that long campaigns are difficult to keep -- 
but we are used to this: My Fading Suns campaign started in 
1997, and from time to tome we resume it and take one step 
further. 

We usually manage to assemble at least two gaming group, so 
there is interchange between us. from september 2001 to january 
2002, I played a Virtual Adept in Mage. Now I'm GM'ing Unknown 
Armies to my players, and we both seem to enjoy it. Fact is, UA is 
a very demanding game. You cannot just get away with some gun-
fu action scene. No, you have to create a particular mood that is 
neither pure surrealism nor pure horror, yet it MUST be a blend of 
these. And that's not easy for GM. It is _very_ demanding.

So, breaks are welcome. We integrated it in our rotation system. 
Moreover, when a party is done and another is still playing, we use 
extra evenings for simple one-shot with even more "non 
mainstream" games (FUDGE, for instance) . So we explore new 
games and avoid GM and players burnout. 




Ciao, 
Max Lambertini 
("Ari Hansen" in my Exodus Campaign)


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