[UA] ArM

[Jade Hammons]

Remember them? I still have my set in a little plastic glad bag and play
about every third game I run with them. Lovely little cardstock of evil.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] ArM


>
> >    Of course, one can take the Ars Magica stance of Adepts and Avatars
are
> >the juicy characters, if you want to play a support character like a
> >Companion or, god forbid, a Grog, that's your business and you need to
find
> >ways to make yourself interesting amongst the movers and shakers.
>
> Anyone remember Whimsy Cards?  It was a deck of cards with vague plot
> developments on it -- "The authorities arrive" "Unexpected aid" "Someone
> falls in love" "Someone gets greedy" and so forth.  I'm making a more
> homebrew version for my next game by cutting out newspaper horoscopes and
> putting them on index cards, along with a few cookie fortunes.
>
> Anyhow, when I played ArM with Jonathan Tweet back in the day, wizards
> started out with one Whimsy Card, companions got two and grogs got three.
> If you used the card to help yourself out, you lost the card, got the
help,
> and were done.  If you used it to make things more interesting (which
often
> translated to "humorously screw the other characters") you got to draw a
> new card.
>
> He did the same thing with his Al Amarja game, only EVERYONE got three
> cards.  It created a lot of hilarious riffing, which sometimes got in the
> way of plotlines.  But since it was OtE, it didn't matter that much.
>
> -G.
>
> Living with a toddler?  Well, I guess it's not that much different from
any
> other room mate who thinks that squatting naked on the kitchen floor
eating
> pretzel sticks is a good way to start the morning.
>
> Oh wait.  It is different.
>
> www.waylay.com
> www.thehungersite.com
>
>
>
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